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Presidential History

October 29, 2010
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Virginia is quite famous for its presidential history, Charlottesville especially! Guess who came to visit us tonight!? The president! Unfortunately that’s about as close as I got. After an early dinner Matt and I bundled up and biked downtown. We were shocked to find a line the length of the downtown mall to get into [...]

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Green Bouquet

August 31, 2010
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Our afternoon outing was fun and successful! We had a little time to kill so we ventured into the most amazing antique shop I’ve ever been in (mostly because they had tons and tons of stuff and it wasn’t all breakable!) But I did recognize some family heirlooms I have already! Blue Willow And I [...]

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Coocoo For Coconut

February 2, 2010
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Guess what popped into the Open Sky store today!! I’ve got a new product trickling in everyday this week. Fun times. This one’s a bit pricey. But so is a bottle of wine   Back to the coconut butter in a minute… I’m having that time of the month when I have insatiable hunger!! At [...]

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Ready To Start The Day

October 27, 2009
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Oh, is it really almost over!? Darn! I was just ready to get started. Some days my  job as a pro blogger just takes the time to get up 3 posts and answer> a few comments – maybe an hour tops. But other days, I spend hours working on anything that is remotely related to [...]

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A Vintage Tasting

September 28, 2009
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Class was in and out today – easy peasy. We just went over our exams from last week. I scored a 97 and only missed one!! Since we got out of class early, Lauri and I decided to do our run before gardening rather than after. Good call! We set out down the gravel road [...]

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Loves + Lavender

July 2, 2009
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Since we’re going up to Charlottesville this weekend, our fridge is completely bare and I decided not to go to the grocery store for a one-item trip. I almost went for some fresh veggies today until I realized I had leftovers for lunch and could think of something for dinner. Here’s what was in stock: [...]

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Make Do

April 3, 2009
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Food Lab was fun today – we made gingerbread with different combos of leaveners. And then we got to eat them   Here’s our sample plate (made with baking powder, soda and milk). I had about 5 samples like this. We also did some more chemically experiments that were no so cool – We have [...]

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