Who are these people??
Do you ever look at who looks at your stuff? It surprises me the people who read this...in just a week...
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Eggsperimenting!!
I have checked the stats on the blog and apparently - since I started this blog a little over a year ago - the osmosis experiment using eggs has been one of the most popular posts with 1051 views as of today. So, here it is again!! Or, the link to it! :) Enjoy!
Peanut Butter Cheesecake :)
super yummy - super rich! could not even finish off one piece... so here is the how to - make some homemade whipped cream add some peanut butter, brown sugar, about half a cup of milk and some cream cheese... mix it all together well... then make some graham cracker crust by crumbing graham crackers and mixing with butter and pressing into pie plate. put batter into pie plate and place in freezer to harden up some... break up one more graham cracker and pound up some chocolate chips to sprinkle on top...
growing ginger
we bought some organic ginger at the health store the other day....i forgot about it and when i looked at it again in the box, it had sprouted...mind you, it is not ginger planting season by any means in this area right now...but, it had started to grow and i could not kill it or let it die...hence, it was planted. who knew this stuff could be so easy to grow...i literally think i could step away and come back and it would grow...
Ghosts from the past...
I have been watching a Civil War show tonight that I recorded earlier from PBS. My younger son and I recently did a fieldtrip Friday to a cemetery in a neighboring city. We came across the separate African American cemetery here. This of course created a candid discussion about attitudes framing history in general. We also went to the Confederate cemetery. I love learning and reading about the Civil War. This started when I was younger and found my still now interest in ancestry. My uncle told me stories he learned from his grandparents when he was younger. Some of these involved Sherman and his march of terror, the atrocities he forced upon helpless families, sometimes alone with women and children while the men were off at war. I learned first hand, from stories passed down, how my great grandparents of several generations ago, along with aunts and uncles and cousins, were raped, maimed, tortured, starved, and killed...under the orders of a man who is honored in the North in...
Making Dreamcatchers...
Made a dreamcatcher tonight...it's a small one. It was for practice, but turned out to not be so bad. First one I ever made...now my younger child is sitting next to me starting one of his own... I covered a plastic ring (from recycled plastic lid, cut into a ring) with yarn. I started the weave. This is about one to two rows in. Almost to the center. Getting ready to tie off the center and add a bead. Beads, strings, and some feathers added. Ready to hang up for decoration. Center of weave and beads up close. Feather and beads up close.