APPLIE’S PLACE

The following photo is an actual photo.  It has not been put through photoshop.  You will only see it here in The Applie and at Area 51.

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Every night one of The Peas (two youngest daughters) has to set the table.  It is usually a huge battle of who’s turn it is.  I try to get them to work together and work it out, but that is not happening just yet.  I will very soon have to change the setting of the [...]

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We interrupt the make over posts, to allow time for some refreshment.  Lemonade anyone?
First things first.  Go to your neighbor’s house and pick a basket of lemons. 

Take the kids along.  They love to pick fresh fruits from trees. 

Once you are back home, squeeze all the lemons.  Keep two cups of the juice and [...]

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Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Thursday
Mrs. Wilt is continueing her anti-procrastination challenge and I am continuing to join in.   Today’s project was my Servants’ Quarters.  It really needed to be worked on. 
Here is the before picture.  Notice the baskets on teh floor, everything is out of place or almost.  I had to take servants off the shelves, just [...]

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A neighbor gave us  Pondarosa Lemons to make lemonade.  This lemon is huge.   I lost my sticky that had the measurements :(.  I was  able to squeeze two cups of juice from two of the lemons.  The lemon syrup recipe is below. 
For information on lemons go here .
 Lemon Syrup
1 part juice to 1 part sugar.  [...]

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I started my Command Notebook a month ago.  Tonight I sat down and worked out some final details.  I am quite happy with it, except for one thing.  It will not do the cleaning. LOL 
 I will be writing more on this later, but so far I have these tabs:   The Word, Calendar, menu, routines, phone numbers, [...]

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I have 34 more oranges to deal with, in my basket.  I decided to do a little research and see what I could find about oranges.  Some interesting facts, according to Florida Juice. 
 One medium orange has:
0 sodium
260mg potassium
130% vitamin C (can’t beat that!)
Citrus has been farmed commercially in Florida since the mid-1800s.
It is a $9 [...]

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Hello Orange Juice. :P    Last night I juiced 94 oranges to make just over two gallons of orange juice.  The oranges were small, but very tasty. 

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 On January 1st, the kids and I helped ourselves to the neighbor’s orange tree.  It was beautiful.  We now have a large basket of oranges to eat and juice into orange juice. :P  YUM!

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As I was reading the blog C’est la vie and found some yummy looking bread called No Knead Bread. I decided to give it a try.
I made the dough with just the three ingredients needed.
3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting
1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
11/4 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 cups water
It looks a little watery [...]

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