Brief Remarks

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

tree — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:57:46 +0000

Can you believe it? It’s 2009! I saw on the TV that Wall Street had a up day for the first day open for the new year. They said, Liza Minnelli rang the bell, and it was fitting since she was the one that sang “Money is what makes the world go around”. Also, they said that the first open day of the new year usually sets the tone for the rest of the year. I sure hope that sticks this year, because they pointed out that the first day of 2008 was lousy and we all know how last year went.

Tree

Ho Ho Ho!

lindycat — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:08:30 +0000

Well, today is Christmas something… I have trouble remembering if it’s Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day. All I know for sure, is that tonight’s the night Santa is coming around. I hope I get a hermit crab!

Probably not… I don’t think his elves can make animals… can they? Is there anyone that’s ever gotten an animal from Santa before? Hmm… I wonder..

Yikes! the snow just keeps gettin’ higher and higher! I heard that on the west coast there was a storm.. I think around Oregon. I hope everyone’s alright. On the roads over here, everyone slipping and sliding. It’s sooo slippery! I remember that a few years back the roads got so icy by my house, that a lot of people got together and belly-slid across the street! It was very fun- but it was a very non busy road of course. Don’t want to give anybody ideas..

I wonder what type of cookies everyone makes for Santa. I make the typical sugar cookies. I save the other types for myself>.< I like gingerbread, Chocolate chip, and a lot of other kinds.. I watched a move the other night about Santa, and there were a lot of different kinds of cookies. Some I wouldn’t even suspect! I wonder if Santa gets other sweets like cakes and pies, too. I would be so tired after a night of eating so many sweets, i can see why he does it only once a year.

I finally figured out why he’s supposedly makes all the present trips in one night! There’s time zones! I guess it makes sense, but he’d only be able to go around in a certain direction, right? It’s kind of confusing, because he’d still have to go reaaaaly fast. oh well.

I hope it doesn’t snow any more tonight…. It would make it hard for people to go to people’s houses and have a happy Christmas. I have friends that go to other family houses and eat around four dinners a night! That would seem a little much food. If I did that, I probably wouldn’t make it past the second! I wonder how they do it. I just stay cozy at home for Christmas with my family ^.^

I ho-ho-hope everybody has some happy holidays!

lindycat~

Perfect Game For Gifts

tree — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:23:43 +0000

Hurray! Online purchasing of the award winning board game “Icosagame” just got easier with paypal added to the payment process. This is a wonderful board game our whole family loves to play! The kids even play with friends at school, which is great because of the educational nature of it. You can actually pick it up and take it with you to share with friends and family, and no TV or computer required. I think people enjoy the hands on the Icosagame provides. Yes, two games went out the door and off to school wrapped in holiday style just this morning. One for a high school math teacher and the other for a fourth grade teacher.

Tree

Winter?

tree — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:14:24 +0000

Gee…when does Winter start? After this weekends “winter storm warnings”, and blizzard like conditions in most of the state, our county and surrounding counties have issued a wind chill advisory that sends chills down my spine just reading about it. It reads like this, “Gusty winds will cause blowing and drifting of snow through Monday morning. Much colder temperatures will combine with the gusty winds to cause dangerous wind chill temperatures of 25 to 35 below zero late tonight and Monday morning. A wind chill advisory means a combination of bitterly cold arctic air and brisk winds will create dangerously cold wind chill values. If you must venture outdoors … be sure to cover all exposed flesh as any exposed flesh can freeze in 15 to 25 minutes with wind chill values from 25 below to 40 below. This may result in frost bite and hypothermia if precautions are not taken.” It sounds to me like a really good day to stay inside and bake holiday cookies!

Tree

5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

tree — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:47:04 +0000

Yummmy…take a look at this! Someone just sent this to me in a email, and I might have to try this. I know the kids will all want to make their own as soon as they see this. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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5 minute chocolate mug cake

For those of you who still use a microwave..…..

1 Coffee Mug (large mug)
4 tablespoons flour(that’s plain flour, not self-rising)
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
some nuts (optional)
Small splash of vanilla

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.

Add the egg and mix thoroughly.

Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.

Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla, and mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes on high.
The
cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to share!)

And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because
now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of
the day or night!

Scam…UBI

tree — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:46:44 +0000

I have received a letter from UBI Payment Services, that says I am guaranteed to receive $5,000.00 if…., and is dated “September 11″, thats a little creepy! I quickly spotted “Singapore” on the sending envelope, and “Australia” on the return envelope. They begin by saying “This is a very important statement”, I think of a statement as a bill I pay, unless it says Credit Statement, so my first question is “how much is this going to cost me?”. I do not see the word credit anywhere! As for the puzzle of skill…lol…20+5= 25 21 23 hmmm lets see hmmm…insult! Oh, and why do they require my signature? Ahh…sign to agree to let them send me alot of unwanted junk mail, thats what they are saying in not so fine print on the back of letter, but very, very faint print on the back of the letter. It is so faint you hardly notice it’s there. Yes, this has SCAM written all over it!!!

Tree

October 1st

tree — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:53:12 +0000

Can you believe it? It’s already October 1st, 2008! What happened to September? I just looked up at the calendar and realized I need to print out a October page. I really like the fact that I can go online to www.calendarwerks.com and print a page of a month as needed, and even a whole year if I so choose. It’s pretty cool!

Tree

FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN!!!

tree — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:38:40 +0000

It is finally, officially, the calendar says so AUTUMN!

September 22 marks the Autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere and the spring in the southern hemisphere. Day and night are considered to be near equal in length at the equinox. The term equinox comes from the Latin aequus, which means equal.

Tree

Has Summer Ended?

tree — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:46:55 +0000

It has suddenly felt more like Autumn than Summer this last week. I have mentioned this to a few other people in the last couple of days, and they said they were noticing the same thing. The last few years in late August it seems more like Autumn…it just feels different and even smells different.

I really do wonder if our seasons are shifting back a month or so.

Tree

THANK YOU ALL!!!

tree — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:48:03 +0000

Wow, this blog is 1 year and 15 days old and comes up number 1 on Google search. I would like to thank everyone who continues to contribute great writing and very interesting content. You are the ones that make this so much fun with all the questions, answers, ideas and much more.

So, in all my glee I here by say to you, “Thank You, for all your support and help!”

Tree

Pressed Leaf Placemat

tree — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:55:22 +0000

I remember making these when I was in about second grade with dried and pressed flowers, a good springtime look. I think the kids will enjoy this project for lovely autumn table settings. HHmmm… Maybe send a set to Grandma’s house.

PRESSED LEAF PLACEMAT

Leaves

Wax paper

Iron

Towel

Measure an approximate size for your placemat. You’ll need two sheets of wax paper per placemat. Cut, measure and set aside. Gather your leaves. Place one sheet of wax paper (wax side up) on your work surface. Add leaves at will, no more than one layer thick. Add top layer of wax paper, wax side down.

Place a thin towel over your arrangement. Using an iron set on low, slowly and carefully press the iron into the placemat and glide across surface. Repeat after flipping placemat over. Allow to cool.

Trim edges and enjoy!

Produce

lindycat — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:36:40 +0000

I love my oranges and plumbs. But I wish they were fresh in the same season! Peaches are looking really bad in the stores, and oranges look even worse. I know, I know. Not the best time of year. I’m happy that cherries and plumbs are back in season, and apples seem to be too. But I have a craving for oranges… Vitamin C power!!! (You know tomatoes have more vitamin C than oranges? Cool, I know. If only I liked them!)

Have you ever tried star fruit? I haven’t. It looks kinda good. Which strangely brings me to cantaloupe. Cantaloupe doesn’t look bad, so I think it’s in season over here, too. And if cantaloupe is in season, that means honey dew is too! I LOVE honey dew. It tastes sort of like cantaloupe, but it’s different… and green! Other green produce I know of is avocados! They are great in guacamole. I love guacamole with nachos, but the last time I was at the store, they looked kinda… bad.

Well, blueberries are produce too. Right? Anyway, they were moldy, but I love them, so I searched and searched until I found a container without mold… It was surprisingly hard! I’m just happy the strawberries are looking okay. I wish prices would go down, then I could eat them more often.

What I learned is that produce is good for you, and seasons matter when it comes to produce. So you can stay balanced and not have too much of let’s say… oranges. Nobody wants orange hair from eating too many

In The Yard

tree — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:27:43 +0000

Gee…I sure am happy with my new cordless lawn mower, it works great! Now that I have my garden ready for plants I need to go and find some plants to plant. I think I’ll plant starts this year and maybe try starting from seed next year. Between the weather and the time it took clearing a garden area, which was a lot of work this year, but should be a lot easier next year. It looks to me we will still come out ahead $$$money wise and health wise buying starter plants this year.

Summer at last!

tree — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:24:37 +0000

Yes, today is the first day of summer and the longest day of sunlight for those in the northern hemisphere. I just love it. Every thing is green and blooming again. The birds are out and cheerfully eating as many bugs as they can…go birds!

Organic Apples

tree — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:39:03 +0000

I was informed by my youngest, that they ate the last organic gala apple and that I needed to go buy more. Well, we went to the store today and began to pick out a good bag of organic apples, but then noticed the price had jumped from $4 something to $7 something and the apples looked a little under the weather. While I was looking at the apples they were drooling over organic strawberries…they were $7 almost $8.00 for one container. Ouch…no strawberries today either. I think we need to plant apples trees and grow some strawberries.

Tree