Category: Home Sweet Home
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My Family Cookbook
I got this blank recipe book as part of a wedding gift that I almost put on a yard sale. I had a revelation as I thumbed through it before putting in a box of stuff for the sale. I decided it would be the perfect book for keeping all of my favorite recipes in…
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You Can Have Your Beef and Eat It Too
I am on a perpetual cooking journey to find new ways to prepare and serve various cuts of beef to my beef-eating carnivores. I try to challenge my limitations; cooking beef 95% of the time and being the frugal ranch wife cook that I am. It’s good to stretch my cooking frame of mind. I…
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What’s Buzzing in the Black Hills?
If you’re planning a visit to the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota, then you definitely need to sign up to receive the Black Hills Buzz newsletter. Someone was kind enough to add me to Black Hills Buzz’ e-mailing list and whoever it was I want to thank them profusely. While here, you’re going to…
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What Fairburn, South Dakota Means to Me
Every summer my husband’s extended family has a family reunion at a different location around the southern Black Hills; usually in one of the small towns where different relatives who volunteered to host, live or once lived. It’s always held in the summertime, oftentimes around the Fourth of July or Memorial Day. This year family…
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Fixes and Kisses
My kids know better than to come to me with their broken toys or equipment. The best I can do, is give them a sympathetic hug or a kiss, but neither have been successful repair tools. My approach doesn’t fix it, or do much to make the kids feel better, but my husband delights in…
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A Ranchwife’s Poems
The book club I’m in meets every month, and oftentimes the summer book club gatherings aren’t well attended because people are busy or gone. At July’s meeting, a few of us met along the shore of Stockade Lake, east of Custer just inside Custer State Park. The host for July’s book club meeting chose poetry for our reading selection….
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Cowboy Logic Camping
My husband told our kids once, A campground is about as close to living in a city as you can get, when they mentioned how much they liked staying at a campground. Considering the way we choose to live and the idea behind camping, I had to agree with him. Experiencing the outdoors and connecting…
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Our Summer Tradition
For most of the summer, my kids have slept outside. It’s become a tradition my son started a loooong time ago. Once the nighttime temperatures in the Black Hills hovers around 50Ëš or higher that’d generally be around the end of June I join my kids. Luckily, the mosquitoes haven’t been a major problem this…
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Amy’s South Dakota/Life in the West Recommended Reads
I’m open to reading a variety of different books, but am most drawn to non-fiction. I’ve read some excellent fiction, but if it’s a really good story, it’s disappointing to me in the end if I have to remind myself that it’s not true. I enjoy history, especially about women, but overall, I just enjoy…
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The Mother of All Branding Day Stain Removers
The mere sight of my son’s Wranglers would’ve killed a normal mom. To most mothers, the mixture of boy, mud, and calf wrestling would’ve rendered his jeans laundry mission impossible. Mud wants company and has a hard time being left alone. It likes a clean car, but loves a pair of boys’ good clean Wranglers…