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Dear Friends, Those of us in The States are getting ready to celebrate the 235th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in a few days. Americans traditionally celebrate the day with a parade and picnic or barbecue followed by fireworks. A couple of years ago, I hosted what seemed like (to me) a disastrous Fourth . . . → Read More: How to be a Safe and Sane Hostess Dear Friends, Since summer has arrived and (lucky) people are invited to spend a weekend at friends’ and family members’ lakeside cabin or beach rental, I thought it would be good to discuss ways to make sure you create a memorable visit. Some of these ideas are based on Charlotte Adams’ 1950 Complete Guide to . . . → Read More: How To Be The Houseguest From H-E-Double-Toothpicks The Smith Wedding, Courtesy of Shorpy.com Dear Friends, Next week, the future king of England will marry his longtime love, a commoner. It’s the stuff made of fairy tales. So, I don’t begrudge Ms. Middleton getting a wedding worthy of her new role as princess–complete with two choirs, a chamber orchestra and two fanfare . . . → Read More: Well, Since He’s the Future King of England, I Guess a Big Wedding Is Okay My dad~ Dr. Ivan Mears in his early coaching years My father played football for UCLA. Never in a game. He wasn’t quick and agile enough to actually make the intercollegiate team but he was on the practice team. His love of football was so profound that he was willing to go out every . . . → Read More: College Football Season! My apologies for disappearing again but my grandfather’s death followed by my older sister’s visit and Baby Alice’s dedication (like a baptism only without the water) kept me away (not to mention my schoolwork!). I’m finally starting to feel like I’m catching up with myself again. In my last post, I mentioned that the girls . . . → Read More: Food Should Not be So Complicated Editorial note: When one person complained about the plaid background making it hard to read the text, after some trouble-shooting, we decided that it was her monitor preventing the white background in the text area from showing up. But when another person recently complained, I wondered how many others were having the same trouble and . . . → Read More: Let’s Pretend  5 comments - (Comments are closed)  Cooking, Entertaining, home economics omnibus  Sunday supper menus Last week, I mentioned that I was drawing a line in the mashed potatoes over the excess associated with Thanksgiving meals. In the comments, Ann noted that it is intimidating to have people over when we feel like everything has to be perfect. With this in mind, I came up with this list of questions . . . → Read More: Questions to Help You Plan Holiday Meals In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that the Thanksgiving menus from 50 years ago were much smaller than today’s over-abundant meals. Today, we get to see one of those meals in action. In this film from 1951, young children are taught table manners and how to behave at a Thanksgiving meal so that everyone enjoys themselves. . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Dining Together (1951) Old-style ice cream maker from Ice Cream Makers Shoppe As I type this, I have ice cream ripening in my Handy Freeze electric ice cream maker. The metal on the maker is all rusted and the paint has peeled off but, for being at least 50 years old, it is a workhorse and outlasted . . . → Read More: Grandma’s Ice Cream Recipe The student association at the community college where My Honey is an adjunct professor holds a flea market every month. We prefer this smaller flea market to the much more famous Rose Bowl Flea Market because it is just large enough to find some treasures but just about the time I’m feeling overwhelmed, we’ve visited . . . → Read More: How To Have Guests–and Enjoy Them! |
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