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Turn Grape Juice Into Wine, Conquer the World

By //  by Candace Sampson

For a long time I held the narrow opinion of where good wine should come from; namely the liquor store. I've spent years turning my nose up at "homemade" versions and mostly because I had my share of lousy wines stolen from a friend's basement in my late teens. I can't be the only one who's been exposed to wine that brings tears to your eyes and burns a little on the way down.  Years later when my Dad started making his own wine at a local winemaking store I gave it another …

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Friday, December 13, 2013. The day I dreaded from the moment we brought her home. Hubs & I had taken our beloved Bernese Mountain Dog, aka the #suckhole, to the vet where we unexpectedly spent our final hours with …

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Light Up Your Christmas Without Breaking Your Bank (or Your Back!)

Christmas lights are often our first (literal) beacon of the holiday season. We all have that neighbor who runs the county at risk of a power grid-overload, but we usually secretly love when someone overdoes it, …

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