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The Butterscotch League

  • MrPlayfair (Tom)
  • The Crimson Cats (Rockford)
  • Dillon Lions (Nichole)
  • Howling Wolf (Mark)
  • GoDawgs! (Chris)
  • Blue Moo (Genia)
  • Hippowdon (Sam, I think)
  • Honolulu Blue (Perry Mason)

I'm updating the fantasy college football rankings by hand every week. You know what would be awesome, Yahoo? A widget that would do this automatically.

In brief

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Papa’s favorite ribs

Sew cute. (Get it!? Ha.)

I’m sharing this with you for two reasons. One, because it is so stinkin’ cute. Two, because I want to make sure I keep the links so I can look at it every now and then and think, “I would really like to make one of those.”

Those what?

A playhouse to fit over a card table!

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By nichole | October 30th, 2009 | Filed under: Project Seamstress | One comment

A few good old-fashioned haunted house stories

This is a story about one or two not-at-all malicious ghosts. It’s a little bit creepy, but no one gets hurt. Just how a ghost story ought to

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By nichole | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under: flotsam/jetsam | 2 comments

Things I have enjoyed lately

Thinking about NaNoWriMo.
The pretty, pretty leaves.
Poppy, upon being handed a juice box: “Oh! It’s just like meal-in-a-cup!”
Thinking about Thanksgiving.
Dressing the kids up in their Halloween costumes. (Little Red Riding Hood! The Big Bad Wolf! Cuteness!)
Pouring red beans & rice into gallon-size bags with Rockford. (Simple pleasures. I know. Maybe

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By nichole | October 27th, 2009 | Filed under: flotsam/jetsam | One comment

In which I do not accept the challenge

Our random Recipe Roulette meal this week was Chicken Biryani from Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything.” Amy liked it, but I have a confession to make: I didn’t make it. And I most likely won’t, because it has saffron in it. Do you know how much the only bottle of saffron I could

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By nichole | October 26th, 2009 | Filed under: eating, menu plan Monday, recipe roulette | 2 comments

Picture perfect

This photo booth would be fantastic on so many occasions. I kind of want to organize a family reunion just for this.

By nichole | October 25th, 2009 | Filed under: in brief | Comments are closed

“The Aztec Legal Consultant’s Unctuous Heiress”? Has merit.

I’m pretty sure I’m going to try NaNoWriMo again this year. I’ve been working on coming up with a plot. Which you could* read to mean I’ve been googling things like “mystery plots” and “Romance novel generator.” While I probably won’t** be writing “The Indian NASCAR Driver’s Bemused Captive” any time soon, I did find

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By nichole | October 22nd, 2009 | Filed under: NaNoWriMo2009, nanowrimo | Comments are closed

Ars poetica

We’re reading “The Glorious Flight” this week for school, and it has contains some really lovely descriptive phrases. So yesterday, P and I talked about descriptive writing. I did give her a little guidance as to how to put the descriptions together to create poems, but the phrases themselves are hers.

Grape Juice
Green.
Cold and sour, too.
Spills

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By nichole | October 21st, 2009 | Filed under: homeschool | 4 comments

Deconstructing pot pie

This was Amy’s week to pick our Recipe Roulette meal, and she chose one that I already had on my to-try list. Yay Amy! It’s Rachael Ray’s Creamed Chicken with Gnocchi Dumplings. Now, I know we haven’t had a great track record with her recipes. But this has a cup of half-and-half in it. So

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By nichole | October 19th, 2009 | Filed under: menu plan Monday, recipe roulette | Comments are closed
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