by Jackie Houchin FIRST favorite is Reese’s Peanut Butter cups. (Most fave candy in the US, BTW!) I love the smooth milk chocolate on the outside, and the cakey peanut butter filling inside. Together, a bite is pure pleasure. The chocolate melts pretty quickly, but the filling can be pressed against the roof of my…
by Jackie Houchin A: I love, love, love cooking and eating my own Vegetable-Beef Soup. Yum!! Here’s how I make it. I start with some really good beef, like a top sirloin steak. I ruthlessly trim every bit of fat off the steak and cut it into dice-sized pieces. In a large stock pot on…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 30 – What do I complain about mostly? — Things that don’t work when or how they should. Okay, here I go. I complain about electronics when they don’t load quickly enough,…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 29 – Fave sports? To watch — I like to watch Little League Soccer. The kids try so hard, and yet there is no cut-throatness about it, or “fake” injury. The little…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 28 – Win the lottery? Oh, WOW! — (I’d first have to play it.) It would depend on how much the Lottery ticket was for, of course. But say, it was in…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 25 – Favorite leisure time thing? Reading, of course. I’ve joined the Alphabet Soup Book Reading club and the 53 Book Reading Club for several years and have gone WAY over 26…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 24 – A local attraction that I haven’t gotten around to visiting? That has to be the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. I’ve meant to visit there…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 22 – Making my pet understand one thing? First off, I no longer have a pet. For nearly 60 years we had dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, chickens and a couple turkeys. But…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 20 – What’s your dream job? Since I love to travel, particularly in other countries, and I enjoy writing, my dream job would be writing for a travel magazine or blog. …
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 19 – What makes a good leader? To me, all the attributes of Jesus Christ “shout” good leadership. He led His disciples by example. He taught them how to do things by…
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