tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26071773050408515922024-02-20T00:44:07.278-08:00ramblings and musing of the "fur~babies" momma* * * * experiences of the fur~babies momma as I travel through my life * * * * paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.comBlogger1374125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-63923820035948539552021-05-16T09:26:00.000-07:002021-05-16T09:26:19.592-07:00"TP" a New Zentangle Pattern<p> I know it has been a LONG time since I posted. No excuses, just possessed with reading and Zentangle.</p><p>I wanted a place to share my own tangle. I call it TP since it looks so much like toilet Paper. I know, I know, Zentangle is not supposed to be repreentational, It wasn't until I looked at it and all I could see were rolls and rolls of TP. Guess "the Covid" has gotten to me.</p><p>Hope you enjoy this new tangle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZnVPrYfeAQaaywz3qhYf8SnE0DtARdu28Kpk9FLbcOYJAoxTuJRb0Yy9yO81xWnxhCPGbgVpXxq-vYg-uKS4FzmMQxWozrKeKQRKLXpPJiz2XSbF-87B_6in2ye5YtvsA4l5UYilqs03l/s2048/01+-+-+-TP+.+.+.+Deconstructed+by+Paula+Gaumer+Tooke+.+.+.+15+May+2021+.+.+.+01+Copyright.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1491" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZnVPrYfeAQaaywz3qhYf8SnE0DtARdu28Kpk9FLbcOYJAoxTuJRb0Yy9yO81xWnxhCPGbgVpXxq-vYg-uKS4FzmMQxWozrKeKQRKLXpPJiz2XSbF-87B_6in2ye5YtvsA4l5UYilqs03l/w466-h640/01+-+-+-TP+.+.+.+Deconstructed+by+Paula+Gaumer+Tooke+.+.+.+15+May+2021+.+.+.+01+Copyright.png" width="466" /></a></div><br /><p>I have sent it in with hopes it will be shared on the website "Tangle Patterns." We will see if it makes the cut.</p><p>LOLOL . . . I just realized I forgot to color in one circle. Oh well, such is life in the fast lane :)</p>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-18456603873327668902020-12-16T13:34:00.008-08:002021-06-13T14:04:02.777-07:00Candy Cane Snowballs<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> Candy Cane Snowball Cookies</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Makes 5 Dozen</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2 C Butter, softened</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1 C Confectioners Sugar</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1 tsp Vanilla</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3 1/2 C All Purpose Flour</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1 C Chopped Pecans</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">8 oz White Candy Coating, melted</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1/3 -> 1/2 C Crushed Peppermint Sticks</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>MAKING DOUGH</i></b></span></p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5 - 7 minutes.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Beat in vanilla.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Gradually beat in flour.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Stir in pecans.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Refrigerate, covered, until firm enough to shape into balls, 3 -> 4 hours.</span></li></ol><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>BAKING</i></b></span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Shape dough into 1 inch balls.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Bake until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely</span></li></ol><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>DECORATING</i></b></span></div></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Dip tops of cookies into candy coating.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Allow excess to drip off.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Dip into crushed peppermint sticks.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Let stand until set.</span></li></ol></div><p></p>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-88068147250526289002020-12-16T13:22:00.004-08:002020-12-16T13:22:14.125-08:00Italian Rainbow Cookies<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Italian Rainbow Cookies</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Makes Dozen</i></b></span></p><p><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>DOUGH</i></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4 Large Eggs</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1 C Sugar</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3 1/2 oz Almond Paste cut into small pieces</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1 C All Purpose Flour</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1 C Butter, melted and cooled</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1/2 tsp Salt</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1/2 tsp Almond Extract</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6-8 drops of these two Food Colorings: Red & Green</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1/4 C Seedless Raspberry Jam</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>GLAZE</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1 C Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1 tsp Shortening</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>DOUGH</i></b></span></p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Well grease 3 cookie sheets that are 11 X 7.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">In a large bowl beat eggs and sugar 2 - 3 minutes. or until thick and lemon colored.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Gradually add almond paste, mix well.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Add flour, butter, salt and extract and mix well.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">DIVIDE BATTER INTO THIRDS. TINT ONE part RED, ONE part GREEN AND LEAVE THE THIRD part PLAIN.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Spread the plain on one cookie sheet, the green on another and he red on the last cookie sheet.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Bake 7 - 11 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the edges are brown. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans and putting on wire racks to cool completely.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Place RED layer on waxed paper; spread with 2 T Jam. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Place PLAIN layer on top of RED layer and top with remaining jam.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Add GREEN layer on top and press down gently to seal.</span></li></ol><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>GLAZE</i></b></span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Spread half of the glaze over the top layer.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Refrigerate 20 minutes or until set.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Turn over, spread remaining glaze over the red layer.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Refrigerate 20 minutes or until set.</span></li></ol><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">FINISHING</span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">With a sharp knife trim the edges.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Cut rectangle lengthwise into fourths.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Cur each portion into 1/4 inch slices.</span></li></ol></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-15807058442454234622020-12-14T16:31:00.002-08:002020-12-16T12:53:15.064-08:00Pecan Jumbles from Dad's Christmas Recipes<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">PECAN JUMBLES</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><i>from the kitchen of Paul L Gaumer</i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYSjxTODgyixjGHGL3pRZ-2NW0QqktjI5uCH3KNAdG3uaLC5DONinc2jBQx3mQOhWpU1rkkzWzBWk1_PiU1wnF93aHQIBKAgL__tC41NupV2voPljkHtkhu53TTOoMhQPjlI6qHO9Oxt5/s1600/Pecan+Jumbles.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYSjxTODgyixjGHGL3pRZ-2NW0QqktjI5uCH3KNAdG3uaLC5DONinc2jBQx3mQOhWpU1rkkzWzBWk1_PiU1wnF93aHQIBKAgL__tC41NupV2voPljkHtkhu53TTOoMhQPjlI6qHO9Oxt5/w400-h300/Pecan+Jumbles.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Cookies should be thin and crisp. This is why I said to NOT substitute Hellman's REAL Mayonnaise. I substituted and as you can see, mine didn't spread 😟</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">1 1/2 C Firmly Packed Brown Sugar</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">1 C Hellman's Real Mayonnaise (DO NOT SUBSTITUTE)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">2 Eggs</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">1 tsp Vanilla</span></li></ul><p></p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">In a large bowl mix the above ingredients together</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Stir in the next three ingredients.</span></li></ol><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"> 3/4 C Unsifted Flour</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">1/4 tsp Salt</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">1 C Chopped Pecans</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">1 C (+/-) Whole Pecans for topping before cooking.</span></li></ul></div><p></p><div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Drop by level Tablespoons full (I use my smallest cookie scoop) 2" apart on a greased cookie sheet.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Top each cookie with a 1/2 Pecan piece.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Bake at 375 degrees F for 8 - 10 minute</span></li></ol></div></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>NOTES:</b></i></span></p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">These cookies should spread out to about 2"apart.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">I used Hellman's Mayonnaise made with Olive Oil (Reduced Fat). The cookies didn't spread, as you can tell from the picture. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">My cookies tasted okay but they should end up thin and crisp.</span></li></ol><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-49945614659704183262020-11-28T10:24:00.002-08:002020-12-16T12:53:51.549-08:00Roczki Cookies (Kolacky)<p> </p><div class="wprm-recipe-summary wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Made with a tender, yeasted dough rolled up in a cigar shape with a simple, lemony, ground nut filling</span></div><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><div class="wprm-recipe-meta-container wprm-recipe-times-container wprm-recipe-details-container wprm-recipe-details-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-table-borders-top-bottom wprm-recipe-table-borders-inside" style="border: 1px solid rgb(119, 119, 119); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 5px;"><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-time-container wprm-recipe-prep-time-container" style="border-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; text-align: center;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-time-label wprm-recipe-prep-time-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Prep Time</span><span class="wprm-recipe-time wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-prep_time wprm-recipe-prep_time-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box;">30</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-prep_time-unit wprm-recipe-prep_timeunit-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">mins</span></span></div><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-time-container wprm-recipe-cook-time-container" style="border-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; text-align: center;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-time-label wprm-recipe-cook-time-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Cook Time</span><span class="wprm-recipe-time wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-cook_time wprm-recipe-cook_time-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box;">15</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-cook_time-unit wprm-recipe-cook_timeunit-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">mins</span></span></div><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-time-container wprm-recipe-custom-time-container" style="border-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; text-align: center;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-time-label wprm-recipe-custom-time-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Rise Time</span><span class="wprm-recipe-time wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-details-hours wprm-recipe-custom_time wprm-recipe-custom_time-hours" style="box-sizing: border-box;">10</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-recipe-details-unit-hours wprm-recipe-custom_time-unit wprm-recipe-custom_timeunit-hours" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">hrs</span></span></div><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-time-container wprm-recipe-total-time-container" style="border-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; text-align: center;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-time-label wprm-recipe-total-time-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Total Time</span><span class="wprm-recipe-time wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-details-hours wprm-recipe-total_time wprm-recipe-total_time-hours" style="box-sizing: border-box;">10</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-recipe-details-unit-hours wprm-recipe-total_time-unit wprm-recipe-total_timeunit-hours" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">hrs</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-total_time wprm-recipe-total_time-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box;">45</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-total_time-unit wprm-recipe-total_timeunit-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">mins</span></span></div></div><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 0px; height: 5px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><div class="wprm-recipe-meta-container wprm-recipe-tags-container wprm-recipe-details-container wprm-recipe-details-container-inline wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;"><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-inline wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-tag-container wprm-recipe-course-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-right: 1.2em;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-tag-label wprm-recipe-course-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Course: </span><span class="wprm-recipe-course wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cookie<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></div><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-inline wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-tag-container wprm-recipe-cuisine-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-right: 1.2em;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-tag-label wprm-recipe-cuisine-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Cuisine: </span><span class="wprm-recipe-cuisine wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Slovakian <span> </span><span> </span></span></div></div><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-servings-label" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px; opacity: 0.6;">Servings: </span><span class="wprm-recipe-servings-with-unit" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px;"><span aria-label="Adjust recipe servings" class="wprm-recipe-servings wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-servings-16889 wprm-recipe-servings-adjustable-tooltip wprm-block-text-normal" data-original-servings="225" data-recipe="16889" data-servings="225" style="box-sizing: border-box;">225</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-servings-unit wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">cookies</span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">A little background info on this cookie from the author of the recipe on the web page <a href="https://www.savingdessert.com/roczki-cookies-kolacky/" target="_blank">"Saving Room For Dessert." </a> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">This amazing recipe came to me from 93 year old Annie Roy of Chicago, Illinois. Annie is the first daughter of Slovak immigrants and a lifelong resident of the Chicago area. Annie’s daughter, Rita, is my husband’s sister-in-law and our favorite adventure travel-mate!</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">While growing up, Annie worked in the family grocery store and started baking and cooking for the family as a teenager. Annie learned to make Roczki Cookies (Kolacky) while helping her mother and has been making these cookies every Christmas since. Annie got married, started a family and continued baking and sharing Roczki cookies with family and friends (although war rationing curtailed sugar and butter availability.) These cookies are <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">the favorite Christmas treat</em></span> among the entire extended family.</p></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_800/https://www.savingdessert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Roczki-Kolacky-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" src="https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_800/https://www.savingdessert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Roczki-Kolacky-4.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px;"><i>It is recommended to cut this recipe in half, unless you want to spend the whole day in the kitchen EVEN if you have to waste a 1/2 egg to do it. </i></span></p><div class="wprm-recipe-ingredients-container wprm-block-text-normal" data-recipe="16889" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; counter-reset: wprm-advanced-list-counter 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;"><h3 class="wprm-recipe-header wprm-recipe-ingredients-header wprm-block-text-bold wprm-align-left wprm-header-decoration-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: black; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1.2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Ingredients</h3><div class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-ingredient-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">For the dough:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-ingredients" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">packages active dry yeast,</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">(two 1/4 ounce packages or 4 1/2 teaspoons total)</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoon</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">vanilla extract</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">heavy cream</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-adjustable" style="box-sizing: border-box;">6 ½</span> to <span class="wprm-adjustable" style="box-sizing: border-box;">7</span></span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cups</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">unbleached all-purpose flour</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">½</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoon</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">salt</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">pound</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">unsalted butter,</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">cut into 1-inch pieces</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">large egg</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">3</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">egg yolks</span></li></ul></div><div class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-ingredient-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">For the nut filling:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-ingredients" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">pound</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">pecans,</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">ground fine</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 ½</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoons</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">pure vanilla extract</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">zest of 1 lemon</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">½</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">fresh squeezed lemon juice</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">granulated sugar</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">3</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">egg whites</span></li></ul></div><div class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-ingredient-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">For rolling out the dough:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-ingredients" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">+/- additional cups of granulated sugar to roll out the dough</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">3</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">egg whites lightly beaten,</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">mixed with 1 teaspoon water for brushing on top of the cookies before baking.</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="wprm-recipe-instructions-container wprm-block-text-normal" data-recipe="16889" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; counter-reset: wprm-advanced-list-counter 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;"><h3 class="wprm-recipe-header wprm-recipe-instructions-header wprm-block-text-bold wprm-align-left wprm-header-decoration-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: black; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1.2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Instructions</h3><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul class="wprm-recipe-instructions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Line an 8x8-inch baking pan with parchment or wax paper. Make sure the paper hangs over the sides of the pan.</div></li></ul></div><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-instruction-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">To make the dough:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-instructions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Dissolve the yeast in 1/2 cup warm water.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-1-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the flour, salt, and chunks of butter. Mix until crumbly.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-1-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, egg yolks, cream and vanilla. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add yeast, and the cream and eggs. Fit the dough hook on the stand mixer and blend until the dough comes together and is smooth.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-1-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Press the dough into the prepared pan and cut it into 9 equal sized pieces. Cover and refrigerate the dough for at least 8 hours or overnight.</span></div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-1-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">The prepared unbaked dough may be frozen or stored in the refrigerator for up to a week before baking. Or you may bake a few batches at a time as needed or when time allows.</span></li></ul></div><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-instruction-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">To make the filling:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-instructions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">In a medium mixing bowl, combine the ground nuts, lemon juice, vanilla, and lemon zest. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">In a separate clean bowl with clean beaters, whip the egg whites until soft peaks form. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Alternate adding the sugar and egg whites to the nut mixture until all is incorporated. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Add more sugar or lemon juice if needed to taste. Do not over mix. Set aside.</div></li></ul></div><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-group" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-instruction-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">To make the cookies:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-instructions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Fill a small, flat bowl with 1/2 cup granulated sugar. This will be used for rolling the cookies.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Remove one square of the chilled dough, leaving the rest in the refrigerator. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Dust a clean work surface with granulated sugar. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Roll out the dough to a 10x10 inch square. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Using a rolling pastry cutter, cut the dough evenly into 2x2 inch squares.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Spread about 1 teaspoon of the nut filling onto each square leaving one end clean (about 1/3 of the dough square). Roll into a cigar shape. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Using your finger or a small brush, spread a little of the egg white wash mixture down the clean side of the dough, press to seal. Brush the outside of the cookie with additional egg white and then lightly roll in granulated sugar. Place seem side down on the prepared baking sheet. Continue rolling until you fill the pan.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16889-step-3-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Bake the cookies for 12 to 15 minutes or until light brown. Dust cooled cookies with powdered sugar just before serving. Store in an airtight container.</div></li></ul></div></div><div class="wprm-recipe-notes-container wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;"><h3 class="wprm-recipe-header wprm-recipe-notes-header wprm-block-text-bold wprm-align-left wprm-header-decoration-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: black; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1.2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes</h3><div class="wprm-recipe-notes" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">I recommend cutting the recipe in half unless you need 225 cookies.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Changes from the original recipe I received:</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">1. Annie's original recipe calls for one package of yeast instead of the two that was typed on my copy. After trying my cookies, Annie preferred the puffier dough so much, they're going to make Roczki with two packages of yeast next time. Yeah! A happy accident.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">2. Vanilla has been added to the dough and filling not originally on my recipe copy.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">3. The original recipe called for half butter and half margarine. I tested with all butter.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">4. I tested making apricot bowties but due to the added yeast in my dough, they would not stay together and puffed up bigger than they should. I only tested one batch with the apricot filling (Solo brand) and didn't take photos.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">5. Annie brushes melted butter on top of her cookies before baking. I tested this method and also tried brushed on egg whites. In addition I tested baking the cookies without either. My preference is a lightly brushed on egg white wash. The cookie bakes up with a nice thin crust and soft puffy middle.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">6. The original recipe I received called for the (9) dough pieces to be rolled into 10x14-inch rectangles, then cut into 2x2-inch squares. I found the dough to be too thin, and at those calculations, the recipe will make 315 cookies. I rolled the dough into 10x10-inch squares and ended up with 225 cookies.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">7. The prepared unbaked dough may be frozen or stored in the refrigerator for up to a week before baking. Or you may bake a few batches at a time as needed or when time allows.</span></div></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.savingdessert.com/roczki-cookies-kolacky/">https://www.savingdessert.com/roczki-cookies-kolacky/</a></p></div></div>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-15985058621231231072020-11-28T10:03:00.005-08:002020-12-16T12:54:14.619-08:00Italian Fig Cookies (Cucidati)<p style="text-align: center;">From the Web Page "Saving Room For Dessert"</p><p><span style="background-color: #fffbf5; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Italian Fig Cookies, Cucidati, Sicilian Fig Cookies, or Christmas Fig Cookies are a few of the names you might find for this deliciously moist, tender and sweet, fruit filled cookie.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fffbf5; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><div class="wprm-recipe-meta-container wprm-recipe-times-container wprm-recipe-details-container wprm-recipe-details-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-table-borders-top-bottom wprm-recipe-table-borders-inside" style="border: 1px solid rgb(119, 119, 119); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 5px;"><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-time-container wprm-recipe-prep-time-container" style="border-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; text-align: center;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-time-label wprm-recipe-prep-time-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Prep Time</span><span class="wprm-recipe-time wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-prep_time wprm-recipe-prep_time-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box;">45</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-prep_time-unit wprm-recipe-prep_timeunit-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">mins</span></span></div><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-time-container wprm-recipe-cook-time-container" style="border-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; text-align: center;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-time-label wprm-recipe-cook-time-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Cook Time</span><span class="wprm-recipe-time wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-cook_time wprm-recipe-cook_time-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box;">12</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-cook_time-unit wprm-recipe-cook_timeunit-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">mins</span></span></div><div class="wprm-recipe-block-container wprm-recipe-block-container-table wprm-block-text-normal wprm-recipe-time-container wprm-recipe-total-time-container" style="border-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex: 1 1 0%; text-align: center;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-time-label wprm-recipe-total-time-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.6;">Total Time</span><span class="wprm-recipe-time wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-total_time wprm-recipe-total_time-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box;">57</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-recipe-details-minutes wprm-recipe-total_time-unit wprm-recipe-total_timeunit-minutes" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">mins</span></span></div></div><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 0px; height: 5px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-servings-label" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px; opacity: 0.6;">Servings: </span><span class="wprm-recipe-servings-with-unit" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px;"><span aria-label="Adjust recipe servings" class="wprm-recipe-servings wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-servings-16891 wprm-recipe-servings-adjustable-tooltip wprm-block-text-normal" data-original-servings="36" data-recipe="16891" data-servings="36" style="box-sizing: border-box;">36</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-servings-unit wprm-recipe-details-unit wprm-block-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8em;">cookies </span></span><span class="wprm-recipe-details-label wprm-block-text-faded wprm-recipe-author-label" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px; opacity: 0.6;">Author: </span><span class="wprm-recipe-details wprm-recipe-author wprm-block-text-normal" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px;">Tricia</span><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_800/https://www.savingdessert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Italian-Fig-Cookies-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_800/https://www.savingdessert.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Italian-Fig-Cookies-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 class="wprm-recipe-header wprm-recipe-ingredients-header wprm-block-text-bold wprm-align-left wprm-header-decoration-none" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 32px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1.2em 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Ingredients</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-group" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-ingredient-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">For the dough:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-ingredients" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/2</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">unsalted butter</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">room temperature</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;">1/4</span><span style="font-size: 1em;"> </span><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;">cup</span><span style="font-size: 1em;"> </span><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;">packed</span><span style="font-size: 1em;"> </span><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; opacity: 0.7;">light brown sugar</span></span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/4</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">granulated sugar</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/4</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoon</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">baking soda</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">large egg</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoon</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">pure vanilla extract</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/2</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoon</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">salt</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 3/4</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cups</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">unbleached all-purpose flour</span></li></ul></div></div><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-ingredient-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">For the fig filling:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-ingredients" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">dried diced Calimyrna or Mission figs</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">stems removed (6 or 7 ounce package)</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/2</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">chopped pitted dates</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">finely chopped (or substitute raisins if preferred)</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/2</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">orange juice</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">fresh squeezed (about 1 orange)</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/3</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">diced candied orange peel</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;">1</span><span style="font-size: 1em;"> </span><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;">teaspoon</span><span style="font-size: 1em;"> </span><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;">lemon zest</span></span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">tablespoons</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">granulated sugar</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/4</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoon</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ground cinnamon</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1/3</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">blanched almonds</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">chopped fine</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">tablespoons</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">dark spiced rum or Grand Marnier</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">orange liqueur</span></li></ul><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-ingredient-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">For the lemon glaze:</h4><p><span style="background-color: #fffbf5; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"></span></p><ul class="wprm-recipe-ingredients" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">cup</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">powdered sugar,</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">sifted</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-amount" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="wprm-adjustable" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2</span> to <span class="wprm-adjustable" style="box-sizing: border-box;">3</span></span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-unit" style="box-sizing: border-box;">teaspoons</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">lemon juice,</span> <span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes wprm-recipe-ingredient-notes-faded" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.7;">just enough to make a glaze you can slowly drizzle</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-ingredient" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="wprm-recipe-ingredient-name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sprinkles for decoration if desired</span></li></ul><h3 class="wprm-recipe-header wprm-recipe-instructions-header wprm-block-text-bold wprm-align-left wprm-header-decoration-none" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 32px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1.2em 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Instructions</h3><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-group" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-instruction-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">To prepare the dough:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-instructions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Place the butter to a mixing bowl and beat on medium-high speed with an electric mixer for 1 minute. Add the granulated sugar, brown sugar and baking soda. Beat until combined. Add the egg, vanilla and salt and mix until incorporated. Scrape the sides of the bowl and beat again for a few seconds. Add the flour in three additions, mixing on low to incorporate.</span></div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-0-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Divide the dough in half and form each into a small rectangle. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours or overnight.</div></li></ul></div><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-group" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-instruction-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">To prepare the filling:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-instructions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">In a small saucepan, combine the figs, dates, orange juice, candied orange peel, sugar, lemon zest and cinnamon. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 5 to 8 minutes or until fruit is soft and the mixture is thick. </span></div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Remove from the heat and add the chopped blanched almonds and 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier, if using. </span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Set aside to cool to room temperature. Cover with plastic wrap once cooled until needed.</span></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><u><i>To assemble and bake the cookies</i></u>, preheat oven to 375 degrees. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Remove the dough from the refrigerator and allow it to rest for 10-15 minutes before rolling out.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Place a piece of wax or parchment paper (at least 14x10 inches) on a clean work surface. Lightly dust with flour. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Roll one portion of the dough into a 10x8-inch rectangle. Cut each rectangle into two 10x4-inch strips. </div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Portion 1/4 of the filling down the center of each strip (in a rounded mound). Use the parchment paper as a guide and bring one long side of the dough up and over the filling. Repeat with the opposite side forming a tube and enclosing the filling. The dough should overlap slightly on top of the filling. Gently seal the edges.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Carefully transfer the filled strips to the prepared baking sheet placing them seem side down on the pan. Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly browned.</div></li><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-1-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Remove from the oven and immediately slice each strip (using a large thin knife) diagonally into 1-inch pieces. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool.</div></li></ul></div><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-group" style="background-color: #fffbf5; box-sizing: border-box; color: #434343; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px;"><h4 class="wprm-recipe-group-name wprm-recipe-instruction-group-name wprm-block-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: #212121; font-size: 1em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0.8em 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">For the lemon glaze:</h4><ul class="wprm-recipe-instructions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="wprm-recipe-instruction" id="wprm-recipe-16891-step-2-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 15px 32px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="wprm-recipe-instruction-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Combine the powdered sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl and whisk until smooth. Drizzle on each cookie then top with colored sprinkles if desired.</span></div></li></ul></div><h3 class="wprm-recipe-header wprm-recipe-notes-header wprm-block-text-bold wprm-align-left wprm-header-decoration-none" style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1.2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Notes</h3><div class="wprm-recipe-notes" style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Chopped candied orange peel can be found in the section of your grocery store with fruit cake ingredients.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">Prep time does not include the 3 hours to chill the dough.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;">We used Grand Marnier in this recipe.</span><div class="wprm-spacer" style="background: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0; width: 628px;"></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adapted from a Better Homes and Gardens recipe published in <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Christmas Cookies</span>, 2003</em></span></div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.savingdessert.com/italian-fig-cookies-cucidati/" target="_blank">https://www.savingdessert.com/italian-fig-cookies-cucidati/ </a> </p></div>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-63579801571179009342020-06-04T13:24:00.002-07:002020-09-18T09:48:52.802-07:00Jennifer's Layered Strawberry Cheesecake Dessert<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 1em;">
<span style="font-size: large;">If I'm lucky this will firm up in the fridge. Our WalMart doesn't carry Cheesecake Instant Pudding and their Cool Whip is Frozen. So I improvised. I used 1/2 of the frozen Cool Whip (4 oz) and 1/2 of the Philadelphia Cheesecake mixture that you can put in a pie shell and let firm up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If it doesn't firm up, I guess we'll eat it with a straw and spoon :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />2 lb. strawberries<br />2 sleeves graham crackers<br />1 -8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, <b><i>room temperature</i></b><br />1 -14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />2- 3.4 oz. pkg. instant cheesecake flavored pudding<br />3 cu. milk<br />1- 12 oz. carton whipped topping, divided</span></span><br />
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Wash, cut tops off of strawberries and slice them 1/4 inch thick then set aside. </div>
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Line bottom of a 3-quart 13×9 baking dish with graham crackers and set aside. </div>
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Combine cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk in a large bowl and beat with a mixer until smooth and creamy. </div>
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Add pudding mixes and milk then continue mixing on low for 4-5 minutes or until mixture starts to thicken. </div>
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Fold in 2 cups whipped topping until smooth. </div>
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Pour half of the cream cheese mixture over graham crackers. </div>
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Arrange a single layer of strawberry slices over cream cheese mixture. </div>
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Top strawberries with another layer of graham crackers then cover with remaining cream cheese mixture. </div>
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Top cream cheese mixture with another layer of strawberries.<br /></div>
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Cover and refrigerate for 6-8 hours. When serving, top with remaining whipped topping. Crush remaining graham crackers and sprinkle crumbs over the top</div>
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paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-64387308872674130802020-03-19T14:35:00.004-07:002020-03-19T14:35:25.310-07:00ZenDoodle - - - LOTS of pictures - - - Jan & Feb 2020<span style="font-size: large;">I am addicted. If there were a 12-Step program for Zendoodlers I would have to sign up. Lately, I've been doing at least one a day. Sometimes I will get two done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you enjoy these. Hopefully you will be able to tell I've improved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I LOVE doing my hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each time I do one it is totally different from the last.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See, another hand :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This was a project from class in Feb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The hubby did the butterfly and the peacock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hand #3, so far, I think. LOLOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">LOVE doing these flowers. Each one comes out different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guess what? Another hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> YEARS ago I did a cross stitch angel in "blackwork."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With it sitting by the fireplace, I tried to do a Zendoodle Angel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Gonna see several circle pix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh No, another hand!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fell in love with doing brooms too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The "texture" I could get amazed me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I need to do more heads. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Been a while since I have done one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">LOVE everything about this BUT the head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did it over several times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Circles again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-68024508430301048822020-02-15T11:29:00.000-08:002020-02-15T12:15:29.388-08:0015 Feb 2020 . . . Funeral Update<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>15 Feb 2020</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read an "add" on Facebook and thought of this song. I have always thought of it as an anthem for myself. Kind of makes me sad, but maybe more nostalgic for who I was and why I wasn't the person everyone thought I was. If possible, I want this one too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 17 - Janis Ian</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">I learned the truth at seventeen</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">That love was meant for beauty queens</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">And high school girls with clear skinned smiles</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Who married young and then retired</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">The valentines I never knew</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">The Friday night charades of youth</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Were spent on one more beautiful</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">At seventeen I learned the truth</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">And those of us with ravaged faces</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Lacking in the social graces</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Desperately remained at home</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Inventing lovers on the phone</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Who called to say "Come dance with me"</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">And murmured vague obscenities</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">It isn't all it seems</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">At seventeen</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">A brown eyed girl in hand-me-downs</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Whose name I never could pronounce</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Said, "Pity, please, the ones who serve</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">They only get what they deserve"</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">And the rich relationed hometown queen</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Marries into what she needs</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">With a guarantee of company</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Their small-town eyes will gape at you</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">In dull surprise when payment due</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Exceeds accounts received</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">At seventeen</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">To those of us who knew the pain</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Of valentines that never came</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">And those whose names were never called</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">When choosing sides for basketball</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">It was long ago and far away</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">The world was younger than today</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">When dreams were all they gave for free</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">To ugly duckling girls like me</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">We all play the game, and when we dare</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">To cheat ourselves at solitaire</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Inventing lovers on the phone</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Repenting other lives unknown</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">They call and say, "Come dance with me"</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">And murmur vague obscenities</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">At ugly girls like me</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">At seventeen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>12 Feb 2020</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't updated this in 4 years . . . as a matter of fact it has been 4 years and 10 days since it was updated. There is a post from 2019 but I just added it to this "complete" post today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So why today, you ask. (Yeah, I know all of you asked it out there on the word wide web.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Facebook I am friends with a man who has a blog that has the <a href="https://www.minerd.com/biographies.htm" target="_blank">history of the MINARD side of my family. </a>Maria Elisabeth Meinert is my 5th great grandmother on Dad's side. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Maria Elisabeth Meinert married Johann Detrick Gaumer</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Johann Frederick Gaumer - her son</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Johann Detrick Gaumer - his son</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Solomon Heinley Gaumer - his son</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Moses Solomon Gaumer - his son (</span>who to Cass County from Macungie Co, Pennsylvania.</li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Jeremiah Franklin Gaumer - his son</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Henry Moses Gaumer - his son, my grandfather</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Paul Levon Gaumer - his son, my dad</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">ME! - Paula Sue Gaumer - then end of this line</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank Heavens Matt married and had Elizabeth so this line of the family tree goes on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But, here is my FAVORITE word again, I digress. There have been SO MANY peope who are on this Minart/Minerd/Minert/Menert/ Meinert Family Tree that I wanted to share the poem than I first heard at the funeral of Eileen Johns Raikes (Dad's 1st cousin). I knew it was on the blog and I wanted to find and share it. I also wanted to label this post with the name of the poem so I can find it easier the next time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went through this post, copied it and pasted it below so it is all in one spot, again. I also tried to correct all of the spelling errors, grammar errors and delete what I don't want anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lauren, Chris and Matt . . . hope you find out some things about me that you never knew like:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">No matter what my funeral planning says I want the plainest wooden casket I can get. Always liked the ones you see in European funerals (Princess Diana and the Popes) but they are probably more expensive than the ones normally seen in the US. But I am SURE there are simple "pine boxes" that can get found that are inexpensive. I mean, don't you guys want to make money off of my passing? LOLOL</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Not even sure anymore that I want a viewing. Depends on the cost. If you do have one, have it before the funeral then go directly to the cemetery for the burial. Kind of like the our wedding . . . get it over with in the morning so people (if anyone besides you guys show up) you all can get to the rest of your plans for the day.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Do you want to eat on me? Go ahead, find a place like West Side Diner or Silver Lake where family and friends (you know who they are) can eat one last time on me. Shoot, it might be the 1st and last for some people :)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>11 Oct 2019</i></b></span><br />
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<div aria-label="<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8045" src="https://johnpavlovitz.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/headinhandpaint.jpg" alt="HeadInHandPaint" width="538" height="393" srcset="https://johnpavlovitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/headinhandpaint.jpg 1166w, https://johnpavlovitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/headinhandpaint-300x219.jpg 300w, https://johnpavlovitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/headinhandpaint-768x561.jpg 768w, https://johnpavlovitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/headinhandpaint-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https://johnpavlovitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/headinhandpaint-676x493.jpg 676w" sizes="(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px" /> At one time or another you’ve probably heard someone say that when a person you love dies, a part of you dies too.I used to think that was just a beautiful figure of speech, a touching poetic image that spoke symbolically to the depth of our profound sadness and loss.That is, until this week—when I died.My father passed away suddenly nearly two years ago, and I’ve written a great deal here about the road I’ve traveled since then. It’s one that’s meandered from the night-time depths of heaving sobs, to sweet sunrise moments of incredible gratitude. Most of the time I’ve naturally grieved his loss from my life; the absence replacing his presence.Recently though, I came face to face with the me who also left for good, on the day that he did.Over the course of our 44 years together, my dad and I did lots of really great stuff—just the two of us. As you do when you lose someone you love, I often find myself randomly rewinding to those places and times in the past, to remind me of the love and adventures and the laughter we shared. One of those cherished memories was of the Saturdays in my early teenage years, when I’d accompany him to a local indoor flea market at the New York State Fairgrounds. Times were tough for our family then (though I was quite oblivious), and my father was selling athletic shoes on the side to help keep our heat on and our pantry full.It was an incredible struggle for him and I’m sure from his perspective, a pretty rough time. To me it was like Christmas at Disneyland.I’d get up before the sun on Saturday and help him load up the shoes into massive hockey bags and off we’d go. We’d usually eat breakfast from one of the vendors on site in the damp cold of the early winter morning. (I can still taste the bagels grilled on a huge flat top with gobs of butter and smell the bacon that had been crisping up next to them). Once things were up and running at my dad’s booth, I’d head off to explore the flea market, which may as well have been an amusement park to my ninth grade brain. I spent hours and hours looking through racks of record albums, digging through old comic books, trying out stereo equipment, making handmade buttons with silly catch phrases on them, and checking out cute girls at the other booths.Between all of that, I’d hang out with my dad and watch him do his thing with customers, trying to be helpful where I could. Later we’d pack up everything and usually head back home after lunch. They were precious times.There are lots of other things that happened during those weekends he and I spent together at the flea market; more stories, more conversations, more meals, more funny anecdotes—but I no longer have access to them. That’s what people never tell you, about the real, fundamental, life-giving stuff you lose when someone you love leaves.You lose the part of you that only they knew.You lose some of your story.It simply dies.My dad was the only one there with me during those special Saturdays, and now that he’s gone there’s no one to go to to help me relive or revisit or remember them when I want to. There’s no one to help fill in the gaps of my memories, no one to give me the pieces of life that belonged only to the two of us—and I hate that.Any part of those days that exists outside of my memory is now dead and buried.If you haven’t walked the Grief Valley yet, just trust me on this.One day you will miss someone dearly and when that cold reality hits you; the truth of just how much of you is gone too, you’ll grieve the loss of yourself as well, even as you live.One of the great things about having people who love you and who’ve lived alongside of you for a long time is how they can surprise you, how when you’re with them they can dig out a story or unveil something about you that you had totally forgotten about or had never known at all. My dad would do that all the time, matter-of-factly tossing off a random memory that allowed me to see myself through his eyes. It was like having a small lost part of you suddenly and unexpectedly returned to you.As much as I miss my dad (and I do miss him terribly) I miss the me that he knew, too. I grieve the loss of our shared story.I mourn losing the childhood me who napped with him on his bed, the teenage me who spent those priceless Saturday mornings with him, the college aged me who fell asleep while he drove the four-hour trip back to college, the middle-aged me who made him laugh with silly stories of his grandkids.Just as sure as he isn’t coming back, neither are those parts of my story because he was their co-owner.Friends, as you grieve for those who are gone, know that it’s normal to also lament the part of you that they’ve taken with them.While those experiences formed you and reside deep in the fabric of your very heart, in ways that certainly transcend your memories, the painful gaps will still be there in what you lose without their eyewitness testimony.Those aren’t just flowery words meant to simply paint a picture of grief, they’re a vivid description of real, personal loss.A part of you does indeed die when someone you love passes away.May they, and the unique part of you they’ve taken with them, both rest in peace. 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Those of you who have followed me for years know that I tend to do posts on my funeral. Seems strange, but I want to make sure that things I want said, or music I want played, are somewhere so my family can find them.</div>
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I read this article today and discovered there is a part that REALLY touched home. . . </div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>It simply dies."</i></span></div>
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Now I know why a death of a friend when I was 38, and I hadn't seen for 12 years, was so traumatic and affects me to this day. What we shared was real, but no one else experienced it. The me I was 42 years ago and the experiences we shared were only known to the two of us. It doesn't help to try and explain it. My memories are my memories and their memories are buried with them. </div>
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I have often wondered if the memories that were so vivid in my mind were still vivid in his mind when his died, or his memories died 12 years earlier when mine were placed in a lock box in my brain, pushed back where I thought they would never come back. But, no, his death opened that box and the memories came back with a passion.</div>
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Please read this article. I am sure some of you will find comfort in it as I did.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At one time or another you’ve probably heard someone say that when a person you love dies, a part of you dies too.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I used to think that was just a beautiful figure of speech, a touching poetic image that spoke symbolically to the depth of our profound sadness and loss.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That is, until this week—when I died.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My father passed away suddenly nearly two years ago, and I’ve written a great deal</span> <a href="http://wp.me/p2h2UO-19R" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">about the road I’ve traveled since then.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s one that’s meandered from the night-time depths of heaving sobs, to sweet sunrise moments of incredible gratitude.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of the time I’ve naturally grieved</span> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">his</span></em> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">loss from my life; the absence replacing his presence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the course of our 44 years together, my dad and I did lots of really great stuff—just the two of us.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As you do when you lose someone you love, I often find myself randomly rewinding to those places and times in the past, to remind me of the love and adventures and the laughter we shared.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of those cherished memories was of the Saturdays in my early teenage years, when I’d accompany him to a local indoor flea market at the New York State Fairgrounds.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Times were tough for our family then (though I was quite oblivious), and my father was selling athletic shoes on the side to help keep our heat on and our pantry full.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’d get up before the sun on Saturday and help him load up the shoes into massive hockey bags and off we’d go.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We’d usually eat breakfast from one of the vendors on site in the damp cold of the early winter morning.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(I can still taste the bagels grilled on a huge flat top with gobs of butter and smell the bacon that had been crisping up next to them).</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once things were up and running at my dad’s booth, I’d head off to explore the flea market, which may as well have been an amusement park to my ninth grade brain.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I spent hours and hours looking through racks of record albums, digging through old comic books, trying out stereo equipment, making handmade buttons with silly catch phrases on them, and checking out cute girls at the other booths.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Between all of that, I’d hang out with my dad and watch him do his thing with customers, trying to be helpful where I could.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Later we’d pack up everything and usually head back home after lunch.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They were precious times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are lots of other things that happened during those weekends he and I spent together at the flea market; more stories, more conversations, more meals, more funny anecdotes—but I no longer have access to them.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s what people never tell you, about the real, fundamental, life-giving stuff you lose when someone you love leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You lose the part of you that only they knew.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You lose some of your story.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It simply dies.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My dad was the only one there with me during those special Saturdays, and now that he’s gone there’s no one to go to to help me relive or revisit or remember them when I want to.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s no one to help fill in the gaps of my memories, no one to give me the pieces of life that belonged only to the two of us—and I hate that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Any part of those days that exists outside of my memory is now dead and buried.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you haven’t walked the Grief Valley yet, just trust me on this.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One day you will miss someone dearly and when that cold reality hits you; the truth of just how much of</span> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you</span></em> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is gone too, you’ll grieve the loss of</span> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">yourself</span></em> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">as well, even as you live</span></span><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the great things about having people who love you and who’ve lived alongside of you for a long time is how they can surprise you, how when you’re with them they can dig out a story or unveil something about you that you had totally forgotten about or had never known at all.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My dad would do that all the time, matter-of-factly tossing off a random memory that allowed me to see myself through his eyes.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was like having a small lost part of you suddenly and unexpectedly returned to you.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As much as I miss my dad (and I do miss him terribly) I miss the me that he knew, too.</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I grieve the loss of our shared story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just as sure as he isn’t coming back, neither are those parts of my story because he was their co-owner.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends, as you grieve for those who are gone, know that it’s normal to also lament the part of you that they’ve taken with them.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While those experiences formed you and reside deep in the fabric of your very heart, in ways that certainly transcend your memories, the painful gaps will still be there in what you lose without their eyewitness testimony</span><span aria-hidden="true" class="blast mmt-sentence" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those aren’t just flowery words meant to simply paint a picture of grief, they’re a vivid description of real, personal loss.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A part of you does indeed die when someone you love passes away.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May they, and the unique part of you they’ve taken with them, both rest in peace.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: </span><a href="https://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/02/17/the-death-you-die-when-they-do-another-lesson-in-the-grief-valley/?fbclid=IwAR3N9nGwqTJ79AamZiN1esu2moWFQzzF6ZGJgVB-2U9KEDGcUMGI84QBPdw">https://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/02/17/the-death-you-die-when-they-do-another-lesson-in-the-grief-valley/?fbclid=IwAR3N9nGwqTJ79AamZiN1esu2moWFQzzF6ZGJgVB-2U9KEDGcUMGI84QBPdw</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>02 Feb 2016</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There was a meme on Facebook that said something about "my greatest fear is nor being alone, it is being forgotten."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Made me think more about what I want when I die . . . There is a lot written below the ~*~*~*~*~ line. But, basically, there is a poem about "Our Family Tree Has Shed A Leaf." I want it read at the funeral.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">I want the music for the videos printed out with people singing them along with the video, or, if someone can play them on a piano that would be great also.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">I don't really care, at this point in time, what order they are played. Just try to make sense of them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh, and if you want to read anything I've written, for a little bit of info why I want what I want, go for it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">It's been awhile since I added anything to my "wish list" for my funeral. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">I want to go out on my own terms and I am SO SCARED that no one will know what I want. Shoot, even if I tell Gene, he won't be listening so it's no use telling him. SO, I shall write everything down and hope that this info will be found in time to put me away in the manner which I want.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">I know, I know, you will have to read through this whole post, and I am sure as I find more things I want, it will get longer. But the gist of this posting is:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">I want to be dressed in comfortable clothes . . . sweats if I have any that are decent . . if not, jeans and a decent crew neck sweater (Do I still have any red, white and blue Quaker Factory sweaters?) . . with tennis shows so I can walk through eternity in comfortable shoes :)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I want singing, but not church music singing . . . I want people to have the words printed to the videos I have posted below. Then, I want the video's played and I want people to sing along with them. And I want them to sing out loud and proud . . . just like I do when I hear these songs on the radio in the car . . . I crank down the window and sing at the top of my voice . . and checking with the peripheral vision to see if anyone in a car next to me is looking at me like I am N*U*T*Z ! ! ! ! ! !</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Flowers . . . I want DAFFODILS (HA, finally spelled it write). I hope they are in season. If not, I want garden type flowers . . no roses . . unless someone in the family wants some roses to take home with them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">INSTEAD OF FLOWERS . . . make donations to the Local Humane Society. . . . or whatever animal fostering/sheltering program is available. All my fur~babies were "foundlings" and I want to help as many as possible when I die . . . so make this a priority!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">When Dad died, Bill Bender asked Marge Carr to Play "On The Banks of the Wabash" when he left the funeral home for the hearse ride to the cemetery.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">When Mom died, I asked for "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" because that is what was on the Victrola when she was born and the Granny Stewart (the doctor) turned it on and danced around the room because he was so scared her birth might be hard since Grandma Winegardner wasn't young when she had mom. So I wanted her leaving the world with the same music she heard when she first came in with.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Myself, I want </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Daughtry's "Home" playing when "Aunt Paula Leaves the Building." I always think of dying as "going home." I know this is sung from a male view, but I like so much of it . . . </span><span style="font-size: medium;">I also like the verse that says "I don't regret the life I chose for me . . . " People always thought I was weird because I never got married until I met Gene. They never said it, but I heard bits and pieces of people's conversation and they thought I was still a virgin or was gay . . . man, were they ever wrong!I was terribly in love when I was in my early-mid 20's. Still love him more than I should, even though he died when I was 38. Twelve years before he died I got a call in the middle of the night, when he got off work, telling me he was marrying a woman he had met a month before. Talk about knocking my socks off. . . my whole outlook on myself and life took a nosedive that I don't think I ever recovered from. After this, I had no desire to get married. I had no desire to hunt under every log and bar stool to find a person. I actually was perfectly happy with myself and the life I was living. I didn't need anyone else to be there. I liked what I had. And then, when I met Gene, I knew why I had waited. He made me feel whole . . . and I never knew I wasn't, and I actually think I was . . but he sure fit into my life like a nice, silk glove . . and I was sure glad I ran into him online . . made the years after we met were pretty sweet :) But, I would still LOVE to know how he ever adapted to my personality because I knew I wasn't what he thought he would have settled down with either :)</span></span></li>
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<span class="line line-s" id="line_15" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I'm going home, back to the place where I belong</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_16" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">And where your love has always been enough for me</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_17" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not running from, no, I think you got me all wrong</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_18" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't regret this life I chose for me</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_19" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">But these places and these faces are getting old</span></span><br />
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<span class="line line-s" id="line_20" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it all</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_21" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">You just might get it all and then some you don't want</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_22" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it all</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_23" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">You just might get it all, yeah</span></span><br />
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<span class="line line-s" id="line_24" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, well I'm going home, back to the place where I belong</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_25" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">And where your love has always been enough for me</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_26" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not running from, no, I think you got me all wrong</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_27" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't regret this life I chose for me</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_28" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">But these places and these faces are getting old</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_29" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">I said these places and these faces are getting old</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_30" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I'm going home, I'm going home</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A suicidal comedian is as absurd as life itself.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Even the longest healthiest lief is brief.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>You cast your demons</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>out on stage and screen</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Laughing in the face of life</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Which is so much scarier than death. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>We try to be whole yet are often broken.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Punctured with holes that cannot be filled.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>And even our patches begin to fray.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Those who </i></span><i style="font-size: x-large;">are afraid risk never living.</i><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">Yet those who walk the edge of death</i><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">replace the subtle beauty of life</i><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">with the rush of adrenaline.The rewards of fame guild the lily</i><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">suffocate it and hide it from the sun.</i><br />
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<i style="font-size: x-large;">An imperfect life is a whole life</i><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">Your friend "Superman" fell.</i><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">He inspired us by not dying for as long as he could.</i><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">Thank you for living as long as you were able.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Here is a poem that the minister read at Eileen Raikes' funeral (she was Grandpa Paul's cousin) and was on the back of the funeral program for her husband Maurice. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">I had never heard it, but I want it read at my funeral . . . see what you think.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> "Our Family Tree" ~by David Carnes </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Our family tree has shed a leaf </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No words will stem the sorrow.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Was not the first . . . won't be the last </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Won't be the same tomorrow. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Kind words from friends help ease the grief </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But words need not be spoken.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> For time alone will ease the pain </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of hearts that have been broken. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Our tree has weathered many storms </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Some limbs have been stripped bare.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> But it was planted long ago </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With tender, loving care. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been watered through the ages </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With the tears we've shed in grief. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Each time our family tree decides </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To shed another leaf. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> It's roots are strong . . . and they run deep </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Firmly steeped in family traditions. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We mourn our loss . . . then carry on </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With the help of our religious convictions. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> May God bless our latest leaf to fall</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> His own hand-picked selection.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> As it joins the leaves we've sent before </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To heaven's leaf collection. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Our family tree has shed a leaf </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No words will stem the sorrow </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Was not the first . . . won't be the last </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Won't be the same . . . tomorrow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Now, tell someone you love that you love them . . . how surprised will they be? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> And, a little something from Red Skelton that I think sums me up quite well:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> "A clown is the depth of all emotion. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">His soul cries out for his fellow man. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He understands people so well he can mime them without hating them. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I believe the clown is the most serious of all men and the most lonely, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for he is seldom recognized once his grotesque makeup is removed."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">That's me . . . I think I was pretty good at showing a side of me that people expected to see. While, inside, so many time, I was crying so hard that I thought I would never stop.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">09 Dec 2010</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know how I posted two videos of music I want played at my funeral . . . it's either my way or the highway when it comes to special days in my life.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, I heard something the other day that I think is PERFECT, and, of course, I just love singing with the chorus every time it comes on the radio.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">So, Lauren, Chris and Matt . . . you better make sure you check out this blog when I die so you, at least, know the music I want and how I want things done.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Okay, when this gets played, I want everyone to sing along with the chorus . . so you might have to print the words so people know them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Video first so you know the song. This is SO PERFECT . . it was the last song sung on American Idol and the total happiness, love, joy and amazement that is shown to recap the season is exactly what I feel when I hear it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">So, please turn up your speakers, sit back and enjoy a tribute to "going back home."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are the lyrics to this version of the song . . . I think this chorus is SO BEAUTIFUL . . .and, I think, it has an even stronger meaning when I live so far from home. It's the last song I want to hear before I "go home" for good.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celebrate Me Home </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">~As sung by Ruben Studdard on American Idol </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm going home today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I believe me I've missed each and every face,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">get there and play my music,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Turn on every love light in the place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's time I found myself,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Totally surrounded in that circles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh,my friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please, celebrate me home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Give me a number,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">please, celebrate me home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Play me one more song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That I'll always remember,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can recall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">whenever I find myself too all alone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can sing me home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Uneasy highway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Traveling where the Westerly winds can fly,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Somebody tried to tell me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the man forgot to tell me why,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I gotta count on being gone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come on mama, come on daddy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Be what you want me as</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm this strong, I'll be weak</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please, celebrate me home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Give me a number,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">please, celebrate me home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Play me one more song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That I'll always remember,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can recall,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">whenever I find myself too all alone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can make believe I've never gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please, celebrate me home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Give me a number,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">please, celebrate me home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Play me one more song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Play me one more song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">somebody said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">celebrate me home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cant, wait to see ya,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't, wait to hold you,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you know I miss you, yeah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">come on and,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate me home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate me home,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well you know I'm finally here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And you don't have to worry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">no,no...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">no no no no no no</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So come on and celebrate, celebrate, celebrate me home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Credit: <a href="http://www.elyricsworld.com/">www.elyricsworld.com</a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, if you three will just play this song at the grave site and have everyone sing along, I will leave this world a happy person.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>06 April 2010</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When Gene and I were planning our wedding I knew exactly what I wanted. I wanted a wedding that I would have enjoyed attending. These were my goals:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">In the morning so I don't waste my whole day.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Comfortable clothes . . why should I have to dress up? The bride and groom know what I dress like and no one cares what I look like anyway.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Food that Gene and I would have served people if they came to our home for a meal . . AND I wanted to serve Beef on Weck and Buffalo Chicken Wings both done the way they are made in Buffalo, NY.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Something for the young kids who came with their parents. It can be SO BORING for a child at an adult reception . . that's where the pizza came in . . wanted plane cheese pizza so kids would have something they liked. So I made a coloring book about the wedding and found toys and games that were close to $1 and the sunglasses were a hit with all ages.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">TAKE NO DECORATIONS BACK HOME! We had stored all our decorations (bought at MAJOR sales the previous winter . . snowmen and snowflakes are hard to find any other time of the year and that was the theme of our Dec. 20, 2003 wedding . . winter) on the front porch. We had enough to decorate 20+ round tables for 8 people. Made a "welcome" booklet and placed them at each seat . . on the back I told people to take what they liked . . and we ended up with enough decorations to decorate 1 table . . so they did follow what I wanted. PLUS, they took the decorations from the rest of the building which was part of the deal . . Started out the marriage, that way, with a clean slate!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I wanted Diane and Joyce to wear clothes that they would wear again. Found jackets that I bought for them and they each had a black skirt, mock turtle neck, black hose and shoes of their own . . so THAT was a success also. What woman at our age wants to buy a fancy dress for a wedding and never wear it again . . what a waste!</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, you may ask what does that have to do with a funeral?" Since I didn't get to pick how I came into the world, Dr. Hillis told Mom on Jan. 11, 1951, that she was going to have a baby that day. Mom picked Dad up from work with a suitcase in the car and told him, "We're having a baby today."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">They went to the hospital, Dr Hillis broker her water and I was born that night around supper time. Dr. Hillis went out to find Dad and tell him he had a baby girl and wouldn't find Dad. When he told Mom, who was woozy from the anesthetic, she told him she had sent Dad home to be with Lee and Grandma . . .she was worried because Lee had never been home for supper without one of them there . . and he had just turned 4 so she figured Dad belonged with him . . Now how many mother's would do that today?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">So, Hopefully Lauren, Chris and Matt will send me out of this world in the way I want to go. Kind of like the wedding, I want a funeral that I would enjoy going to. Don't think I am sick . . I know that people go to the funeral home to pay their respects and then get talking to people they meet who are there. I want them to feel welcomed there . . again, like they were at my home . . only I'm a lot more quiet than usual . . he he he he . . and you won't get fur on your clothes when you sit down . . . now THAT is sick!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Whenever I remember something I want, or hear music I want, I'll put it on my blog with the tag "funeral." Then the kids (who are hopefully old adults themselves by the time I go) will be able to find it . . PLEASE STILL BE A SITE, BLOGSPOT! ! !</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Today I heard two songs that I remembered I want played. First we have Bon Jovi's "Who Says You Can't Go Home." I think this will be great. If I die in Western New York, I will have to be taken back to Logansport since that is where I have a spot to be buried, along with Gene, right next to Mom and Dad. So, no matter where I am, I'm GOING HOME both figuratively and literally.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5CeX5VEo10c" width="480"></iframe> <span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I spent 20 years trying to get out of this place<br />I was looking for something I couldn't replace<br />I was running away from the only thing I've ever known<br />Like a blind dog without a bone<br />I was a gypsy lost in the twilight zone<br />I hijacked a rainbow and crashed into a pot of gold<br />I been there, done that and I ain't lookin' back on the seeds I've sown,<br />Saving dimes, spending too much time on the telephone<br />Who says you can't go home<br /><br />[Chorus]<br />Who says you can't go home<br />There's only one place they call me one of their own<br />Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home<br />Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact<br />There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home<br />It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright<br /><br />I went as far as I could, I tried to find a new face<br />There isn't one of these lines that I would erase<br />I lived a million miles of memories on that road<br />With every step I take I know that I'm not alone<br />You take the home from the boy, but not the boy from his home<br />These are my streets, the only life I've ever known,<br />who says you can't go home<br /><br />[Chorus]<br /><br />I been there, done that and I ain't looking that<br />It's been a long long road<br />Feels like I never left, that's how the story goes<br /><br />It doesn't matter where you are, it doesn't matter where you go<br />If it's a million miles aways or just a mile up the road<br />Take it in, take it with you when you go,<br />who says you can't go home<br /><br />[Chorus]<br /><br />It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright<br />Who says you can't go home [x2]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>03 April 2010</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />When I 1st heard this song, I was taken with it. For some reason, it affected me on a level I had never felt . . . it truly reaches to the bottom of my soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm sitting on the couch with the "summer" breeze blowing in the window onto my neck. I was sitting on the swing . . but the arm rest start to kill my back. Yes, I sit on a swing "side-saddle" back against an armrest and feet up on the swing. I guess one could call my swing my version of a moving chaise lounge.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">But, here comes my favorite blog word, I digress.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">As I was on the 'puter, this song came through the speaker that is behind me. I swear, there it was again, that feeling that grabbed at the deepest part of my soul. I had to find the video and figure out how to keep it for posterity . . at least I hope it stays posted for posterity. One day, I may have a need to hear it and this way I can find it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">And another thing, if Lauren, Chris or Matt read this (or if anyone knows them, tell them to get in here and read this) I want this played at my funeral with people singing it with the vim and vigor that I do when I hear it in the car. I roll down the window and sing with all my heart . . probably drive the other drivers nuts. But I know I have to sound better than the pounding of a base beat that reverberates through your car that is coming from a car three cars behind you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He said: "I was in my early forties,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"With a lot of life before me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"An' a moment came that stopped me on a dime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I spent most of the next days,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Looking at the x-rays,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"An' talking 'bout the options an' talkin’ ‘bout sweet time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I asked him when it sank in,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That this might really be the real end?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How’s it hit you when you get that kind of news?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Man whatcha do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An' he said: "I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He said "I was finally the husband,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"That most the time I wasn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"An' I became a friend a friend would like to have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And all of a sudden goin' fishin’,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Wasn’t such an imposition,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And I went three times that year I lost my Dad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Well, I finally read the Good Book,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And I took a good long hard look,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"At what I'd do if I could do it all again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like tomorrow was a gift,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And you got eternity,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To think about what you’d do with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An' what did you do with it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An' what can I do with it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An' what would I do with it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"And I watched Blue Eagle as it was flyin'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To live like you were dyin'."</span></div>
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paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-75274226459408982462020-01-04T13:39:00.000-08:002020-01-04T13:39:17.617-08:00Zen Doodle<span style="font-size: large;">Have you herd of the Pop a Cork and Paint classes? Have I told you I have been taking them for over a year? I really need to check y posts and see if i have posted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That will come later, this post s about the Zen Doodle class I have been taking for several months now. Have you ever doodled when you were on the phone or taking notes in a class? I always doodled on my notes in school, some were rather nice and some looked like chicken scratches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I saw what ZenDoodle was I had to take a class. Talked to my niece, who does Pop a Cork with me, and she wanted to too. This is really our "girl time" </span><span style="font-size: large;">together. It was funny, we started to bond as adults when we moved from Indiana to Western New York. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">31 Oct 2019 class was titled "Paisley." Our "challenge" was:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">to draw paisley shapes, in the form of a wreath,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">fill the shapes in with assorted "doodle" designs,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">shadow the design to make the designs "pop" out.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I did pretty good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">04 Nov 2019 was lines/3D. The goal, make a design, with lines only, that, when colored in looked like 3 or more layers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I did fairly well on this one. I was sure more relaxed this time.</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">18 Nov 2019 Our challenge was to make a leaf with doodles in color.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that I look at it, I'm pretty happy with it. We used some water color pencils for the background, mine didn't "wash out" well, but it was a first try.I do like the color in the leaf, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">09 Dec 2019 . . . Poinsettia's . . . WOWZA. Challenge was to make the leaves show depth. I decided on this one that I REALLY like the black on white look. All black and white work is don in fine tipped Sharpies with a wider tipped Sharpie to do the outline of the designs.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">219 Dec 09 . . . Poinsettia</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This Poinsettia was done by my niece, Lauren. She has the knack for art designs. She always has been good so these classes bring out her talents. Can you believe she did her full design in pencil with pencil shading. I am so jealous ! Well, I shouldn't be . . .she can't crochet and I can. LOLOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">09 Dec 2019's class was on Ornaments. Elizabeth is my great niece, daughter of Lauren's brother. her mother thought she would enjoy the class. this known, I made the class part of her Christmas present.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2019 Dec 09 . . . Elizabeth 01</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I like her football . . . her dad and grandpa (my brother) coach/coached football </span><span style="font-size: large;">and she used that shape. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The green lines may look like scribbles but when she was doing it, she moved her hand down the page and her marks staid at the same angle. Amazed us all that the angles remained constant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Elizabeth is a left handed 2nd grader. When she finished her first ornament one could see an understanding and she caught on to what the idea was. this was her start on her last ornament. Not sure if she ever finished it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Elizabeth wanted her babysitter to come to the class with her. This is Hannah's ornament. She has some skill too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My hubby has been taking these classes too. He has a real artistic flare and unusual thinking pattern. His middle ornament is really awesome in person. The spiral on the bottom almost sparkles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now mine. When I went into class I knew I wanted three round ornaments but not sure what to put inside. I also knew i wanted the left one divided into three sections but no idea what to put in the sections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The right "ball" design came quickly. Filling it in was hard, I couldn't think of the designs I wanted. Once I figured that out, I was flying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the middle one. By now I knew I wanted it divided into 3 sections. I asked Elizabeth to fill in the middle section like she did her last ornament. She did and I knew I was going to fill in the shapes with straight lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Left ornament was the hardest. I took some circle shapes and placed them in the center section. I thought they were even, of course, they weren't. I added smaller circles and still not happy. When I connected the circles with some "curly q" designs I knew I had hit on the right feel. I finished the top and bottom sections to go along with the outer edges of my other two ornaments. I don't know if you can see the shadowing in the ornaments. It is amazing how that shadow takes the flat drawing into a 3-D feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Monday, 06 Jan 2019. our challenge is going to be quilt blocks done in ZenDoodle. I looked up some quilt samples for something different. Here is my practice design, the quilt block name is Card Trick. What do you think?</span></div>
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paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-62875017850128420252019-12-13T21:03:00.002-08:002019-12-13T21:03:54.001-08:00E's Snowman Hat<span style="font-size: large;">I've been at it again. I had this urge to make a Snowman sock hat. Well, honesty, I bought a cake of Lion Brand's "Just My Stripe" in Cherry. I thought white </span><span style="font-size: large;">snowmen on this red yarn look would pop out. I think it worked.</span><br />
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paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-36351477568621034272019-12-01T11:49:00.001-08:002019-12-01T16:13:00.763-08:00Christmas Cutouts<span style="font-size: large;">This is my mother-in-law's Christmas Cutout recipe. The husband was looking for it today. When he couldn't find it he started ranting and raving . . . "Christmas was ruined," "Now I can't make any cookies at all," throw the metal bar stool and threw himself into his recliner and pouted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, I know the recipe has to be somewhere UNLESS he decided to unhook it from his mother's other recipes and didn't put it back (which is totally possible. He loses his wallet at least once a week. The man REFUSES to put it back in the same place each time he takes it out of his pocket OR when he takes it out of the car where it normally is.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even IF it had become lost forever I know his sister has the recipe because they have discussed how hers are different than his (she rolls her's thinner) but he was so mad he wouldn't listen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once he calmed down, i got her number ready and he called her cell. She and her husband were on the road from her daughter's house (normal 8 hour drive and they had already been on the road 6 hours) in a horrible snow storm that wasn't expected to be that bad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had just found the recipe, exactly where it has ALWAYS been since I made these laminated recipe cards for him for our 1st Christmas. How he had looked over it (the first in a pack of 14 cards) is beyond me. Except, I know when he is looking for something, somehow, it could bite him on the nose and he still wouldn't see it.</span><br />
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paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-7553504897881267012019-11-11T16:19:00.002-08:002019-11-11T16:19:24.955-08:00Crochet Towel Topper<span style="font-size: large;">Time for a new pattern. Really, I am running behind. I have 7 sets of these to make before Thanksgiving. I want people to have them when they decorate for Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We bought the towels last year at Big Lots on their After Christmas Sale. I know, I know . . . I should have started them then. I've never done things early but always seemed to get them done on time. May have to send some late . . . like my family isn't used to that. LOLOL</span><br />
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<br />paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-54681077398915669552019-10-13T13:33:00.001-07:002019-10-13T13:33:27.274-07:00Update, I Think, Then Again, Maybe Not<span style="font-size: large;">The husband has had either a head or a chest cold since last Wednesday. I think he is getting better but my throat has just started hurting and now my eyes are watering like crazy . . . NOT a happy camper. I have this saying since I retired, "Sick days sure aren't the same when I can't take time off of school to get better."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have I told you we have a new addition to our family? If I have, then you know what this post is about. If not, then it is about time I post this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This little beauty's picture was posted on Facebook by a former student. A mutual friend tagged me because she knew I was looking for a cat, not a kitten. The girl who had owned her had died 2 years ago and she had her for a time before she died so I knew she was a full grown cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have told people this was a match made in heaven from the start. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Her owner's husband, sisters and I all grew up in the same church and have known each other since birth.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I talked to Gene and he knew how much I anted her. I saw her picture on Thursday, made arrangements on Friday and picked her up on Saturday afternoon, I think Sept 21.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She wasn't happy when I met her. She was running through the apartment like a banshee. Man, was she fast. On about her fourth pass I was lucky and caught her. Then putting her in a carrier was a treat. brought her into the house, Willa and Indy had to check her out then left. I let her out and she was under my end table faster than lightening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She came out Saturday and Sunday nights, meow a little, we would call her name (Kiki or Keke, not sure). she would go running through our half bath, through our bedroom and out the hall door. Again, fast as a banshee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday she actually showed her face during the day. Doesn't she look traumatized. And her fur was lackluster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found out which vet she had gone to. Went there on Monday and picked up her paperwork. Found out her name was Kitty. Guess her Mom had called her Kitty, Kitty and the kids heard it as Kiki.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Monday night, when I heard her out, I went in and put the recliner back, threw a blanket on and waited to see what she would do. She jumped up on my chest, wanted petted, then jumped off. She did this all night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday, Sept 24, she actually came out when the living room lights were on. As she scooted past me I grabbed her. She wasn't thrilled but she let me hold and brush her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her fur was still disheveled. When I brushed her she actually purred. I got two brush fulls of fur out of her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see she looked a lot better after the grooming. She is a BEAUTIFUL animal and as soft as she looks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For about the 1st week she was here, when I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night I would come out to the living room, recline as far back as I could, throw a blanket on and wait to see what she would do. By the end of the week she was spending a lot of the night on me, but still not coming out during the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 2nd week it got SO MUCH BETTER. Not only did she come out some during the day, she decided she liked jumping up on top of a china cabinet and looking down at her "underlings."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The dining room table is what she jumps on to get to the top of the cabinet. One day when she hadn't jumped off the table I gave her a handful of treats. MAN did she like them. Now when I get the treats out I shake the jar so she will associate the sound with treats. Then, maybe I will be able to coax her out of her daylight sleeping spot with shaking the can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time to go . . I think I'll take a hot shower, try to open up my head, take a "shot" of cold medicine and hope whatever I have is gone tomorrow.</span></div>
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paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-1145060613731986722019-10-11T16:34:00.000-07:002019-10-11T16:34:42.529-07:00Pop-a-Cork Pumpkins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">These are our last paintings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from our</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pop a Cork and Paint class</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His work is always so free flowing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I'm going to buy him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He has so much skill</span></div>
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<br />paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-47331535551614208622019-09-12T11:18:00.000-07:002019-10-11T16:35:17.993-07:00Pop A Cork<span style="font-size: large;">Do you have "Pop-A-Cork and Paint" classes in your area? A girl I taught next door to for YEARS and who was a year behind me in high school retired the year I did, 2006. She had plans for her retirement, I just went with the flow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A year or so before she retired she and her husband opened an art and framing gallery "Pear Tree Gallery." the name is from their surname, Partridge. She said she had the name picked out for years just waiting for the right time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My niece, who is the resident artist in the family, and I started taking the classes a year ago. I like the class BUT I also enjoy spending a couple hours a month with Lauren.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are our results.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've always liked the combo of sun and moon.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mine is the one on the left.<br />The one on the right was given to me by a school friend.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My artist niece Lauren and me.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This was a class my school friend wanted and invited her friends to it.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lauren and I again.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guess what month this was for?<br />I made my own version of these for my 2 cousins,<br />2 nieces and 2 nephews for Christmas.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">From L->R: Lauren, me and Gene</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lauren contemplating her next move.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I goofed my eyes so I gave my cow a "Joe Cool" vibe <br />while Gene's cow is giving mine the stink eye.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hummingbirds was the theme.<br />Mine, on the right, is a Narwhal in the disguise of a Hummingbird.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why did Teri catch me in a smirk :(</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lauren and I again. These were supposed to be summer flowers. <br />Mine was supposed to be a yellow Coneflower.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">When Lauren saw the "body" print I picked out she said, <br />"Aunt Paula, that will fit in your house."<br />Here it is with my Patio Door curtains.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-31238509829778731012019-07-20T16:02:00.000-07:002019-07-20T16:49:09.285-07:00Busy Week Doing Nothing<span style="font-size: large;">This is for Marlene . . . What is a Coneflower? That's a good question. Easiest way to explain my be to say they look like a daisy but with different colored petals. Oh, the butterflies and bees just LOVE THEM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most of ours are in front of the deck. There is a yellow one and a couple purple ones (my favorite) in the Butterfly Garden in the corner of the yard.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The front yellow plant is a Coneflower. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The yellow with the black center on the right </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is some orange and yellow toward the back, </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Butterfly Garden includes Daisies, Purple Coneflowers, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year we only sat on the deck one day . . . it was SO HOT all summer. This year we have had a temperatures in the 80's-90's F (heat index, during the day, in the lower 100 degree F) the last week or two. From what the weather people on TV say it is supposed to get better on Sunday. I hope so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier in the summer I sat out and swang several times and Gene sat at the table under the umbrella. Haven't eaten outside yet and I miss that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> veggies: green beans, pees, cucumbers, tomatoes, green peppers, red peppers, radishes and onions. Today he went out to check out on a rose he planted to see that I wasn't nuts, he did have a red rose blooming on it. He went over to the veggie garden and this is what he brought in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One last thing . . . Gene my niece and I went to a Pop A Cork And Paint last Wednesday. Lauren brought a HUMONGOUS Zucchini</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> from her garden to me . . . told me point blank it wasn't for sexual use . . . I almost lost it. So glad she and I are close enough (she is in her late 30's) that we can kid about that. Now I don't like the taste of zucchini EXCEPT in Zucchini Bread and Zucchini Custard Pie, so pie it was. (No comments about the crust . . . I have only made one homemade crust in my life and instead of doing that again I used my last frozen crust which had a broken edge.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally broke down and bought a Kindle Fire for the books I read. I was hoping that with it I could start reading in bed again AND taking it out on the swing (when the temp gets cool enough it won't melt) to read. Took me three days to figure out I couldn't get it connected to our WiFi. I went online and found the help I needed. Each day I tried a different possibility . . . nada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally on Day 4 I called out internet provider. "Thomas" who actually spoke English like someone born and raised in America so I could understand him. He checked our network, said it was working right. Then he told me to do two steps, exactly like I had done on Day 1, and it worked. Told him he was "magical". He told me anytime I need help fixing anything to call him. Asked it that included microwaves, stoves and ovens. He said, "Sure if they include WiFi." LOLOL</span>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-54736043481259590892019-07-18T09:24:00.003-07:002019-07-18T09:24:49.863-07:00Book Blurb<!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":32680,"width":324,"height":480,"sizeSlug":"large"} -->
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How is it possible to truly hate someone you once loved so much? <br />Well, it’s easy if that person is Enzo Black. <br />He was never hard to hate. It was loving him that was painfully difficult. <br />Loving him almost broke me—almost. Instead, it turned me into a crazy, heartless bitch. Ruthless. Cruel. Callous. Enzo Black is the man your mama, your auntie, your grandma, and your neighbor warned you about. He’s the man you avoid in a bar, on the street, and in the produce aisle. He’s the man you want but can’t have because he’s devoid of anything close to something worth having. Enzo black is a soulless asshole, one I still love, but sometimes I wonder if I actually love the man or if I’m addicted to all the dirty things he does to me. <br />Hell, it’s probably both.<br />
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Reader. Writer. Crazy person. Lover of all things home décor and the color black.<br />Jaci lives on the coast in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her lovely, but crazy family. If she's not reading or writing you can find her wandering the isles of a home store or hanging out with her monster son. <br />She's the author of The Hell's Disciples MC series and The Sick and Twisted Love series. <br />You can find her on Facebook: <a href="https://facebook.com/authorjacij">https://facebook.com/authorjacij</a> or her website: <a href="https://jacijauthor.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://jacijauthor.com </a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">False sunflower on the left, zinnias in the front and butterfly loving plants behind.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">False sunflower (Heliotrope I think).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">More coneflower "babies" by the deck, <br />orange and yellow coneflowers came in the same pot.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daylilly closeup</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ornamental grass and false sunflowers.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Close up of previous pix.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Butterfly Garden waiting to bloom</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This was full of gladiolas last year. No idea what happened :(</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of our many bunnies in the garden.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Geraniums don't like me so this is the only one that survived.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chokecherry and another bunny.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">There actually is a rose planted down there being visited by a bunny and squirrel.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Three new sets of prayer flags. Last years (from Nepal) are over the swing.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Four minutes. That's all it took to change my</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">life forever. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I once had a purpose in life. Had a direction.</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Four damn minutes changed it all. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I tried to live for my club. I was doing what</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I needed to do each day. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I was in a bad place when I met Lyric. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">She wasn't much better.</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Together we found a way to move on. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I found some sort of strength in her and she</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">found safety and love in me. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The only question now is....</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Is that enough for me?</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">░S░n░e░a░k░ </span><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: "UI sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">✶</span><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> ░P░e░e░k░:</span><span style="color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“What is this?” She sits up and looks down at the shirt in her hands. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“That,” I say pointing at it, “is my shirt. Put it on. You slept in yours,” I remind her. Her eyes jerk to mine, something’s off in them.</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“What now? You don’t like my shirt?” I ask playing with her. I hold my hand over my heart to fake emotion. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">Lyric shakes her head before looking away. “I get that guys think it’s sexy for the woman to wear his shirt, but that’s when it looks like a dress on her. This won’t fit me.” I sigh and run my hand through my hair. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“It will fit you and you will look sexy as fuck in it. You have to stop downin’ yourself like that, Lyric,” I tell her. My patience with this “I’m fat thing” is wearing thin. I’ve had about all I care to hear about it. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“I’m not, Crow. I’m telling the damn truth. I’m too fat to wear your clothes,” she snaps. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“What size is that goddamn shirt you have on?” I snap back. </span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“An extra extra large,” she says almost sounding embarrassed.</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“Well, what the fuck do you know? So is mine! Put it on or I will do it for you, Lyric,” I demand. She looks up at me with tears in those blue eyes. I walk over and sit on the edge of the bed, grabbing her face in my hand.</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">“I get why you feel like you do. I don’t see you like that. I think that you look sexy as hell in whatever the fuck you have on. Don’t compare yourself to others. You aren’t them.” I press a kiss to her forehead before standing and watching her.</span><br /><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">Top of Form</span><br /><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);">░M░O░R░E</span></span><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: "UI sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">✶</span><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I░N</span><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: "UI sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">✶</span><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240); color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">S░E░R░I░ E░S░</span><span style="color: #444950; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="background: rgb(241, 240, 240);"><img alt="💀" border="0" height="16" id="yiv5650965387Picture_x0020_6" src="https://dl-mail.ymail.com/ws/download/mailboxes/@.id==VjN-pXkFRp7KhTm_OVJ00xVi0vD4aXaeUZbntTrgcVSEV5snYtk5eRDUJYOhse2tTBdFGl2LEeEb8L4Fd0GBJs5fOA/messages/@.id==APJJ-dZtn_soXQK1dwCQiMdRtwQ/content/parts/@.id==1.3/raw?appid=YMailNorrin&ymreqid=8a948b33-cb93-52dc-1c7f-ef02c401ef00&token=zitEzqOML3j84e6ealFTT5U7-km5qEQF52lp7AcCuBbfkSzY30d_TIqHkW0u5CmnSmh0zBPymSAzUMCAXBBHbichWxIw6vok_JllTmbOP03Kq2x236OSj64rSSjwoc6v" style="min-height: 0.1666in; 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paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-80349849577296486942019-04-28T14:11:00.001-07:002019-04-28T14:13:52.571-07:00Hard Weekend<span style="font-size: large;">Last month was Marcus' 16 Gotcha Day. Saturday she had been with us 16 years 1 month and 1 day . . . and now, we are catless.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nosey the Calico, behind her are her sisters Marcus on the left and Matthew on the right.<br />This picture was taken before we moved to New York in June 2016.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had to think for a minute but it has been 39 - 40 years since I welcomed Coke, my beautiful, long white haired barn cat into Paka and my family. Ever cat Paka or Tavish have welcomed into our home has fallen in love with these two. Either I had two dogs who thought they were cats, or we adopted cats who thought they were dogs. Either way, all of our lives were made better by the cats who walked through out hearts.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2017 . . . when Marcus (on the left) and Matthew (on the right) were healthy.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marcus was a sweet girl. Her litter mates all had distinct personalities but Marcus was just Marcus. She fit into our life life a silk glove fits a hand . . . she just slid in and was perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The move to New York in 2006 and then back to Indiana in 2016 didn't phase her or her sister Matthew. Granted it took a while for them to figure out where they were going to hide out here, but once they found the guest bedroom bed they were "at home" again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She didn't let it stop her around the house. She started eating better and was back to her old happy self.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her evenings had returned to visiting us in the living room and rubbing up against her buddy Indy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, I forgot, she also started coming into the living room to see what Dad had to offer her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was in January. Then I realized she was losing weight. It had happened before and she was placed on Thyroid medicine. Abbigail had gone through several years of Thyroid cream that was rubbed into her ear twice a day so doing it for Marcus was a piece of cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Honestly, I don't remember when she started but it had become a part of our morning and night routine for what seemed like years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But, alas, the meds weren't helping like they had. She had to go in for blood work and an IV of fluids, she was dehydrated, 6 weeks ago. At this time she weighed 6.5 pounds - down several pounds since her last visit following her eye surgery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Four weeks ago she had to go back in and was down to 4.5 pounds. doc Anderson wanted me to increase her Thyroid medicine. It seemed to help some. She was eating the soft food I was giving her (she had always eaten dry so we thought the wet/canned food would be easier for her and it was) and drinking water. So doc and us were happy.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">April 23, 2019, the last picture of Marcus in her favorite night position.<br />She would jump on the bed sometime in the middle of the night and curl up with Indy to sleep.<br />So glad I caught them one last time before she lost her strength to jump on the bed.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then this past week I noticed she felt so much thinner. She was still drinking some water but by Thursday night she was just licking the top of the wet food. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I knew we were coming to the end of our 16 year journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday morning I made the decision to call her doctor and make arrangement to help her over the Rainbow Bridge. We went in around 9:30 am. She now weighed only 4.5 pounds, she had lost 2 pounds in 6 weeks. Poor baby was nothing but skin and bones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had been in this same situation with Coke and Sadie so I knew what I was getting myself into. I knew I had to be there with all three of them to help them cross. I thanked God that she had been drinking water because her veins weren't collapsed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her vet is the sweetest . . . I hope one day I will have a doctor like him who will help me when it is time for me to Cross the Rainbow Bridge and see all my Fur~Babies again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Steve and Diane Bodofsky</span></div>
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By the edge of a woods, at the foot of a hill,<br />
Is a lush, green meadow where time stands still.<br />
Where the friends of man and woman do run,<br />
When their time on earth is over and done.<br />
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For here, between this world and the next,<br />
Is a place where each beloved creature finds rest.<br />
On this golden land, they wait and they play,<br />
Till the Rainbow Bridge they cross over one day.<br />
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No more do they suffer, in pain or in sadness,<br />
For here they are whole, their lives filled with gladness.<br />
Their limbs are restored, their health renewed,<br />
Their bodies have healed, with strength imbued.<br />
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They romp through the grass, without even a care,<br />
Until one day they start, and sniff at the air.<br />
All ears prick forward, eyes dart front and back,<br />
Then all of a sudden, one breaks from the pack.<br />
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For just at that instant, their eyes have met;<br />
Together again, both person and pet.<br />
So they run to each other, these friends from long past,<br />
The time of their parting is over at last.<br />
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The sadness they felt while they were apart,<br />
Has turned into joy once more in each heart.<br />
They embrace with a love that will last forever,<br />
And then, side-by-side, they cross over… together. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-66367614865005505912019-02-25T15:29:00.000-08:002019-02-25T15:29:03.904-08:00Wayuu Mochila Bags<a href="https://ii.bigdweb.com/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi?FIF=/images/bigdweb/source/9999.tif&wid=1000=&cvt=jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://ii.bigdweb.com/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi?FIF=/images/bigdweb/source/9999.tif&wid=1000=&cvt=jpeg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">I have always liked shoulder bags that look like a horses "fee" bag. As a matter of fact, if I could find a feed bag that zipped close at the top I would buy and use it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something about this shape soothes my eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found patterns for what are called "Mochila" bags. They are based on patterns of the Wayuu women of Venezuela and Columbia. I've posted mine earlier but, as of yet, I have not made one for myself.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the heart bag I made for myself. It ended up HUGE, but I LOVED the colors and design.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the Doxie bag I designed for my BFF,</span><br /><br /><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">
Somehow a group that helps sell the bags the women make found me on Ravelry and asked if I would like to share their <a href="https://wayuupatterns.com/en/blog" target="_blank">BLOG</a> and some of their bags. (They also told me they would send me a couple bracelets as a thank you . . . with my big wrists, 8 1/2" circumference, I doubt they will fit but that is fine.)</div>
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<b><u><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><em style="color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">a no-kill dog shelter in Western New York </em></span><em style="color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">or in my home state of Indiana.</em></u></b></div>
paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-27076115993922201952019-01-27T10:17:00.001-08:002019-01-27T10:17:43.714-08:00Elephant Border with Flat Ears<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UOlJH6u6SfA" width="480"></iframe>paulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15846739006616734636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607177305040851592.post-15782427724460976422019-01-26T18:26:00.001-08:002019-01-26T18:26:19.955-08:00Popcorn Stitch Sock Hat for E<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Haven't posted in FOREVER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finished this hat today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The pattern is free and can be made in baby to adult sizes.</span></div>
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