REMEMBER HER ?

The sweet little MOURNING DOVE that built her nest in my hubby's welding rig?

EDITED to change MORNING to MOURNING.
Thank you, sweet DEENA

Then, she flew away for whatever reason, leaving this beautiful, LARGE egg....

You will have to click on the picture to enlarge to see the little BABY MORNING DOVE....

The mother flew off again and I quickly snapped this picture thru the window...I was afraid to come to close to the nest for fear the mom might not come back....

She DID and she is still keeping her baby warm and close.

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I am wondering if you saw this movie and....if so.....

what did you think about it??

BLESSED and HAPPY SATURDAY.....

love, bj

"C" is for COOKIE

My lowly, pitiful cookie jar REALLY looks pitiful compared to the following cuties................

This fabulous collection of COOKIE JARS belongs to my friend, HELEN.

She has a site on RATE MY SPACE under the name of livebold in case you would like to go over and take a look at her pretty home.....

She graciously agreed to let me SHOW OFF her magnificent collection and proving there is MORE TO A COOKIE JAR THAN MEETS THE EYE !!

I THANK YOU, HELEN.



A little PIG....what an appropriate SHAPE for a cookie jar....tee hee.....

I love the color of sunshine on this one.......

Is this a little MOUSE IN THE COOKIE JAR ?? Another little PIGGY?

A carousal......soooo cute, Helen......

This COULD be a gingerbread house.......

I think this is my favorite....I just love it.

(AMANDA, I know you like CUPCAKES so if this one comes up missing..........)

If you haven't seen AMANDA'S cute cupcake kitchen, you should go over and take a look....so cute!

I guess this fella likes burgers AND cookies !?!?

Bet he's thinkin' there may be DOG BISCUITS in here.....

The wise, old owl, guarding his stash, I guess !

Many thanks to LINDA for allowing me to share her great collection......

Now...I am off to see if I can find a CUTE cookie jar and put noodles or something in the jar I am now using!!

HAVE SOME COOKIES TODAY......

HUGS, bj

THESE ARE SOOO GOOD....

Have you tried these crackers? And..... are they NEW?

I just found them in the grocery store THIS WEEK and....I'm in LUV !

They are just delicious and they are BIG for a cracker......

Not having a dip on hand, nor the ingredients needed to MAKE one, I added chopped pecans to some CREAM CHEESE and .......YUMMY !

AND...I must say they REALLY taste good with a glass of the VINO !

If you like a sweet, white wine and you've not tried this one....RUN...DON'T WALK to the nearest wine store and give yourself a treat deluxe !!

SISTER CREEK VINEYARDS

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

MUSCAT CANELLI
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DELICIOUSSSSSSSSSS

~ FUDGE ~ *sigh....

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CANDY..... I love candy....especially.............

FUDGE

There's not too many things I love more than FUDGE.....


GOD.
FAMILY...
JOHNNY CASH...

We made this candy all the time when I was growing up, just my mom and I.

We always had such a good time together while making it....I am thinking that's one reason I still like it so much.....

....a comfort food......

.... thoughts of my little mother.

I would LOVE to make it just one more time...with her......

I am OLD...but believe me, you NEVER get too old to miss your mom and dad !


The smell of chocolate filled the entire house back then....and still does today. I never smell chocolate, especially hot, bubbly chocolate, that I don't think of my childhood and my mother.....


......and the friend that lived across the alley that joined me almost every weekend, during Jr.High, to spend the night and....make FUDGE.



This particular recipe actually is for FUDGE ICING....and it makes a fabulous icing if you stop beating it before it gets very thick. In fact, it is my FAVORITE icing for a white cake..... well, for ANY cake, but MY favorite dessert is WHITE cake with Real FUDGE icing.

I was after CANDY this time, tho, so I beat it until it became quite thick. You have to be careful because it can get TOO thick and then it isn't creamy any longer.


This recipe makes a TINY bit of candy so if you are SERIOUS about making FUDGE, try another recipe or double this one.....

If I am making fudge BIG TIME, I use the recipe that was on the cans of HERSHEY'S COCOA years ago......

AND....

I STILL like to "lick" the beaters.......:o)



It's still too hot to cut and it is so full of pecans, I may not can cut it very straight....
....DOES ANYBODY CARE if it's cut straight??

.....Not around here, they don't !! All we can think about is getting a piece small enuf to fit in our mouth..straight or not!

Some people like pecans in their fudge....

we like fudge in our pecans !!

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FUDGE ICING

~ double this recipe for a two layer cake or a sheet cake ~

1/2 cup each of BUTTER, MILK & COCO

2 CUPS SUGAR

A medium boil for 7-8 minutes

Add capful of Vanilla

Beat to desired consistency *

ADD PECANS

* Again, be very careful while beating as it goes from liquid to THICK in a heartbeat...

I would love to have more recipes for fudge....if you have a good one, would you send it to me? Then, I can have a FUDGE TASTING PARTY for my grandkids and they will THANK YOU profusley! ;>)

HAVE A DAY FULL OF CHOCOLATE !!

I love you all.....

bj

We SHOPPED TIL WE DROPPED.......

THREE granddaughters, a SATURDAY afternoon and a .................

MALL !!!

EVERYONE knows that when you are planning a HUGH shopping day, you MUST start the day with plenty of good FUEL for the trip.....

We decided CHEESY SCRAMBLED EGGS would fit the bill and get us on our way !

Just for the health kick needed, we added some LIGHT & FIT yogurt.... (actually, they would have preferred a cinnamon roll, I'm pretty sure!)

The very first things found were REALLY brightly colored shirts, shorts, skirts...and a little cloth doll with bright PINK hair.....

The shirts were so cute....but DEEDS decided this doll with the PINK hair is still the cutest ! "OK, little one....I get the message!"

GOSH.....I think she is in LUV

You know how SHOPPING brings on THIRST...We had quite a few of these on this shopping day ....

Then we found a store that had the CUTEST sunglasses....

After trying on EVERY pair in the shop (OF COURSE !)...

.....we chose the ones we wanted and headed for a bench to gather strength for another round.....

And, just around a corner, there sit a man making the NEATEST things out of balloons ....

This little brown "thing" was supposed to be a horse and it WAS cute....

but in this picture, I am afraid it looks more like what the horse might have LEFT BEHIND !!!

.....and a beautiful SNOW WHITE DOVE......

A long-tailed, little MONKEY...

The best part of THESE purchases was that all of the money went to fund a Mission Trip to .....wherever needed........to help put back together lives of little people much less fortunate than OUR children.

I LOVE this kind of spending ! And I give Glory to God for having these kind people spend their time and caring enough to be doing these things for others.

Coming across this colorful sign in the candy store reminded us we needed.....

L.U.N.C.H.......

before having our "SUNSHINE" of the day.

AND, besides all that.....we were needing ANOTHER one of these ! I tell you...shopping makes you THIRSTY....especially when you are 10 and 6 !!

....and, some of these....with plenty of ketchup.

"Their futures so bright, they had to wear shades !"

The CHEESE BURGERS here were fabulous...and so were the CHICKEN STRIPS.

BY THIS TIME....I am seeing SPOTS before my eyes....

NOOO....wait a minute.....these are the cutest new flip flops the girls located in a precious store geared JUST FOR KIDS......

(I even tried to SQUEEZE my foot into one of these cute things but..... *sigh

THIS is the way my bed looked when we left for the great shopping day....

all 3 girls AND myself slept here....well, 3 girls slept and a Memaw tossed a lot....:)

And, nobody has time to spare when they are planning an all-day outing so making a bed was the LAST thing on our minds....

By the time we got home....I was totally glad to see this unmade bed....

It just meant I didn't have to waste time pulling back my covers before I fell into it

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

WHAT A DAY....WHAT A BLESSING....WHAT A MEMORY !

love and blessings to my sweet blogger friends,

bj