Tasty Tuesday

Yummy and No Bake!

So if you don't bake you can still have wonderful homemade treats. I know you can microwave! Can't you??

So take your Ritz crackers and put you some crunchy (or smooth) peanut butter between two of them and then melt you some chocolate or Almond Bark and dip your little crackers in it and set them on some wax paper and sprinkle something festive on them or drizzle some more chocolate on them for a beautiful presentation.

And if you don't want to take the time to make peanut butter crackers buy the box of mini Ritz bits and just open the box and melt the chocolate and dip them in and let them set up. They are wonderful. I think I like the mini ones better. Just pop them in your mouth. Yummy, yummy!

Gooey Butter Cookies

Katherine over at Smoky Mountain Cafe posted this recipe that she had gotten off of Priscilla at Priscilla's Baking Adventures. I just had to try them! They were so easy and sooooo good!!! I've now made 5 batches for different occasions that I have had this weekend. They are very moist and almost lemony, if that's a word. They are my new favorite.

Gooey Butter Cookies

1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese

1/2 c. butter, softened

1 egg

1/4 tsp. vanilla

1 yellow cake mix

1/2 c. powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in egg and vanilla. Add cake mix & stir until well blended.Powder sugar your hands well. Roll into 1" or 2" balls and dust balls in powdered sugar. Place 1" apart on ungreased cookie sheets (Siplast and parchment paper work well too) . Bake for 10 minutes. Leave on cookie sheet for 3 minutes or more before removing to cool on wire racks.

I couldn't let it go without trying a Chocolate cake mix in the same recipe. It wasn't as good for me as the yellow cake mix was. Still this recipe is a keeper.

Pop Pop and Pop Corn

To eat pop corn, one must sit on Pop Pop's lap. Every one must share the same bowl. I popped 3 different bags that afternoon. These girls can put away some pop corn. I can say, that one bag only cooked part way and half of one bowl was spilt on the rug but other than that everyone was pretty full by the time they finished.

Look at Shelby's hand in that bowl. I was pretty disappointed in how these pictures turned out. Harry was the only one that would really look at me. (I was in the way of them watching 'Curious George'.) I hated the lighting and they were blurry. I used my little camera.

I cracked up when I saw Harry try and get a handful, almost an impossible task.

Very nice of Reagan to try and feed him and finally Shelby did look at me and smile. She's about to our grow Pop Pop's lap.

He loves these moments and they love him!

Mary Did You Know?

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy will

one day walk on water?

Did you know

That your baby boy will

save our sons and daughters?

Did you know

That your baby boy has

come to make you new?

This child that you've delivered

Will soon deliver you

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy

will give sight to a blind man?

Did you know

That your baby boy will

calm a storm with his hand?

Did you know

That your baby boy has

walked where angels trod?

And when you kiss your little boy

Youve kissed the face of god.

Mary, did you know?

The blind will see

The deaf will hear

And the dead will live again

The lame will leap

The dumb will speak

The praises of the lamb

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy is

lord of all creation?

Did you know

That your baby boy will

one day rules the nations?

Did you know

That your baby boy is

heavens perfect lamb?

This sleeping child you're holding

Is the great I am.

by Mark Lowry

(From the first time I heard this I loved it,

no matter who sings it, it's one of my favorite Christmas songs.)

This Weekend

The City Christmas Parade


The Nutcracker Ballet

The First Presidency's

Christmas Devotional

And throw in a wedding, a funeral, a trip to Sam's Club and teach my usual Sunday School Class!

And Wa La! You've got a full weekend!!

Photo Friday

I just love old barns and where

I went in Missouri there were a plenty.

Photo Friday

I love this one and the tree growing

out of that right window.

All of these are from the same area in Missouri.

Bush Lodge and Amish Neighbors

This is the Bush Lodge.

They bought this property from an Amish family and turned it into the hunting lodge. The front white house is where Doug and Becky Bush live and is also where we ate our meals. The white building behind the big house is where our room was. The red building use to be a barn and was turned into the TV rec room. They had to put in the wiring for electricity and plumbing for water and bathing.

I was on the other side of the big house on the grounds looking around.

When I heard him coming up the road I ran and got my camera. This is the road out in front of the lodge.

Look at the cute black and white cow in the background. Hows that for being in the country?

He went right on up the hill to his house. I had to get in the truck and drive up to see what it looked like.

It was a very nice home.

When the hunters don't want their deer meat, they only want their heads and horns for mounting, they give the meat to this Amish family. They except it gladly.

I just wish I could go in and look at their home. I guess I'm noisy like that.

Amish #2

I was taking pictures in the late evening and this Amish Buggy was coming towards me so I got out of the truck and took pictures.

I didn't know that the Amish really don't like their pictures made. I learned that from the neighbors when I got back to the lodge.

I watched him turn the corner and then got in the truck and followed him to his farm. I felt like a stalker. But they didn't have a phone to call the police and report me.

He had a very nice farm. If you look right beside the red barn you can see his buggy parked with his little sign on it's bumper.

Then when I was coming back I got behind another one. I'm not sure the proper etiquette for passing but I finally did very slowly.

I'm not sure why the Amish fascinate me but they do and I never tire of looking at them.

Happy Anniversary Honey

31 Years Ago Today

December 3, 1977

5 months later in June of 1978.

This was at Harrison and Christon's wedding 5 years ago. Harry had been on kidney dialysis for a year. He had his transplant 4 months later.

This is almost 3 years ago at Travis and Jordan's wedding. After kidney transplant. Can you see the big difference?

This is in June of this year at Stone Mountain, GA. a trip with our family.

What a wonderfully blessed and happy life we have had together.

I Voted Again Today

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss has won re-election in a runoff, dashing Democratic hopes of capturing enough Senate seats to thwart Republican filibusters. Chambliss, who fell just short of the majority vote needed to win re-election in November, prevailed in a one-on-one rematch with Democrat Jim Martin.
With 92 percent of precincts reporting, Chambliss had 58 percent of the vote to Martin's 41 percent. Chambliss' victory thwarted Democrats' hopes of winning a 60 seat filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. It came after a bitter month long runoff against Democrat Jim Martin that drew political luminaries from both parties to the state and flooded the airwaves with fresh attack ads weeks after campaigns elsewhere had ended.

My Phone rang all day today to remind me to vote! LIKE I COULD FORGET!! Calls came in from Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee. Not counting the 4 calls from the NRA!! Just sayin, WAS IT REALLY NESSESARY???

Tasty Tuesday

This is my cute little V/T, Amelia.

She was teaching us how to make

Yams and Apples at 'Supper at Seven' last month.

They are really yummy and worth trying if you like yams.

Good Job! Amelia, I loved them.

Thanks for teaching us something new.

Yams and Apples

6 pounds yams (3-4)
4 apples
1 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups hot water
1/4 pound butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg

Parboil, peel and slice or dice the yams into 1/2 inch sized pieces. While yams are boiling, peel and slice or dice apples into 3/4 inch sized pieces. Combine all other ingredients in saucepan and cook over medium heat until thick; do not boil. Combine all ingredients in a 9 x 11 baking dish. Bake at 325* for 45-55 minutes; 30 minutes if yams are well cooked.

I got this recipe a few weeks ago from my Aunt Shelia. She said it came from the 'Children's Friend Magazine' years ago. I cooked them Sunday morning for my Sunday school class. They loved them! They were really quick and easy.

Cinnamon Biscuit Delights

1 C. Sugar
1 C. Brown Sugar
2 Tablespoons Cinnamon (or amt suitable to you)
1 Stick Butter
1 package of can biscuits
(I used 3 cans of biscuits)

Mix all Sugars and cinnamon together.
Melt Butter in small dish.
Dip each biscuit in butter and roll in sugar mix.
Place in ungreased (I sprayed mine with Pam) baking pan.
Cook at directed on biscuits.
Do not cook any longer than as directed

Biscuits will be hard if you overcook. Very, very
Good recipe and everyone just loves them.

I drizzled mine with a little icing for cuteness.

Powdered sugar would be cute too.

They were really good.

Welcome To Macon, Missouri

Welcome to Macon, a sleepy little town

in upper north east Missouri.

Heading into town looking for the Wal Mart.

Little did I know it was one of those really old and little Wal Mart's, not a super store like I am use to here in Brunswick. They didn't have any fresh fruit so I went next store to the grocery store.

It was a nice clean small town grocery store. It was so clean and everyone was so friendly and helpful. I got 2 bananas, 2 apples, a box of hot chocolate and a box of granola bars. I paid for it and started to grab my bags from the bag boy but he wouldn't let me have them! Then the cashier came around and got my cart and put it up. I told the nice young man that I could carry my two sacks, "no, I'll carry them for you" he said. I said "well that's okay it's only those two small sack and I think I can carry them myself." "No Mame, that's my job and I'm going to carry them for you." I tell ya, I really felt silly letting him carry those few things.

As we were walking to the truck an Amish man in his horse and buggy pulled up and parked off to the side of the parking lot in the grass. I was surprised at the site. I asked the young man about him. He said that he came to shop every Friday. I thanked the young man and got in the truck and cranked up. I rolled the window down and asked him where the Amish community was and he said "about ten miles up the road." I said where is it and what's the name of it, he said "it's called 'Ten Mile', and it's that way" he pointed.

For some reason I think that this sign was funny after the conversation I had just had with the bag boy.

Ten Mile is 4 miles to the left.

And this is coming up on the cross roads of Tenmile.

That's really all that there is except for more corn fields and farm houses and barns.

To be continued...