Maple Pecan Pie While we lived in Lansdale, Rick and I took “wanders” in northwestern Montgomery county. It must have been in a country general store or at a farmer’s market during a wander, where I first saw and purchased Pennsylvania maple syrup (rather than from Vermont, or Maine, or even Michigan). It was made […]
November 22, 2023
Truth be told, this is based on the recipe on the Libby’s Libby’s Libby’s label, with only a few changes. I recently learned that recipes cannot be copyrighted, so it’s the context that counts. I would only change it in a few ways: Here is the homemade crust recipe. If you use homemade crust, pre-heat […]
November 14, 2023
It took me three and a half hours to get home from Lansdale to Jenkintown on November 15, 2018. The final hour and a half transpired not a mile from home at the intersection of Greenwood Avenue and 73 in Wyncote. No fewer than three trucks, a school bus and a dozen cars got stuck […]
November 9, 2023
It was 105 years ago at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the eleventh month that the “Great War” — the “war to end all wars” ended. I was taught (as a student of Modern and Post-modern literature) that it was the “Great War” perhaps even to a deeper extent than WWII that […]
October 1, 2023
Preheat oven to 415° Check roasting bananas at around 16 minutes and then roast them for five to 10 minutes more, depending on brownness. I took them out and poured off a little liquid at this point – some of which is the melted butter – but some of it was their giving up moisture […]
September 21, 2023
Finding the average price of vehicles (Total possible points 75) 2007 Chevrolet Lynx LS Sedan 4-door from Facebook Marketplace $2,400 2011 Chevrolet Equinox LS Sport Utility from Facebook Marketplace $3,600 2005 Chevrolet Equinox LS Sport Utility from Facebook Marketplace $1,900 How do you find an average? What is the average price of these three Chevies? […]
August 13, 2023
Ziggy Stardust Starman Woodstock Reishi Sweet Baby James Final Song of Gulliver Arkady We Are the Champions Julia Victoria Same Love Kleo’s Revenge Wish You Were Here Dalea Roller Derby Queen Box of Rain Brown-Eyed Girl Coryon’s Interlude Wendy Red Red Robin Reuben & Rachel Austin You’re Never Fully Dressed without a Smile Big Bad […]
June 10, 2023
May 24, 2023
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May 14, 2023
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ~ George Eliot Ruth Annabelle Cannon Valenzuela, age 101, passed away May 6th, 2023, 11 days short of her 102nd birthday. She was born May 17th 1921 in Neenah, Wisconsin to Mabel and Cleo Cannon. Ruth attended Oberlin College as a music major from 1939 to […]
November 23, 2023
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