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I canned 8 pints of salsa and 5 half-pints of pizza sauce today.

Thanksgiving Day, I'll be sending my husband out for bagels while I get to cooking.

Christmas Day breakfast in my family has always been monkey bread and Bailey's-spiked coffee.

I got married 3 weeks ago... we used cylindrical glass vases with small apples, pears, clementines, and cranberries as our centerpieces. There were a couple different heights of vases, and we grouped them in 3s in the center of each square table, with small votive candles and silk fall leaves scattered around. It looked great!

I was taught that when the dough is kneaded enough, it will feel like your ear lobe.

Document, document, document! Keep all records, be they receipts, emails, phone records, copies of check, etc.

The last place I lived, I walked through with the landlord after moving out and cleaning--everything was OK. I always leave parments in better shape than they were when I moved in. He said he'd send the deposit check in 2 weeks. This was in October.

The week after Christmas, I finally got him to bring me a check to my workplace (after the first check getting "lost in the mail"). The check bounced, I was charged a fee by the bank. I called... emailed... called again... emailed again. Called his boss, called the property owner... this drug on into the spring. He never returned my calls or responded to my emails.

Finally I went to the district court to see if I could take him to small claims court, but because he had written me a bad check over $200, it was now a criminal matter. So I had to get the police involved. I finally got my money, but it wasn't pretty. I was just glad I had all the documentation to back me up.

~Off-topic~

Yay for Jacob's Cattle beans!

Make, for sure! I also base my recipe on the Pioneer Woman's, using butter-flavored shortening. People are always so impressed that you made your own crust, no one cares if it isn't perfect-looking.

Straight out of the pod, while still standing in the garden.

Baileys, definitely. And I've been using hot chocolate mix from Penzey's Spices--it's lovely.

Reminds me of the description of the Japanese breakfasts in David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed in Flames.