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Lost & Found
Weekend before last I attended a picnic at church. I wore a black sweater. I didn’t realize it was gone until Tuesday. I hunted the house high and low, to no avail. I even asked my Bible study to pray I’d find it.
In desperation, I went on a mental scavenger hunt. The last time I remembered having it was at the picnic. We’d had high winds from Sunday to Tuesday. I made a special trip to church to…
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A Different View
While everyone looked at the eclipse last week, I chose a different view by looking at the ground in a parking lot. This view shows the eclipse through a tree. See the crescents?
What did you observe during that time?
Now, we’ll have to wait until a total eclipse across the U.S till 2044. I don’t think I’ll make it that far!
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A Look Back
This past week as I sat to journal as I do every day, I recorded 4/4/24. That rang a bell in my memory. On 4/4/74 I set apart a day to pray about what I should do with about 250 poems I had written over the previous 15 months.
I heard nothing, so I decided to type each one on a paper, put them in a box, and send them to a local publishing house listed in the yellow pages. I knew nothing about…
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Funny Moments
After the main meal is consumed and desserts are a mere memory, family gatherings take a funny turn. The kids drag out the junk from an old toy box upstairs and let ‘er rip. Beside the usual toys, there are old Halloween masks and ancient wigs in the treasure trove.
The picture above is of one of the twenty-five guests who gathered for Easter this year pretending to be a feeding horse.
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Fun Bunnies
Although Resurrection Day has nothing to do with rabbits, they seem to hop in anyway. I made these for my great-grandchildren to enjoy when we gather after church next Sunday. I’ll include the recipe in case you want to try your hand at it. I use my basic roll dough to make these bunnies. The recipe is included in my cookbook Family Favorites from the Heartland found at Amazon.com .
Basic Roll…
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Morel Time
If you’re a morel mushroom lover, it’s about time. We need temperatures in the low 70s and night temperatures in the 50s. They are usually found around the bases of elms, ashes, and cottonwoods. The season is only a couple of weeks long so don’t put it off.
When hunting morels, use a mesh or breathable bag. That way, the spores can escape to make more for next year.
I usually bring them home and…
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It's Spring!
Miracle of miracles, my bees made it through the terrible -20 degree temperatures this winter. They are busy gathering pollen and gearing up for warmer weather. Hopefully, this year I’ll be able to harvest some honey.
I think I hear someone saying, “How did they survive such cold?
Bees are so fascinating. When cold winter hits, they gather around their queen in a cluster. The warm bees move to…
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Then and Now
While looking for a recipe in an old cookbook, I found a recipe jotted on the back of an old type written letter. It’s undated but has to be over 55 years old. It’s from Deffenbaugh Disposal Services. The letter states that we can either pay every two or three months. They will furnish us with a coupon book to keep track of our payments. At an additional cost they will supply us with a container…
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Flashback to WW II
I’ve been trying to distribute a lifetime of old photos to my kids. I ran across this one sent to me by my cousin. I was overjoyed to receive it. Mine had been ruined in a cardboard box in a leaking basement.
This is my father with the U.S. Army in Germany after WW II ended in May, 1945. He didn’t get to come home until October, 1945 because the ships were so crowded.
I once asked my mother about…
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Close But No Cigar
This past Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, I drove out of my way home to Kansas City, for 577 miles from St. Simon’s Island, Georgia to Cape Henry, Virginia, in order to read Rev. Robert Hunt’s declaration that he made before stepping on this land for the first time on April 29, 1607. By the time I arrived at 5:30 p.m., the little hut pictured above, was closed. Id’ missed the last tour by an hour and a…
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Yummy Apple Cake
When winter becomes a drag, I turn to cooking. This apple cake was one of my family favorites. I included it in my book Family Favorites From the Heartland.
Gram’s Raw Apple Cake
Ingredients:
½ cup butter2 cups sugar2 eggs2 cups flour2 teaspoons sodapinch salt2 teaspoons cinnamon1 teaspoon nutmeg5 grated large apples or 7 small ones (Granny Smith work best) Combine all ingredients, adding apples…
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What A Difference A Day Makes
On ordinary days, one day melts into another. Then, in a 24 hour period, the world dumps up-side-down.
This picture showed up on my computer from seven years ago the other day. This was a colt that had been born the summer before. Life was in the normal mode. Then things flipped.
On the next St. Patrick’s Day the PET scans showed my husband had stage 4 metastatic lung cancer. That horrible…
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Funny Snowman
Now that Christmas is past, the gifts have been opened, and the decorations have disappeared, it’s time to pay the piper. I found this picture on Facebook with the caption, “This snowman is to scare away the bills.” If it works, we better pray for snow!
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A Charcutier Tree
This Christmas I made a charcuterie tree for a centerpiece. I bought a Styrofoam cone and covered it with plastic wrap. I gathered three kinds of cheese, red peppers, pickled okra, sliced red pears and apples, and rolled up ham with cream cheese and dill pickle relish inside. I stuck each bite on the Styrofoam with party toothpicks. I intended to put black and green olives on it, but forgot…
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A Charcuterie Tree
This Christmas I made a charcuterie tree for a centerpiece. I bought a Styrofoam cone and covered it with plastic wrap. I gathered three kinds of cheese, red peppers, pickled okra, sliced red pears and apples, and rolled up ham with cream cheese and dill pickle relish inside. I stuck each bite on the Styrofoam with party toothpicks. I intended to put black and green olives on it, but forgot…
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Gingerbread Cookies
If you need a special treat here is a recipe from Nordic Ware I made for this season. The metal stamps come out very crisp and clean.
Gingerbread Cookies for Cookie Stamps
Ingredients
3 cups flour
4 tsp ground ginger
3 tsp ground cinnamon
Heaping ¼ tsp ground cloves
6 Tbsp butter, softened
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2/3 cup molasses
2 ½ tsp vanilla
½ tsp salt
Directions
In a medium bowl, mix…
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'Tis the Season!
Sixty-one years ago, it was my husband and me. Now, we’ve expanded to thirty-four, with more to come! How did that happen? Wishing you all a meaningful Christmas season. God bless you all.
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