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On the Market!

After several weeks of furious cleaning, our house is officially FOR SALE. The For Sale sign is out front in the yard, the website is up and running, and an ad will start running in the paper this weekend. An Open House and Garage Sale is planned for next weekend (the 19th: 8 am – 1 pm, and the 20th: 12 pm – 4 pm). Spread the word! This is a great 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home on a large lot, located centrally near UWSP, an elementary school, Belt’s Soft Serve, and downtown Stevens Point. We are selling it with the complete home theater system upstairs.

Check out the website Justin put together for a ton of photos of the inside and out, the layout of the first and second floors, and the location. Feel fee to contact us if you’d like to see it!

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Posted by jbgasper on September 10, 2009 in Julie, Miscellaneous

Good-bye, faithful little car.

10 Sep

Today was at the same time momentous and inconsequential. Last night we put our 1988 Honda Civic up on Craig’s List, and not 18 hours later, we had cash in hand, and our “little car” had a pair of new owners. This little Civic has been with us for a long time. My step-dad bought it back in 1989 or 90, when it was just about new. I learned how to drive with this car. Left the lights on for the first time and needed a jump with this car. I bought this car from my parents my junior year of college when it had a measly 40,000 miles on it. This little car made the trip back and forth between Wausau and Winona, and Winona and La Crosse more times than I can count. It made the trip out to Seattle – three times! Quite a feat, considering it doesn’t have cruise control, air conditioning, or even a right side mirror. It has survived having 4 of its 6 windows bashed in and the radio stolen (two windows broken by a thief, one by a deer, and one by a softball). It has never left us stranded on the side of the road, never ran out of gas, never had a flat tire. It has converted us into loyal Honda fans. Justin even wanted to get Collector Plates for this little car when it turned 20. The fact that our other car is a 2003 Honda Civic, and in the same color, has everything to do with this little car.

Thanks, little car. It’s been a great run.

First Fruits

08 Sep

So this year I tried something I’ve never done before – actually attempt to grow vegetables and herbs and such to actually eat. I was inspired by Joy back in April with her One Pot Spring Garden. Now, mind you, she is lucky enough to have actually been able to start her mini garden in April, given her California home, but I printed out the directions and saved them until Memorial Day weekend to put together. If I was going to put time and energy into growing something, I wasn’t about to take the chance of killing everything off with a late frost! I faithfully watered that pot, set on our front porch for maximum sunnage. Okay. I’ll revise that. I faithfully watered it after I noticed it drooping every few days. And was very thankful for the days it rained to make up for my unintentional neglect. The herbs took right off, and we’ve been enjoying snipping off sprigs of parsley, basil, and marjoram here and there as recipes and dinner plans call for them. And a few weeks ago, after months of watching the little green tomato babies grow, and much later than Joy was able to enjoy her first tomatoes, we plucked off the first, beautiful, red, bug-free tomato. And that afternoon, I sliced it up, sprinkled it with a little kosher salt, and polished off the whole thing. And reveled in the deliciousness that is a true vine-ripened, home-grown tomato. It was lovely. And I’m really glad that I didn’t kill any of the plants in the pot.

Oshkosh for burgers

08 Sep

Laura and Julie. Laura had a little too much Cherry Coke

On Sunday, Julie and I were picked up by her aunt Ruth and uncle Greg for a trip to Oshkosh to celebrate her aunt Jean’s birthday. Jean picked up Joseph from Marquette and drove up from Milwaukee, and Julie’s cousin Laura joined us. We met up at Red Robin for wonderful burgers and then went to Laura’s apartment to check out her new digs for the upcoming school year, and to eat carrot cake pops. Julie surprised Jean with a giant cake ball / pop with a candle in it.

Joseph and Jean

The Seubert clan - Greg, Ruth, and Laura

Jean, blowing out the candle on her *giant* cake ball / pop

Amber and Nick’s Wedding

06 Sep

The final wedding on our calendar has come and gone this weekend, and it was quite a busy one for myself. Not only did I work as their wedding liaison, but I also had the opportunity to bake their cake! Amber and Nick were a lot of fun to work with, from finding musicians to tasting cake flavors, as they are very easy going and laid back. I loved that one of their main concerns for their whole wedding day was that everyone would have enough cake. They ended up choosing three flavors of cake: Spiced Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting (made into sheet cakes), Root Beer Float Cake (Chocolate Root Beer Cake with Chocolate Root Beer Frosting with little scoops of Vanilla Buttercream Frosting, also made into sheet cakes),

and White Peppermint with Peppermint Frosting (made into the three-tiered cake).

Congratulations, Nick & Amber!

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Posted by jbgasper on September 6, 2009 in Baking, Julie

Vegas (cupcakes), Baby!

02 Sep

I actually forgot these photos were even on the camera – that is how long it has sat neglected on my desk, waiting to be plugged in! I made these cupcakes for a client, who happened to call the afternoon before we left for Minneapolis. Thankfully, I had everything I needed to easily whip up a batch of Chocolate Mint Cupcakes with Peppermint Buttercream Frosting. The decorations are plastic buttons I found at the last minute at Michael’s. I had hoped to find some fun sprinkles, but alas, it was not to be. I like these though. While not edible, they do add a lot of color, and even, shall we say, some PIZAZZ to these cupcakes for a birthday gal who just arrived back from Las Vegas.