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Continue reading →: 🎁 Gifts for People Who Are Hard to Shop For (Including Me)
There are two kinds of gift buyers:The ones who finish in October… and the rest of us wandering the aisles of Amazon at 11:47 PM questioning every life decision. If you’re shopping for someone who “doesn’t need anything,” already has everything, or gives you no clues whatsoever (rude), this list…
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Continue reading →: 🎄 Throwback: Christmas in the Barns & Our Last Trip OutScrolling through photos the other day reminded me of Christmas in the Barns — our last food trailer event of that season and one of those weekends that quietly taught me a lot about business, family, and how much you can actually prep before reality shows up anyway. It was…
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Continue reading →: 🍪 Cookies, Cookies, CookiesSome Sundays are productive. Some are relaxing. And some are apparently meant for turning an empty house into a full-blown cookie factory. I spent the afternoon rolling, cutting, and baking with my favorite cookie cutters—the kind that actually cut clean and don’t bend halfway through. With no one home to…
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Continue reading →: 🐐🥤 Goat Show Life: Five Minutes, Two Classes, and a MilkshakeLife & Family means road trips, rushed entrances, and showing up for your kids — even when the show itself is shorter than the drive. The boys are deep into goat show life right now — jackpot shows, to be exact. Which means weekends on the road, early mornings, and…
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Continue reading →: 🥤 How Dirty Soda Became the Star of the Truckers 4 Hope ShowWhen the Truckers 4 Hope Truck Show rolled around, we knew we wanted the trailer there. The only problem? Pizza and bubble tea were already on the menu elsewhere at the event. So the big question became: What could we bring that was different—but still fun enough to draw a…
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Continue reading →: 🤠 Rodeo Weekend: Two Days, One Lost Cooler, and a Rock That Fought BackThe Hope 4 Hayze Rodeo was our first two-day event—and of course, that’s exactly when the cooler decided to vanish. Our latest event was our first two-day setup—and honestly, probably the smoothest one we’ve had so far. Maybe, just maybe, we’re finally figuring it out. Well… kind of. The A/C…
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Continue reading →: 🎄 Chapstick Addict Approved: 12 Days of Christmas Lip Balm SetLink: https://amzn.to/4aacgca(As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) This is such a fun find for anyone who knows a chapstick lover…or, like my husband, someone who is actually addicted to chapstick.(Can’t leave home without it addicted.) It’s the perfect little gifting idea — 12 different flavors to open…
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Continue reading →: Hunting Season #548… Done. (For Now)I’m the wife of a hunter, which means I spend October through… well… forever pretending hunting season actually ends. This is where I share the laughs, the lessons, and the camo-covered craziness. Hunting season number 548… done.Well, done-ish. We still have second season in January… and then predator hunting. Because…
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Continue reading →: ⚡ Food Trailer Event #3: Power Problems & a Pizza Sellout!Our third food trailer event took us to the Best of Clinton County Festival in Downtown Lock Haven. The trailer was stocked, the weather was decent, and we were parked right on Main Street—one of the only food trailers there. We were feeling so optimistic. We got everything set up…
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Continue reading →: 🌧️ Food Trailer Event #2: Rain, Leftovers & LessonsWell… outing number two was a soggy one. We rolled in prepared for everything —except a day-long drizzle that never let up.It. Never. Stopped. Raining. We had five gallons of lemonade ready to go… and sold one cup.Just one.We prepped 48 sourdough pizzas… and sold 10.(Okay, we may have helped…
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Hello,
I’m Stacy…
Navigating the middle with caffeine, courage, and a whole lot of “let’s just try it and see.” I built an online boutique (Apparel 212), and now I’m pivoting into food-trailer chaos while paying down debt and figuring out midlife hormones. This is the honest, messy side of reinventing life in my late-40s/50ish years — where the middle isn’t the end… it’s just where the story gets good.
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