Archive for category: Various & Sundry

Thanksgiving Blessings

Happy Thanksgiving to You All! I hope you have a wonderful day of celebration with your family & friends. I have so many things to be thankful for, my wonderful husband, my 4 amazing children, my loving parents, my brother & his family, all of our extended family, our church family, and everything…

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Canaries Add Beauty And Song to Your Home

There’s nothing quite as relaxing, as being blessed with an early morning serenade of song, from the chorus line of finches outside of my bedroom window in early Spring. It starts as soon as the snow starts to melt, and for some reason, they start warming up around 4am. Not that I’m always…

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Victoria Magazine – Helping a reader find a past issue

I receive so many requests for ideas, help, how-to, etc., from our readers, that I’ve decided to start sharing some of those requests & my answers, with the hope that I can help many others in the process. Here is a recent request from a reader: Hi Pearl, I am desperately trying to surprise…

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Your Big Laugh for Today!

I thought you could use the extra laugh today I’d like to introduce you to a funny gal named Chonda Pierce. She has the ability to keep you laughing your head off – or crying your eyes out It was so refreshing to find a “clean” comedian, who also holds strong moral values! A cheerful

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A Drive Through the Country

Yesterday I shared the view from my upstairs home office window, but today I thought I’d take you on a little trip around the country roads that surround our village (she’s called the “Queen Village”, because she is said to be fit for a queen!). We’ve had such wonderful…

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Peek Through my Window

I don’t know how it is in your bit of the world, but in our little forest & surrounding village, the landscape is starting to become radiant with color. It’s almost as if a painter is standing above us, and with quick strokes of his brush, he’s changing everything around us into…

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