Monkey Bread Recipe

My first attempt at adding several pics and text....

Ingredients:

3 cans biscuits

1/2c sugar

1tsp cinnamon

1 stick butter/margarine

powdered sugar (about 1 c)

milk (few teaspoons)

syrup

Combine cinnamon & sugar in medium bowl. Open the biscuits and tear each one in half. Drop 8-10 biscuit pieces into cinn & sugar mixture and roll. Place on greased bunt pan and repeat until all biscuit pieces are in the pan. Melt butter and spoon over the entire pan.

Bake at 350* for about 20 minutes or until golden and bubbly. Remove from oven and invert onto a large plate. This part is tricky- parents better do that.

Make a glaze of powdered sugar and milk and drizzle over the hot bread.
Then drizzle with a little syrup.

Yum. Enjoy!!

Monkey Bread (Super kid friendly)

Quick. Easy. Cheap. Fun. Ingredients you already have. Delicious. Fancy looking. Kid friendly. Serves lots. What more could you ask for from a breakfast dish? Lilly made this today. Thought I would share the recipe. Enjoy :)

Cemetery Fun

I went to several cemeteries with my mom and two of my sisters today to place wreaths and flowers. What is normally a very somber and sad occasion turned into a zoo. Literally. Explain.

Ok, so all of these cemeteries are out in the country of course. On the way to one I spotted what I thought was a turkey coming onto the road, so I slowed down. Then came another one. As they emerged I saw that they were in fact peacocks- not turkeys! And would you believe there were 5 of them?? (I thought not, so I attatched a pic I took from my cell phone- disbeliever.) One by one they popped out of the woods an onto the road. So I started making bird noises- I'm really good, just ask my hubby who begs me to go turkey hunting with him so I can call 'em in. (Ain't happenin' Tommyboy.) All five of them came right up to my car but then I remembered that peacocks SCREAM like maniacs and are actually quite mean so I took off like a bat outta hell after getting the pic.


Our last destination was Prospect cemetery. This is where Granma Joyce and Grandpa Virgil, Aunt Char and the rest of mom's family is buried. It's always so nice and peaceful and there were lots of other people there today doing the same thing we were doing. So we're just walking along, all serious and grim and out of nowhere comes this herd of goats! Like 20 of them! Just racing through the cemetery aimlessly. I took off to get my cell phone from my car but they turned ran the other direction, so by the time I got back they were gone.

Seriously? Does this kind of stuff happen to other people or is it just me? It's like everywhere I go, something strange is going to transpire. Aby called me the Peacock Whisperer. LOL

Goin' to the Creek

Heading to the creek again today for another afternoon of frolicking and lazing in my fancy shmancy covered lounge chair :) Hopefully I won't have to deal with idiots who decide that they'd rather not pay the $5 to go to Shady Beach, and show up on our PRIVATE PROPERTY with their loud, rambunctious clan. Often with a yippy dog too. I actually had a guy yell at me yesterday because my dog was barking at him. "Ummmm- you're on his territory. Yeah, he may bite you." was all I said. Go away freak. Yes, I know it's a nice little place. But it's ours. I shouldn't have to go there and listen to other people's filthy mouths and deal with their dog (or kids for that matter) trying to get into my snack bag. And I sure as hell shouldn't have to pick up their trash! So frustrating. Oh well, I'm packin' heat so I should be ok. ;)

So, if you want to know how dumb I really am, I will tell you. I started this blog thing and got it up and running the other day. I have not been able to post again because I couldn't find the stupid thing! Alas, I bookmarked it and so here I am. Blogging part 2.

Now, I have to bragg about my nifty little gadget baragin from yesterday. Buzzed into Kohl's to take something back and of course couldn't resist the clearance section in the Housewares dept. I bought a little hand-held video camera (about the size of a point & shoot digital camera) regular price $89.99 for (get this!) $9.10 total!!! It's so stinkin' cute! It has a USB thingy to plug right into my puter so that's a HUGE plus. I am soooo sick of cords and plugs and wires and whatnots for gadgets. Anyway, I thought it'd be fun to play around with. I guess I can make little videos then upload them to Utube or wherever. Actually I am spotting a little icon here on my blog thingy so I guess i can do it here too. Neat!

I'm trying to figure out what to do with this thing. Use it for my rantings? Use it for posting pics and photog stuff? Or recipes? I have seen lots of bloggers do step by step recipes. Craft projects? Sigh. I dunno. I'm sort of a Jacqu of all trades (THAT would have been a neat name for my blog!) master of none. I think for now it will be a mish-mash of all. What do you want to see?

Virgin Voyage

Okay.........here I am. Blogging. First time. Don't know what to write about. I just decided to have a blog because lots of the sites I visit have contests and you have to have a blog to enter. Also, I do like to ramble on and Facebook only gives you, what, a paragraph? My stories often go much further than that, so I need more space.

I titled it after a gift my two BFF's bought me that read "Good morning....Let the stress begin!" and that pretty much sums up my life. Lots o' drama. Opening a can of dog food can be very dramatical (is that a word?) in my house. I actually thought "The Cussing Christian" as that really sums me up well, but thought better of it. I mean, what if Brother Bill reads it!? But I still like it :)

Looks like I have to add pictures and other stuff. Design it. Publish it. Whatever. I'm trying to be very internet savvy here and feeling like a country bumpkin at a black tie art show in New York. All these fancy schmancy, witty, cool, whippersnapper bloggers out there making me look stupid. Ugh.