Treats

The best Hallowe'en memory (other than snitching the homefudge out of my kid's treat bags) was brought forth at Mark and Julie's wedding reception. Mark's buddies were sort of roasting him with tales from the past. Stephen regaled us with the ritual Mark had of treating his buddies to his candy treats and then after getting them real thirsty...he'd SELL them a can of pop. Way ta go, Mark!

Food topic

Now I'll talk out of the other side of my mouth. Last night our seats at a social gathering were next to the food table. The ladies arranged the sweets while the musicians were still playing so I had a lot of time to assess the situation. First I pictured the ingredients being purchased and the ladies fussing in their individual kitchens over the preparation of these luscious sweet concoctions-combinations that when chewed return to the original separate ingredients in your mouth. And then of course the next picture came to my mind of a body ...sort of built like a lego block figure. Only instead of lego the building blocks were these squares all bonding to one another to produce the dimensions...not a good picture.

I heard this true story lately...my school chum had only a couple of months after being diagnosed with extensive cancer in her internal organs. During a phone call of inquiry of what she was doing at that particular moment/day..she replied "I'm sitting here eating a WHITE roll".
So that's what I'm (Evelyn) doing today ...eating a while roll and not beating myself up about it.
Sorry I don't have a scripture to enhance this concept.

One of those times

Remember how the saying goes....the great thing about having grand children is that you can enjoy them and then send them home...Yeah! And I can send these sneakers home too.

Stuff

When I'm down at Mom's I look for a hand thing to do while I'm visiting. Remember the paintings...and the hooking? Now I take my lap top and work in Power Point. For years I've kept a year by year record of the activities of those around me. Now I'm redoing them and putting the info in catagories for quick look up. What I'm finding at the end of the day is that I am discarding so much trivia.....and I seem to feel the same about stuff. If I don't need it I decide no one else does either. I guess I might end up a minimalist. How's that Bible verse go about straw and gold?Or is that talking about your acts?
And by the way, I heard a lady with cancer relate that her doctor warned against coloring her hair or even painting her nails. What'll I do?

Good or bad?

All you healthy people? Do you use a non stick frying pan? My latest purchase warned me not to heat it without oil in it...the fumes would be fatal to birds. Hmm

Science

I should have been a kitchen scientist.....well for fudge anyway. Today I had left over whipped cream from Thanksgiving and concluded it could be made into fudge. The first time I found out what happens when ...well I'm not sure what happened but when I came back to stir it I couldn't move the spoon. Back to the stove with some milk added...boiled maybe a minute and it turned out beautiful.
Did you know that the remedy for that sick feeling when you eat too much sweet stuff is to go to the cupboard and get something salty...and crispy. Hmmm

Anniversary

Maybe I heard it before but tonight I got a picture again of why Garry was late for his wedding. It was a Saturday night. He was working on a job that would have extended into Sunday if not finished.French speaking bosses didn't get an accurate assesement of his urgency to finish the job. Now that I know him better...it's just the way he is. Hmmm Tonight we celebrated 43 years together....among other things that would be 43 Christmas trees. :o)

Winnipeg

"You been farmin' long?" (seems like an appropriate comment for our pic on the praires north of Winnipeg)