February 5, 2008December 8, 2010 by Talmadge House

New Toaster Dilemma

Brandi, Food, Home
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Toaster Cream Toaster Chrome

Our 10 year-old counter top toaster oven caught on fire this past weekend so we’re in the market for a new toaster. We’ve decided we’d replace it with a traditional 2-slice toaster. No need for the little counter top oven any longer. So with a bit of research we’ve decided to purchase a dualit. Wow this toaster is the bomb! It’s hand built in England, the company has been in business for 50 years and the toasters have a vintage look to them. And these babies are built to last a lifetime . . . LOVE THEM! Now the dilemma is color . . . the classic steel or cream with a bit of classic steel? I have this fetish with the color cream. So my thought is as we replace our “starter” kitchen items with “lifetime” items I’d like them to match but I also want to be sure we’ll be happy with the choice for a lifetime. Both options will match my current lifetime cream colored items so I’m undecided with which choice to make. Will have to sit on this for a bit to make a thoughtout choice. ThoughtOut . . . ha! Your opinion is welcome, please leave a comment. 🙂

January 24, 2008 by Talmadge House

Scottie’s Cousin Jetta

Brandi, Family, iPhone Mike, Scottie
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OM gosh!!! What an adorable picture. This is Jetta, Scottie’s cousin from New Milford Connecticut. He’s never met her but I know they’d be best dog friends/cousins. Jetta is a gentle spirit and loves attention just like Scottie. Speaking of Jetta, I must get her dog cookies out in the mail . . . I’ve been a bad girl with the delay in sending them. Sorry Jetta :0)

January 2, 2008December 8, 2010 by Talmadge House

Homemade Bread

Brandi, Food, Holiday
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Oh for heavens sakes I truly forgot how good homemade bread really is! I humbly admit that my mom gave me a bread machine for Christmas about five years ago. Iâ€™ve used it a couple times and am not entirely sure why I havenâ€™t continually used it. Itâ€™s so easy in comparison to the other option of making bread with your own hands! I love to cook and all but donâ€™t have time to knead a dough ball! Michael has been dropping hints here and there for five years about using the machine and that he’d LOVE some homemade bread. And of course I half listened and poo poo’d him . . . ya da ya da ya da (wink)! Then Christmas rolls around this year and I get the itch to make a Christmas Bread and I cleverly think “oh yeah I have a bread machine to make this task simple”. So out comes the bread machine and 3 hours later the house has a wonderful homemade bread smell and it took me all of 5 minutes to add the ingredients to the machine. So my friends and family, I urge you to go out and purchase yourself one of these babies and permeate your home with the wonderful smell and the phrase “oh my gosh this is so good” will be falling from your loved ones mouths. Listen, just because Michael knows my bread comes from the machine doesn’t mean your loved ones have to know. Let them think you made it entirely from scratch. HeHeHe

bon appetit!

January 1, 2008 by Talmadge House

Get Off Those Mailing Lists

Happy New Year’s everyone! Mike and I made it up to watch the ball drop, wahoo! So yesterday we pick up some goodies to make margaritas and I grabbed a bottle of champagne to celebrate the evening. Well, Mike goes to open the champagne to find I grabbed red wine by mistake. Good Grief, where was my head? So we had our margaritas and enjoyed a couple glasses of sparkling cider instead LOL. It was a nice night.

Today I bring to you a link which provides seven addresses you can contact to have your name removed from those pesky junk mailing lists. I just finalized our letters today and out to the mailbox they’ll go tomorrow. Nice way to ring in the new year! Check it out here at the resources recovery authority.

December 31, 2007 by Talmadge House

Christmas @ The Talmadge House

Brandi, Family, Family & Friends, Holiday
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Our traditional Christmas Eve was nice as usual. My sister and her family were down in addition to my father-in-law, mother-in-law and Mike’s sister, Carla. We had lots of good food and great company to share during this festive time.

Scottie was up to his typical business with his preperation to look his cutest to ensure as many nibbles as possible. Grandma Carol would’ve fed him all night long but she was very good with restricting the nibbles :-).

Our cats Wilbur, Darcie and Pele hid out in their quarters. Actually Pele has found a new hiding spot when he’s scared, the litter box. Can you believe the darn cat curls up in there until the coast is clear. He’s a freak! LOL

Mike was up to his good old picture taking. This year for his birthday I gave him a new lens for the Canon so he was playing with that through the night and got some nice pictures. I must learn more about this fancy camera! My father-in-law was busy pulling his glasses in and out of his jacket pocket so he could see things . . . bifocals are in order for him . . . hehehe. Carla wasn’t feeling well this year but still made it of which we’re very happy for. Thank you Carla and we hope you’re feeling better!

Bridget was pulling recipes from me and filling my wine glass throughout the night. Thank you sis! Jeremy was relaxing and socializing with everyone. And lastly our little kins of the house, Kane and Isabella. They both were charmers to have as usual. Bella was so excited at the prospect of Santa Claus coming. Remember the gitty feeling we all had as kids when we knew Santa was coming the next day? Oh to be a kid again! So I have this little story about Isabella . . . she was so excited to open a gift and we told her that she may open a gift after we have dinner. So I’m at the tail end of preparing dinner and she approaches and asks me when she can open her gift so I tell her just as soon as we have dinner. She sweetly tells me that she just had her dinner (LOL) so I tell her once the adults are done she may open her gift. So a few minutes later I hear her ask Carol when she would be done with her dinner. I laughingly bring Carol into the loop on why Isabella has inquired about her dinner. Well just then Bella taps me on the leg and wispers to me “Brandi, I didn’t know that”. TOO FUNNY! . . . so sweet I could put her in my coffee! Anywho, I’ve rambled long enough. Hope everyone has a safe and celebratory New Years. See you next year 🙂

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