LMBGLWAO!

So, can I just say….OMG! The last minute flurry to wrap has just hit my sister’s household.I was put on milk and cookies duty. (you know, making it looklike the special man has eaten his fill….) My sister handed my the note my youngest niece left for the Claus man.I couldn’t believe my sister landed […]

Truffle update…& the thing about Chartreuse

The mango/coconut truffles will NOT be orange.I just learned that typical food coloring cannot be usedin chocolates. You need a special oil-based food coloringfrom snobby candy/cake supply stores.The water in the other coloring will ruin the chocolate… AND…I went with my dad to the liquor store(Kentucky LOVES its booze, the liquor stores are HUGE!)to get […]

Protected: The Tissue-y Drive & the Warrior Dream

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Do you ever get that feeling…You know…no? Let me elaborate. Every so often, I notice this point in the cycle.Even though I seem well balanced and productive and ‘present’I feel no reaction – or interaction – from the world around me. I am a pretty big guy, as stated before.Loud voice, big presence. Bigger than […]

another from the hole…

i was… and you were there [the mark of a true friend]for rich, and everyone else in my life2.22.95 i was once a tribal herbalist,and you were there, too,healing our clansmen, side by side.i was an actor in ancient greece,and you sat amongst the crowd of the amphitheaterenthralled by my recitation.i was once a knight […]

Protected: The Tribal Muses

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And I was doing so well…

This year I thought I was going to make it… My family has let go of the endless gift buying and giving thing,so I felt no financial pressure what-so-ever… I thought I was going to make it… Even though I knew I could not tolerate a big party this year,I decorated enough – inside – […]

Cookie-Marathon – Part Tre-foil

And another set done.One kind of cookie and two types of fudge. Vanilla-cranberry and butterscotch-pecan fudge.The easiest recipe EVER! Got it from my mom, of course.She is far too sensible and practical for those long, drawn-out75 step kinda recipes… The cookies are from my eldest sister’s recipe box,(which technically is mostly my mom’s and grandmothers’ […]

Cookie-Marathon – Part Dough

So last night I started the (hopefully) wrap-up of holiday cookie baking.More jello flavored press cookies and gum drop bars…Although I left the latter in the pan over night and they already may be stale.DAMMIT! Good thing everyone else in my family bakes those too, there will be plenty… I hope to continue most of […]

Some things left behind in SD & doing the right thing…

Okay, I am back in KCMO.The drive was long and the snow is gone… I found this slip of paper I kept from the place where we ate two lunches and a dinner.YUM! They had these place-mats with word jumbles and stuff,about hunting dogs and fishing…remember South Dakota. I wanted to share the fish humor […]