Fall is Here!!

Alright!! Fall is finally here! All the trees have changed to their new brilliant colors of gold and red, the pumpkins and squash are grown, and I am ready to start baking and decorating!
Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. I love Novemeber too. Going to the cider mills and having bon fires are great! Thanksgiving dinner is planned out long before November gets here in my family. Everyone trys to come up with a new recipe and some of the grand children want to make their first great dish!
Halloween is that special time of year we call Indian summer (Autum). Still warm enough to be outdoors with crisp fresh air. I think I still love crunching leaves as I walk just to feel like a kid. Raking up big pills of leaves to let the little ones and some of the bigger kids jump in and oh ya the smell of burning leaves !
If you would like to exchange recipies and decorating ideas please feel free to post here!!
Happy October to everyone!

Mother's Day is May 11!!!

Mother's Day is this Sunday May 11!
Besides some of the more traditional gifts such as candy, flowers and always a nice card! Try some personal touches from you.

Start her day with a great homemade breakfast, or breakfast at her favorite restaurant.

Some great gifts for mom would be a maid service for the day or even once a week for the month of May so you can spend more time together.(make sure she could handle it first, some Mom's don't like strangers in their house!) Or better yet do the cleaning yourself:)
Offer to clean out her garage or attic and possibly find hidden treasures.
Mother's Day is the day to put issues and other things aside and make special time for Mom. If your Mother is no longer here remember her in your own spsecial way, and if you and Mom are not on the best of terms..,you may know someone who is!special to you. Somethings can be such a misunderstanding that the issue has blocked the way. Either way be good to Mom and yourself Plan ahead and make it good!
Here's wishing every Mom a great thought and a great Day!

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I'll be there..Blogging

Well it has been almost two weeks since I have started this blog as well as a couple others. I am doing more research and re-research than I ever thought I would do. But I am so drawn to it and so involved. I love it! I am wondering why I didn't know about this before!Learning about adsence and others is still a great task. Because I don't really have computer lingo savvy. I am sorta hit and miss. Some of the things I add including this blog, go through but I have no Idea where they go or if they are going anywhere. All the tutorials I have read thus far make it sound so easy! I already have a collection of web addresses and websites to refer to. And yes they are very helpful until I get to my own page.., sometimes. I know it is very early after all, I'd never even heard of Blogging before a month or so ago so in that statement alone I think I have done very well! So I will keep reading , searching, testing and of course blogging! I feel I found a niche for myself. My Blog doesn't have technical stuff in it because I don't really know any. And I have noticed most of the blogs I have read are talking about great subjects until they say just blah blah blah,..blah blah..blah. Well that's how it reads for me right now. But I will catch up and I will be right there along side of some of you..blogging away..

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Keep it Clean

You may have noticed that my page is changing. I am still fine tuning some things. It can be quite dizzying with so many pictures to look at and choose from. But it is finally quiet here and I had some real time to look at Ideas for my page. Hope you like them.

We cleaned out our filled to the hilt garage the other weekend and not surprisingly found that over 75% of the stuff wont fit back in, so it is time for a garage sale..sell online and give away. Of course most of the things in the garage are not mine. I have a knack for being the person to store things for you because I have the room, or so I thought. I don't know how it was all in there, but it was! So I have had to gather everyone together to find out who wants to keep what and WHY?! I am definitely not good at holding a garage sale. Or I should say I've never really had one of my own. In fact I really have no clue on how much something should cost at a garage sale. I have noticed that if I have had something to sell, the person buying suddenly becomes an expert on what ever it is I am selling and then the price I have drops below half of the already give away price I thought I had it at! I guess I should just be glad to have a clean garage and let it go to someone else's garage. Until one of us goes and buys it back again and it returns.

Getting ready for planting

I planted all my seeds for my herb and vegetable garden. I am big on organic gardening and plan very carefully. Sometimes the garden looks so good I hate to pick anything but I am always so happy once everything has sprouted up and is ready for picking. I have so many herbs I almost have no need to buy anything from the market.

Thanks Darren Rowse's Problogger

I would suggest that anyone wanting to start a blog of any kind personal or professional business Problogger is a great place to start. It is easy to read and started by some one just like me who had no experience when he began. As a first time blogger, I must admit I didn't think I would make it this far. I spent days reading for hours trying to understand what this was all about. Once I thought I got it, I would stumble on stuff. Then I had another 3 day stall just trying to figure out how to add something.
So I must say I am proud of myself for this site. With information from the http://problogger.com/ my knowledge is growing and fast. I have read almost all of the pages there are on Darren's site and It has helped me more than I thought possible. Thank You Darren for not holding any secrets and being so honest and explaining things so well even I was able to understand!

some like it Hot

Well let me start by saying yesterday (Friday) was ... different. Around 3:00p.m. we lost power due to a transformer blow out or something, leaving over 2500 people from my town and area with no electricity for about 9 hours. It was a beautiful day and we had great weather so no one was really too worried because we were outside and enjoying the day. Our next door neighbor was getting ready for a prom party in their backyard and the family across the street had about 15 kids drive off in their cars to go to the prom.
Then as an hour or so passed we realized we had better find candles and make sure we had drinks and what ever else we may need. Now losing the power isn't all too bad, but I live with a well and septic which means no flushing toilets and no water without a hand pump. Since our local gas station was also closed, we didn't want to chance going to the next town for gas in case they were without power also. We were not really affected, my son and my granddaughters and I were outside, It was a nice starry night. We built a nice fire in our fire pit, the kids had hot dogs and S'more's, I lite garden candles on a path from the back of the yard to the house and around the porch steps so no one would get hurt. ( we are on a couple of acre's )
But my daughter who can't go 20 minutes or more without coffee stayed in as she was putting her 22 month old son to bed, found her own way to make that cup of coffee!
When I came in the house for a pit stop I found her at the kitchen table. She had a deep bowl with candles in it and used one of my cool racks for baking to put over the bowl and had a small pot of water on it. I asked what she was doing and she told me "well I tried to make a cup of coffee hot enough to drink with this set up and it worked so I thought I would make myself enough hot water for more." And that she did ... my son and the kids all had hot chocolate with her hot water set up!!
Then around 12:30 a.m. the power was back on. I was surprised to hear my daughter say "I was enjoying our family camping out, All I need is Hot coffee and I'm good."

New blogger

Hi Everyone,

I am a new blogger and learning as I go, so I hope you can bear with me. I've created this section to share some of my love for cooking and baking. As I grow and go I hope to hear from some of you. I will be sharing tips, as well as recipe's and Idea's. Though I am not a professional cook or baker outside my home, I have many years of tried and true kitchen experience.
I am the mother of three grown children and grandmother of 7 beautiful grandchildren, with my first great-grandchild coming soon this August!!! We all cook in my family and love cooking together! Though some are still learning, My oldest granddaughter is a Pastry Chef!



Thought I would show some pictures of my ever growing family.

My youngest son Jason his wife Beth grandson Max granddaughter Micaela, and my sister Chris

granddaughters' Theresa (left) Halli (right) and their new baby brother Freddy in 2006

My granddaughter Cherie in 2007