We drank one too many cups of McDonald’s coffee on the way down to Nashville from Chicago, so the first thing we had on our list when we arrived was to hunt down a decent cup of coffee. We had no idea what kind of treat we were in for when we turned into the parking lot at the Nashville…
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Last weekend our friends Rich and Jamie invited us up to their vacation home for the weekend. It’s not a vacation home in the sprawling ocean side mansion sense of the word, but more along the lines of a parked trailer home located within a seasonal camping resort. Fish Lake Beach is the camping resort that our friends have their…
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Campfires, roasted marshmallows, boat rides, fishing off the pier, even a hike perhaps. Those were a few of the images I was conjuring up for what was to come this past weekend when we headed off to visit our friends, Rich and Jamie, at their lakeside summer camping home. Although, I almost didn’t go. “I’ve got blogging to do…” “Well,…
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Living in Illinois, most of my small garden patch is made up of native prairie plants which thrive each year come whatever unpredictable weather our climate may surprise us with. Thing is, once you plant a native, and it takes hold, it just keeps coming back from year to year. There isn’t much more to it. That is why I…
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I have a small townhouse and yet, a lot of craft supplies and other random belongings that I would like to keep under wraps, but handy at the same time. Thus, I am trying to unify and prettify the look of my storage so it will hide my clutter while becoming one with the room….Good luck with that, right? Call…
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