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Showing posts with label family dinners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family dinners. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

News from Weed.........


We have had a good week............
continuing to open more boxes and find either treasures
we cannot live without or stuff we need to give away!
Meanwhile, the weather continues to entertain us with
a variety of winds and snowfall combined with some
sunshine here and there. Next week the weather is supposed
to get warmer and sunnier.
All the while we marvel over how lucky we were when we moved.
We had two solid weeks of warm sunny days which made it
so much easier for the movers and us!
Soon we will be able to start working outdoors on our
vegetable garden and changing the landscaping a bit.
Over time I would like to replace the lawn with woolythyme
and start putting in lavender, rosemary and Russian sage.
Supposedly the deer and bunny rabbits don't like these herbs.
We shall see!






During the last snowstorm I found this "bunny" shaped snow clump .





The trees have snow stuck to them like a snake skin.
As the sun comes up they will shed this snow.....






I'm still making cookies-this time Ewana's Molasses Gingersnaps....yummy


and of course we are enjoying our dinners with
fresh bread, wine and each other.
Bon appetit everyone!


Thursday, January 26, 2012

Happy Birthday Grace!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRACE!one of Russell's famous self-portrait above
photo below was taken at Hart Mountains hot spring
where we spent time over 4 summers helping remove
barb wire fencing with the Mazamas.

It's Grace's birthday and I wanted to thank my sweetie-pie.
Without Russell I would never have had such a happy life
and wonderful memories of all the fun family times
we have had with Grace.
For some great historic photos of Grace go here:

http://kathewordaday.blogspot.com/2012/01/word-26.html
and here: http://kathewsnapaday.blogspot.com/







Thursday, September 02, 2010

Magpie #30


Three for the price of one! I love this simple image of

a bitten apple carelessly left on a magazine page...

and being me I wrote three ...you choose which one you

like and if you have the time-let me know.

And once again, thanks Willow for this venue!



Memories

Apples, apples apples.

Mere images of apples

Make my mouth water

And my mind wanders

To our past family dinners

With pork roasts and applesauce

And spicy hot apple cider

Warming cold hands returning

from snowball fights or walks at night

And best of all the Dutch Apple Pie

That I now make while remembering

Christmases past

While looking forward to today.


Apple Haiku #1


Crunchy bites

Sticky juice drips down my chin

Crisp delight


Apple Haiku #2


Cold hands grasp

Warm mugs of apple cider

Spiced with love



Pauls's favorite Dutch Apple Pie

Below is a photo of the recipe-

click on the photo to enlarge so you can read it! I use parchment paper on the bottom
and the sides of the springform pan. That way nothing sticks! Very rich and yummy.