It’s almost September and that means football! Woohoo! I love the NFL. My two favorite teams are the St. Louis Rams and the Washington Redskins. We lived in northern Virginia my last two years of high school. Soon after I started watching football, the Redskins went on to win Super [...]
The Republican National Convention kicked off this week in New York City. I don’t plan to be very pushy in my political views here at Fresh as a Daisy, but I do have one thing to say: Go Bush!
I got this from Strange Cosmos, and although extremely funny, I have been working at making this untrue at my house. Thanks Flylady for helping me babystep my way to a cleaner home.
MY PHILOSOPHY ON HOUSECLEANING!
I don’t do windows because… I love birds and don’t want one to run into a clean window and [...]
We cannot let the events of September 11, 2001 become just a memory of a tragedy. As Pardon My English has on their sidebar – Never again. We’ve already begun to lose sight of what really happened. I cannot believe there are AMERICANS who would rather blame other Americans for what happened [...]
I don’t even know how to respond to this. September 11, 2001 will be seared on the hearts of many of us for the rest of our lives. To have a company make a toy depicting the initial attack on the World Trade Center is beyond inhumane. That’s right. I said [...]
Typhoon Chaba passed through our area on Sunday evening on into Monday morning. It continued to rain and we did see the sun for a few hours on Wednesday. It is now Friday evening and it is still raining. We’re not expected to see the sun again for a few days. [...]
Another week has passed and the Carnival of Recipes is almost here. I am sharing my recipe with you before I send it to Beth.
Crunchy Tossed Salad
1/2 cup vegetable oil1/4 cup sugar2 Tbsp vinegar (I use cider vinegar)1 tsp salt1/4 tsp pepper1 large head iceberg lettuce, chopped6 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled1/3 cup sliced [...]
Well, folks, today I received my quote from DHL. For those of you not familiar with the story, here’s a quick recap. No company ships large items to Guam – DHL does. I sent them the measurements and the weight. Ha, not that the weight matters. They figure weight by [...]
Who knew we would have to deal with homework in preschool? To be fair, it’s not homework in the way you would normally think of it. And actually, it’s homework for the parents, not the child. For instance, this week our homework is:Tuesday – Put something in your Aa bag to add [...]
We took our four-year-old to preschool today for the first time. She missed the first two weeks of school due to travel and jet lag, but she was raring to go today. We’re still experiencing rain due to our recent typhoon so we all looked like drowned rats when we got there. [...]
I’ve been mulling this over for several days now and I’m still confused. I saw this article about the Catholic church declaring a little girl’s first communion invalid because her wafer was without wheat. Here’s the catch: she has celiac sprue disease which means she cannot eat wheat or several other grains.
“This [...]
Sometime during my power outage today my sitemeter hit 100 visitors. I know as time goes on I may not get so many visitors in such a short time, but for now it is really exciting. Thanks to all who have dropped by for a visit. I’m having a blast!
We lost power last night which is rough on a new blogger, and just now came back on. Almost 23 hours without power is not bad unless you’re on a humid island. Thankfully, if you were within 5 feet of a window the breeze was very nice. Soon, we will all bathe [...]
Looks like Chaba is indeed headed our way. The newest posting from the weather service says Chaba will be only 18 miles from us. That means the EYE of Typhoon Chaba will be 18 miles. We’ve had rain since 8 this morning and it will probably last for several days. We [...]
It’s Sunday morning for us and Typhoon Chaba is headed our way. It’s still not expected to hit us directly, but we will get lots of wind and lots of rain. Chaba is now expected to come within 108 miles and is still going to steamroll Saipan. This is the third Typhoon [...]
I didn’t know when I posted my Lime Cookies I was about to embark on a whole new culinary path. Beth over at She Who Will Be Obeyed has started her very own Carnival of Recipes, and is hoping to make it a weekly attraction. There are about 2 dozen recipes in this [...]
As we often do out here in typhoon territory, we checked the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) for any potential typhoons. Guess what, folks? Typhoon Chaba is heading this way, sort of. Chaba isn’t supposed to get too close, but we have been upgraded to a Category 2.
Conditions of Readiness (COR) [...]
I would like to make my blogroll a little longer and I need your help. I’m a bit picky when it comes to language, but if you’ll send me your favorites, I promise to check them out.
And now for a completely odd request, anybody know where I can buy a plastic bag dispenser or [...]
I actually was able to put up the Site Meter all by myself. Being the crazy person I am, I allowed my blogmom to talk me into Wordpress. Not only am I crazy, I am new at this. Since she is out hiking around the Grand Canyon, I had to figure [...]
I glanced over at my son this morning who had climbed back up to the table to eat more cereal he hadn’t finished earlier. My daughter walks by and yells, “Mom, he’s eating the sugar!” What? Wasn’t cereal after all. The bowl the sugar is in is from the same pattern [...]
Long story short:
Pottery Barn cannot ship furniture to GuamThey have a bench and shelf I would like in my entrywayDHL might be able to help mePottery Barn was kind enough to send me the weight and dimensions of the packaged items so I could get an estimateIsn’t Pottery Barn wonderful? And they were so [...]
Being on the road has made keeping up with the blogworld a tad unreliable. In fact, just this morning yesterday I read a post from Absinthe & Cookies. Gretchen Ritter believes it is absolutely WRONG for women to be stay-at-home mothers. Here is the article reviewing her “claims.” Boudicca’s Voice does [...]
In honor of my blogmom, who loves lime and for all of her help with my blog, here is a recipe for Lime Cookies.
Lime Cookies
1 stick lightly salted butter1/2 cup granulated sugar1 egg, beaten1 1/2 cups all-purpose flourfinely grated rind of 1 lime2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
Filling
3/4 stick unsalted butter, softened1 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar, [...]
At this time, if you make a comment (and you will, won’t you?) it will take you to my blogmama’s error page for her blog. Fear not, your comment has been correctly posted. Right now, it just has a round-about way of getting there.
My kids are so much fun and just like every kid, they take things literally. For instance, we made snickerdoodles with my mother-in-law. Generally, you roll your cookies into balls and then roll them in sugar/cinnamon. I got out the video camera and asked the kids what they were making? snickerdoodles! [...]
My kids, 4 and 2 1/2, and I arrived home last night after a 19-hour trip from Lexington, KY to Guam. We went home for a wedding and spent 4 weeks with family. We had a wonderful time with both sides of the family, and are glad to be back home with [...]
Who knew starting a blog would be so frustrating? No show of hands, please. I spent two weeks without a computer and then the next two weeks with a computer who wouldn’t let me log into my blog – no matter what we did. I am finally home again with a computer [...]
I’m not sure if I should act like this is the beginning of a book or act like you’ve walked into the middle of a book. Here goes:
Thanks to Ian, my husband, over at Pinwheels & Orange Peels. Without him, I wouldn’t even know what a blog is.
Thanks to Sarahk, my blogmom, [...]