Nicole Wilker

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Home Remedies

Dec 30

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Found this in a sunday paper a while back and wanted to keep them handy – just in case and thought you all might get a kick out of them!

Gas:

Teaspoon of olive oil on empty stomach each morning to prevent gas

Tummy trouble:

Mix  1/2 tsp of baking soda with 4 ounces warm water. Drink.  It will make you burp.

Bloating
Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into a cup of hot water and enjoy

Cure constipation:

To achieve regularity, consume 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar 2 times daily, in an 8 ounce glass of water.

Avoid heartburn

Before meals, mix the juice of half a lemon and a pinch of salt int an 8 ounce glass of water and drink. After meals, try a teaspoon of honey to soothe your heart burn.

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Quiet Christmas in the Wilker Abode!

Dec 28

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The morning began as usual…  Hopping out of bed before the sun rises!
Phillip was game and joined me downstairs!

We cleaned up, filled hubby’s stocking, opened Phillip’s stocking – and he systematically moved each piece of the stocking up stairs for safe keeping (it was one of those multi toy thingies)

I made small pot of coffee – I had a feeling there might be a much cooler and better functioning one under the tree, got the paper from the front stoop and read it through!

By that time the clock read 7:30 and the sun was up – so that meant – THE REST OF THE HOUSE MUST GET UP!!!!!

Hubby arose with little effort, i hopped in the shower while he filled my stocking!

Hubby doesn’t like to sit around in his jammies doing the xmas morning thing… sigh. My present to him was to let him clean up!

We started with the biggest box instead of the stocking since it contained the wonder of wonders… The new coffee pot!
It was voice controlled – mom got that part for hubby! It will stop spewing when you remove the pot. It makes 10 cups in a blink of an eye. And the on-off button works! (our last one’s switch stopped switching… )

From then on it just kept getting better. Hubby enjoyed his stocking and presents. And I mine!
For him:
Gift cards, peanut butter trees, wii games, gloves, a wind up dinosaur and more
For her:
Pink and red jelly beans, ramekins of all shapes and sizes, books, book marks, immersion blender, pajama pants, useful stuff in the stocking (hand cleaner, hello kitty bandaids, tide pen) and more!

We got lots of goodies, some home made, some from the store!
We ate a breakfast of champions – sugar and mimosas!
Then it was time to relax and enjoy the day! Hubby spent most of it on his new games!

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Popcorn!

Dec 27

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Popcorn!

So quickly we forget!
Prior to Christmas I found an awesome caramel corn recipe and made it the first time with a microwave bag of popcorn.
After that first time and how yummy it was I determined I needed to find a different way to pop popcorn.
Then i went back in my memory banks and recalled a time when there was no microwave and we have a big metal contraption to pop the popcorn and corn came in a bag… Oh yeah.

I did some research and to my joy I found one could pop popcorn in the microwave without a brown paper bag nor oil! Woohoo!

Basically you get 2 soup bowls, shift then just a tiny bit so the steam can escape, pop it in the microwave for 3 minutes and 45 second for 2 tablespoons of kernels and whala – you have a bowl almost fully popped! Sweet!

It was just a sad state that we had come so far as to forget how to pop popcorn…  Didn’t the pilgrims and native americans do it ages ago, over an open fire even…

Technology just might kill us!

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Merry Christmas!

Dec 25

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Merry Christmas to one and all! Have a fabuloud day!

Darn Technology…

Dec 22

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I thought i was being all cool

Had some posted scheduled out and alas… they are now stuck in limbo..

Happy December!

Dec 19

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Dang, has it really been a month?

I swear as you get older the time flies by faster!

What has happened:

I have experienced tofukey, gone on a cruise to the carribean, and turned a year older!

Yup – yesterday was birthday! Woohoo!

I’ve got some cool pictures and stories from the cruise and some awesome crafting ideas i’ve found, and some great recipes the families will be experiencing come christmas morning!!!

More to come!

Elephants Paint

Nov 14

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Last weekend my friend Laura and I headed to the zoo to enjoy the first weekend of Denver Art Week (#denverartweek).

I was beyond myself with joy that I was going to get to see Elephants Paint!!!
Yes – Paint Pictures!!  How cool is that??!!
Elephants
The handlers – brought the elephants into the main inside area, they went through some of the basic stuff – checking feet, teeth etc. It was super cool that they could balance on their left feet and raise their right feet – wow! Amazing balance!

Once they finished that, the main show started! Each elephant got to paint some of the painting. The finished product was definitely interesting!!

Beginning of the painting More paint! Final Painting
Once the new area for the Pachyderms is finished this paintings will be hung on the outside of their building! They get to decorate their own house! Yeah!!

Laura and decided since it was Free day at the zoo – so we decided to check out the rest of it!

Darn, the penguins are soooo cute!

Penguins Waddle waddle

It was fun day! Can’t wait to see them next time!

Getting the oven to 180

Nov 13

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I enjoy cooking and baking etc, but have shied away from bread because it always says to let it rise for 2-5 hours at 180 degrees.

Well, i don’t know about you, but my oven does not allow me to set it to 180, so how the heck and i supposed to do this stupid rising business. So forget it, no bread in this house!

Flash forward to lunch with my friend deb. I had some biscuits and beer bread for lunch with her and we got to talking about baking bread.

I went into my normal rant of how the heck am i supposed to find a place to let this stupid dough “rise” for hours at 180…

She says – Oh, easy.  (WHAT? easy, well get on with it, how is this accomplished?)

Preheat the oven to 200.

Let it sit there for 10 minutes.

Shut it off.

Whala – you have 180

Well dagnabit, couldn’t all my cookbooks mention that little ditty?

Bread is on the adenda this weekend!

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Back to normal, if not better

Nov 10

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Hello there!

Mr Phillip is definitely back to his old self!

I have been working from home much more lately – office sickies, stow storms, etc etc etc.

And now that he is feeling A-OK, and his favorite spots are blocked with spikey “don’t sit here pads,” he’s on my like glue!

He’s right there, if I a make sudden move or there is the possibility that my arm might be in petting range, he is right there!

Yesterday I gave up and did a power walk with him, just to tucker him out! Good for both of us I guess, although setting that precident right before winter sets in, might be a really really really bad idea!

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48 hours no vomit!!!

Nov 6

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It’s the little things in life!
Phillip kept down a few meals of cottage cheese and rice! Woohoo!
This morning he got the same with some kibble and pumpkin… Nummies!!

He is very sad about being banished from anything but the floor, so now i sit on the floor with him…
Phillip - take pity on me!
Yes, I am a sucker!

He is definitely back to normal – he’s been wandering about the abode looking for cuddles and pity!

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