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Monday, November 26, 2012

whip up some chex mix!






this is cowboy mix
(jelly beans,candy corn, boston baked beans, burnt peanuts)

i also add raisins...
not everyone likes them but they are my favorite...

wouldn't be the holidays without it!!!!
great for watching football and decorating the christmas tree...


plus...i always add a couple of extra tablespoons of worcestershire sauce because matt likes it extra flavorful:)


bye...
more later...


Saturday, November 24, 2012

"what good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?"

  
 "To smell the air.

 Taste water.

 Read a newspaper.

 To lie.

 Through your teeth. To feed the dog.

 Touch her hair.

 What are you waiting for?" 


When guardian angel Seth (Nicolas Cage) -- who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles -- becomes captivated by Maggie (Meg Ryan), 
a strong-willed heart surgeon, 
he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. 
The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth in this fantasy based on German director Wim Wenders's 1987 film, 
Wings of Desire.


click on the arrow below for a look at the original movie trailer





"Can I ask you something?

 Yes?

 What did you like best?
  
Pajamas."

kinda like our book...


hope you are enjoying this series...
i am on book three...


bye...
more later...

Friday, November 23, 2012

"i have been tagged as a walnut"


“A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays—when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?” George Orwell


i don't agree with george orwell about the grandchildren part but i do have a walnut issue...


my neighbors have a huge walnut tree.
it's quite beautiful in the summer and provides lots of shade in our backyard...
however, 
in the fall it drops oh so many walnuts on our yard...
i hate it...
sort of...
the last couple of years i have collected them instead of discarding them (along with a few choice bad words)
i have turned over a new leaf so to speak...

and they are yummy!
and i have oodles!!!



and here is what i made...





i used grandma j's recipe

 in the corner she added a little note that said 
"very good"
and they were!!!


 i did use the wrong pan though and they took longer to bake so make sure you use the right pan...


(i'm guessing that we would call these "blonde brownies")

matt loved them:)


bye...
more later...



Friday, November 16, 2012

"i'm not supposed to be here."

"this isn't going to work. you're playing football with a bunch of butlers!"



A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an over-anxious angel before he was supposed to die, comes back to life in the body of a recently-murdered millionaire

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident.
An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen.
His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> 

this movie is so great and has an awesome cast:
warren beatty
julie christie
jack warden
charles grodin
dyan cannon

guys will probably love it...
it's a football movie!...

it's available on netflix:)
 


"the likelihood of one individual being right increases
in direct proportion to the intensity with which others are trying to prove him wrong."

hope you having a good november...

bye...
more later...

Thursday, November 8, 2012

the thirteenth tale


“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

i have to say...

of all the books that we have read, this is the 
one that made me wish we had the opportunity to meet and talk about. 
it was really good and dallys and i kept calling each other and saying "where are you at?"

it would make a very interesting discussion.

here is a summary from goodreads

Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father’s antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and she wants Margaret to be the one to capture her history. The request takes Margaret by surprise—she doesn’t know the author, nor has she read any of Miss Winter’s dozens of novels.

Late one night while pondering whether to accept the task of recording Miss Winter’s personal story, Margaret begins to read her father’s rare copy of Miss Winter’s Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation. She is spellbound by the stories and confused when she realizes the book only contains twelve stories. Where is the thirteenth tale? Intrigued, Margaret agrees to meet Miss Winter and act as her biographer.
As Vida Winter unfolds her story, she shares with Margaret the dark family secrets that she has long kept hidden as she remembers her days at Angelfield, the now burnt-out estate that was her childhood home. Margaret carefully records Miss Winter’s account and finds herself more and more deeply immersed in the strange and troubling story. In the end, both women have to confront their pasts and the weight of family secrets. As well as the ghosts that haunt them still.

both dallys and i agree that this one of the best we have read and gave it 5 stars...
i was completely drawn in, although slowly at first and then it was very hard to leave it.
everyone that i have heard from so far felt the same way...
we also had a little fun throughout the month...

it started with an official invite which arrived sealed with wax...



if you read the book you will understand the invite a little better with the seemingly burned paper and single book page...



we then had everyone post the invites on instagram when it arrived...






we also threw in a wednesday word...
#ghosts
here is a look at the ghosts and whatnot that 
crossed every ones paths...





we ended the month by having some ghost stories and our
2nd annual
"ghost story extravaganza"
in my backyard...
we
had hot chocolate and hot cider,
doughnuts and carmel popcorn...


i told this ghost story
around the fire

which was the winner of the
"JFP creative frightening story"
contest
written by

it was spooky and so much fun!
i want to thank everyone who played along...

if you were able to read the book
"the thirteenth tale"
i would love to know what you thought...

we thought it was just so good!
 
and if you didn't get the chance to read it, we are not having a book choice for the month of december so you could read it then if you want. it was definitely worth reading:)
bye...
more later...

Sunday, November 4, 2012

pumpkin spice carmel popcorn

perfect for ghost stories:)


i kept thinking i would make something awesome with pumpkin...
(probably because i painted this awesome picture)

i didn't...
i got too busy and then i ran out of energy...

so i made carmel popcorn instead...

i added pumpkin pie spice...

that counts, right?

it was totally worth it:)



the recipe is in our cookbooks:)



they were delicious.
since i am not a fan of carmel apples (i love the taste but think they are awkward to eat)
we ate the popcorn balls with sliced apples...
works great:)

(took this picture at verd's when it was still open. 
miss it so much. 
grandma j used to take us there and it closed for good last year. dangit)


we had them at our 2nd annual ghost story extravaganza
i will tell you about that soon!

hope you had a happy halloween...


bye...
more later...

p.s.:
all these paintings i made are from the app 
#paperby53 or #madebypaper
on the iPad 
it's super fun!!!