Mrs. Mecomber on February 16th, 2008

Interesting story from Syracuse. It has nothing to do with travel, save for the fact that we will be driving there next week. But I was surprised that this story was not more publicized. A search resulted in only WSYR covering it. The summary of the story is also on a webpage dedicated to the [...]

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Mrs. Mecomber on February 16th, 2008

We have a week of activities planned, this coming week. I’m trying to get the kids focused on their work. I think the winter blues has got them, too, as they are sluggish and have been finding the pencil-pushing laborious this past week or so.
We are planning on taking a tour of a newspaper [...]

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Mrs. Mecomber on February 12th, 2008

I posted this on my other travel blog, but it was so hilariously funny I had to post it here, so you wouldn’t miss it.
HILARIOUS!

Hat tip Tee.

    

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Mrs. Mecomber on February 9th, 2008

I cannot believe it, but the weather forecast for Upstate New York is snow! Actually, I can believe it, since it is only February, and we can’t be certain of no snow until June, lol. But this has been a rainy, gray, ugly winter. I am very eager to watch it go. I have been [...]

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Mrs. Mecomber on January 28th, 2008

I first encountered that phrase when I read Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, as a teenager. What a curious phrase! And what a curious book! I’d discovered the book in an old box– it was a hardcover “Hollywood” edition published in 1940. It had beautiful color pictures from the movie version, all in Technicolor! [...]

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Mrs. Mecomber on January 27th, 2008

“The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create–whatever the form of government–a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this [...]

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Mrs. Mecomber on January 16th, 2008

My kids like to listen to classical music while they do their schoolwork. It plays in the background, quietly, and one really isn’t cognizant of it as one does his work. But there’s always a piece that pulls me away from my own work and makes me perk up to hear it. It’s Bach’s Jesu, [...]

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Mrs. Mecomber on December 5th, 2007

I am in the process of building several blogs/websites. Haven’t had too much time to post here as of yet, just little stuff.
I’ve had a resource type of blog in the works for months, Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook, that I haven’t really attended to. I’ve decided to go full throttle with the blog now, and it [...]

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Mrs. Mecomber on December 2nd, 2007

The title says it all.
I made apple pie today. Used lots of cinnamon and a generous dose of nutmeg. Nutmeg always gives me heartburn. The thought did cross my mind as I shook that nutmeg shaker into the apple mix. I was intoxicated by the musky scent of cinnamon and nutmeg. Mmmm.
Ohhh the [...]

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Mrs. Mecomber on November 30th, 2007

I’m having problems getting embedded codes for photos to work here. This is just a test.

This is just a test.

    

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Mrs. Mecomber on November 25th, 2007

Just look at all the progress I have been making with this blog! Woohoo! I just love Wordpress! Sometimes the code is a little hard to decipher, but there are a lot of tutorials out there for newbies like me. I cut my teeth on Blogger, though. If I started out cold with Wordpress before [...]

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