Our move was the most disorganized mess I have ever had.  Thankfully, we are in the new house.  Things are still not unpacked.  Things did not get culled before moving, which means that there is still a lot of stuff to go through to determine what we want to keep and what we want to [...]

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Corn and Bacon Soup
Ingredients

4 slices of bacon
1 medium onion, chopped
½ green bell pepper, chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 medium-size baking potatoes, peeled and cubed
4 cups chicken broth
16 oz frozen whole kernel corn
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 10 oz. can diced tomatoes and green chiles (we call that Ro-Tel in this part of the [...]

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JenuineJen is moving. Not the blog, but the family to a new house. So, I have been busy packing and getting ready for the move. There has not been a lot of time left for blogging in the past month. Thanks for hanging in there with me. I should be settled in [...]

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I hope everyone has had a very Merry Christmas and I wish everyone a Happy New Year. We had a fabulous time this past week celebrating Christmas. I hope to have a few stories posted about it soon.
For the next few days, I am doing some blog maintenance and working on a few [...]

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Our house is about 23 years old, as are most of the other houses in our neighborhood. (We live in a big neighborhood with 1,500 homes.) About 6 years ago we started to notice that various home improvement and home repair contractors were parked in the driveways of homes all through the neighborhood on [...]

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