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Archive for August, 2007

Words before Battle

Posted in school, tagged on August 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I have the job…teaching 11th and 12th-grade English. The first day of classes is tomorrow and I’m not ready, not after only one week. I have a lot to prepare and pay attention to. I hope I do a good job and that the kids and I get along. I don’t [...]

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Hawks and apple butter

Posted in apple butter, baby birds, hawks, job hunt, tagged , , , on August 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Well, Wednesday I stopped by the Apple House on the way to Maple Plain and bought two different kinds of apples: green apples to make a pie (which I will do in a few minutes), and some softer apples for apple butter. The lady at the stand told me I could cut and core [...]

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Pictures and stuff

Posted in UFO RR, biscornu, cross stitch, tagged , , on August 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »

A biscornu I stitched for an exchange
Susan’s Autumn Queen I worked on.
Closeup of the part I stitched

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Cooking and stitching…

Posted in cooking, fireworks, geocaching, storm, tagged , , , on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Well, it was a busy weekend. On Friday I cooked all afternoon and evening. I made a triple recipe of Rosa Marina fruit salad, six loaves of oatmeal bread, and two bags of pita crisps. (I think that’s all). There was a huge pouring rain thunderstorm at about 3AM.
Saturday I took [...]

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She returns…

Posted in California, Hilde, reunion, tagged , , on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Kent and I got back from California on Thursday evening, and I spent Friday running errands and paying bills. Lovely. Today I managed to sleep in till noon, as I didn’t sleep well in California. We had a nice time though; Kent met a great portion of the Hilde line of his [...]

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