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I've been blogging a long time and I've never seen this...

Here is a screenshot with my words and photos  published BELOW the normal box...and as you see the thing is still like "loading" in the center. I have tried posting 4 times with this same result. Anyone else? Any ideas? 

Morning Has Broken

A new day, a new week! Are your plans made or are you a kind of fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants type girl? 
I make very few plans and try to stay flexible because I have 3 school kids and 5 elderly family members who need me on occasion. 
I would not enjoy a schedule and thank heavens I don't have one! 
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I'm sharing with you the bookmark I made for my friend who will get her diagnosis today at noon. She has a fractured spine with a tumor there. If you would pray for Misty and family she would be grateful. Thank you to those of you who are making her encouraging bookmarks! I will show them as they come in :) 
The ribbon on mine says, "You are a gift" and it (the ribbon) came from Big Lots. 

In the kitchen this week:

Scones! 

I took Pioneer Woman's recipe (hers is a sweet one with icing) and left out the sugar, then I added bacon, monterey jack cheese and pecans. 

I will agree that it is an unusual combination...but it was what I thought sounded good...and...

guess what?

It was good! 

Won't you have breakfast with me today? 
In the comments I want to hear about a breakfast that stands out in your memory...


Two come to mind for me...


1) when I was a little girl my mother left me at the table with a bowl of strawberries tossed in sugar and said she was going to the garden...
I wasn't too fruity back then I guess...I flushed them! 


I'll give you a second to get over that one...
ready?


2)I was 21 years old...in Hawaii with my parents (the best friends a girl could ever have!!!) and the spread at our hotel was so incredible. My favorite thing was the danish filled with fresh coconut. I think you could grate the freshest coconut in all of the mainland and not find any that tasted that way. The pineapple there also tastes better than any I could buy here. 
Can't wait to someday have that treat again! 

Masculine and Feminine

Before we get to the topic...this is the scene from a window in our house last weekend!  It is rare that we get such a snow in Western Kentucky!  We really did enjoy it.  They are calling for an inch this weekend and I can't wait :)

Winter is wonderful for me!

Speaking of flea market finds...Oh, you weren't?  Well you usually do so I....anyway...it was payday today at our local flea market where I have a booth.  I had to walk around you know...for exercise and all ;) and ended up doing my part to support the place.

I love gentlemanly antiques and these bowties for a dollar each have charmed my socks off!  I want them framed and hanging in our boys' bathroom.  I have an old Munsingwear underwear ad that might go nicely :) Are you FELINE the love?

(my friend Cookie is to blame for any punning around I do...the girl can't stop and I guess it is contagious...maybe they will develop an innoculation before long...)

As for the feminine well!  These old photos don't disappoint, do they?  $8 bought this.

It is perched on a shelf...c'mon up and see it!

(I guess you will have to click to embiggen...bad blogger won't make the pic smaller)

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A Little Inspiration

A gift from some friends
http://jojo-caramel.blogspot.com/ which has been well-loved thus far...has given me ideas! Thank you Jojo and daughter :)
I wanted to participate in the etsy shop Haiti By Hand
 and decided to make a copycat elephant for one thing.





My elephant has a jumprope

of yo-yos. I am in the process of emailing the listing of this and other items made by me and a neighbor/friend...please continue to visit that shop and or donate your own crafts for the Haitians.
And thank you for the bookmarks for my friend!!!

A Two Post Day!

I know there's hardly a day that I'm not asking you my friends to do something! You hardly get any rest at all!

It's just that...I have a friend...and she is 35 years old...and it appears as if she will get her official diagnosis any day now of Multiple Myeloma...that is bone cancer.

She has a fractured spine with a tumor there. This has all come about rather quickly and I feel frustrated because we are many states apart. She has a two year old girl and a 7 year old boy and a wonderful husband.

What I thought I could do with your help is send encouragement she could read in the form of words/verses on bookmarks! It would be nice I thought to pull one out each day and read someone's sweet words.

The size I have posted I think will be about right. I may put them in a small decorated box.

Participants may email me, Phyllis...at pcovington270@bellsouth.net .

Oh how I thank you!

Now don't leave...read on about the excitement that is POSOLE :)

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Many of us have tons of snow on the way!!! Do you have your batteries, candles and matches and milk and chocolate for heavens sake?

Dia de Posole!

Posole is a soup I recently tried at the home of a Hispanic friend. Sometimes I am afraid to taste things I see on her stove! Once I tried *unknowingly* Cow tongue tacos!

I didn't die but.... ;)

Well this soup was so delicious I could NOT get it off my mind and there it was featured on Pioneer Woman's Tasty Kitchen the very next day I tried it.

So I invited my friend and her friend and her baby Maida over to teach me to make it!

Due to playing with Maida more than watching in the cocina...I didn't learn how to do it! LOL! What would you have done??? I see that she poured the broth off of the pork roast and didn't use it at all which surprised me. The other main ingredient is hominy...followed by chile peppers (this is just the skin basically which has been soaked and then pureed and is not hot).

On top of each bowl goes chopped onion, jalepenos (I love them...heat included!) and cabbage! If you are an adventurous eater...I recommend this soup :)

You might want to hold off on the cow tongue tacos though...

edited to say...there are people worldwide who would LOVE to be able to eat cow tongue and I am so blessed and fortunate Thank you God! and I am praying for those very people ...

Note to self:

Don't forget to get a new usb for the Canon Rebel so your photos will be better...the old Kodak Easyshare isn't cutting it...What?

You say I should cut it?

A Junkin' Day

My mother and I took a little road trip today to a small town where antiques live :)

I found a horse competition ribbon from my birth year (1962 *gasp*) with the longest ribbons ever! It is the first I've ever run across which is surprising considering I live in Kentucky!

The Bo Peep Ammonia bottle has the cutest label! I have already put it in my flea market booth down the street.

As for what I'm keeping? The old flag with 48 stars, the spoons (can you ever have enough teaspoons? ) and the bluebird tin...
Now tell me what creativeness I can do with the tin! Was it for jello or cake? Soap?
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