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Fancy copycat soufflés elevate breakfast

I love the breakfast souffle’ tarts at Panera or Starbucks, and recently,…

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Cooking/ Life/ Travel

Chicken and Bacon Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes in Garlic Cream Sauce: Summer trip to the suburbs yields two new recipes to share

We enjoyed our annual trip to my hometown in Oklahoma in July,…

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Farmhouse Renovation/ Home

Guest Bedroom Brightened Up with Accent Wall and Beautiful Wallpaper

A DIY accent wall, wallpaper, brighter paint, and a custom DIY built-in…

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Farmhouse Renovation/ Home/ Home & Garden

The Girls’ Room “Grows Up” into Comfortable Room for Guests

We have turned our grown girls' bedroom into a cozy room for…

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Life/ Travel

Four states, six cities, three points, a dog and two trees in September!

Our keeper pup from Rosie's summer litter moved to Dallas to live with Emma.

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Cooking/ Home & Garden

Life from Here: Gardening, Bouquets, Dogs

Just a few snippets from life on the farm this week. We…

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Cooking/ Home/ Life

A Shower for a “Berry Special” Baby

We hosted a shower for our daughter and our “berry special” first…

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Cooking

Tuscan Tomato Soup is the perfect comfort food

One of our favorite cold weather meals is homemade tomato soup, and…

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Cooking/ Life

Baking Challenge Success: Chocolate Soufflé

Tuesday night I tried a completely new recipe, chocolate soufflé, and I’m…

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Home/ Life

Determined to Take Down Christmas Decorations – but now what?

I’ve taken down the tree and nearly everything Christmas, but now, as…

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    Touring Tulsa 2020, pt 1: Kicking Around on a Piece of Ground in Your Hometown

    One of my great loves is architecture and I have spent a lot of time casually studying buildings from from the Romanesque and Gothic…

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  • In Home & Garden

    Setting Up the Border Beds

    Planting the border beds along the stone wall in the new yard has made a huge difference in the backyard refurbishment!…

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  • In Home & Garden

    Backyard refurb complete! More Green Than we’ve seen in 20 years!

    Installing Zoysia sod made a huge difference in backyard refurb project! We got the sod on Friday, and MORE on Saturday, got it all…

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  • stone pathway yard refurbishment
    In Home & Garden

    Backyard Refurb Part 2: Stone Pathway

    A couple weeks ago, we decided to take action to keep the rest of our badly eroded yard from continuing its journey to complete…

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  • sourdough bread loaf
    In Cooking

    Sourdough Victory!

    I’ve had many sub-par results lately with my sourdough bread, but I’m happy with today’s loaf! Taste is good, it’s pretty airy, and its…

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  • Texas state capitol building
    In Travel

    Texas Capitol in Austin is a fun visit

    "Hmmm, can we put a star on that? Great! It's in!" -people designing the Texas state capitol interior.…

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  • In Photography

    Front Porch Tributes to John Prine Every Night

    Mourning the great John Prine…

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  • Wildwood Farms Garden Center Fredricksburg
    In Travel

    Visit to Wildseed Farms leaves me longing for Gardening to Begin!

    During our trip in March to Fredricksburg, we visited Wildseed Farms outside of town and now I’m so inspired to start getting the gardening…

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  • cheese biscuits recipe
    In Cooking

    Jalapeno Cheese Mini Biscuits

    These days of social distancing are crazy, and many of us have family and school kids at home who need something to do to…

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  • twig fence blog post feature image
    In Home & Garden

    Twiggy Garden Fence

    Spring really showed itself last weekend, so I used some crepe myrtle sticks to make a cool garden fence. I really liked the way…

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