Sunday, March 6, 2022
Delicious Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies
******This recipe is originally by by Diana Rattray The Spruce Eats Prep time: 15 minutes. Cook: 10-12 minutes. Serving: about 36 cookies. Preheat oven to 350 degrees These cookies are a tender and soft cookie, with a light citrus icing. The cream cheese gives these cookies a great flavor and texture, with a lemon zest, juice and extract. NOTE: I add a Young Living citrus oil in place of lemon extract. Cookies: 2 C all-purpose flour. 1 tsp baki read more...
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Saturday, February 26, 2022
Diena's Chocolate Chip Cookies
I've been baking these chocolate chip cookies since 2003, when I got the recipe from my friend Brenda. For our son Kevin's wedding, I baked at least ten dozen of these and froze them for his rehearsal dinner. Trust me, they're really delicious. Don't skimp on ingredients: use real butter, real vanilla, and fresh eggs if you have them. Preheat oven to 350 degrees 1 C brown sugar. 1 C sugar. 1 C butter. 2 eggs. 1 tsp vanilla. 3 C flour. read more...
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Sunday, January 23, 2022
Our boy, Django, went to visit Dr. Jake. He handled the ride so well. I was able to halter him with no problem, all by my self. I walked him into doctor's office and Dr. Jake and his helpers go the X-ray equipment out. Mike and I helped hold Django still, which he did stand so nicely. The break in his leg is healing nicely, and Dr. Jake feels like if Django is restricted in his movement (play area) for 4-6 more weeks, he should be able to be "good as new." We are betting on that! read more...
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Monday, December 20, 2021
Django in the car
When Dhango hit one year old, we celebrated by giving everyone a little extra grain and we sang his birthday song to him. Django received some carrots and some extra attention. His buddies, Redford and Ollie, had been spending time with him and everything was going well. Unfortunately, while I was doing my "blessings" I accidentally let Bentley into Django's area and the other boys left. Bentley and Max were doing fine with Django for a few days until the girls started doing a little "girl read more...
Django and leg splinted
Django's leg in the cast
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Monday, September 13, 2021
Our little cria (son of Geoffrey and Oprah) turns four weeks old today. He’s so beautiful and silver in color underneath that brown cria coat he wears. His ears and legs remain a bluish silver in color, and he romps with the big kids and with so much confidence you’d never guess he was so young. I’ll be weighing him today and will give him his second shot to help keep him healthy as he continues to grow to become what we hope is a beautiful future herdsire. Melvin’s beautif read more...
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Monday, December 28, 2020
Django. Who would have guessed we’d have a Christmas gift such as our little Django? In a year of COVID-19, isolation from so many friends and family members etc., I’ve learned that if there is something that is meant to be, it IS meant to be. Django was meant to be. Tchairo, his mother, is seventeen years old. She’s our beautiful and stunning blue-eyed white matriarch. We brought here to our ranch five years ago because we and Sierra and Izzy adored her. She took on the role of read more...
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Friday, January 18, 2019
Weaving Suri alpacas & silk
Weaving Suri alpacas & silk August 2018 I had my birthday. Really. It’s so nice to have one every year. Seriously. Opportunity. I went to a Saori weaving class a week before my birthday with my friend, Linda B., and we immediately fell in love with the Saori style of weaving, the loom, and the philosophy behind this kind of weaving. Enter work meetings. The Special Education Law Conference (yes, on my birthday) was in Utah County. On break, I happe read more...
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Sunday, December 9, 2018
I recently attended a Wayne County Business Association meeting. It’s ok for me to take time off work in the middle of the day as long as I get my work completed. Because of this, I can still be involved in my wonderful community as well as work part time at Wayne School District as their Director of Special Education. Walking away from that meeting, my thoughts came to me about how blessed I am to be able to live here, to realize the dream of having a sweet herd of alpacas who gift m read more...
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Friday, August 17, 2018
My first-ever entries into the Wayne County Fair.
It’s our County Fair week, which means a bit more traffic in our little county and usually less phone coverage because everyone is using the cell tower! This year, we won’t have our family coming down to join us in fair activities, and M will be working in the evenings. There’s no demolition derby; instead, Nathan Osmond is performing. There’s still the great rodeo tomorrow night as well as other events. My friend Barb and I entered some of our fiber work in the county fa read more...
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Friday, June 8, 2018
Showing some of my hats and yarns — we usually bring two tables worth of beautiful items from our alpacas. Every week we have new items that have just been completed. We are located on Highway 24 kitty-corner from The Old House on the Corner of Center and Main. Did I also mention that I have my yarns and hats at the Old House on the Corner of Center and Main? Most every Saturday you’ll find me at the Farmers Market in Torrey, Utah. There are approximately 50 artisans and ba read more...
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