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I sure hope HGTV finishes their epic program recycling project soon. I'm getting tired of trying to figure out what is new content - without actually starting to watch it. I tried doing a little research by looking up season and episode numbers, and I just gave up. (I do have to confess I saved all 50 of the individual state episodes that were shown in a marathon after Thanksgiving. There have been surprisingly few that I remembered. I should work my way through the rest of them over the next week…)

Check these out! "15 Architectural Gingerbread Houses That Are Definitely Not Cookie Cutter" https://www.dwell.com/article/architectural-gingerbread-house-designs-836c2481h

About Natasha. I hadn't noticed the incident removing the pan from the oven with bare hands. No idea how many episodes ago it was. But, I did notice a couple times in the finale, during brief close-ups that showed her hands, I saw red streaks that looked like burn marks and wondered what had caused them. Anyone else?

i'm a big fan of mid-century modern architecture, and was quite disappointed. I didn't think it should be that difficult - couldn't help myself, did a quick Google image search for "mid-century modern gingerbread house". I really enjoyed scrolling through all the beautiful results, appropriately designed and festively decorated.

I watched the episode featuring the extended family moving from Kirkland WA to Libertyville IL with great interest. I made the opposite move - grew up in Libertyville and moved to Kirkland - way back In 1977. It was fun to get a look at my old hometown. I'm not planning to move back, but it is certainly interesting to compare housing costs. They bought the house in June. At that time, the median sale price for a single-family home in Libertyville was $680K. In Kirkland - $1.6 million.

Was I the only one who teared up something fierce when Noah appeared in his Fairytale Of New York sweater? Shane MacGowan died November 30 2023, between when the show was filmed and when it aired in the UK.

I would never call Harvard a suburb. 67 miles from Chicago. Here is what it's known for.

We would never call Stephanie a tart!

Wow, my DVR is filling up fast - 33 "new" episodes of House Hunters so far today! One for every state in the union. Who comes up with this stuff? 17 more to go…

I was confused by the numbers in the cookie judging. After the blind tasting, the platters looked pretty well decimated. I didn't get a long enough look to see if there were enough left for each judge to have a cookie . Then, when they showed the bakers presenting their cookies to the judges, the platters were full. Definitely a dozen cookies. I thought maybe I misheard, and each baker had to make two dozen cookies. Then I realized that they may well have filmed the scenes in a different order than they were shown. It would make sense for the bakers to show the judges their full platters of cookies before they did their blind taste testing. But they would have to have reserved enough cookies for the judges to actually taste.

There are a couple of things that help me stay awake. Watching for anything familiar - I don't live too far from Snohomish, enjoy what they show of the town and local scenery. Watching to see what ridiculous tomfoolery the twins will come up with. This episode, was when they scampered outside with the crosscut saw to play lumberjill. Dear viewers, please don't try this at home. I don't expect them to put on full protective gear, but gloves and goggles might've been wise.

Look what just popped up on my Apple News feed! Turn your overripe banana (even its skin) into a smoothie. Instead of chucking that banana into the compost bin, wash it, cut the two hard ends off and "liquidize the whole thing, including the skin" in a blender, says Leith. The black skin of a banana has loads of good stuff in it: fiber, polyunsaturated fats and amino acids. As you whizz it up, add milk and lots of cinnamon. "If you really want a treat, put a blob of vanilla ice cream."

It's a modern take on Lolita!

What I learned today.

Men and women will be "brought to the house" to see if they can "strike a romance". Gosh, what could possibly go wrong? Maybe I've been reading too many stories in the news about sex trafficking and such.