Flipping through the cable channels I came upon the Food Network. Have you seen Paula Deen’s cooking show? She is a wonderful cooking show hostess – a great personality and charming in a totally Southern Belle way. I’ve bought two of her cookbooks and one of her magazines. I think I’m going to just subscribe to her magazine – I love the recipes and the photographs that show me what the finished dish is supposed to look like. And everything turns out yummy!
Paula’s two sons cook, too. They have a couple of cookbooks out on their own. I bought one at Sam’s Club and will go back for the other one next week. I bought the one called “Recipes from the Road,” which features the local recipes from famous eateries on their road trip across America. I can’t wait to try some of them after I shop for their ingredients!
Around Here, Foodie, Shopping
How many adults have a box of crayons in their homes?
I do – I have a small box of 8 of the fat crayons for preschoolers and a big box of the regular crayons in 64 different colors. We break them out of the crafts box when kids come over for a visit.
I can teach young ones how to draw several different flowers with stems and leaves, a duck and a rabbit. My grandmother taught me how to draw a pansy – they were her favorite flowers- when I was just a little kid.
We keep an assortment of coloring books on hand, but to me the biggest challenge about coloring is facing a blank sheet of paper and thinking up something to draw.
I hope some day in the future a grown kid will think of me and the flowers and animals I taught him or her how to draw.
Family, General Living, Just for Fun, Memories
The youngest of my brothers is having a birthday today. Happy birthday, bro!
I still remember my mom being pregnant with him and the night she left the house in a hurry to get to the hospital. Back in those days, new mothers were kept in the hospital for a week to be watched over and cared for by the nurses. Of course, in today’s world you can leave the same or next day. But back then she stayed for a week and the whole house felt empty without her.
He was a good kid – all boy. Loved to get outside and ride bikes, play in the dirt or take a small boat out to the river for hours at a time. Got in trouble a few times, but learned his lessons.
In many ways he’s the exact opposite of me. He’s a super tightwad and I give away everything to those in need. He works at the same thing, over and over and over. I flit around doing one thing now and something else next. He’s lived in the same place his whole life. I move about and love to travel. He’s very finicky about what he eats and drinks. I love variety and trying new things, always cooking up new recipes that sound good or catch my eye on a magazine cover at the checkout counter.
He’s never had any of his own kids, but he’s got a good woman at his side and he’s been a father figure to her two kids for a long time – the only real father those kids have known. I’m proud of him for all he’s accomplished and for being a hard working, loyal man. Happy Birthday, Lil Bro!
Celebrations, Family, Memories
Ever since I started earning a paycheck and having to pay taxes – not necessarily at the same moment in time – I decided to not file my tax forms or pay any tax due until the last possible minute. A passive protest, of sorts.
So every April 15, I have the tax forms filled out and sitting in an envelope ready to mail – but I don’t leave for the post office until 11:00 pm. The forms always get their deadline postmark of April 15, and I get the smug satisfaction that my return is included in the avalanche of last minute mailed returns that hit the IRS inbox on April 16 or 17 or whatever it takes to get from Nashville to Memphis or wherever they have to go these days.
Around Here, General Living
There is something magical about putting together a kite and then watching it dance on the wind. Most people can figure out pretty quickly how to tug the string and launch a kite, then give it a little more string to soar higher and higher.
We found a new kite at the local K-Mart called a “finger kite” for only $2 in the toy section. They are little pieces of flexible plastic, shaped like airplanes, birds and other animals. It comes with a little plastic spool of string that fits over your finger and you wind it up by hand. The kite tail is very long and made out of the same thing that cassette tapes are made from, but in different colors. In fact, if you ever have to replace the kite tail, just pull the tape from an old cassette and tape it on the finger kite, and you are good to go.
Around Here, Family, Just for Fun, Shopping
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