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    Jalapeno Tree and other Clear Lake classics
    July 9, 2010 1:55 pm
    by Jennefer Bell

    Yurok Aleksandrovich: FotoliaYurok Aleksandrovich: FotoliaRemember the Jalapeno Tree? Clear Lake Lifer blogger Jennefer Bell ruminates on the kinds of restaurants that stir up memories. The Colosseum and T-Bone Tom's are two oldies still around. What restaurants would you add to the list of home-grown favorites?

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    A mid-year check on New Year's resolutions
    July 6, 2010 5:44 am
    by Jennefer Bell

    It's been six months since Clear Lake Lifer blogger Jennefer Bell wrote about 10 things she hoped the Clear Lake area would accomplish this year. Here's a mid-year progress report.

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    Photo quiz: What did it used to be?
    July 2, 2010 6:14 am
    by Jennefer Bell

    Houston Chronicle file photoHouston Chronicle file photoRemember what Clear Lake used to look like? Blogger Jennefer Bell challenges you to a photo quiz. Just to build your confidence, this first one's distinctive shape makes it easy to ID as Burlington Coat Factory. If you didn't know it was originally built as a jumbo-sized Fiesta grocery store, then this quiz will be waaaaay too hard. For the rest of you old-timers, let's get started. Just click on the photo.

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    A mission that left icing on the steering wheel
    June 29, 2010 5:25 pm
    by Jennefer Bell

    When blogger Jennefer Bell learned that The Cupcake Coach was planning a stop in Clear Lake, she and her kids made sure they'd be there. She ended up having to chase down the converted ice cream truck, but it was a mission accomplished.

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    In search of summer fun on the cheap
    June 14, 2010 10:43 am
    by Jennefer Bell

    Clear Lake Lifer blogger Jennefer Bell looks around Clear Lake for inexpensive ways to counter the complaint she knows is coming from her kids soon: "I'm bored." Did you know Cinemark has a $1 showtime each week?

    Photo by Lily:Fotolia

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    Free-standing ERs can come in handy
    June 10, 2010 2:17 pm
    by Jennefer Bell

    Blogger Jennefer Bell says a recent incident illustrated to her how nice it is to have free-standing emergency room facilities in the community.

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    New trend should make picky eaters rejoice
    June 6, 2010 10:11 pm
    by Jennefer Bell

    Most bakeries serve you cupcakes with all the goop already on them. Not one local establishment.: Frances Orr: MRTMost bakeries serve you cupcakes with all the goop already on them. Not one local establishment.: Frances Orr: MRT

    Some area restaurants let the customer dictate exactly what they get, how it's fixed and how much. For example, two new yogurt shops let you do your own confection, which is charged according to weight. The Naked Cupcake lets you start with an unfrosted cupcake and take it from there - or not.

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    Who has Clear Lake's best doughnuts?
    June 5, 2010 6:00 am
    by Jennefer Bell

    National Doughnut Day inspired Clear Lake Lifer blogger Jennefer Bell to contemplate the best doughnuts in Clear Lake. Do you agree with her picks?

    Photo by Robert Sullivan/AFP/Getty Images

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    How do you celebrate the start of summer?
    June 4, 2010 10:59 am
    by Jennefer Bell

    schoolschoolSchool's out for the summer. Do you have any traditions to celebrate the beginning of summer vacation? One blogger learned from her kids they had a tradition of Mexican food and ice cream.

    Photo by iQoncept: Fotolia

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    As school winds down, a look at summers past
    June 1, 2010 7:01 am
    by Jennefer Bell

    Photo by Lily: FotoliaPhoto by Lily: FotoliaThe calendar may say summer begins on June 21, but any 5-18 year old will tell you that summer begins when that last school bell rings. Clear Lake Lifer Jennefer Bell looks back on summers growing up here in Clear Lake during the 1980s.

    E-mail jenny.montgomery@chron.com with your family's "school's out" traditions.

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