Excellent scenery, solitude and surprises along Soldier Creek highlighted this hike in the Sawtooth National Forest on NFS Trail 005. And the drive from Mountain Home to the Fairfield, Idaho area was relatively short with only a few minutes of
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Faceting Lesson #4 at Stoecker Jewelers Turns Junk into Gems I finished cutting and faceting my gemstone. I turned a hunk of old TV screen, scavenged from BLM land not too far from Mountain Home, into a pretty amazing looking
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Are we going to let the Mountain Home Youth Center Close!I was at the Farmers Market on Saturday morning walking my normal route through this excellent local event and almost missed it. Missed What? The Youth Center Community Yard Sale.
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The days are getting shorter and cooler so we decided to explore the roads around Silver City, Idaho on our ATV. Of course we would be keeping one eye on the scenery and one eye on the road cuts for
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All summer long Tim and I have been grilling our own homemade pizza. And each time we sit down to eat it, we promise each other that “next time” we’re going to take pictures and some videos for Tim’s blog.
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My Stoecker Jewelers faceting lessons continued with the cutting of “the breaks” and reshaping “the girdle” of my ever evolving gemstone. I also got more insight into the jewelry business Mountain Home Style. Faceting FirstAfter some close examination of “the
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