from the Travel Files:

8 o’clock p.m., Sunday Aug. 5th:

We’re still in Twin Falls, Idaho. We drove out to Shoshone Falls this afternoon, after swimming and hot-tubbing at the hotel. Yeah, this vacation is pretty rough so far… Kidding! I’m loving this.

The falls are called “The Western Niagra” — only taller, and with more water. It’s the site of “Evil Knivel’s ill-fated attempt to jump the river on a rocket bike.” Wow! We took lots of pix, ran around after the kids, and I spent a lot of time sucking in my breath because damn — don’t look down! My son insisted we pick him up and hold him up high so he could see the view. Wacky Boy: “#!$@! railings!” That was a little nerve-wracking, but we were careful not to go anywhere near the edge of the platforms. At one of the landings, a newer one, you could see where the old landing used to be before part of the cliff crumbled away. Yikes.

Afterward we went by Winco to get some TV dinners for the kids, and I overheard this conversation:

One guy to the other: “So, where are you now, anyway?”
Other guy, who’s wearing an Amish-style hat and has his arm in a sling: “I’m working for the City of Ketchum. I quit cowboying a couple of years ago.”

A real-life cowboy, right there in the soup aisle! I almost took his picture to post on Flickr but you know. Then they would have figured out I was a tourist.

All for now,

WM

Wacky Girl’s song from 5/14/02 (age 2 1/2):

“Mommy says no/
me say YES!/
Mommy says no/
me say YES!”

(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…)