Julie B's Hive

about me

Hello and welcome to My Page.

I am a wife of fifty years come February 2009, mother of four adult children, grandmother of seven (one deceased Tay-Sachs), great-grandmother of two. Carly, one of my granddaughters, has lived with us since day three, she is more mine than I can explain. She's the love of my life. Claude, my husband, retired this year so we're doing a bit of touch up on the house.

Have to mention The Boys also since they, two male ferrets, are part of our family. Possum's a hyperactive albino and Rambo's an obsese chocolate. I've had ferrets for over twenty years and I believe they are one of God's most wonderful little creatures. I like cats too but we can't have them here, my husband is a bird fancier and raises & races homing pigeons. I'd have a dog if weren't for the poop patrol, lol.

Learned to cook on my grandmother's wood stove and still have it though I no longer use it for heating/cooking. My husband is a "meat and potatoes" man but I'm adventurous in the kitchen and have taught my children to be so too. I still cook as though I were feeding a small army but it never goes to waste. My kids have turns geting just about half of every recipe I make.

My hobbies have dwinddled down to one-scrapbooking. I do traditional, digital, hybrid, and every year I put together a 60-page scrapped cookbook for the women in my family.

Favorite Foods:

We don't eat out much but sometimes do take-out especially in the summertime when all the "clam shacks" are at their busiest or we do the usual stuff like pizza or Chinese.

Everyone comes here for family dinners, BBQs, birthdays, holidays, etc. The grocery bill is atrocious! The three most often requested recipes are my Seafood Macaroni Salad, Sausage Bean Casserole and Baked Santa Fe Cheese Dip...at least this was the case before I stumbled onto this site. They never know what to expect these days. Of late I've been on a scones & cupcakes kick and trying just about every recipe I've found here.

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