It was great being with my niece today too! She is such a delight and so entertaining. She is becoming quite a whiz at playing games. She keeps a Monopoly game going with her Meme - and is always challenging me to some game! She is so sharp!!!
Well - I am attempting something quite different from anything I have ever done! I have the beginnings of "Cake Balls" started - but it is a slow process! First you bake a cake - then you crumble it up and mix it with icing. Then it needs to chill overnight or for 5 or 6 hours. After that - you take and roll out about 1-1/2 inch balls. Then they must freeze. Then the fun starts - you dip them in coating and decorate. Mine are in the freezer right now! Guess I will dip and decorate tomorrow night!!! I'll take a picture of my attempts and post it for you - with further and more detailed instructions!!!
This afternoon we went and purchased the groceries for the Wednesday night meal we will prepare. IT is going to be Glazed, spiral cut ham, Sweet potato casserole, green beans almond, rolls and Apple tortillas. So - come eat with us!!
Thinking about Mark's sermon tonight led me to think about an email I received today. It was about how thankful we should be for our washers and dryers. I want to share this with you!!
Years ago an Alabama grandmother gave the new bride the following recipe
WARSHING CLOTHESthis is an exact copy as written and found in an old scrapbook -
with spelling errors and all.
Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water. Set tubs so smoke
wont blow in eyes if wind is pert. Shave one hole cake of lie soap in boilin water.
Sort things, make 3 piles
1 pile white,
1 pile colored,
1 pile work britches and rags.
To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with
boiling water.
Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and boil, then
rub colored don't boil just wrench and starch.
Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then wrench, and
starch.
Hang old rags on fence.
Spread tea towels on grass.
Pore wrench water in flower bed. Scrub porch with hot soapy water.
Turn tubs upside down.
Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs.. Brew cup of tea, sit
and rock a spell and count your blessings.
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Paste this over your washer and dryer Next time when you think things are
bleak, read it again, kiss that washing machine and dryer, and give
thanks.. First thing each morning you should run and hug your washer and
dryer, also your toilet---those two-holers used to get mighty cold!
Well - it really is getting late - so I am going to sign off! I'll let you know how the Cake Balls turn out! Have blessed tomorrow - and remember to Thank God for your blessings! They all come from Him!!
That was a true story -- I don't remember all of that - but we did have clothes lines - clothes smelled so good. My Mom would make my sister and I full, full, net pedicoats and we would wash them - and then starch them really stiff - and hang them on the lines to dry. I would stretch mine across a couple of lines so it would stand straight out!!! Oh what we girls did back then for "fashion!!"For you non-southerners - wrench means, rinse ;)
AND WE THINK WE HAVE IT ROUGH!
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