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Updated…I tweeted to @KatieLeeKitchen about this post and SHE TWEETED BACK!!! KatieLeeKitchen Great! She will be thrilled!!! RT @marybethhunt I tried out your mom’s pasta sauce recipe! It was excellent. http://tinyurl.com/3ayfhza See! She really IS my friend ******************************************************************************************* One of my online friends is Katie Lee (used to be Joel as in Billy). Well, she [...]

Here’s a link to see Megan’s interview on KPTM Fox 42 in Omaha. She did a FANtastic job!

My Farmstand Corn Chowder made from corn Matt picked for me at Richard’s Farm…. Pizza Dough made in the bread machine Leftover wine from Megan’s CAMP Open House

Our 11 year old dog, Scout, is from the Nebraska Humane Society. Sometimes, in her opinion, life would be better if she were still there. ESPECIALLY when we go to…..T H E  L A K E! (imagine old timey organ music here going DUH DUH DUHHHHHHHHHHHHH) She isn’t on the dock alone. The boys are [...]

Alice wins the prize for the cutest elbows ever. Mother Nature always puts on a great show at Okoboji. And the Lake always reflects how she’s feeling. While Harrison was cleaning the patio…. Everybody ELSE was doing this! (apparently the Lakes Patrol came zooming by and they were trying to see what the scuttlebut was!) [...]

The ones that talk about the grandbaby all day long. These pictures were taken in about a 20 second time frame. She is SO active….and expressive….and cute!

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DANA COLLEGE FACULTY AND STAFF Dear Dana College Faculty and Staff: Yesterday was a sad day for Dana College. The news that the Higher Learning Commission Board had denied Dana’s request for approval of a change of control came as a shock and surprise to all of us. Our initial [...]

Hail Dana While yet our land was wilderness And sturdy pilgrim reared With brawny arm his lowly home, A flow’r divine appeared: O hail, fair Dana, hail to thee! Our song to thee we sing: May always we thy name revere While truth to us be dear. To all who would thy truths embrace Thy [...]

Yep. ServPro. Wet Basement. Nearly SIX INCHES of water in that bucket. The bucket that was still there from the time before. Thirty Days to the Day. May 20. June 20. The refrigerator water line to the icemaker again. It was fixed. But sprung a leak again. And it leaked. All. Weekend. My reaction to [...]

One of my projects this summer will be to come up with some sort of recipe book for Matt. He’ll have an apartment this fall at UNL and he’ll be cooking. He’ll be a great cook, but it IS a shock when you have to cook AND figure out how to live off campus, transport [...]