Happy New Year!

I have been reflecting the past few weeks and I realize that I do have a good life. It’s not glamorous, flashy, or even a little bit famous but I am proud of what I have accomplished and who I am.
I had a patient yesterday who has reminded me of why I got into [...]

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My Own Kind of Perfect

I dread Christmas season for several reasons. The outside pressure of “What are you doing?” with the shocked horror on people’s faces that I am scheduled to go into work for a few hours. It’s not as if there is some magic wand somewhere that holds the power for people to not [...]

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Tempering chocolate — what not to do

My chocolate doesn’t have much of a temper apparently. At least for tonight it’s got more patience than I have. Tomorrow is a new day though. Meantime, here is how not to temper chocolate.
The chocolate I bought for my chocolatiering attempts this year talked about how to melt but not how to temper. [...]

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Anna’s Almond Rocca.

Growing up I always wanted to make candy. After all, there were only 3-4 ingredients so that means it must be easy. Right?
Well, I wasn’t too far off. I don’t think making candy is hard it requires some precision, pre-reading, prep work, patience and carefully measuring things. None of this is [...]

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We’ve been adopted

I don’t believe that people always get to pick the animals in their life. In our experience they’ve usually chosen us.
Meet Kitty, the as of yet unnamed because we are still looking to see if someone out there is missing him, cat who adopted us

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Digging through some old pictures

I’ve been going through some old pictures and came across this one.  It’s of Rusty shortly after we rescued him from the shelter.  He was an absolutely amazing dog that I can’t imagine not missing.  If we had more time, and didn’t already have a zoo I might be keeping my eye open for another.

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