Happy Thanksgiving!

Apparently, Harry is thinking about his Thanksgiving Dinner")

Have a lovely day!

-Mug

We went to NYC in April.......and guess who we saw?!

In every job that must be done ...

...There is an element of fun.

Just find the fun...and SNAP!

The job's a game:)

And every task you undertake...

Becomes a piece of cake...

A lark...

A spree...

It's very clear to see...

That...a....spoon full of sugar

Helps the medicine go down

The medicine go dow-ow-n

The medicine go down...

Just...a...spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down

In a most de-light-ful way!:)

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine..."

-Ps 17:22

Have a lovely day!

-Mug

WHAT'S IN A CANNISTER?

I alternate using these according to mood, but use one or the other just about every day. The Cinch is great mixed with milk and a banana; the soy protein is good mixed into any juice or sprinkled over cereal.

The plastic containers are sturdy with screw-on tops, and, best of all, the label peels off easily and completely! My husband uses the empty ones for nails, screws, et cetera, and we use one for used coffee grounds (to put around our plants), but the containers were still piling up.....until I decided to paint them, attach these labels, amd use them for my baking cannisters! The next empty one will hold sugar, I'm thinking:)

P.S. I've found some great recipes in Cooking Light magazine for variations of banana bread using ground flax.....and I usually substitute whole wheat flour (ww flour on the cannister) for white flour (3/4 cups ww to 1 cup white).

Have a lovely day!

-Mug

THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

This house

surrounded by cotton fields

sits by the side of Highway 51, the road I (and many others) take "going to town" as we country folk say when we, well, ...go to town.

A favorite little poem of my late father's came to mind:

The House by the Side of the Road

by Sam Walter

Let me live in my house by the side of the road,

Where the race of men go by -

They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong,

Wise, foolish - so am I.

Then why should I sit in th scorner's seat,

Or hurl the cynic's ban?

Let me live in my house by the side of the road,

And be a friend to man.

Have a lovely day!

-Mug

ALL FOR THE SAKE OF AUBURN FOOTBALL...

Because we live 25 miles from the nearest town/city, we cannot get cable tv, so we have Directv.

IF we lived in town, we would also have local channels...even with Directv...and even with the crazy digital "stuff" that makes converter boxes, etc. necessary for television viewing for many folks.

Not even converter boxes worked with us.

Well, last year, we decided to get Directv's Game Plan just for the sake of watching Auburn football games. But alas...we were not able to watch a single AU football game if it was aired on local TV because local TV or maybe Game Plan didn't allow it. For Heaven's Sake....the local games were what we wanted to watch! We could get all of the others on ESPN....aarghh!

Once ordered, Game Plan could not be UN-ordered......we did not read the fine print:(...

so we got nothing for our money!

This past Saturday morning, Hubby decided we were going to Radio Shack and get something...anything...so that we could watch the Auburn/LSU game.

This is what we came home with.

The size of the box should have been our first clue.....

Hubby wanted to put it together inside before he tried to put it in the attic or on the roof. He wanted to be sure it would work....and he wanted to make sure of this in time for THE game at 2:30 P.M.

Too bad I didn't think to take pictures of the assembling....and the facial expressions and exclamations as the thing grew....and grew.....and grew....

Hubby got to watch THE game...UNDER his antennae...

In fact, he wanted to invite others to come sit under the antennae and watch the game .:)

There's no way this antennae's going out the doors or up the stairs without taking it apart.

I'm afraid I' m stuck with this piece of modern folk art until football season is over...Hubby even mentioned that we could forego a Christmas tree and just decorate this:(

The table the sculpture is now sitting on used to be here...in fact, we ate supper here the night before.

The tripod it sits upon once held a small satellite dish.

All for the sake of football....

Have a lovely day!

-Mug

P.S. I surely am handling this well, aren't I .... It's a little frightening how calm I've been ..... It must be the 33 years I've been married to this man....I'm finally learning to...what?...Love him in spite of himself?...Be thankful we have a large room?

I DID enjoy watching the game:)

I walked a mile with Pleasure,

She chattered all the way;

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow,

And ne'er a word said she;

But, oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me.

-anonymous

Dr. Vincent tells of being in a great hothouse where luscious clusters of grapes were hanging on every side. The owner said, "When my new gardener came, he said he would have nothing to do with these unless he could cut them clean down to the stalk; and he did, and we had no more grapes for two years...., but this is the result."

-from Streams in the Desert

by L. B. Cowman

original copyright 1925

Have a lovely day!

-Mug

Grandmommy's Quilts

I found these in a cute 60's style cedar chest that belonged to my in-laws. I recognize some of this material from placemats, stool covers, and napkins that my mother-in-law apparently made.

The pieces on these quilts look like they were hand-sewn.

Such treasures.....now if I can just make myself sit down and mend the few pieces that are beginning to unravel....and put a backing on each quilt, each of my children will have a wonderful keepsake to pass on to their children:)

This one is my personal favorite.

I think I will try to find the same shade of blue to back it with.

Have a lovely day!

-Mug