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Recipe: Sussex County Beans

Mrs. Bunting was always cooking something or another and I learned a lot about cooking, even at 10, from her. The big two are Slippery Dumplings (no cake dumplings in southern Delaware) and Sussex County Beans.

Canine Underground Railroad is Traveling a Road Near You

Canine Underground Railroad is Traveling a Road Near You – In my search for a way to move my dogs and cats across country, I stumbled all these groups that transport dogs — and probably cats, too — from one side of the country to the other, north and south, east and west. And this is quietly going on all the time.

Taters in a Barrel

Just want to add this info a friend emailed to me so I know where it is when the time comes. What does this have to do with the pack? Alternate source of food for me and yet another project I am pondering.
Peggy M. Mills tells us how she grows her…
Taters in a Barrel
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Ahhhh… that elusive thick green lawn

Well, it’s February and we are flirting with spring-like humidity and temperatures — the windows are open, so my mind turns to once again having a wonderfully thick, green lawn… something I lost when “the pack” invaded my little corner of the world. Combined with lots of rain, they quickly reduced my yard to [...]