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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
ByMary Crozier May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

Greetings from the White Mountains of Arizona. We are up at our cabin and the weather is 60 degrees this morning with sunny, clear blue skies. The community in Pinetop-Lakeside is small, with limited shopping and resources. Other than a few local grocery stores, you need to drive to the next largest town, which is…

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Crackers and Edible Flowers
ByMary Crozier May 19, 2020May 19, 2020

I have never made homemade crackers in my life. Over the last few days, I’ve been experimenting with discarded sourdough starter. When I feed my sourdough starter every week, I keep a small amount and toss the rest. Seems so wasteful, so I’ve been searching for recipes utilizing this discard. One way to use discarded…

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Saturday Meanderings
ByMary Crozier May 16, 2020May 16, 2020

It has been an interesting week. What started with a lovely, relaxing Mother’s Day and ended with a flooded basement. The good news is the governor’s quarantine is over and life in Arizona is slowly getting back to the new normal. Garden Update The garden is abundant with artichokes, eggplant, fennel, cherry tomatoes, shishito peppers…

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Sprucing up the Front Porch
ByMary Crozier May 13, 2020March 22, 2021

Here is another project that started out simply, and then took on a life of its own. With all this time at home, I am noticing there are so many areas that need sprucing up. This includes the front porch. It all begins with the rocking chairs. The four rocking chairs on the front porch…

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Happy Mother’s Day
ByMary Crozier May 9, 2020May 9, 2020

I am giving myself permission to do nothing this weekend. The week has been filled with so many projects, I will need a vacation after this quarantine is over! I dream about staring at the ocean with an umbrella drink in my hand. But it is time to slow down a bit and enjoy this…

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