vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Dec 9, 2009, 6:58 pm
Our snow was next to nothing today. Big blizzard came at us and we got an inch or less of snow and some rain. Not that I'm complaining too much, but snow can be better than dampness. The wind howl...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Dec 7, 2009, 9:29 pm
I have this problem when I speak in public, my face turns red, then the red starts to crawl down my neck, and my heart beats fast. No amount of prayer for calmness has ever helped. So as I sit there a...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Dec 6, 2009, 9:40 pm
We finally got our Christmas tree up. We had a great time decorating it Saturday. We made dinner over the fire Bat made in the fireplace, hot dogs, and pizza. Now I'm keeping busy making some pres...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Dec 5, 2009, 5:01 pm
We finally decorated our Christmas tree yesterday. I turned on the radio that plays Christmas music 24 hours a day and we had hot chocolate and Bat built a fire. Snow flurries came down and that just ...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Dec 4, 2009, 8:34 pm
A lot of people love chickens and I can't thank everyone enough for all their support and helpful suggestions. Here is what I've learned about keeping chickens in the city from some of the rea...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Dec 4, 2009, 1:25 pm
We bought a lot of hamburger this last week. I used it once already for just plain good old hamburgers. I was ready to freeze the rest but decided to make up dinners ahead. For today's dinner I ma...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Dec 2, 2009, 5:28 pm
I'm not sure if I have ever revealed this to any of you, but I want chickens. Fluffy white ones, brown ones, speckled ones, ones that lay brown, white, or green eggs, I have deceided it doesn'...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Dec 2, 2009, 3:21 pm
I entered a contest over at Lemon Verbana Lady for a herb book and I won! So excited, it looks to be a great resource book for my herb garden. Thankyou Nancy.  
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 30, 2009, 5:44 pm
Okay, we kind of forgot about the apples. We used a half a bushel with the last post I did about what to do with a bushel of apples. Then we lost momentum, and just quit. While Bat's Mother was he...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 30, 2009, 6:32 am
It's all gone, there is not a piece of turkey, dressing, shuck beans, or pie in sight. I'm kind of glad, now I can go on to something different! Well not too different, just normal. Today ...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 28, 2009, 7:44 pm
I'm getting prepared, because anytime now I made need them. Someday it is going to turn winter here in Michigan and I'll be picking one out. There are beginning to be stacks of them everywhere...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 27, 2009, 10:56 am
It felt so good having our family from Kentucky come here and enjoy our Thanksgiving Table yesterday. Actually, I still feel kind of full, but of course, I just came back from what's left of the d...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 24, 2009, 6:01 am
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Vickie
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 23, 2009, 8:06 pm
Thinking about Thanksgiving, my mind of course turned to the pilgrims garden. I was wondering did they bring any seeds? Any gardening tools? Finally, how did they preserve their harvest? After ...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 22, 2009, 7:26 pm
I don't know maybe it's the cleaning, maybe it's the walking, (I have decided to start walking every day to the lake), or maybe I'm just getting old. No, now the last one couldn't ...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 22, 2009, 8:20 am
This recipe was handed down from my Mom. Just a simple but wonderful Cornbread dressing. I thought it was just ours -until I took my Mom to Arkansas one year for a family trip. We stopped at a cafe an...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 21, 2009, 8:18 pm
I walked twice now, back and forth to the lake, and Bat says he will go with me this morning if I could just possibly wait till 8a. I'll try. But you just have to come back again with me once mo...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 21, 2009, 6:31 am
I'm getting ready this morning to head over to Mattie's @ Lazy Bee Farm for a virtual tea party at 10 a.m. Ever been to one? I haven't either, but I do have to say I'm getting a litt...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 20, 2009, 7:38 pm
There is this burst of energy that comes in the morning still, but there is no garden or backyard to tend to now. Everyone was usually still asleep when after blogging in the morning, I would sneak o...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 20, 2009, 4:23 am
My theory is the more you can make ahead of time for Thanksgiving, the less stressed out you will be. I got started with making the Pumpkin Cake Roll a couple of weeks ago and froze one. Then I read y...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 18, 2009, 9:42 pm
You know how you want wildlife, but you want them to behave themselves while they are on your property? Well, they are not cooperating. After we had just got done. in the very back of the yard laying ...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 18, 2009, 2:11 pm
I was talking to Mom over the phone today, I told her I was glad that I had a frozen pizza in my freezer that I had made, because I was too busy and tired to make anything for dinner. She said well yo...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 16, 2009, 6:53 pm
We finally got the backyard all back together. We shoveled dirt in low spots and raked the ground smooth. In some parts, Bat had to till the ground level. Then we spread the grass seed with the broadc...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 16, 2009, 3:53 pm
This post is for Rebekah from Hoover Family Farms. In her last post she wrote she would like to make something for her neighbors and was making them an afghan. She also asked for ideas for something e...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 14, 2009, 8:07 pm
Hope you are having a great Sunday. Just some pictures of this past summer and fall. We loved going to the nature preserve and Stepping Stone Falls this past summer.   Just about all of the tr...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 13, 2009, 7:22 pm
By the time it was done, it took 47 yards of dirt, to fill in the backyard, including the ruts left by the big trucks. I can't imagine, finally having a yard that doesn't flood. Well this did ...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 13, 2009, 10:09 am
What with all the backyard work we are doing, buying a used rototiller, and Christmas coming up we decided to cook out of our pantry and freezer this week. Believe it or not we had two hams in our fre...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 11, 2009, 4:46 pm
Bat and I have lived here for almost 18 years now and we have had many floods in our backyard but this last year was a doozy. With over 6 inches of rain in June and then again 4 inches of rain in earl...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 11, 2009, 10:25 am
I tired of my own cooking so in my quest to find something different to make in my kitchen I've run across some very good recipes and some great ideas also. So maybe I can make it a weekly post -t...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 10, 2009, 7:12 pm
I've been blogging every day since I started back in May and I love it. But I have decieded with gardening season officially over in Michigan to wind down my blogging to about every other day or s...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 9, 2009, 7:27 pm
Do you know how many pounds of apples are in a bushel? There are approximately 42 pounds of apples in a bushel and they were in our den. Last night I decided I'd better get busy and do something w...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 9, 2009, 1:10 pm
Have you ever had breakfast for dinner? I needed something quick and easy and these delicious pancakes fit the bill this afternoon. We have lots of apples around here after buying a bushel on our fall...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 8, 2009, 6:57 pm
Bat is the one who usually goes out to the road and gets the mail, so he has been noticing all the different seeds I've been getting. He finally asked, just how I was going to fit all that in our ...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 7, 2009, 9:44 pm
I'm not sure about your area but just about all our leaves have fallen from the trees. Yesterday was a beautiful 60 degrees, a perfect day to get out there and rake. What can you do with all thos...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 7, 2009, 6:09 am
I've never propagated anything before but I kept on thinking about those grapes in our neighbor's yard. I coveted my neighbor's grapes! I want some in my own yard. So, of course, I stayed ...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 6, 2009, 4:33 pm
When I'm tired of my own recipes and I need something new I start looking in cookbooks, on the Internet, or I get them from family and friends. But, you know how you look at a recipe and you basic...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 4, 2009, 8:49 pm
I love babysitting our new grand baby. Although he hasn't smiled quite yet you can see he is on the verge of it. Especially when he looks at me, I can tell he's thinking, oh my what a goofy gr...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 4, 2009, 1:44 pm
My sister Janet from Hawaii, sent me some more recipes and we couldn't wait to try this one when we looked through them. Now, Bat was expecting it to taste something like the sweet and sour chicke...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 4, 2009, 12:17 am
... a month ago, it hit me to start doing again, reusing my cooking oil. I posted about it on Cooking with Vickie on 10-20-2009. ... I wrote this post it was a way to show how to save money cooking....
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 2, 2009, 7:15 pm
Bat is now heard frequently saying, "Hey, do you have anything I can put this in, so I can throw it away?" I usually have to hunt something for him, because the amount of plastic bags we bring home fr...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Nov 1, 2009, 7:45 pm
I really don't know what happened to Bat and me in our childhood, we both have never liked pumpkin pie until we were in our early forties. Can you believe it-never liked pumpkin anything. We didn&...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Nov 1, 2009, 1:25 pm
We have company from Kentucky coming for Thanksgiving. Yeah!! I've decided to make some things ahead as much as possible, in between getting my house all spiffed up. When I started processing my p...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Oct 31, 2009, 8:27 pm
I posted that I had some seed for trade on one of the seed swaps online, I wanted to trade some dill seed for heirloom tomato seeds. Now dill seed is really all I had extra at the moment, but now I ha...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Oct 30, 2009, 6:49 pm
When Mom and Dad came here from Arkansas so that Dad could work in the factories, they were all alone except for one brother, and a distant cousin who followed him up here. Some of other relatives tri...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Oct 30, 2009, 12:31 pm
Bat has been hearing about people making cornbread on the stove for quite a while, just recently we started trying it ourselves. With just three of us here, most of the time a whole 12 inch skillet f...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Oct 29, 2009, 8:41 pm
My house is clean and smelling wonderful the morning. It's polished, the sinks are scrubbed, I've mopped the floor, and sprayed disinfect spray, all without any harsh chemicals. I did this all...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Oct 29, 2009, 3:41 am
So if after reading all the gardening blogs, gardening fever has struck and you plan on making a garden next year, here are some tips to get you started. Some of these will come in handy for us old ga...
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vickie morgan posted an article on cooking with vickie - Oct 28, 2009, 5:51 pm
Okay I'm on this sweet kick -tommorrow no more! I started making these this morning when I thought about buying donuts at 5 a.m. Next house we get (log cabin in the woods) I would like the kitche...
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vickie morgan posted an article on gardening in Lower Michigan - Oct 27, 2009, 7:07 pm
The day was beautiful yesterday, so we took a late afternoon walk to the lake. Our park and lake is not too far from us, maybe a mile. One side is a more natural area and kind of swampy, while the oth...
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