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Happy Birthday Roses!
for Rose Marie also known as Sally Rogers … my favorite on the Dick Van Dyke Show. I loved that she was funny and sharp and quick and witty, and proudly, and without explanation wore her little hair...
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two blue
I love blue berries. Usually I just eat them. Occasionally I actually leave enough or buy enough more that I make something. Blueberry pancakes. Blueberry Betty and Buckle (not to be confused...
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People, people who need pudding….
National Indian Pudding Day isn’t until November, but Indian Pudding was in the headlines recently… with Barbra Streisand Paul Marotto Wireimages for BSB Who was in Boston to sing…… (review of her show...
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Van Gogh’s Potatoes
There it was in the magazine – FoodNetwork? Rachael Ray? It was July…..this July, just a month ago. Van Gogh painted four still lifes of Potatoes He only painted one STARRY NIGHT This is part of the...
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What the Fluff?
It’s almost September, time for Labor Day Cookouts Back to School and FLUFF FESTIVAL Fluff Festival CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS The Fluff festival is held in Somerville, MA, birthplace of Marshmallow...
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Rabbit…almost
Audubon – hare Hare – common and Irish Federico Uribe 1962 Hail, hail the gang’s all hare! Save
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Book Club Chairs: Locale local
Grab a seat…with your feet in the water, the sun on your back OR curled up in AC comfort OR in front of a fire. It’s Book Club time! I’ve been reading… Often I have a...
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See Poem
Renoir – 1879 Seascape The hurricane is a statement and not a watch or a warning, but the wind is gusty, the sky is grey and there are whitecaps in the harbor…Yep, it’s still Summer, but it wants to...
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Lust for Life
If you’ve been paying the least little bit of attention, you might have noticed I’m quite taken by the work of Vincent Van Gogh Self portrait 1887 I’m also very fond of Kirk Douglas…. That’s no whale...
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National Cheese Pizza Day
…was September 5th – I can’t believe I missed it! But wordpress was too busy publishing what I was trying to schedule, so the docket was pretty full that day, anyhow. Sicilian Pizza Cake FoodNetwork...
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At The Fishhouses
painting by Elizabeth Bishop At the Fishhouses To the Editor: I wonder what was in David Orr’s mind when he decided to close his column about Ben Lerner’s “The Hatred of Poetry” (On Poetry, Aug. 28) by...
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Wallyburgers
It started, as myths often do, in the dim, misty long ago times. Summer was ending, the days still hot but the nights were cooling, and school was beckoning. There was a fire, a charcoal grill fire....
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National Coffee Day
I went to the Coffee Club and heard very good discourse… ~Samuel Pepys, diary, 1660 January 17th Coffee beans in the shape of a coffee cup. Stock Photo A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I...
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Oatober
Make that #Oatober….someone at Quaker Oats is pretty genius. Could it be this guy?? This is the first Quaker for Oats – trademarked in 1877. They’ve been working the genius marketing for a while. And...
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Judgement Day
No, not THAT Judgement day – PIE Contest judging day!!!!! THIS Pie contest So much talent Such mighty fine pies Pie Parade – I’m bringing up the rear with Alice Parker’s pie, since she – as Alfred...
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#NationalPastaDay
is today, October 17th and I almost missed it. Actually, ANY Day WITHOUT Pasta is a day I don’t have very often. And I was raised to call it Macaroni. Macaronis in the plural. This image from Wikipedia...
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How to Judge a Pie
Notes from a Fan I try to be open minded in my real life, not judgmental – but when it comes to Pie….well, this is not my first pie judging. And there is a difference between the good, the very good...
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Pie Parade
The Pies! The Pies! A note on the judges – there was me, from Plimoth Plantation There was Doris Cooper of Clarkson Potter Publishing and the third judge was Darra Goldstein of Williams...
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A Damp But Delicious Day
More on the Pie of Hawley! Pudding Hollow Pudding Festival (and Pie Extravaganza!) Will Cosby won the Pie Contest with his Ginger Apple “Moose” Pie. The Hawley Gentlemen’s Pie and Tart Extravaganza...
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