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My good friend Babs wrote a post yesterday about how she named her blog, Beetle’s Memories ‘n Ramblings , or Beetle Blog for short. I thought some of you might be interested in the evolution of my blog name and how it came to be named The Junk Drawer . I say evolution ...

No one stood a chance. Since Wednesday’s What’s That item posed such a challenge, I decided to post another picture on Saturday that revealed more of it. Within five minutes of doing so, Grace of Hugz Before You Go entered the winning guess. Here are the two images I posted: ...

Hey! For all my friends who aren’t busy preparing for their Thanksgiving tomorrow, here’s a What’s That? item to mull over. How to play: 1. The photo shows a small portion of a larger object. 2. First person to guess the object it’s a part of wins a Junk Drawer  ...

mo·ron  (môr ‘ ?n’, m?r ‘ -): idiot: a person of subnormal intelligence. The date: Circa 1971. The location: Family doctor’s office. The injury: Smashed fingertip. My mother had taken three of us kids for an annual checkup at our family doctor. After ...

I don’t get it. My husband Dave refuses to keep lighting this pumpkin in our front yard. I’ve been bummed the last few days it’s gone unlit. Dave gets home from work a little before me and would always light the little guy. When I drove up the block in the dark, I could ...

Meet Shadow. She’s a sweetheart, but she’s got a problem. She only wants to drink water directly from the faucet. Since she developed this little habit, it’s become near impossible to function in the kitchen. Whenever my husband or I walks into the kitchen, she ...

Doesn’t everyone want nipple cupcakes? I mean, come on. They’re awesome. Step 1 : Pour too much cake batter in the cups. No, not bra cups, silly. Cupcake cups! Step 2 : Don’t shake down the batter like apparently you’re supposed to do. Step 3 : Bake at 350 ...

As a lot of you know, there was some question about our beloved Windy’s survival over the summer. Over the last few weeks many of her tree’s leaves fell away and I knew it would be soon that we’d either see her or we wouldn’t. I’ve been bracing myself. A few ...

Congratulations go to Kathryn of the From the Inside … Out blog for being the first to guess that Monday’s What’s That item is the part of a lawn sprinkler that controls the orientation of the water spray. You can see here that you line up the wheel with the hose connector to ...

I know, I know. I usually have a What’s That item on Wednesdays, but my cold from last week is still clouding my head and I can’t think of anything else to write about. You guys usually have to suffer for that because it makes me turn the tables on you and now you have to ...