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Family Fun After Dark

Yes, it seems that Winter is approaching.  That means shorter days, and with the ending of Daylight Savings Time it means that sunset in our neck of the woods now happens around 6:30 every night.  A little strange at first, to look outside into the growing darkness as we eat dinner.  But with the darkness, [...]

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Entertain Your Kids, the Cheap and Easy Way

If you wander into a Toys R Us or stroll down the aisle of any major store, you might think that kids these days need battery-operated light-up noise machines in order to be entertained.  If you watch commercials with your kids *shudder* you will find yourself being told that they need the latest and greatest [...]

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Grow Your Own…Vegetables

I am writing today about the exciting little garden that is sprouting in my basement!  No, we don’t plan on leaving it there, but since we started with seeds this year we began in the basement to avoid Georgia’s inevitable early April frost.  This is our second official garden, though the one last year [...]

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