Mary Anne Carter
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Apr 22 2012

Lemon and poppy seed muffins

by Mary Anne

When I woke up this morning, it was a wonderful surprise to smell the aroma of freshly baked lemon and poppy-seed muffins!  Last night I pulled out all of the pans, muffin liners, mix boxes, etc and left them on the counter, thinking that I would fix them this morning. My hubby got up early, saw all of the things on the counter, took took the hint and decided to make them for me!

What a guy!  He came into the bedroom with my cup of tea and told me to “come and get’em while they’re warm” so I’m gonna go grab one or two while they are still warm from the oven! Today is going to be a great day!

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Apr 20 2012

Animal cruelty is so sickening!

by Mary Anne

My sister sent me a copy of her local newspaper, and there was a story in it about couple that has been charged with 84 counts of animal cruelty. According to the story the charges claim that they abandoned over a dozen dogs and other animals in their rented house when they moved out.

No one is sure exactly when the tenants vacated the home, but when authorities were notified by the landlord that they house appeared to be deserted with a large number of animals locked inside, the authorities discovered that the house was uninhabitable, had no furniture in it, and no food or water was left for the animals locked inside.

I hope that they throw the book at the perpetrators!  People like that should not be allowed to own any kind of pets.

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Apr 19 2012

Run rabbit run!

by Mary Anne

Lately everywhere I drive it appears that I am seeing rabbits running across the road.  Last month the rabbits were still wearing their white winter coats, and now they have changed to their summer coats of brown.  I am glad to see that their coats have changed, because we did not have a lot of snow last month, and their white coats made them “sitting ducks” for any critter out there that was looking for a meal. Now when I drive up to the house instead of seeing a large flash of white hopping across the yard, I see just a little bit of a white cotton tail hopping across the yard. Seeing rabbits or deer in my yard always bring a smile to my face, but it also makes me glad that I’m not a farmer trying to protect my crops from these cute little varmints!

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Apr 15 2012

New local Chik-Fil-A

by Mary Anne

As far as fast food restaurants are concerned, I like the Chik-Fil-A restaurants.  I get the impression that their food is probably healthier than most fast food restaurants fare.  So I was happy when I found out that one was being built in town.

They ran a promotion for their grand opening that the first 100 people in line at their door at 6am on their opening day would get free Chik-Fil-A food for an entire year.

My hubby didn’t know about that promotion, and he came home from running an errand and told me that he drove past the new Chik-Fil-A and was surprised to see people camping out in tents in the parking lot!  I told him about the promotion and then he declared that he was surprised that I wasn’t one of the people camping out! I laughed at him, telling him that if I didn’t hate camping so much I would have been!

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Apr 10 2012

My hubby and I are job hunting together

by Mary Anne

My job is a seasonal job that ends in early June, and my hubby has been told that he will be laid off of work in a few weeks, so we are both starting a job search together.

We have been spending a lot of time looking through the newspapers, and searching Internet job search engines.

I’ve seen postings of job fairs being held in the middle of the work week, which is a problem for both of us – we can’t take time off of the jobs we have now to go to a job fair!

I’ve been on a few job interviews, and have been told I’m “over-qualified” for the job.  I think what they mean is “you’re too old.”

It is very discouraging, when you are approaching the retirement age, to be looking for work!

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