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The Castle Keeper End-of-Year Party and Pie Auction for 2016
This year the preparation the day of the Castle Keepers party seemed rather harried but everything somehow got done and we had a good evening anyways! This is our 3rd end-of-the-year party and this year, after it was all over, I made a note telling myself that my girls needed to make their pies the day before not the day of. Trying to do it the day of the party is just too hectic when the party is being held at your own house! All the CK girls make 2 pies. One for dessert after the meal, so people can sample the different pies that will be auctioned and the…
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Castle Keeper Projects & Challenges – These Girls are Amazing
What a night the Castle Keeper girls had at their end-of-the-year party – celebrating their achievements this past year with the evening culminating in a pie auction to raise funds for our club. A Greek meal, chicken & beef gyros, was served along with falafel salad, Greek salad, hummus and the cutest little appetizers on a toothpick that had small bits of tomato, olives and cheese on it, drizzled with a little oil (I think). Whatever was on them, I think they were my favorite thing on the table. Serenity put together a slide show that showcased some of the girls’ meetings, monthly challenges and culinary challenges. I thought she…
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Meet One of Our Delightful Castle Keeper Girls
Sometimes your dreams really do become reality. That is how I feel about our girls club Castle Keepers. For years I had thought about starting a girls club based on the Keepers at Home book that Keepers of the Faith published. But I just couldn’t get into it. I guess I had my own ideas and my own way of doing things. To be sure though, I did thumb through the book many times and received inspiration. They’ve done a great job with their program. After thinking about it for many years, I decided to just do it. I knew I would have regrets if I let this period in…
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A Pondless Water Feature for the Backyard
A big project for our backyard has been the addition of a pondless water feature. This was something we had considered doing but then almost didn’t bother with it but a friend of ours was here who works for a company that does these things and encouraged us to do it. With a few pointers from the boss and lots of help from our friend, it is now mostly completed. I was a little unsure about how it was going to look when it was still in progress because it looked like a big jumble of rocks but after switching out some rocks, adding others, it all started to come…
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Backyard Progress
People! Progress is being made on the backyard! So very exciting. As you know we finished the pergola. We still have to install lights, serving counters and things but the structure is finished. We’ve enjoyed it a few times already in the mornings for breakfast. A traditional American breakfast of biscuits, gravy, eggs and sausage. And some of my workers that arrived this week to help out! On to what progress has been made! See all those boulders? We were contemplating making a stone wall using rocks from around our place, so the rocks were gathered and then they sat for a very long time. The rocks were so big…
