Baking Days

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pebbles

Coconut Macaroons

Sugar Cookies

Hickory Nut Pie

Pumpkin Bread

What did you bake or make?

Happy Blogoversary!

As of yesterday our blog turned three years old.  It has become a place to share and a way to keep connected with others.  I plan to keep posting and hope that you will keep reading.  If you do read our blog, please drop us a comment to let me know that you are there.  Thanks!

On The Last Day of Fall

It’s the last day of fall, and there is white all around

On the trees, on the roof, and especially on the ground.

When I think of autumn, this color I don’t see.

It’s reds, greens, oranges, browns showing on the leaves.

It’s the last day of fall, and it’s cold everywhere.

Temperatures in the twenties only bundled I can bear.

The milder days of pleasantry are now a thing of the past.

It’s icicles and falling flakes and skies overcast.

It’s the last day of fall, and while today’s December twentieth,

Outside it looks like winter and plants are belying death.

Even though fall is ending and winter officially starts tomorrow,

Creation is God’s work of art bringing joy and sometimes sorrow.

written by Lepidotera on 12/20/2010

What We Read

"Ah, my venerable friend," cried the Robin; "have you no confidence in the kind chance that has befriended you so often before?"

"I can never be sure it will do so again," murmured the Woodlark despondingly.

"But when that kind chance brings you one comfortable day after another, why should you sadden them all by these fears for by and by?"

"It is a weakness, I believe," responded the Woodlark.  "I will see what I can do towards enjoying myself more. You are very wise, little Robin; and it is a wisdom that will keep you happy all the year round."

 - From "Daily Bread" in Parables of Nature by Margaret S. Gatty

"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things."  - Matthew 6:31-31

The Sweetest Thing

Cheez Wiz:  Tom (our gray, ever-be-adored kitten) is the cutest thing!

Ace:  I know what the sweetest thing is.  Jesus is the sweetest thing!

(Dear one, I am so thankful that you know!)

Pippin and dumplings

Last night I ate someone I knew for the first time.  I had wondered how I would feel about this experience.  It was strange and yet good.  Didn't seem to bother the children or dh a bit.

Our rooster Pippin had been patiently waiting in the frig for his time.  Yesterday was his debut on the dinner table - his first but not last.  As I sampled the first bite before putting it on the table to make sure that it was salty enough and edible, I thought, "This is good.  It tastes like chicken and dumplings.", and it did and it does.

Cannibals we are not.  It is just odd to eat something that you fed and watered and watched and had eye contact with.  Something new.

Snow

Thanksgiving snow.  First day of December snow.  Putting up the Christmas tree snow.

I like snow.

Quiet, soft, whispering, falling, white, cold snow.