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Guest Post Friday ~ Hawaiian Ham and Cheese

March 1, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Hawaiian Ham and Cheese by Kim Wren As a college student, and a recently shacked-up girlfriend, I am constantly looking for ways to stretch a buck. When Raymond and I started living together, I was aghast with how much money we were going through. It took a good five months to realize we were bleeding…

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Adventures in Austin

March 1, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Have you ever had one of those weekends that was almost too fun to talk about rationally? Well, our trip to Austin last weekend was one of those. Train travel, a nice hotel, live music, great friends and a beard competition – what could be better? I think I’ll let the pictures do most of…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin, beard, Food, friends, fun, live music, mustache, party, train, travel

Anchor chains, plane motors and train whistles

February 25, 2013 By Deanna Piercy 5 Comments

As David and I stood on the platform waiting to board our train Thursday morning, the following quote from George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life” came to mind: George: You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?Uncle Billy: Uh, huh. Breakfast is served, lunch is served, dinner is…George: No, no,…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amtrak, Austin, Fort Worth, train, train ride, train travel

Menu Monday ~ February 25, 2013

February 25, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Click here or here for more menu ideas! We had SO MUCH FUN on our trip to Austin! You can see my train pictures here and I’ll be blogging about the rest of the trip tomorrow on Tea With Dee. However, because of the places we ended up eating we didn’t really have any vegetables…

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All aboard!

February 21, 2013 By Deanna Piercy 1 Comment

We are on the train heading to Austin for a few days. This, my friends, is the way to travel! [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

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Catching up

February 20, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

It’s been close to a week since I last posted here so a little catching up is in order. Friday night I came out of hibernation and we went out to dinner. Afterwards we went to hear our friend, Mandala, perform: The guy playing drums on the ice bucket played soccer for David for many…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin, baby, Family, friends, Mandala, snow, The Statesman Lounge

Menu Monday ~ February 18, 2013

February 18, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Click here or here for more menu ideas! This is going to be a short menu. David and I are taking the train to Austin, Texas on Thursday. I can hardly wait! Monday: I cooked a big turkey dinner Saturday so we have lots of leftovers. I boiled the carcass for broth and picked off the…

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Hippie roses!

February 16, 2013 By Deanna Piercy 1 Comment

Look at my tie dye roses! David and I don’t generally do anything elaborate for Valentine’s Day but he does always send me flowers. He actually went in and ordered these three weeks ago since they had a very limited number of them. I think I’ll keep him. Restaurants tend to be pretty crowded on…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: hippie roses, Pinterest, steak, Valentine's Day

Ash Wednesday

February 14, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Today is Ash Wednesday. I haven’t been in church or much of anywhere else since the first of the year because I’ve been trying to avoid the flu and other nasty viruses making the rounds. Even a simple cold sets off a serious asthma attack for me and I was bound and determined to stay…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, church, Easter, Lent, liturgical season

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