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Remember the improved box cake mix recipe?
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I tried it with butter pecan.
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And while the cake didn’t seem to rise quite as high as it normally does …
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My husband raved about the texture and proceeded to eat 3/4’s of it.
Honestly? I didn’t notice much of a difference.
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I’m so sick of this AI generated nonsense.
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As if.
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This is a real cat.
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Who jumps up to sleep on the spare bed pillows….
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And is too lazy to shift when he slides down between the shams.
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I found some old military photos when I was cleaning out a drawer the other day. That’s my husband in Beirut, with the remnants of the bombed Marine barracks behind him. He removed the bodies of six Marines from the wreckage on that horrible day.
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Welcoming my guy home after a six month Med float in 1988.
Damn, we were young.
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And talk about young.
My husband, right before he went to Vietnam.
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River's world..... 
I was told that if you add 1/4th teaspoon almond extract to any cake mix it’ll make the cake taste like it came from a bakery. Have tried it… maybe works?
Love the photos. Thanks for sharing.
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You know somebody would buy a giant cat or dog sofa if they actually made them.
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If I had one of those couches, it would be oriented so it was facing out the front window. Scare the crap out of anyone walking by.
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Excellent idea.
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Or facing the front door to scare the crap out of anyone breaking in. Maybe with a growling soundtrack that plays every time the door opens.
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I’ve never tried that recipe, because honestly I mostly bake chocolate cakes. Anyway, yeah those couches are ridiculous, and probably expensive as hell too. Aww the hubs is handsome I must say, even if he doesn’t smile much in you current photos, lol.
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He dislikes my picture taking, but loves to look at old photos. Go figure..
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The only cake mix I use is one for vegan cupcakes. I have some vegan friends and there are some vegan teachers at my son’s schools and I am NOT GOOD at cooking without eggs or butter. Everything else is from scratch, but I feel like the biggest difference between homemade and not is the frosting. A real buttercream, with yolks and butter and boiled sugar syrup, is SO much better than powdered sugar and buyer or crisco.
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“BUTTER or Crisco” ugh. Autocorrect is a capitalist.
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For me – it’s all about the frosting. Can you imagine waking up in the middle of the night and bumping into a giant cat in your living room? Yikes! What a sweet couple you were – and still are. I’m glad he survived all those horrid places and events.
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As am I.
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I don’t like the resources required for AI, nor that people think results are real (esp animal vids), but those sofas are cute!
Oorah! to your hubby! I dated a couple jarheads in the early 80s.
Pspspspsss to the bed-cat!!
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The animal furniture is dumb and tacky. Who wants that?
The Lordship does not care if he slides down the bed, ,the fact that he can have that whole bed is prob. his only concern.
You guys were just babes. Time is fleeting!
I can’t imagine the things your Marine saw and had to do. A true hero who deserves all the good stuff in life.
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The man has seen more than his share, for sure.
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I always find it so interesting to look back at old photos and see the physical changes in my face. It’s wonderful your husband experienced all that and survived.
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He had to wait for me to grow up and marry…
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I’m completely annoyed with all the AI stuff online. AI should stand for Asinine Idiots
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If it keeps learning from the public at large, that’s what it will be.
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Thank you to your husband for his service to our nation
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