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Happy Holidays Everyone! The Christmas Holiday will soon be ending....better hurry and get your shopping done! That includes me too! Thanks for your post Cousin Carolyn! Love you too. I love hearing from you all...especially family! Chuck, Jen, myself and our dogs Cinnamon & Sugar, want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year! Happy Chanukah (a bit belated) to my family on the "other side." That would be my wonderful Dad and Uncle Paul and Amy and Adam! We all seem to celebrate both holidays. It's a wonderful thing....the celebration of life! Here's a tip for those of you who have a Christmas tree (I refuse to be politically correct and will absolutely not call it a "holiday" tree.) Water your Christmas tree with hot, boiling water in the basin. If you are just buying a tree this week, have the salesperson make a fresh cut on the bottom, (or you can do it yourself if you have a chainsaw) and when you water it,...

Our family hopes you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I know we certainly ate tons of food! A friend of ours who has a neighboring farm raises turkeys and chicken, along with beef and hogs. He has the best tasting turkeys anywhere! We had dinner at Chuck's parents house, and there were 3 different types of cranberry relish, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts; Chuck & I contributed the brussel sprouts along with a lemon pie and Mom's eggplant salad from the previous recipe. There was also mashed potatoes, stuffing (my favorite), a beautiful dish of butternut squash mixed with cranberries and spinach...so colorful and would make a great side dish for Christmas too. I'll have to get the recipe for you all. Then there were all the desserts! Pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake, the lemon pie, apple pie...I'm stuffed just thinking about it all. Wow! Has it been busy around here. We have a very busy Christmas season here, as our family makes and sells wreaths, g...