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March 20, 2025
Thursday Doors: Storybook
#ThursdayDoors #StorybookStyle #writingprompt It’s no secret that I adore Storybook Style architecture. I’m even writing a series of mystery novels set on a two-block street of Storybook Style houses, the street being called Spadena Street. It’s crossed by Dixon Way, Dixon being a Storybook Style…
March 18, 2025
Food Tuesday: It Doesn’t LOOK Like Heaven, But….
#FoodTuesday #writingprompt #4 Daughter and her AlmostMister came to visit this weekend, and AlmostMister made chicken with apricot glaze, based on two Hello Fresh recipe cards. He marinated the chicken with, among other things, Penzeys Turkish Seasoning. As #4 Daughter has taught us, he massaged…
March 17, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Sand and Gold
MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt Do you remember sand painting? It was a Thing for a while. I was never much good at it, to be honest. My mother could make pictures, but I could only make piles of different colored sand.…
March 15, 2025
Caturday: Tipper Gets A Manicure
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #whitecats #Tipper #TipperLordSnowbottom #SirSniffsalot Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Momma clipped my claws. I didn’t want her to. I told her only girls get their nails did. And she said, “Oh, yeah? Then why do they call it…
March 14, 2025
March 13, 2025
Thursday Doors: Postcard From Louisville
#ThursdayDoors #StorybookStyle #writingprompt So I went to a sister-in-law’s house for a brothers-and-sisters lunch. Charlie’s siblings get together every month or so, with their spouses, if any, for a lunch without the younger generations. It restoreth my soul that they still include me after Charlie’s…
March 11, 2025
Food Tuesday: This Fluffy Mushroom Thing
#FoodTuesday #phyllo #vegan #vegetarian #writingprompt So I made this thing. Some time ago, during a severe attack of ambition, I bought a box of frozen phyllo sheets, put them in the freezer, and tried to forget about them. Then the doctor advised me to cut…
March 9, 2025
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Food and Women
#MondayRecommends #NailArt #nails #Maniology #HelloManiology #ManiologyAmbassador #MomGoth10discountcode #writingprompt Sounds like a gender thing but, although I am all about D, E, and I, it isn’t. My #2 Daughter is vegan, and recommended the hilariously named It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken for its simple, reasonable, and…
March 8, 2025
Caturday: Adi Loves Michael
#Caturday #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #calico #calicocats #scottishfold #scottishfoldlovers #Adi #AdiLadyFluffington #FrauleinProfessorOverknocker Hewwo. Um, I’m Adi, okay? I got in trouble last night wif EverMom. I kept going into de baffroom to sing cause canoostics are good in dere. EverMom: Acoustics, Adi. Acoustics. Fank you. De…
