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"the Christmas Couch"... I love it. So nice to be able to help someone else out.

:frow Just dropping in to say hello.

:frow Just checking in on you... you must be as busy as I have been lately.

I was walking to work this morning and I had the strangest sensation of 'twixt and 'tween. I had started across the bridge and stopped at the halfway point. California lays behind me, Arizona is spread out before me, the sun is rising gloriously on my right and the moon setting on my left. And...

J seriously has got skillz! I am impressed.

So yesterday as I arrive home I do my usual routine which is to deposit the kids at the house, and I quickly skip out to the chicken yard to "look for eggs" which is code for me taking ten minutes of down time before going back in and trying to be a nice wife and mother. My flock has Marek's and...

ORChick - No I have not tried it with the wood ash. .... Can you tell us how you did it? I can of course go google it but it would be more interesting if you tell us...

In our family, I am the perfectionistic, OCD'ed, partner - and you can add in demanding. I am thankful every day that my husband puts up with me. I find his lack of perfectionism a bit irritating. But we are a good couple. We complement one another. I keep things high quality and he keeps things...

SS - I just wanted you to know that even if you don't go the hog's head route - you still get to call them authentic.:D

Ddddang! I think I am in love! Those are to die for! Your man got skillz!

Britesea - happy sigh...that was an excellent description. I can picture it, smell it, remember it well. Winter colds - ugh. Enough said. When I feel cruddy - I like chicken broth with minced ginger and lots of garlic. The ginger seems to be a nice pick-me-up. I wasn't wearing the apron, but...

Just something I found immensely interesting - a little library box in the yard that people can borrow from. Don't know that my link will work but here goes... http://hipgirlshome.com/blog/2011/12/29/little-free-library.html

Okay it sounds like you are looking for something in sharp focus and that will leap off the page... I will submit a pic of chiles in the pot softening - we made tamales and this is how we make the salsa. Don't know if it will work but maybe? another view since you said something about...

Tamales a la Gabacha (gabacha is a nice term that means anglo woman) SS - Regarding the "authentic" hog's head tamales. I do not make those. Not that I wouldn't but I simply don't have any extra hog heads hanging about. In fact I don't know any woman who considers tamales to be something made...

Hmmm...so i am reading through your old posts. LOVE the sweet potato pie story. Regarding the travel trailer you thought about converting....keep your eyes open for an old water cooler. You could even pipe some cool air through there for your hennies to keep them cool in summer. And I think you...

Thoughts on Bleach: I don't like bleach. I used to love bleach (I have a little OCD about bacteria but I am doing better managing that) but several years now I don't use it - or at least almost never. I have had the same bottle of bleach sitting outside by the washer for a couple of years now...

Oopsy - I have combined this comment below with the pix of the tamales (no pictures of hog's heads...darn it!)

Just stopping in so you know I am here reading and getting to know you. Glad you are here.

It is getting toward dinner time and all I can think of is food. Made huevos rancheros the other day - and snapped a pic because it makes such a pretty plate. Drumroll please - I also made tamales for Christmas. It took FOREVER. So I love to eat tamales but I don't make them very often. They...

Hey Britesea - what is the weather like there? Paint me a verbal picture.