(We’re back from vacation — did you even notice I was gone? Vixen did! xxox WM)

I have no idea what day it is. We’re on vacation. Wait — lemme think. It’s Sunday, August 5th, sometime in the afternoon. We’re on a road trip. (more…)

I have a new post up at GNM. Hop on by.

xxox

WM

I love this cooky recipe cuz it’s no-bake. Elisabeth Hasselbeck melts wax with the chocolate, to make it shiny, but that is goofy. Use butter.

Buckeyes

2 cups creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1 pound sifted powdered sugar
3 cups Rice Krispies

For glaze:
12 ounces chocolate chips
12 ounces butterscotch chips (we prefer chocolate)

Directions:

Melt peanut butter and butter. Mix sugar and cereal and pour peanut butter mixture over. Blend together (may need to use hands) and form 1/2″ balls. Chill until firm.

Melt chips in double boiler. Dip candies in coating to cover (you’ll get your fingers in it, so be sure it’s just hot enough to melt but not hot enough to get burned). Place on waxed paper and chill or freeze.

This recipe makes 100 pieces. Bon appetit!

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me.”

— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Argh, we forgot to plant cucumbers this year! Did you?

I love this recipe — it’s from my friend M.D.

Refrigerator Pickles

7 c. sliced unpeeled cucumbers
1 c. thinly sliced onion
1 c. thinly sliced green peppers
1 t. salt
1 t. celery seed
1 c. vinegar
2 c. sugar

Mix vegetables, salt & celery seed. Mix vinegar and sugar and pour over vegetables. Mix well. Store in refrigerator 1 day,
tossing the vegetables occasionally.

Store in jars. (They stay crisp!)

Keeps in refrigerator approximately 1 year, after which pickles will lose quality.

Happy bumper crop!

Two from Katharine Hepburn:

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.”

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could;
Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a
spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

I love you for a lot of reasons, My Blog and BlogWorld.

1. I just found out that my auntie (my husband’s aunt) from Pittsburgh, Pa., and some of the women at her office read my blog! Hi Ladies (and Gents?) of Allegheny County! Leave me a comment. You can make up names (I did!), I don’t care. I am comment lover. (Me, as a child: “I’m dancing! Look at me! I’m siiiiiiiiiiinging, la la la…”) I am glad you’re here. (more…)

“I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. ‘The first thing,’ I said, ‘is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'”

— Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

I’ll have a new post up soon (sometime this morning, I’m hoping) at Grasshopper! Please leave me a comment if you stop by!

(Edited to say: It’s up!)

xxox

wm