Technology

Look how far music has come since 1878 when the phonograph was invented. By 1910 the 10-inch (25.4cm) record was by far the most popular standard, holding about three minutes of music. This ipod model can hold up to 2000 songs.

Wow we have come along way!!

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Melt Aways

This post is for a friends sister. She looks at our Blog often (Never leaving a comment) but has asked her sister many times why I haven't posted the melt away recipe. Well here it is Julie. By the way in our family we really call the Melt Away... Julie Cookies because my cousin Julie gave us the recipe and makes them every year.

Melt Aways

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup margarine or butter (softened)

1/3 cup heavy cream

Mix the ingredients into a dough and chill for an hour. Roll out half at a time to 1/8" thick and cut into 1 1/2" rounds. Carefully dip both sides of cookie in sugar and place on ungreased baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Poke with a fork 4 times and bake 7-9 min. at 375 F. When cool fill with filling and sandwich together.

Creamy filling:

3 cups powdered sugar

4 teaspoons vanilla

1 cup margarine or butter

food color if desired

Mix all filling ingredients until smooth and fluffy. I've found this amount of frosting will do a double batch of wafers.

These cookies take time to make but are worth it. They really do melt in your mouth!!

One Month!

#48 Jimmy Johnson

#9 Kasey Kahne

The Budweiser shoot-out is in one month! One Month??? You mean it's not time for racing yet? In our house, a normal Sunday is watching the race. Depending on what time it is on, you may get some scrapbooking done or driving a race car yourself. (on the computer) If Chris could get in one of those cars he would in a heartbeat!! (SHH..Don't tell his Mom!) Sunday is NO rule day. You eat what you want, you do what you want when you want!!

You gotta love Sundays!!

Organizing

I was reading this months Scrapbook Etc. magazine and I came across this organizing idea so I thought I would give it a try. Do you have a lot of ribbon? Leah Fung says "instead of digging through mounds of tangled ribbons, she likes to use floss containers to keep her stash neat and organized". I found this one at Joann's for $4.99 then I used my 40% off. I think it is going to work well. I am tring to make it easier to get to things I use all the time when I'm scrappin'. I'm getting there. Our niece stopped over this weekend and was in the computer/scrapbook room and said "you better watch out Uncle Chris, Aunt Laurie is going to be pushing you out soon". Does this mean I have too much scrapbook stuff? (I don't think so!!!) You can go to the Scrapbook Etc. web site by clicking HERE.

Horses

On our way home from dropping Chris's deer off, I asked him to please pull over so I could take a picture of these horses.

You don't see silos like this one around here very often. When we were younger, our cousins lived on a farm and we played basketball in the silo. Yes, with the hay. It isn't good when you are allergic to hay!

These horses look like they are really taken care of.

Click on pictures to enlarge.

Surprise Dinner For Hubby!

This used to be what we had at Chris's families house on New Years Day. His Grandma used to make it, and then his Mom. We haven't had it on New Years for a couple of years, so I thought I would surprise him this weekend and make it for him. It.. is Pork Roast and Sour kraut. I cooked the pork roast for a while so I could make homemade gravy. Then I cooked the pork roast in the sour kraut for a couple more hours. (It gives the pork such a good flavor even though I don't eat sour kraut!) We also had mashed potato's, corn (Yes he has corn on his plate. It is under the gravy on his potato's. My brother and father do the same thing with their corn and potato's.) He also had Butter Beans (none for me thanks!) and a biscuit. Chris really seemed to enjoy his surprise. The only question was "WHY DID I EAT SOOO MUCH?"

ANSWER: It was so good honey.

Thanks!!