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The love is right here, kids. I am getting it by the boatloads!

I’m finally getting around to a handful of wonderful awards bestowed upon me by some superb fellow bloggers. I seem to have let some slip for over a month and I plan to remedy that immediately.

First off, I was tagged by the ever charming Francesco of The Food Traveller and the lovely Shell of Fiber Among The Roses for the You Make My Day award! Thanks guys, you really flatter me :)

The rules are to list up to 10 blogs that rock your world, blogs that make you happy and inspire you. Leave a comment on that blog to let them know about the award.

This is tough, because there are so many blogs out there and it’s hard for me to keep track – especially right after a treatment. But there are those blogs that always cheer me up when they pop up on my feed and I can’t wait to hop over and see the latest.

**Jump for more butter**

My Darling Daring Bakers in search of Julia’s French Bread: I’m taking a pass this month.

You can find the recipe here.

The wonderful hosts are Mary (Breadchick) of The Sour Dough and Sara of i like to cook.

Check out the boules and batards and baguettes at the Daring Bakers Blogroll.

Recipe: carrot cake

The other morning as I hauled myself to the garage, I spied this lovely dawn from our driveway:

…because you have to get up early if you want to catch the powder on the big mountains. Beaver Creek is the fanciest up-scale ski resort I have ever had the privilege of sullying with my middle class presence.

w00t!

**Jump for more butter**