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THE THANKSGIVING TABLE

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  First, we need to go to the grocery store to purchase all the ingredients for our Thanksgiving dinner.  It appears we will at least have milk and coffee. Dad will make his fluffy, extra creamy scrambled eggs for Thanksgiving breakfast. Sis will make her special pumpkin nut bread for the occasion. Mom will make the pumpkin pies.  I like mincemeat pie with hard sauce too, but no one else in the family likes it, so unless I make my own, I never have any.  My Grandma Louise also makes a yummy molded persimmon pudding with lemon sauce. Once the pies are in the oven, Mom will chop up the celery and onions to go in the stuffing for the turkey sitting on the table behind her waiting to be stuffed. And when it’s done roasting, Dad will take the perfect turkey out of the oven. When dinner is served, Dad will take the perfect picture of the Thanksgiving table before we sit down to eat While Dad’s taking the perfect picture of the Thanksgiving table, some of us will hide in th...
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ON THE LINE

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  It appears the main characters in the prompt picture may have resided in an apartment building where they were allowed to dry their laundry on a line from one part of the building to another as this photo demonstrates. Here’s a good load of clothes drying between buildings. The drying wash on the line here is a little more complicated or, as my daughter would say, WOWSA! I wonder if the one towel being blue and the other, pink, meant anything? Looks like folks were out enjoying the water in lifejackets with beach towels to dry off on. Laundry day here included hanging sheets out to dry.  I used to love the fresh smell of sheets dried in the open air.  Unfortunately, where we live now, hanging clothes out to dry on a line is not allowed. If you live out in the country, however . . . . . . or by the water’s edge, perhaps you could still enjoy that fresh ozone scent on your sheets & pillowcases. Or maybe on the Isle of Iona in Scotland, walking toward the Abbey, you mi...
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THE SWEATERFEST

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    The gentleman in the prompt pic’ is wearing a smart looking sweater and since we’ve been posting photos about cars lately, I decided to use his sweater as my theme. My husband’s beautiful fisherman knit sweater.  This sweater would keep anyone warm in the coldest weather. Hubby’s favorite color is blue so this two-tone blue sweater is one of his favorites. Likewise this one as well. I like blue sweaters too. These are sweaters my daughter and I bought in the gift shop at John O’Groat’s Lands End when we visited the Scottish Highlands & Western Isles in 2015.  My daughter chose the sweater on the right.  I went with the one on the left.  They’re lightweight summer cotton-knit sweaters. My Mom knit this coral sweater for me with a cable pattern that’s a little hard to see here down the front & back and along the outside of the sleeves. Mom also knit these sweaters for my brother and sisters.  She loved to knit – especially things with intrica...
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