Potato Boy earned his name, for those of you that don’t know, for his love of everything potato – mashed, baked, hash browns, french fries, chips, fried, boiled. The only exception is potato salad, which I have to agree, can be hit or miss. There’s really only one other food that will match the wide-eyed […]

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Has Sissy sold you a pumpkin yet? She can make a pitch with the best of them. At last count she’s sold pumpkins to two teachers, five friends, and two sets of grandparents. The problem? The pumpkins she’s selling are still little seeds sitting on a shelf in the closet. It all started last summer […]

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Have you heard the wives’ tale about planting potatoes on Good Friday? With the remarkable warm spring we had this year, it actually made sense. These guys were actually planted the day before Good Friday. You’ll have to excuse the row/seed spacing. This was the first thing planted this year and Potato Boy and LuLu […]

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Potato Boy and I woke up early over the weekend to run a couple errands. We were just about home and had turned on to our road when I noticed all of the wild flowers along the road. Potato Boy instantly had a great idea. We parked the car at home and walked back up […]

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I’ve referenced our dog on a few occasions, so I guess I’m overdue on the formal introduction. We adopted Pip from a local shelter when she was just three months old. We were told she was half Lab – half German Shepherd, though we’re not totally convinced on the German Shepherd part. Given her size, […]

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