55 Years of Celebration!

Happy 55th Anniversary to my sweet mama and daddy!!

What a great example of living and loving they are to us children,

GRAND-children and GREAT-GRAND children!

Love you both so very much!

Happy Birthday Mama

Picture taken on Mother's Day 2011
Look forward to spending some time with her and daddy today.

Pelican

St. Augustine, Florida 3/31/10

The Pelican

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I’m danged if I see how the helican.

Any time I see a Pelican I think of this little poem that my mama always says when she sees one.

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?

My Mama and Daddy used to sing this song to me and my siblings.

It's always been a favorite of mine.

And when I hear it I can sing most all the words.

I've been singing it to the GRAND~girls lately.

I picked up the oldest one from school today and

from the back seat she had a request.

"Gigi will you sing me the doggie in the window, please?"

Well, when you say please!

And by all means it has to be Patti Page singing!

Tasty Tuesday

This is another one of those family recipes that

seems to show up every Thanksgiving and Christmas

around the Crenshaw and Griffis homes.

My mama got the recipe years ago from my daddy's niece, I think.

She can correct me if I'm wrong.

It's always been a favorite of a lot of people.

Blueberry Roll in not really a "roll" at all!

It's just fixed in a 10x13 pan, there is no

rolling of any kind unless you roll your eyes or something else :)

I'm surprised that I have never

posted it on this blog or my private recipe blog.

So for prosperity and for the record, here's the recipe.

Blueberry Roll

Crust:

1 1/2 cups self~rising flour

1 1/2 sticks butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 cup chopped pecans

Filling:

20oz. can of blueberry pie filling

Topping:

1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese

1/2 cup milk

3/4 sugar

1 med. cool whip

Directions: Mix all crust ingredients together and press into a greased 10x13 pan. Bake at 325* for 25 minutes.

Let cool completely.

Spread on can Blueberry Pie filling over the cooled crust. (If you don't like blueberries you can use blackberries, raspberries, or strawberries or any other pie filling of your choice)

Topping: Cream together the room temperature cream cheese and sugar. Add milk and mix and then fold in the cool whip. Pour topping over the pie filling and cover and refrigerate until cold and firm.

The Parents

All because two people fell in love.

Happy 53 Anniversary,

mama and daddy!

Issues

After last weeks post on Toothpaste

Yall aren't going to believe the

issues I have with SOAP!

But first let me give you the

frugal tip I learned from my mama.

~HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA!~

(today's her birthday)

When you bring your soap home

from the store the first thing

you need to do is take it out

of the packages.

This way it will dry out and get really hard. Next time you open a new bar of soap, stick your finger nail in it and you will see how soft a new bar is. Then when you use it, it just starts melting. And if by chance one of the little ones drops it in the water and you can't find it for awhile it really gets soft. If you will let your soap dry out for several weeks, even months, it will last twice as long.

Don't believe me, just try it then. A bar of soap that has dried out will be hard to stick your finger nail into. Saves you money on soap.

That's my Frugal Tuesday tip!

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Now last week when I wrote about the Toothpaste, these are the comments that my parents left for me.

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Mama said:

You get that from your Daddy - - and maybe a little from me and your grandpa Padgett. But in all this I'm thinking SOAP, instead of toothpaste (which I have gone as far as sucking it out of the tube.).

Starting with Grandpa, When we owned the oceanfront motor court at Jax Beach, we never threw the soap away that was left in the cottages and rooms. It was brought back to the laundry room and when enough had accumulated Grandpa would boil it down for the family years supply. The boiling took care of germs if there were any on that caustic lye stuff.

Now from that education -- I would never throw a sliver of soap away and I put it back for hard times. Your daddy goes a step further than me and one less than Grandpa -- He makes sure it - the sliver is real moist and soggy and bonds it to the new bar - waits for it to dry out & adhere real tight and keeps on bathing with it!I might add - that we have our own bars of soap - me three/four different brands in use at a time and Daddy two. Plus the liquid hand soap at the bathroom & kitchen sinks.You could say that is the far side of c r a z y, I think.

But you dear daughter are frugal and smart and beautiful inside and out. You know who you are and you like it!!!XXXOOOXXXOOOXXXOOO, mama

Daddy said:

President Kimble said to.. "Fix it up, paint up, use it up."

Yes, I use up that thin sliver of soap, soften it up, attach it to the new bar and it's used completely up. It made be mad to see what the Dial company did to the bath soap, cut it down in size and shape and still charge the same.

I also recycle cans, paper, card board, plastic bottles, jugs, what ever they take. Helps in the preservation of this good earth we live in.

Call me crazy or frugal, but that's what I am.

Love you,

Daddy

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Don't you think that just a little rubbed off on me :)

Thank you to all our

Military Personnel

and their families!

Our prayers go with you.

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Hope you all had a nice

holiday weekend!

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I met my parents for a

late lunch in

Orange Park, FL.

My mama's birthday

is tomorrow!

Happy Birthday Mama!

It was great to see them

and enjoy their company

and some good food.

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Even found a little

time to have a

pedicure.

How do you like the new

color of polish I found?

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Have a great week!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day

to my sweet mama.

I sure love you with all my heart.

Line Dried

I love seeing clothes hanging on the line and blowing in the breeze. Does anyone hang clothes any more? I grew up hanging clothes out doors on a clothes line line. My parents didn't own a clothes dryer until after I left home for college. Mama was very picky about how we were to hang clothes. There was a certain way we were taught to hang our clothes on the line and if we didn't hang them right, mama would send us back out to re-hang them correctly. When the clothes were dry, we took them down and folded each piece as we went along so that when we were finished we had a basket full of nicely folded laundry. That made the ironing so much easier. Ironing, that's a whole other post. When I was first married we had both a clothes line and a clothes dryer. I did hang about half my laundry. I can't remember when I quit hanging clothes outdoors. I guess I don't miss it in this busy world I live in.

52 and counting!

HAPPY 52nd ANNIVERSARY!

Mama and Daddy

Thank you for your great example of enduring love.

By the way who do yall think I look

like, my mama or my daddy?

Gas Prices

This is pretty neat.

My mama sent this to me last week.

Just enter your zip code in the site below, and it will tell you which gas stations have the cheapest prices (and the highest) gasoline in your area - It's updated every evening. http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

I checked mine last night and Flying J has regular for $3.53.9
Sorry, I don't think that this works for my overseas friends. Be a good neighbor and pass this along !

Tasty Tuesdays

Cherry Delight

This is one of my mama's recipe's. It's cool and rich and very easy to make.

1 20 oz. can Cherry pie Filling

1 can Eagle Brand Milk

1 20 oz. can crushed pineapple (drained)

1 cup sour cream

1 cup chopped pecans

1 med. cool whip.

With hand mixer, mix first 4 ingredients. Fold in nuts and cool whip. Refrigerate until really cold and set. Yummy. I meant to tell yall that you can also use the "light" version of all these products and it taste the same to me and will save you probably half the calories!

1965 Ford Falcon

My Daddy taught me to drive. We had a white 1965 Ford Falcon station wagon. It was the only new car my parents ever bought. It was a standard shift, 3 on the column. I loved that car! (White Fords must be in my blood because I drive a white Ford vehicle now.) That car would hold a lot of friends and sisters and brother. Only thing, the gas gage didn't work. So daddy taught me to figure out how many miles it would get to the gallon and then keep a check on the odometer and when it got close to those miles I would know to fill it up again. More than once I ran out of gas and daddy had to bring me some more. Those were the days when we didn't have cell phones. So running out of gas wasn't that convenient. But I had so much fun in that car. When I was growing up my parents would let down the back seat, throw in a single bed mattress and off we'd go, on trips, to the beach, and many evenings to the drive-in movie. Daddy would back into the parking spot and then he'd let down the tail gate and all 5 of us kids would lay there on our tummies and watch the movie. Mama and daddy would get out and sit in lawn chairs. I love drive in movies. They still have one in Jesup GA. and Harry and I've talked about going soon as they show something worth seeing.

Happy Birthday Mother

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to my Mama!

Janice Arlene Padgett Crenshaw

I love you with all my heart.

I am who I am because of you.