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02/10/2024

Feeling grateful - “Outstanding Industry Representative Award” - awarded by .vma

02/08/2024

Great Zoetis work week in Denver for our national sales meeting. Long, but productive, days followed by magical nights of fun - the majority of the pics were for our themed awards night where I had too much fun in these platform shoes (fyi - the 🐠🐠 are not real🤣). Love that my work wife Kelly Engle Schoenherr is always game for my costume antics. Our matching wigs and sparkly outfits were killer.

02/08/2024

Hi, I’m the real Tracy Martel

01/16/2024

Who needs AI generated photos when you have witching hour lighting.

Crest pin from the hubby for Christmas

Glasses from

01/07/2024

Day 1,376 of grading essays for veterinary student scholarships. J/K - but realistically, it has been about 2 full weeks working my way through nearly 600 pages of essays from 66 students to award nearly $200k in student scholarships. If you didn’t know, I volunteer my time for the foundation portion of my state veterinary association, the Minnesota Veterinary Medical Foundation. The cost of tuition for a veterinary students can be upwards of $400k, yet most salaries for starting veterinarians, especially those going into public health or rural settings, can be quite low. Not all state associations make the same fundraising strides as Minnesota’s. In addition to our numerous fundraising event efforts, many scholarships come from generous donors who gift what they can or even enough to create a lasting legacy in their name for a yearly scholarship. Soon I’ll also have details about our upcoming, well anticipated fundraising event - The Vet Gala, held at the Radison Blue at the MOA. All (veterinary teams AND general public) are welcome to attend this highly talked about event. Also - do you know of someone considering estate planning? If so, please encourage the consideration for planned giving to the MVMF. I truly wish you could all read these inspiring essays - to hear about what each of these students are doing in our community - from working with low income families in the twin cities - to sleeping on gym floors for a week to offer services to our Native American populations up north - to inspiring youth in rural communities. www.MVMFcares.org/you-can-help/

12/26/2023

🎉 Facebook recognized me as a top rising creator this week!

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night

12/16/2023

The recipe is easier than my daughter and make it look🤣 recipe from Visit her blog - she has soooo many great recipes.



Ingredients Base Cookie Dough
-3 cups (396g) all purpose flour
-1 tsp baking soda
-1 tsp kosher salt
-3/4 cup (185g) room temp unsalted butter
-1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
-1/2 cup (100g) light brown sugar
-2 large eggs
-2 tsp vanilla extract

Enough Chocolate Hershey’s kisses for all cookies

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookie Dough
- 1/4 cup (60g) creamy peanut butter
- 2 tbsp all purpose flour
Granulated sugar, for rolling

Chocolate Blossom Cookie Dough
- 2 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp milk
Chocolate sprinkles, for rolling

Sugar Blossom Cookie Dough
- 1 1/2 tbsp flour
- Sprinkles, for rolling

Molasses Blossom Cookie Dough
- 1 1/2 tbsp molasses
- 3 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
Cane or raw sugar, for rolling

Base Blossom Cookie Dough

Preheat the oven to 350F and line a several large baking sheets with parchment paper..
Whisk together your dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, and salt). Set aside.
Then using a hand mixer or tabletop mixer, mix together the butter and sugars until fluffy. Then add in the eggs and vanilla until smooth.
Pour in half of flour mixture you side aside earlier and mix. Then pour in the other half and mix until combined.
Divide the dough between four bowls. About 245g if you want to measure it out.
Add the ingredients to the respective bowls with peanut butter, chocolate, sugar, and gingerbread all in separate bowls.
Roll into tbsp sized balls and roll them in their respective toppings. You can get creative here. If toppings don’t stick you can wet your hands a bit during rolling.
Bake for 8-10 minutes and immediately put in your Hershey kiss as they come out. Then transfer to a cooling rack to cool.

12/11/2023

Coconut mango cookies. My first time making curd. So delicious

11/23/2023

Dark chocolate pecan pies are ready! I love this no corn syrup recipe - it’s ALWAYS a hit

11/16/2023

Last summer we were paid models for a day for JCPenny’s holiday photo studio. Let us know if you spot us anywhere! JCPenney Lifetouch

10/31/2023

Flaky Puff Pastry Ghosts Filled with Fig Jam and a Sweet Icing Drizzle. 8 hours until kickoff! Too bad the kids get snow for this Halloween!

09/25/2023

New transom window is in. I found these vintage leaded glass panes during my work travels to Wisconsin. At the time we had no idea what we’d do with them - but now they feel like they were here when the house was built.

The yellow glass of the transom is complimented by our fabulous yellow pendants also by Dutton Brown Design

09/24/2023

Full video of the remodel to come - but I just can’t get enough of this gorgeous chandelier by Dutton Brown Design

They’re locally(Roseville,MN). I also love supporting 🏳️‍🌈companies. This chandelier is called their “Big Color Prisma Chandelier” and they have 12 colors to choose from - which they custom craft each piece to order. It was the cherry on top of our MCM restoration goals. I’m obsessed.

Last photos of our daughter’s 16th birthday celebration - which was lit (LITterally due to the spectacular lighting).

08/30/2023

8th grade, 10th grade, Low-grade anxiety for me that it’s already another year down. 😭

08/13/2023

On 1 of 10,000 lakes

08/12/2023

Fat Amy living her best life

07/10/2023

You may know me as Dr Nikko in the muggle world, but at Frogwarts School of Wizardry camp I go by Dr. Coniferous Forest Green. In today’s class we repaired dragon scales and started a discussion on owl pellets. Next class we’ll dissect owl pellets and stay curious as to what distant relatives of owls may also create pellets (like dragons - but hmmm, what would we find by dissecting a dragon pellet). It’s so fun to see these wizards get excited - several shared that they also want to become veterinarians one day.

07/05/2023

Sparkle like nobody’s watching, although America, we’re watching. Get it together.

06/30/2023

The smile of a man who has no idea he’s about to embark on hours of travel delays - still thankful to make it home safely and the flight crews were absolutely amazing.

06/25/2023

Pride 2023

06/18/2023

Caterpillar? I hardly know her.

05/29/2023

Werk day.

3 day weekend dedicated to opening up the cottage with a “little” spring cleaning. The bird sounds are glorious - it’s really a soul reset to be here, even if I fall into bed with every muscle sore from working the land. It’s just Ruby and I as Mick-Dean stayed at the city house to prep for our big kitchen renovation that starts Tuesday. Ruby’s been a HUGE help this weekend.

Pics of new giant alliums Mick-Dean planted last year and of my stacked stone project we call “Castle Ruins.” I found some great vintage columns to add to the lore.

05/15/2023

Compter? I hardly know her.

05/14/2023

What a fun media tour day last Thursday. My cohost Kermit and I completed 25 total TV and Radio interviews as we represented for . I was amazed at how well Kermit did - he won over the entire crew and calmed my nerves with the power of the . Here’s just one of the available interviews - many were taped for later viewing.

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05/09/2023

Wish “Fat Amy” luck on her eye surgery today. Her corneal injury needs to see a specialist due to the severity. She’ll undergo a conjunctival graft procedure where the ophthalmologist will remove a piece of her conjunctiva and suture it over the literal hole in her eye. The hope is that this will seal the hole and will eventually “scar” down. She’ll have a 40-60% blind spot in her left eye but this procedure will still allow her to have some vision. If unsuccessful, we’ll have to pursue eye removal. She’s been such a trooper with all her eye drops and medications. I’ll keep everyone updated.

02/21/2023

POV: $14.99 Tyson chicken wings are on a post Super Bowl game sale for $5.99 each. 🍗🍗🍗 Tyson Brand Cub

02/11/2023

Keto shopping cart Thanks ALDI USA for having options

02/10/2023

I’m going to need daylight to come back by 7p or I’ll go feral.

02/10/2023

Caramel Apple Moon Crater Pie

Recipe:

+ 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
+ 1/2 cup white sugar
+ 1/2 cup brown sugar
+ 1/4 cup water
+ 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
+ 1 pinch salt
+ 5 apples - peeled, cored and sliced
+ lemon juice

Pie crust: use your favorite recipe or, if you’re a parent on the go, get a pilspury pre-made crusts. Ain’t no shame, ladies do your thang.

Instructions:

+Oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).

+Peel and slice your apples. Add a little lemon juice to reduce browning. Add your cinnamon to the apples and mix.

+Combine butter, white sugar, brown sugar, water and salt in a saucepan over medium heat. Boil and then set aside.

+ Place pie crust in bottom. Roll out top crust into a 10-inch circle. use tops from different bottles to cut different size holes. Keep cut outs for later.

+ Fill pie with sliced apples. Put top crust on and fold edges together. Now pour your brown sugar mixture into the holes and top with your cut pie crust circles.

+ Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees) and bake until the crust is golden brown, the caramel on the top crust is set, and the apple filling is bubbling, 35 to 40 more minutes. Allow to cool completely before slicing.

+Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to really make this moon crater pie out of this world.