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If you happen to be driving through this pea soup, please use full headlights. It is easy to forget that the running lights that light our way, leaves our back ends invisible to those behind us. Share this and save a life. Thanks!

You awake to an eerie silence, rush to the window and see…, nothing. The snow has white washed the world with a thick coating of white. It isn’t too cold, it isn’t too warm, but visibility is about three feet. What a strange phenomena and an interesting way for monsters to hide. What exactly lurks…

Some days the people I love wake up feeling like a truck had run them over in the night. If they were dragons they could drink a brew and of course the beast that ran them over would be a charging cattle. The brew would either work to make their muscles fluid and relaxed or…

We traversed the highways and made it to my folks yesterday with the wind sweeping across the plains and trying to shove us in a ditch. It was a wild ride, but the plows were out keeping the snow from piling up, which we appreciate. Like all long trips we made a number of stops…

If you are looking for an outstanding cup of tea, fetch yourself a big mug and put the kettle on. Cut up and orange and take a big meaty slice and juice part of it in the cup and throw in the rind, it adds flavor to the rest. Then add some crystallized ginger to…

Chocolate is a food group that should be exempt from calculation on diets. Let me start with that qualifier and explain that I watch my cholesterol and saturated fats very carefully, but chocolate is allowable in small doses. That being said, Linder makes a really good truffle. They do an exceptional job with strawberries and…