So last year at this time, I brought you an overnight crockpot apple oatmeal for breakfast. I got so excited to share a recipe my sister showed me for pumpkin cinnamon oatmeal. I bought all the ingredients, and then decided I couldn’t resist the urge for dessert instead. Can you blame a person? I had...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 10/2/14
I hope this finds you all doing well! I can tell you right now, this article is going to be short and sweet. It’s a Monday. My Dashing Gent is off to work already, and I’ve spotted a spider on my desk. He’s brown. He’s big. The size of a pencil eraser. He matches my...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin – 9/25/14
Okay. Because I still suffer from acute momnesia – or maybe it’s more like chronic momnesia – yeah, that’s more like it. It just lingers, doesn’t it? Anyway, I forgot to do laundry all week so it piled up. And piled up. And PILED up. I’m happy to report that as of Monday, Sept. 22,...
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The Wooden Spoon by Shelly Rankin
As I mentioned last week. A new chef’s juice that you need to add to your roster of chef’s juices. Six words:
Sweet Cream Caramel Apple Cider Steamers.
Write it down. Memorize it. Make it over and over all throughout this wonderful autumn season. It will warm your cold empty mug as well as your soul. Hey,...
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A school divided
There may have been quite a few saddened SCS students over the weekend after the Iowa State Cyclones topped the Iowa Hawkeyes, 20-17, on Saturday, Sept. 13. In a special dress-up day the day before the game, SCS students’ clothing showed where their loyalty lies, with a majority bleeding gold and black for Iowa.
For twenty-plus...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers
My family says I don’t like any change of anything and that I’m boring. They might be right.
When I sell a car or motorcycle, it grieves me, especially when I’ve owned it for several years. I think of the day I bought the vehicle and drove it home, how old I was at the time,...
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The Wooden Spoon 9/11/14
Well, Gang, by looking at the extended 10-day forecast, I saw the number 40. Lows in the high 40s next week. So, obviously, this got me hungry for so many warm dishes and scrumptious, filling desserts like cinnamon rolls. I was just telling the Dashing Gent that I have not made a batch of cinnamon...
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