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Post Storm, Orange Beach and Gulf Shores

by Beth | Oct 25, 2026 | Pictures | 0 Comments

The Alabama coast dodged a bullet when Isaias decided to go east a bit and come on shore around Navarre Florida. Not much damage, and the power came back online quickly, so we headed down to enjoy the lovely post storm weather. Great biking weather and lots of...

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

by Beth | Aug 31, 2025 | Recipes | 0 Comments

For years my brother and I competed for the honor of “Best Carrot Cake.” Eventually I gave in and told him “You win! You make the Thanksgiving carrot cake from now to eternity.” He tried to get me to take on that task after a few years, but I declined. I must say, I...

Kaufman’s Nana Bread

by Beth | Aug 18, 2025 | Recipes | 0 Comments

I’ve been making this basic recipe for 50 years or so — updating to use coconut oil instead of Crisco and other small tweaks from the original.

Steaming Dutch oven filled with vegetable and meat stew beside cornbread

Brunswick Stew

by Beth | Sep 21, 2023 | Recipes | 1 Comment

The time honored recipe that I learned for Brunswick Stew involved 3 or 4 squirrels, a rabbit and maybe a possum (or some other roadkill). Or squirrel, rabbit and chicken at least. Needless to say, I scared a priest from New York (NYC) by explaining this before I served him this version.

Camera time and old friends

by Beth | Jul 6, 2023 | Photos | 0 Comments

Back in early late May/early June a friend from high school (ok, so we've probably known each other since elementary school dance classes) came for a few days to visit. We entertained ourselves one morning by wandering around with our cameras -- love this waterfall!...

testing embeds

by Beth | Dec 9, 2022 | Photos | 0 Comments

I'd like this to be the full width of the post... alas that seems to be a problem if I use the Slideshare block. Seems ok if I use Slideshare shortcode to embed. Life of St....

Mailchimp rides again

by Beth | Nov 6, 2022 | Photos | 0 Comments

I use Mailchimp on some other sites to get out updates from the blog function. Seems to work ok generating an email from an RSS feed. But, there are problems: the standard WordPress RSS doesn't send the featured images in the RSS feed. I like my images to show up in...