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wassailing away

Come wassail away, come wassail away, come wassail away with meeeeee. Ooops. Wrong song. Have you always known what the holiday word wassail means? I didn’t until a few years ago. So, just in case …

 

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Only six, not less, not more.

Given my gift for gab, it might surprise you to know that perfecting a profoundly pared-down paragraph excites me. And I still haven’t figured out how to …

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Hear Ye!

Welcome New Sisters!

Merit Badge Awardees

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Jill went up the hill to fetch …

… a photo of Jack Frost.

We rarely have hoarfrost (also called pruina—a chalky, crystalline bloom) before we have a blanket of snow covering the fields. The result has been a …

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EGGACTLY YOU! kids’ photo booth from our 2005 Farm Fair

award-winning cheese

After devouring a tin of Washington State University’s award-winning Cougar Gold cheddar cheese, what did I do with the leftover tin?

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