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Category: The Good Life (page 14)

How I spent my Thanksgiving vacation

Posted on: November 29, 2010 Last updated on: October 5, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
I had the best of intentions. I was only going to cook a little, eat a little, and then back to work on all the projects that are stacking up around here. But then Bear bought me a puzzle. So…
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2010 Year of Pleasures #46

Posted on: November 23, 2010 Last updated on: October 5, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
Thanksgiving might just be my very favorite day of the year. Even with how bonkers I get for Christmas, if you were going to boil it down to one best day, I’d have to go with a day that required…
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And the winners are…

Posted on: November 17, 2010 Last updated on: October 5, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
Random Number Generator said comments # 3 and #8, which means that goes to TopHat and goes to Lynn Osborne Congratulations! Email me at tresa at reesedixon dot com with your addresses and I’ll send these on out to you.
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2010 Year of Pleasures #45

Posted on: November 16, 2010 Last updated on: October 5, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
I love ice cream, but usually only for a few bites at a time. I’m a fickle ice cream lover, and by the time it starts to melt I’m often done with it anyway. When I was spoiling myself in…
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Letterpress Extravaganza

Posted on: November 15, 2010 Last updated on: October 5, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
Last year sometime I bought this gorgeous print off of Etsy, and then was bummed out for months when I discovered that it got lost in the move. I so vividly remember carefully packing it in a folder, making sure…
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2010 Year of Pleasures #44

Posted on: November 11, 2010 Last updated on: October 5, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
Getting back from Boston was a little bit of an ordeal. There were a whole bunch of rain delays and canceled flights, but I ended up lucking into a replacement flight that went all the way from Boston to Oakland,…
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A weekend in Boston

Posted on: November 9, 2010 Last updated on: October 5, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
I’ll write more about the reason tomorrow, but I unexpectedly found myself in Boston over a long weekend. It was fabulous and exhausting and really really thrilling because the work I have ahead of me is going to be so…
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2010 Year of Pleasures #43

Posted on: November 2, 2010 Last updated on: October 5, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
I hated babysitting when I was a teen, but there was one family I would watch and it was because the mom was really into food preservation and always had home dried bananas in the house. Bananas dried in a…
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Roasted goodness

Posted on: October 27, 2010 Last updated on: October 6, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
The last of the summer tomatoes are still showing up at farm stands, so I’ve been snapping them up. And then as is common for me, forgetting about them until they start to go wrinkly. But now I don’t grieve…
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2010 Year of Pleasures #42

Posted on: October 19, 2010 Last updated on: October 6, 2023 Written by: Reese Dixon
Fall is here! And with it comes the fabulous flavor of pumpkin in all of my favorite treats. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin spiced hot chocolate, and pumpkin flavored frozen yogurt. I don’t know if I love it so much…
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