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I love Colonial Williamsburg! I am a little biased because I did my culinary school intership there... a very amazing experience! However. I am truly amazed that they managed a very lovely snap at the Governor's palace with NOT ONE other person in the photo!? Not even an Interpreter.

Although this is a different color, the print pattern is the same. It took awhile to find the print among the eye bleeding patterns in the sea of lulano. Goodness that stuff is hideous. THIS is what Meri meant by "vintage mickey". The old cartoon version of Mickey is within the pattern, but far away with a poor quality photo and it does honestly look like "day of the dead" skulls. Especially in the color scheme of the shirt she is wearing.

Everything about both Mykelti and Tony sounds like they are 12.

The strawberries are dipped in a sugar glaze to help preserve them and keep them from leeching strawberry juice into the whipped cream. Most all fruit for tarts etc are lightly brushed with some kind of glaze for presentation, French pastry tradition is sieved, warmed apricot jelly. American grocery store bakery tradition is a sugar glaze from a bucket.

Hmm. Did she originally have written "really check out your produce section" and changed check to explore, but naturally didn't proof read at all. Sorry...but a "health" coach should be steering people to the produce section for...you know....produce. If the post was about "on the go" healthier choice grabs....maybe...just maybe. But if you are trying to have a "community of wellness" (whatever that is suppose to mean) I would first steer people away from any kind of pre-prepared food. Problem is. Janelle isn't in any way a cook.

Robyn's mansion surrounded by those stressin me out trees. The circus arriving. I'll stick this one here. While Gabe's clear opinion on the move was documented on the camera for the world to hear. I think another child is suffering off camera. Robyn's kids are no longer front and center, although Aurora is piping up and talking a whole lot more than before, but the few times the camera catches Brianna it is pretty darn obvious that she isn't feeling the move as well. L to R is Brianna, Gwen, Ysabel and Aurora.

Honestly...I think that is the point

This also occurred to me. I doubt very much they would ever hire "outside help", but Robyn has had teenage daugters, teenage sons and a grown up niece at her beck and call for many years. She has always had help and is now very much on her own for everything while no longer having the privacy of their little cul de sac world.

Nope. When they were filming the "Great Arrival" of the traveling circus arriving at Robyn's house on the show it looks like a higher end development. The kind with large lots(acre+ sizes) of trees and custom houses. But it's a street with a driveway up to the house...surrounded by....TREES!! Robyn on camera wringing her hands about the Cottonwood property and oh my....the forest fires! The stressin over the memories of evacuating the threat of forest fires in Montana, yet she picks to rent a huge house surrounded by trees. And lots of neighbors. It looked as though the neighbors were walking through trees from all around her house to check out the circus arriving in their neighborhood. She looked genuinely unsettled as she was being approached while Christine started frantically waving at everyone and screaming hellos.

That's exactly what I was thinking when it first popped in my head. Gee. The only thing was a comment I think when Aspyn was graduating recently and Robyn commented on the Instagram that she wasn't feeling well that morning so she didn't go, but neither did ANY of her kids. Honestly it could be a scary as a health scare and she is stuck at home, and another pregnancy really isn't too far out in left field. Every time "oh..no more from Robyn" comes up she pipes up with "depends on divine intervention", like it isn't off the table. Who knows...just musing while it won't stop raining outside.

It is SO funny that ginger should post this. I was scrolling through some of reddit's SW comments and it just hit me that there has been stuff about Meri and Lula, Christine and Lula and her girls etc, online rag stories about seeing Janelle and Christine and even Kody in their new "native habitats" etc. Christine being sighted at the bottom of Robyn's driveway, Kody's car ONLY in Robyn's driveway...but...crickets...with Robyn herself. Nothing. Nada. Nothing on her kids, no Instagrams, nothing on her Sistawifes closets...just nothing. No stalker/fan photos from the natives. I did a search on the website and it still has "we are updating the store for you" when you click on it. However...I don't remember doing it but somewhere along the way I followed Robyn on Pintrest and that is the ONLY place she pops up. All. The. Time. She is pinning quotes, purple colored anything and everything and random shit stuff, but she's always pinning. Is it going to become another "where is Shelly" storyline like CO$??

Just think of all the magickal moments Meri could paint for Robyn!! The "moment" the four of them meet and become one big family...on the same day, wed on the same day...you know from Day One. Robyn at the birth of Logan...right there with a front row seat. Robyn pushing Meri out of the way when little tiny Maddie needed extra nourishment... Just SO many moments!! It could fill the walls of Robyn's Castle Mansion

Salty Acid water...Yum!!

...quote..."I wasn't even up for a Memorial Day BBQ today" Translation: Why bother doing anything special because it's really just me and Savannah. I'm just a single mom and I can't be bothered to schlep across town to the family gathering. Yep. Janelle really does ooze depression. Edit to add.....lolol it's been said upthread...I sure didn't read close enough. But great minds think alike 😉

Cooking notes to Janelle...water + snow peas in a pan with heat is called steaming. Fat + snow peas is sauté. However...snow peas are cut up. Many people know them from the Asian food world where they are always whole...and sadly often fibrous. If you head to the classical side towards French cooking then snow peas are sliced very very thin called "chiffonade" and added at the very very end of cooking kind of like a slightly cooked garnish. Those snow peas look very fibrous and a touch freezer burned. Sadly I would think that such a thing might be in season for her locally with a specialty market farmer, instead of frozen. Peas, especially snow peas are very often the first thing planted and harvested early in the season. If she REALLY wants to blow her limited palate she should sauté some fresh harvested pea shoots. The early growth of the plant. Ready in just minutes and taste more like fresh peas than most fresh peas. The plus is you can grow them right in your kitchen on a sunny window. Heat up a pan, harvest and enjoy. AND...I have a feeling that like other micro greens/shoots they are a hell of a nutritional rock star!!

Okay. Ginger shots!? She bought a pound of peppermint tea. Kudos...I know everyone thought the pound was a lot...but I'm a person who can go through a pound of tea in 4-6 months easily. What herbs I don't grow I buy in bulk for lots of different things, including tea blends. The tastiest addition to peppermint tea is ginger. Good ol fresh ginger. Just take a spoon and scrape a little bit from a fresh root and put it in with the tea leaves while it brews. Or even infuse honey with ginger and keep in the fridge. My husband likes that with seltzer water. Honestly...Janelle needs a full work up by a real, old-fashioned doctor. You know, blood tests and especially hormone etc tests. Depression just oozes from her, and honestly it has from the very beginning. All these stomach and digestion issues could very easily be deep seeded stress. What has always stood out for me is how long these people have been in "therapy" and yet Janelle is just so damn clueless about her own feelings and emotions. Absolutely clueless. How many times has she stated something along the way of "oh...I don't know what this emotion is, why am I getting emotional, I just don't know why"

Well kudos to Aspyn for landing a job so quickly after graduating!!

Yea...tho. The exact quote "overheard" was that "mom's water heater is terrible". To me that can mean a couple of things. It's too small. It's old and maybe not heating up to snuff. Or it isn't balanced right. I don't know proper terms but when we moved into this house the hot water was gone in just minutes in the shower. My husband had to tinker with the flow and things I have no idea about but then we could not only take one comfortable shower but two people can take showers back to back. It wasn't the water heater but the calibration or something...

So...Kody has a full beard and mustache now? Sporting quite a bit of grey as well.

I don't remember where I read this, but I remember reading that Truely's Instagram was overseen by Ysabel, so anything "written" or hashtags etc would be from her. I wouldn't be surprised if Christine's daughters help her out with the social media side of online selling.

I noticed this too, and thought the exact thing! Now that they are "very visible celebrities" I suspect they will have this happen more. Especially once word gets out that every mundane moment (especially if it can be shown how apart they really truly live) can be photographed and sold to an online rag. I can't imagine that Robyn, who is already "stressinn' out..." over every little hiccup in life, would put up with this. There was also photos on the same site (radar) of Christine carrying two 6 packs of beer (locally craft brewed!!) parking "on the street and walking up to Robyn's house" on Mother's Day. Oh MY!! Meri and Janelle weren't included. Shock. Gasp. So obviously the locals are going to find a new source of income following the Browns around town. Gee Kody. Is Flagstaff still yummy?

...what exactly does "depressed" look like? I mean...it's bad enough that people felt the need to photograph Janelle wandering around an outdoor market, but if they knew she sat in her car for 30 minutes that means someone was hanging around watching her...for 30 minutes. The price of "fame" is way too high in my opinion.

...well. He WAS a totally creepy ass dude and no network would want to put him on reality TV again...

And the back yard has the cement family marker of The Kody Brown Family... Even if someone did want to make an offer...busting that thing up and replacing it would be the #1 condition of purchase. Well...that and the beat up kitchen cabinets need refaced at minimum.

Whenever the "legal divorce" was first discovered and made public, my practical bookkeeping mind immediately thought that it made sense in the fact that Kody would be aligned with the wife with the most long term dependents for tax reasons. Plus Kody would then be legally married to Robyn because of the sister wives closet business. Even Robyn's statement about how the online business helps "at tax time" backs up my thoughts that it is just a write off kind of thing. I also think that Meri's catfishing fiasco bought the family more seasons and kept them afloat.