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Hey, it's the weekend, and we are once again sharing recipes with the BananaTUDES! group!I wasn't planning on sharing anything since I had nothing special planned for the weekend, but I saw Kathy Streib 's This Week... Go Fish! post. She wrote about a simple recipe to use with steelhead trout, an...
08/16/2025
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Sometimes you deserve a second chance, not because you weren't fabulous the first time, but because the timing and circumstances weren't quite right. You just got overlooked." -Carol Williams Second Chance Saturday is all about giving deserving posts more exposure. If you see a deserving post...
08/16/2025
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Hey, it's the weekend, and we are once again sharing recipes with the BananaTUDES! group!As I've mentioned previously, I am a member of a cooking club. There are six couples, and we meet every other month at a different home. The person who is hosting gets to pick a theme, and they will make the ...
08/10/2025
Hey, it's the weekend, and we are once again sharing recipes with the BananaTUDES! group! For this week's recipe, I have to give the backstory first.My husband and I met in 2010 (via e-Harmony) and after conversations on line, and on the phone, the next "checkpoint" was to meet in person. So our ...
08/03/2025
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This month's ActiveRain Challenge is called "How Have You Changed?" The challenge is to share how our professional or personal life has changed from when we started our real estate career to now.I started my real estate career in late 2010, and wasn't truly active until late 2012, so the question...
07/30/2025
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Anna "Banana" Kruchten suggested that we start some weekend BananaTUDES Recipe Sharing Shenanigans. So here is my weekend recipe for our kick-off party. I made it last night and it's called Savory Ricotta, Swiss Chard and Pancetta Pie.I have to admit I did not invent this recipe. It's from a site...
07/26/2025
I received a call a month or so ago asking me if I’d be interested in filling in at the Kalispell Visitor (Information) Center while the current Visitor Service Coordinator went on vacation. Sure! How fun is that? Of course, I didn’t know exactly what kinds of things happened at the Kalispell Vis...
07/01/2025
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This month ActiveRain is hosting a challenge - ActiveRain Point Store - Points, Points, Points. Our challenge, should we choose to accept it, is to spend our points (1,000,000 points = $100,000) on any goals we want. We can spend them on the community, hobbies, retirement, personal, familial, alt...
06/23/2025
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This month ActiveRain is hosting a challenge - ActiveRain Point Store - Points, Points, Points. Our challenge, should we choose to accept it, is to spend our points (1,000,000 points = $100,000) on any goals we want. We can spend them on the community, hobbies, retirement, personal, familial, alt...
06/22/2025
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This month ActiveRain is hosting a challenge - ActiveRain Point Store - Points, Points, Points. Our challenge, should we choose to accept it, is to spend our points (1,000,000 points = $100,000) on any goals we want. We can spend them on the community, hobbies, retirement, personal, familial, alt...
06/16/2025
