Items of Interest from around the ‘net: EXTENDED VERSION

This post has been simmering for a long, long time now thanks to my forced break from the Internet…

Happy Valentine’s Day!

We’re back!  I wanted to say Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours, and that I’ll be updating every day next week to make up for the unexpected break…

UPDATE: The “short break” continues

I’m so sorry, it looks like I’ll be another week without Internet access.  I’m so frustrated with the whole situation, I don’t know where to start.  The techs at AT&T swear up and down that I’ll be reconnected on Friday, but I doubt it for some reason. 
I’m going to try to update here at work at least twice this week.  I had been slowly working on a post with my phone, but it was taking forever and then I realized that I couldn’t upload my pictures, either…

Ruby Lee’s Candied Fruit Cake

Now, before you start giving me grief about posting a Fruit Cake recipe, let me give you a little background from my Aunt Carrie…

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!  I woke up this morning, ready to bake the last of my grandmother’s recipes for the post today when I found out that I had totally forgotten to buy one of the key ingredients.  I seriously doubt that any place that has candied dates are open right now, so the last post in the Grandmother trilogy will be a little delayed…