birthday girl

Strawberry Shortcake Cake from the Pioneer Woman blog. I made this for my daughter with love for her birthday last year.

puppy

happy mother's day

taking a moment . . .

meditation is good medicine

my little gardener

from petunias . . . . to maple trees . . . . I have the best gardener . . . . .

Who says ?

using our cookie cutters . . . .

To all my MacCrystens, McCrystins and Christians

Happy St. Patrick's Day

No Cake - - just the facts

luv, luv!

luv . . .

I Heart Martha

one year . . . .

time flies . . . .

still dreamin' . . . since 1/30/2009

You too? Let's dance.

happy birthday jo . . . .

Life is . . . . .

N O T

just a skiff . . .

... but enough to close school for over a week now

challenge . . .

Starts today . . . . . check it out ! January - The Blood of Flowers (Anita Amirrezvani) February - Girls in Trucks (Katie Crouch) March - Montana 1948 (Larry Watson) April - A Homemade Life (Molly Wizenberg) May - The Coal Tattoo (Silas House) June - Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri) July - The Reserve (Russell Banks) August - Drop City (T.C. Boyle) September - An Irishman's Tale (Patti Lacy) October - Bread Alone (Judith Ryan Hendricks) November - An Irish Country Doctor (Patrick Taylor) December - Sundays at Tiffany's (James Patterson)

new years tradition

Dick Clark’s Corn Fritters

By: Dick Clark

Rating ():

• 4 Servings
• 
• Prep 10 min
• 
• Cook 15 min

Ingredients:

• One 15-ounce can creamed corn
• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup frozen corn, thawed
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• Salt and pepper
• ½ cup flour
• Cooking spray
• Unsalted butter, melted, for serving

Directions:

1. In a medium bowl, combine the creamed corn, eggs, frozen corn and sugar; season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle in the flour gradually, whisking constantly to avoid lumps, until just combined.

2. Spray a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Drop tablespoonfuls of the corn mixture into the pan to form small pancakes. Cook until lightly browned on both sides, about 2 minutes per side. Serve with the melted butter.

44? surely not . . . .

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller~

2010

getting cozy . . . .

too much ?

grandchildren make you freakin' crazy . . . . .

favorite from way back

my talented mother and sister

reading by the fire

Finished !

marthaish projects

My sister and I are doing a few projects before the holidays. I have listed four, and so did she, on our shootin sisters site . . .

but, oh, Laura is really trying to make me look bad, take a look at Wren Handmade

annual tonk

around the first of each december my son and his family host a "cousin christmas." Us old people get to go too. this year was fun and wild as usual . . . .

more snow

my beautiful niece has a beautiful daughter that started building our first snowman . . . of course, with the help of her big brothers . . .

first snow

we had one of those 24 hour snows early saturday morning and it was gone the next morning. it always snows on my leftover pumpkins . . . .

holiday craft

Gooble, gooble . . .

Why are Thanksgiving and Christmas so close together?

sdb

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential. Emilie Buchwald Amen !

The Finest

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts and we are never the same.

big sis

New Day

Exploring

These are giant puffball mushrooms. They grow in our woods from late summer to early fall. A single puffball can produce nine trillion spores! My granddaughter was thrilled with her find.