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Eating in Early Spring: Perennial veggies and overwinter beds

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April 29, 2009, in Eastern Massachusetts and I picked all the veggies for my lunch out of the garden! I picked an onion from the fall storage in the basement and then headed out to the garden.

Welcome back to The New Homemaker

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One of my other projects that absorbed too much of my time is now out of the way, I've finished the upgrade on the site (almost--couple of stragglers), and it's all purty again. How you like? Smiling

If you catch any bugs or problems, please let me know. In the meantime, now that this is my main blog, I hope to be spending more time with you for reals.

Drive-By Blogging: Adventures in Adopting

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Just have a few seconds before I have to run out and pick up DS6 at the bus stop (half day Kindergarten is the most inconvenient thing invented by Man), but wanted to share,

DD8's First Haiku

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surprising wind, hail
on the horizon, lightning
springtime thunderstorms

About Me

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Hello Fellow Home Makers. I'm 27...soon to be 28. Wow, 2 more years and the big 30! I currently work with Sensodyne during the day and fight crime at night. JK.

Louisa Is 8!

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If you can believe it, my youngest girl is eight. Some of you have been following this site since before she was born, and now she's eight.

This is a review

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Review of Sailor Moon ( by Lou, and writing by Jo )

Sailor Moon is really cool. My favorite character is Venus.

preow world!!

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hi! i'm loulou josie's sistr i'm 8 and i'm a goof

ok! tis is from tipey tow

fror nogig gfsdfghjcgdsza klgfa

saore i frgot tat tipey tow kant spek english

by loulou

24 weeks

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I am 24 weeks pregnant as of last sunday (april 11th). I am starting to get a very cute little belly.

~Randy's Wife Problem~

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Walking into his favorite bar,Randy says to his bartender friend "Pour me a stiff one Scoot. I just had another fight with the little woman".

"Oh yeah?" says Scoot, "How did this one end?"

~A Poem By Shotgunscoot~

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"QUACK QUACK.. 10 WHITE 1 BLACK"
(Tale of The Dawg Attack)

Went out amongst the humans,
Stumbled and fell, into a crack
The only damage that was done
Was when I heard this Quack

~Hillbilly Ray Goes Fishing~

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Hillbilly Ray's leavin a cove, well known for its fishing one day,with two ice chests full of fish when he gets stopped by an Arkansas Game Warden .

~Mayonaise Cake~

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Ingredients:

2 cups of flour
1 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup of walnuts
1 cup of raisons

1 cup cold water
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon vanilla

My son is TWO!

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I'm going to try to post a picture or two. Wish me luck!

OK, that didn't work so I'll try again in the morning.

What's going on with Lynn?

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Hey, guys. I'm sure a few of you are wondering, what the heck's going on with Lynn? A few things.

Josie on valentines day ( extra from S. Bear )

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Hey everyone!
My most memorable valentines was the year it landed on knitting circle and Lou ate some of my candies. ( she ate hers already )

Wrapping those gifts

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As a single father, rasing thee children I found it very difficult every time they were invited to birthday parties or other special occasions.

~The Unemployment Office Mishap~

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Scoot and Randy worked together and both were laid off, so they went to the
unemployment office.

When asked his occupation, Scoot answered, "Panty

~No Quarry~

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(NO QUARRY)

(Verse 1 )

In the footsteps of time
I've walked in the rain
Tryin to keep my balance
To level out my brain
With pride as my map
And wisdom as a key

Hold on tight!

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I'm going to be upgrading TNH's software--it's really, really out of date!

Hello, Mr. Bear

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Hello again!

To day I will tell a story called:

UNCLE TONY BEAR AND THE UMBRELLA

Hello, Mr. Bear

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Hello, world! Josie FINELY left her computer!
I've been planning this for weeks!

My name is Snow Apple Bear. I am thirteen ( in bear years ) and married to Little Anne Mama.

The Monkees

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"And it looks like we made it once again....."

My sister's favorite band is The Monkees. They are not my favorite band, but they are close to it.

Letting Go of an Idea of Myself

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I think I told you guys we were going to sell our extra lot. Well, we put it on the market and it sold--with a backup offer--nearly full price in less than three days.

This is very good news. It means we'll be mortgage-free. It also means we'll lose our big yard, and I'll finally say goodbye to a dream I had for myself: urban self-sufficiency. Ever since I bought this place I wanted to have a big garden, chickens, maybe a wood-fired oven.

But first I got divorced, and my gardening nut ex-husband moved out. I remarried John, but he really hates yard work--despises it. And then I got sick. So there was this yard, slowly going fallow. Nothing I did to get help with the yard worked. I had my chickens, but it became an enormous battle with the kids to get them to do their chores and feed them.

So really, it's clear. That dream is never going to come true. I don't have the family support, and I don't have the strength. I'm Not That Guy, as we say around here, though I really wanted to be That Guy. The sale of the lot means financial relief, but it also means goodbye to my chickens, who are already in their new home. And it means goodbye to the idea of me as an urban farmer. Bye, Farmer Lynn.

I miss my chickens already.

Obama for the WIN!

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I'm in california.
Everyone of my grandparent's neghbors are Rupublican.
California is now a blue state.

"You can move out of the white-house."

Is what said when he became president.

You may call me Mother of THREE!

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So, the kids moved in last week, we're on day nine of being a family of five.

Extreme Ironing!

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I'm on a YouTube kick!

You Can Vote However You Like

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This? Is AWESOME:

A Free Book for Mom for Halloween Reading!

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Looking for a good Halloween read? Novelist MJ Rose--a longtime TNH sponsor--is releasing her romantic thriller The Reincarnationist as a free ebook between now and the 31st of October!

Photojournalist Josh Ryder survives a terrorist's bomb, only to be haunted by near hallucinatory memories of a past life in Rome as a pagan priest whose dangerous congress with Sabina, one of the Vestal Virgins, poses a transgression so serious the lovers will face a certain death if exposed. Scents of jasmine and sandalwood and images of furtive liaisons and violence descend on Josh at will, pulling him to an ancient yet strangely familiar Roman burial chamber harboring the remains of a woman clutching a wooden box.

A trail of present-day murders takes us deeper into a labyrinth at whose heart lies the enigma of a collection of ancient gems or memory stones whose origins trace back to both ancient Egypt and India. The stones' promise to "assist the wearer in reaching his next incarnation" sets the ancient and modern worlds on a collision course.

MJ is releasing the second book in this series soon, so you'll want to read this one quick! Smiling

Adoption--YES!

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The kids will be ours!

Soon to be DD7 and DS5 stayed the night last night, and went back to their foster home this afternoon. They will move in this Wednesday!

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