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Do you have a graduate to buy a gift for? I don't mean that you are the parent, or maybe you are, but I'm not going to suggest a car or college education as a gift here today. But, I am going to make some suggestions that I know most graduates from High School or College will truly appreciate!
There you go! Grad Gifts in every price range! (Except for a car!) Choose one and let me know how your grad loved it! You're welcome! ;) Here are some other ideas to help you prepare for upcoming summer activities: Camp Handouts and Thank Yous Summer Kick-Off Guide Summer Time Job Chart Summer Recipes that Keep the House Cool!
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! YUP! See all of those strawberries in that graphic above? They are some of the many that have been coming out of my strawberry patch! I am so happy with my strawberries this year. Here is why. Last year I put a few strawberry plants in my garden box. They began to produce a few strawberries, and just when they were ripe enough to pick, Maddy's puppy, Boots, ate them! At first I thought the birds had gotten them, so I covered them with netting to protect them. But, when I found the netting strewn all over my yard, I realized it was the dog. It was pretty funny actually, because he had nipped them off the stems very carefully exactly when they were ripe and very carefully! (He is a very smart dog who loves strawberries.) Needless to say, I didn't end up harvesting many strawberries last year. I decided that I needed a bigger strawberry patch. That way between the birds, the dogs and the bugs, I might still end up with some strawberries for the family to enjoy. Since strawberries reproduce very well on their own, I decided to try an experiment in my garden of wintering my existing plants over and allowing them to shoot out baby plants. I trimmed them back, taking off all of the dead or damaged foliage. I babied the babies. In the winter when we had some freezing weather, I covered them with sheets to keep the frost off of them. I fertilized them. I was determined to have a successful patch, something that has never before happened for me. Hallelujah! My efforts paid off and my patch of strawberries has more than doubled! Then, in the early Spring, the strawberry blossoms began to appear! These aren't just little bitty strawberries either! There have been some really big ones! Here are a couple of my first ones: Since this is Strawberry Month, and because I am using my strawberries almost daily, I thought I would share some delicious strawberry recipe ideas with you today. Here is a roundup!
Do you have a favorite suggestion that you can share? Please drop it in the comments! This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! Mother's Day is right around the corner already! I love going to Etsy and purchasing beautiful handmade art pieces from small business there. Just peruse the Etsy site for a little while and you will come across unique gifts that are sure to please. (I may have purchased myself a unique gift this morning.) Here are a few of my favorite things that I've discovered this morning!
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! Let me explain everything in the order that it happened. I received a citrus juicer as a wedding gift almost 44 years ago. It was great to use whenever I was gifted an over abundance of citrus. Last year, the motor of this beloved gift finally gave out. My dear friend Anita, who happens to be my sons mother-in-law has a lemon tree and she gave my son's family a bunch of lemons from her tree. My son and daughter-in-law passed a large bag of these huge lemons on to me. There I was with no citrus juicer. I was not going to juice all of these lemons by hand, so I got on Amazon and ordered myself a new juicer. Not just a citrus juicer, but a centrifugal juicer that will juice all fruit and separate out the pulp, which you can use for other recipes as well. Here it is: I began juicing the lemons with my new juicer and started to fill ice cube trays to freeze for whenever I needed lemon juice. Unfortunately, I do not own enough ice cube trays to hold all of the juice that these lemons were giving me. So, I broke out my Hot Cocoa Bomb molds and also smaller candy molds such as my owls and my mustaches (similar here). I had to find space for all of this lemon juice to freeze between my freezers. There was a lot. Here are some of the shapes I ended up with: So, I got to thinking about how we only make and drink Hot Cocoa Bombs in the winter months. Wouldn't it be great to have some kind of a summer drink like that? This lemon juice can be the answer, and a little more fun than mere ice cubes. I know that my grandkids will get a big kick out of them. Not only that, the bomb shapes will go much farther than one bomb per person. I can make a gallon of lemonade with just a couple of bombs and some sugar! If you only need one glass of lemonade, here is the fun part that the kids will love! In a 12 oz glass of water, put in 2-3 of the little owls or mustaches plus 2 Tbs. of sugar. Add cold water and stir to dissolve the sugar and lemon juice. Add ice and whatever other ingredients you would like. You can add cherries or strawberries if you like! Every kids could make their own flavor of lemonade! Cool, fun and refreshing! Since this worked out so great with lemons, I can't wait to try other fruits and vegetables in my juicer! I'm getting lots of strawberries, I could add that to lemonade and it would probably be the best Strawberry Lemonade ever! And lets not forget my beets! I haven't even started to try what I can do with the fruit and vegetable pulp. I'm thinking of dehydrating it into flour? Breads and cakes? I can't wait to experiment. If you have any ideas, please let me know in the comments! I always like to try new ideas. If you liked this post, here are more that you may enjoy!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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