This makes two cocktails. When in season you can substitute half the Orange Juice with Blood Orange juice, and garnish with sliced Blood Orange. This cocktail is better when mixed individually, but if you want to serve a larger group from a punch bowl, float a single large ice block or ice ring in the […]
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When I first started Overleaf Garden, a “Master Plan” of sorts quickly formed in my mind. I’ve found that is often the case when I’m designing almost anything. After giving the project some careful thought and consideration, the larger framework of design tends to form quickly. As a designer I’ve learned it’s best not to
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Facebook has a feature “On This Day” that shows memories of previous posts, and reminded me this morning why I began a new chapter in my life. In all the excitement and flying dust of researching, planning, and creating a website, with a goal to use social media as a signpost to my Personal and
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While cleaning up a pile of branches that have been lying around Overleaf for over a year, these colorful patches caught my eye. Brown, Turquoise, Purple, Copper, Yellow, and White. Various colors, that I assume denote various types of mold working diligently to turn the dead wood of fallen branches into dirt. As a color
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My grandmother, who we called “Mamaw,” was born in northeast Texas, a product of a pioneer family from the southern US that settled in Nacogdoches around the time of its founding in 1779. Like the rest of the family, Mamaw’s speech was peppered with colorful phrases and descriptions I often find myself remembering and sometimes
August is here, and with it some of our hottest weather. It’s also a very dry month, and unless we have a tropical storm or hurricane, we will have to rely on scattered thunderstorms until late September or October brings showers with the first cool fronts. The heat of summer is the deep south’s answer
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