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Bread Making

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With the time and the inclination on hand this weekend DmentD and I decided to have a try at a new sourdough recipe. We started it yesterday morning, mixing the starter (good ol’ Bready) with some water and flour to create a sponge and letting it ferment for 12 hours. Then last night, when we […]

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When the crypt doors creak.. And the tombstones quake..

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Finally! A week after the day, I finally get the chance to look through my camera, see what photos are allowed online (and that I can be bothered to put online, certainly not all 300 of them!) and write our account of the party. By some miracle we were actually all set and ready for […]

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Ren Fair

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It’s that time of the year, it’s finally starting to cool down a little and the leaves are beginning to turn. So off we go to the Texas Renaissance Fair! I’m a little delayed in writing this, we went last weekend, alas this week has been full, of work, of building Halloween and of illness. […]

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More Explosions

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In the continuation of the theme of things and event exploding into the house, Halloween burst in this weekend making a nice big mess! We pulled all the decorations down and started getting lights up outside, plenty more to go. Monday we designed the invites for the party, making them Tuesday and doing a mass […]

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Sunset Valley

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Saturday morning we were up ready for a visit to the Sunset Valley Farmers Market. It was one we had heard about, and heard good reviews for. And we had been told most definitely better than the one on 4th that we went to last year. We went as in my search for a decent […]

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Like A Seamstress Exploded

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Our back room/dining room looks like a seamstress exploded in it. Scraps of fabric, ends of threads, pins littering the floor like little landmines and in the centre of it all, overseeing the carnage, sits the sewing machine. Yes, we’ve been sewing. DmentD introduced me to the wonders of costume making, from a pattern! Crazy […]

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Interview

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Friday was it, the big day, the one we’d been waiting for. The day to drive down to San Antonio and face immigration. I was supposed to be driving us down, but in the end DmentD did, and a good job too. It rained heavily the entire way down. And while he does an admirable […]

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Garden Update

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We’ve been starting our Autumnal crop recently, I believe DmentD plans on going into detail so I won’t say too much. We recently transplanted the broccoli, sprouts and tomatoes from their starting trays into our little homemade paperbag pots. We intend on doing garlic and onions too. The pumpkins are.. going.. we’re not entirely sure […]

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Dancing Through Life

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We’ve had a fun couple of weeks since my last post. Most notably I have finished my externship and am now working an honest to goodness job, that I’ll actually get paid for! *grins* It’s entertaining how exciting that is, but the thought of my first pay check in over a year is definitely a […]

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I Want To Ride My Bicycle

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This weekend DmentD and I went shopping for my belated birthday present, a bike. I’ve been cycling since Christmas for exercise (aside from when it started hitting the hundreds!), but on his bike, big, heavy, cumbersome and too tall for me. Only by a couple of inches, but enough of a difference to mean that […]