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Aunt Mona's Sugar Cookies

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Sugar Cookie Recipe By: Aunt Mona Cream: 1 1/3 Cup Shortening (Use Butter Flavor), 1 ½ Cup Sugar Add: 1 Teaspoon Vanilla (real) , 2 Eggs, 8 Teaspoons Milk Sift together then add to creamed mixture: 4 Cups Flour (Start with ½ cup less testing for stickiness), 3 Teaspoons Baking Powder, ½ Teaspoon Salt. Roll to ¼ inch thicknesss, cut with favorite cookie cutter. Bake at 375* for 8-10 minutes. Edges should be light brown. You have never had such wonderful sugar cookies until you have had Aunt Mona's cookies! Enjoy! (By the way, Aunt Mona is my sister!)

Local Harvest

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The best organic food is what's grown closest to you . Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies. Local Harvest is an awesome website! Here is one of our friends at: 'Heritage Farms'

Gratitude

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie

Burning Wood

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I absolutely love burning wood on a cold day! I love the smell! I love the coziness of a warm fire! I even enjoy helping with the wood cutting! Being out in the woods on a crisp day, cutting firewood is a great way to get in touch with nature....and hard work. :-) I even have my own chainsaw! We had a storm a year ago that left many downed trees on the property. We cut a ton of wood for last winter and still have plenty of wood for this winter. Here is a poem about the Fireside: Fireside Lore Hickory makes the hottest coals in stoves when winter's bleak, Apple wood like incense burning through the hall both fragrance seek, Elm wood fires have little smoke and warm both serf and lord, Oak logs split and dried this year make good next winters hoard, Beech burns bright and fill a the room with warmth and dancing light, Maple sweet, not white or red will burn throughout the night,

Country Life

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Country Life is an awesome experience! We love the 'quietness' of our country home! After spending the day in the city, we all enjoy the peace that our country life gives to us! :-) I love the story about the 'Country Mouse and the City Mouse'. I relate to both. I am a 'country mouse' at heart. I live the simple life as a 'country girl'. I work as a 'city mouse' in our Shoppe in the city. I enjoy both worlds. Here is a portion from a version of the story that I enjoy: "I don’t mind admitting that I’m a simple sort of mouse. I live inside a nice cozy log by the side of a field. My needs are not great. A few sunflower seeds or wheat stalks will do me for a meal. For a special treat, the farmer sometimes leaves me a some crumbs of bread and cheese from his lunch. When I am thirsty, I drink from the bubbling stream. And I swear that that pure cold water is the freshest, most delicious taste in the world." Oh, to liv