Last summer my lovely neighbor presented me with a hummingbird feeder. I made the sugar water, I hung the feeder on the hook, and the hummingbirds flocked. A few weeks ago I pulled out the feeder. I made the sugar water, I hung the feeder on the hook, and nothing. This morning I watched a [...]

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It’s a very exciting week in The Pudding Kitchen. This is the week that will find me mixing, baking, crumbling, blending, balling, dipping, and decorating until I have made two hundred cake balls. Two hundred cake balls that I will then transport to a reception hall for a wedding! I’ve always thought that the whole [...]

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Scene: I’m in the shower. The girls are on their own with the puppy. The cats are downstairs plotting. Meredith: Mommy! MOMMY!!! Me: What? WHAT?! Meredith: Scout just pooped on her piddle pad and it looks like popcorn! Me: Okay! I’ll take care of it when I get out! Meredith: You don’t understand! I think [...]

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“Spinning wheel?! What kind of cockamamie Walton Family marathon are you running over there, Pudding?!” Let me explain. A dear friend of mine got a spinning wheel several months ago. I felt a slight urge to learn how to spin, but knew that I needed to start slow. With a drop spindle. And then I [...]

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Yesterday I noticed that my camera has a setting for fireworks. Part of me was excited about this discovery, and part of me immediately felt like I was going to become one of those people who takes 2,493 photos of the ocean or 7,594 photos of a sunset or 34,293 photos of the Cinderella castle, [...]

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It’s a big day! (For me! And Canadians!) As of today, if you don’t count one poorly-timed pulled pork sandwich (I was in Memphis! At Neely’s! I still feel guilt about that stinking pulled pork sandwich!), I have been a vegetarian for one year! As of today, I will no longer say, “I don’t eat [...]

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