Picnics
Eating out usually means restaurants but I think eating outside is an even better choice, especially due to COVID-19 and social distancing. The
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Independence Day
If you’d like to try something new for the Fourth of July this year, I came across a menu that looks very intriguing
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4th of July
Sitting on a bench in Levee Park a few years ago, watching the American Queen River boat unload her passengers, was like a
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Barefoot Girl 2
Oh for boyhood’s time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited
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Summer Cooking
Here comes summer and (hopefully) warm weather, nice for everything except heating up the kitchen. Enter appliances–those fantastic workhorses you have on your
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Freezing prepared foods
I have heard a lot of people say they are doing a lot of cooking during this stay-at-home situation and I am one
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Lake Pepin Drive
We love the drive around Lake Pepin. For 19 years, while we owned and operated the Candlelight Inn Bed and Breakfast, whenever we
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At home activities
While we are all confined to our homes due to COVID-19, here is a fun activity: Every day of the year has some
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Make Your Own Mixes
People who know me sometimes lament, “You love to cook—what about someone like me who hates to cook but loves to eat and
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Barefoot Girl
My mom was born in 1910 and she used to tell us wonderful stories about her girlhood in North Mankato, Minnesota. She had
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