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Creekside Cottage: Garden: What's Blooming In May
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Saturday, May 23, 2015. Garden: What's Blooming In May. The flower garden inside the picket fence is growing well! Tim and I trimmed the two boxwoods and my Goldmound Spirea two weeks ago and they are looking good. Amazing how it made the garden look more tidy right away! In between Tim's work with his new business and his regular job, he managed to repaint the lamppost,. The Iris are looking good with the lamppost and the. It's such a pretty, little rose! It has t...
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Creekside Cottage: All The News That Fit To Print
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Thursday, August 6, 2015. All The News That Fit To Print. That was the motto of the New York Times, but this post has nothing to do. With that. This is just a bit of news from Creekside Cottage and the people living here. We have succeeded in growing cantaloupe this year! There are at least two more out on the vine. It was tasty and so fun to be able to pick it in the garden. We are also doing well in the. Tomatoes are so good. We started our school year on Tuesday...
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Creekside Cottage: Trim Healthy Mama - Weight Loss Update
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Trim Healthy Mama - Weight Loss Update. I mentioned in my last update, in late June, that I had reached 45 pounds lost. That was about 6 weeks ago. I weighed myself Sunday morning and I had lost 2 1/2 more pounds! I am so close to the goal I have for my first year, which is 50 pounds! I am 5'1" and when I started my journey I was wearing a tight size 24. Currently I am wearing size 18 in bottoms and misses size xl in tops! I am still hoping...
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Creekside Cottage: August 2015
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Monday, August 31, 2015. Just A Few Photos. These are unedited, but I thought I'd show you just a few photos from the kids' photo shoot with Lindsay. Our goal with the photos was to show a bit of their personalities and their interests at this stage in each of their lives. Can you tell what those interests are? Sunday, August 30, 2015. What We Did On Saturday. We now are at 6 days and counting until the wedding! Done that we've wanted to do for some time. Tim put s...
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Creekside Cottage: Garden: Tomatoes
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Monday, August 10, 2015. We are getting a bumper crop of tomatoes this year. The weather is not much different than last year, but we'll take the tomatoes! I'm going to give canning them a try. I have never done tomatoes so it'll be a new experience for me. Sue. Do you have any advice for me? I have the basic idea - blanche them to get the skins off and then puree them if making sauce or chop them if canning the fruit. I'll be happy to hear any advice! We had such ...
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Creekside Cottage: July 2015
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Thursday, July 30, 2015. The garden is hitting that late summer lull. We're all feeling it. August is upon us and we are anticipating Autumn. Yes, I said it out loud! Our summer has been relatively mild overall, so I have no complaints. Really. I just want it to be Autumn now! Pinterest has not helped this feeling at all! I've been pinning things like this. Back to the garden. The garden is getting past its prime and many plants. I decided to save as many as I could.
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Creekside Cottage: January 2015
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Saturday, January 31, 2015. This morning I made pancakes for breakfast. I don't always cook breakfast and usually pancakes are a Sunday evening meal, but a friend gave us this terrific mix for Blueberry Pancakes by Christina Maser. The kids loved them. (Tim was at work) I can't eat them since I am doing the Trim Healthy Mama eating plan, so I made myself on plan pancakes. They are really yummy too. Here is the recipe -. 1 cup egg whites. 1 cup cottage cheese. Havin...
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Creekside Cottage: May 2015
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Happy Birthday, Sweet 16! Rachel is 16 today! I thought it would be fun to show you some photos of her through the years. I don't have the younger ones all scanned yet but I do have these. Rachel at about age 10. With her cousin Ethan. Rachel with Tim at Fort Necessity. Rachel with her cousin Kaitlin. She is a lover of books. We are especially enjoying the author Lisa T. Bergren's. Beauty, inside and out. Owner of her first 'real' cello! The p...
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Creekside Cottage: December 2014
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. On This Last Day Of The Year. I want to reflect back on the Lord's goodness to us, through good times, and hard times. We had a daughter married this year in March. We took two unexpected trips to Florida in June and July. We were in Florida in July for Tim's stepdad's funeral. We took a trip to Knoebel's in June as a family. My friend Bonnie and I went to see the Downton Abbey exhibit at Winterthur. The following week I hosted the Lad...
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Creekside Cottage: A Decade Old
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Hospitality, Friendship, Encouragement. Monday, August 3, 2015. My baby is 10 today! Pardon me while I sob. I've been looking at photos of him this morning, from the years that I have been blogging. Still a joy to us all. Lego lover, Dr. Who, Minecraft fan. Smart as a whip. Happy 10th Birthday, Kyle! You are a gift to us all and we love you! August 3, 2015 at 10:26 AM. August 3, 2015 at 10:37 AM. Happy birthday to Kyle! He is a treasure! August 3, 2015 at 11:29 AM. August 3, 2015 at 12:18 PM. Stay, stay ...
