I had such a nice day today! I had lunch with some dear old friends. Spending time with your lifelong lady friends is just the best. Also, I saw across the restaurant some other old friends, stopped by and had a nice visit with them too. I also made some bread and finished this Day of the Dead spell book. I think I 'm done for the evening! The cool weather is coming soon and I can't wait!
We went to the annual Kinmundy Log Cabin Village craft fair today. It was a perfect overcast 72°, the crowd was enormous. We visited with friends, spent time in the swing at the old country store, tasted pickle lemonade, yes pickle, and it was surprisingly good. We had homemade butter, handmade ice cream, and just about saw a dog fight between some angry little terriers and two pitbulls. The pitbulls backed off and cowered behind the owner..the pitbulls were pure white and named Thelma and Louise..They were beautiful animals. Cathy Sue Parrish , tell Cecil thanks so much for the pecans, very kind of him. Anyway, it was a very fun day and enjoyed exploring the old cabins and live music. We are tired old people now. Hope you all had a great day too!
It's TBT once again...three generations of silly ladies...I think we were going to a wedding?
Happy Fall Ya'll! (Well, officially not until tonight, but still....it's finally here!)
I have been making pear sauce everyday for over a week. Bill's brother gave us a huge box of Keifer pears from their pear tree. They are known to be very hard, even when ripe and yes, they are, hard as a brick! They make great sauce though, no sugar needed, as they are very sweet, I only used cinnamon. Also, it's been so hot, didn't want to heat the house up, so just put them in the crockpot on low for 6 hours, cooled and into the freezer. That is why it took me so long, one batch a day.I think we are set for fresh tasting fruit until next summer. A shout out to the inventors of food processors, crockpots and immersion blenders! I couldn't have done it without you! (Well, I could have, but I am too lazy for that!
It's Throw Back Thursday...my mom was such a good sport. I always helped her find a costume for our Red Hat Halloween party and I jokingly told her I had bought a bat hat, she said bring it on...what a fun party! The tornado sirens were going off, the wind was a-blowin'..good times though! I miss my sweet mama so much..
Had supper at Steak'n Shake at Effingham, now that they have decided to be old school and use grass-fed waygu beef, fries cooked in beef tallow and cane sugar sodas...it was delicious. We had a date afternoon, looking at kitchen tiles and stainless steel sinks and picking up items we won in an on-line auction waaay out in the creek bottoms...home by 6:30...now that's what we old people call a good time.Bill...I don't know what to do with this goofball...
We had a little rain cloud come by and gave us a rainbow...I didn't enhance these photos at all, it wasn't very bright, but I was still pretty.
Tonight was our annual World Color Press/Salem Gravure reunion. The plant closed in 2000, so it's been quite a while, many have passed on, so we are grateful to still be able to get together and reconnect once a year. Many had already left when we decided to take this picture. What a great time we had! It's always a potluck, so there was lots of good food too
It's TBT...this photo sure makes me miss my youth..It's TBT...back in the day with no make-up, still had thick hair and no fat, 2003...good times at Carlyle Lake on a very hot summer day with Bill.
I finished my vintage Ravenswood family album. Since I made it for myself for my Halloween display thought I would share it with you all. Remember, it is supposed to look like something from the 1800's. I had to age it, beat it up and make it look like it was lost in a leaky attic for a century or two. It was a lot of work, but also great fun. I really needed some of those little corner things that were used to mount pictures and calligraphy pens to write the captions, but I did not have either of those things...so it is what it is.
