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Operation Backyard Oasis is a go
When we were house hunting, I insisted we buy a house with a yard, preferably a deck. What I got was a huge yard with a privacy fence around it, no extras. I like to entertain and I think it’s just cool to eat, sit, drink and BE outside. However, when there is nothing but grass outside, the BEING becomes less appealing. As a result, we’ve been living in a house with a massive yard for 4 years now and I’m almost ashamed to say, we just don’t make any use of it. Our yard gets the most attention from our lawn guy/landscaper/handiman who cuts it every other week or…
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Facing it
I’ve gone and done it. I joined Facebook. Around the time my daughter was born in 2005, I became mildly aware of these internet networking sites: MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc, but I was too tired or too busy to care. I figured there wouldn’t be anyone out there looking for me and I’m not looking for anybody in particular, so I just let the phenom pass me by. My only exposure came from my teenage sisters or some random and atrocious media coverage, like the mom who drove her daughter’s enemy to suicide by posting a bogus and malicious MySpace in the victim’s name or the shoot out that resulted…
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Southwestern Chicken Soup
My coworker had a taco salad the other day that had my mouth watering for some Mexican fare. That night I made a B-line toward Wal-mart on the way home. I bought some Sam’s Choice Black Bean and White Corn Salsa and worked up a nice lil taco dinner for the family. But since I didn’t finish the jar of salsa, I was itching for something more to do with it. Then the freak cold snap had me in soup-making mode so I dreamed up this interpretation of Chicken Tortilla Soup. There are no tortillas so I’m calling it Southwestern. It came out pretty tasty, a lil spicy, a lil…