Author: Tammy Litke

S’mores are a favorite summer treat for most everyone, but if you want to switch it up a bit, a great way to do it is to add a banana to the mix.

Now I’m a big fan of bananas in any way, shape or form, but if you’ve never had grilled bananas before the texture might take a while to get used to.  The bananas do get soft, especially if they are at peak ripeness, plus as you probably know bananas get brown when they get warm.

Peter Pauper Press invites you to join them in celebrating National Zoo Keeper Week, July 20-26, with two special books that celebrate zoos as well as zoo keepers and their dedication to animal care, conservation and education.  Your little ones are sure to go “wild” over these books and they are great companions to your summer outing to your local zoo!

The Zoo is Closed Today written by Evelyn Beilenson, illustrated by Anne Kennedy

It was a warm sunny day
with not much to do.
So Sue and John walked
to the Kalamazoo.

Market Street is a grocery store that shows its pride of where it’s located by sourcing from in state producers.

In July, Market Street is highlighting their Texas Grown items – all month long they are celebrating products made or grown in Texas. This includes everything from Texas BBQ sauce, to bakery items, beer/wine, produce and more.

Just as Drew Farthering thinks his life has calmed down some, Fleur Landis, a former girlfriend, reappears, in dire need of his help. She’s married now, no longer an actress–but the lead actor in her former troupe’s production of The Mikado has been murdered, and Fleur is the police’s number one suspect.

Drew would rather focus on his fiancée, Madeline Parker, and their upcoming wedding, but he can’t leave Fleur and her family in the lurch–even if she did break his heart once.

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I used to read.  All. The. Time.  And then life started getting in the way 😉  I say that jokingly, a bit… but between homeschooling, blogging and driving my un-licensed teenager everywhere she needs to go, the past few years haven’t given me as much time as I’d like for leisure reading like I used to.  Until now.

The homeschooling is done.  The teenager is on vacation from now until she moves into her dorm room in August. So now I have time for the books I WANT to read, for pleasure! 

You all know that I LOVE my coffee, and I like sharing about it too.  I just found out about a sweepstakes from Quill.com called The Coffee Cup 2014, where you can vote for your favorite K-Cup, and in turn will be entered to win a Keurig® B130 Deskpro Brewing System and free coffee for a year!

Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays and celebrating it with long time friends here in Texas last week that also moved here from South Dakota made for a fun day.  There’s a unique feeling that you have toward a country and being patriotic when you CHOOSE to be a citizen of a country than when you’re born one.  I naturally have a place in my being for Canada seeing as that’s my country of birth, but the United States I chose to become a citizen of.  Have you heard the saying “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could”?  Yeah, that about sums it up 😉

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When my friends say “let’s meet up for coffee,” what they really mean is “let’s meet up at Tammy’s house.”  You see I’ve got my very own built in coffee bar in my house, and I’ll play ‘barista’ for anyone who wants to share a cup with me 🙂  You name it, I have it, and my coffee machine collection includes not just one, but two Keurig brewers.  When I have guests in summer I replace the hot beverage concoctions and brew iced coffee, iced tea and low calories drinks, over ice.  And yes I do that with my Keurig!