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Celebrating our marriage and Cathy’s Dad’s life

It is summer; the first one without a daughter getting married in thee years. So Cathy is working on some long backlogged photo-book projects. Here are some links. Also below, for Father’s Dad, I took Cathy’s Dad’s memorial slide show … Continue reading

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Christmas 2011

Below is a link to our Christmas letter for 2011, highlighting another full year with Megan’s wedding, adjusting to the empty nest, our adopting a second dog, and much more. It also includes a few pictures and book and movie … Continue reading

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Megan and Brandon’s Wedding

Here is a belated tribute to Megan and Brandon’s June wedding (photos took a while but were worth the wait). They were married on June 18, 2011 at the church of Brandon’s Grandparents, Eudora Baptist, and the reception was held … Continue reading

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A good cookbook for those in a hurry

The last post featured a good cookbook for empty-nesters. We continue to use it and enjoy it. However, I (David) noticed that the author and those at EatingWell also compiled another cookbook called: The EatingWell Healthy in a Hurry Cookbook: … Continue reading

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A good cookbook for empty nesters

Eating Well Serves Two The subtitle: 150 healthy in a hurry recipes. I (David) don’t remember how I came across the title but I checked it out from the library. Cathy likes it. In the last week or so, she has … Continue reading

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Only 118 days to Christmas – Mom’s Christmas cookies and breads

My mom always made a big deal of Christmas including the baking of about 15+ different cookies and numerous special breads. My niece recently asked me for some of her recipes. My husband decided it would best to put then … Continue reading

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Shredded Beef for sandwiches

Most of the recipes we post here are the “healthy” category. But we also are posting “other” favorites. This recipes falls in the later category (of course, in moderation, most things are “good”). When we are having a larger group … Continue reading

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Braised Chicken – easy two meals

This month’s issue of Eating Well  has several great back to back meals: the first meal made in the crock pot and the second night being a quick and easy meal from the leftovers of night 1. Over the last … Continue reading

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Betsy and Matt’s wedding

On 10/10/10 (October 10, 2010), our oldest daughter Betsy married Matt Pool in the second of three Barfield weddings (Amy was first on July 2nd;  Megan is coming up next June 18). For your viewing pleasure: A collection of photos … Continue reading

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Rarely a dull moment here

So much going on here. We received a note form a friend, who attended our church before moving some distance a way, asking for an update on what is happened with use and our girls. Here’s the response. Betsy‘s wedding … Continue reading

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