Our Happy Acres

I can only hope everyone had as nice a Christmas as we had here at Happy Acres. It wasn’t a White Christmas, but that’s not a bad thing. We had a monster snow for Christmas in 2004, and that was enough to last me for a long time to come!
As is our custom, this morning [...]

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When my wife and I celebrated our first Christmas together in 2005, I was inspired to make an ornament for the occasion. I was probably also trying to impress her with my crafting talents, though I think she is far more artistic and creative than I am. For this one I started with a papier [...]

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I’m not sure how I got started making Christmas ornaments, but I’ve been doing it since I was a kid. My mom and other relatives got in on the act also, as this early ornament proves. It was given to me as a child, and it has been a part of my Christmas tradition ever [...]

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My mom and aunt used to make this salad every Thanksgiving, and I’ve carried on the tradition by making it myself for as long as I can remember. If you don’t like cranberry sauce from a can then you might like this salad, which calls for fresh fruit and nuts with gelatin to hold it all [...]

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My wife and I went today to a local tree farm to pick out and tag our Christmas tree. This will be the fifth Christmas we’ve spent together, and our third here at Happy Acres. We have chosen to put up a “real” tree each year, decorating it with our combined abundance of old and new [...]

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