Words, words, words

So today I was asked by a distant not quite relative to compose my thoughts about Harris as hero in his military service and recovery from his "adventure." That's easy! Then I was told to do it in 150 words. HA! That's just silly! I know how to be succinct. I don't often choose to be, but I do know how. I like words. I love making up words and do it all the time. When people say "Is that really a word?" I say "Did you know what I was trying to say? If so, then it's a word." Loose definition, I know, but I stand by it. It turns out one (maybe more) of the boys is really, really good with words. He doesn't make them up, he just does a really good job of using a wide variety of them. I have a hunch his punctuation is not all that terrific - he reads his compositions to me - but his word choice is amazing. This makes me very happy. Maybe he will have a blog some day. He did write a poem when my dad died that still makes me cry every time I read it or even think about it. I married a guy who is also great with words. Never, ever ask him to proofread something after it is published. You will regret it. So my 563-word composition will have to be trimmed down. Maybe I got the assignment wrong. I'll check into that. . .

Oh, and another thing. . .

Are you allowed more than one post per day? If not, please don't report me to the blog police - I'm still new at this! Okay, Sunday evening update: dinner was a smashing success. Curtis came over, Harris came home from the lake and the 4 of us had roast on our new deck furniture. Lovely evening, yummy food and some of my best work for company - good times! Here are the cobbler recipe and some photos.

Jamboree Peach Cobbler:

1/2 cup marg or butter (I use butter)

1 cup flour

2 cups sugar(divided)

1/2 tsp salt

1 Tbsp baking pwd

1 cup milk

3 cups fresh peeled sliced peaches (I use more)

1 tsp cinnamon
dash of nutmeg

Preheat over to 350 degrees. Melt marg in 9x13 baking dish. Sift flour, 1 cup sugar, salt & baking pwd; blend w/ milk. Pour mixture over melted marg. Spread peaches over this & sprinkle w/ other cup of sugar mixed w/ cinnamon. Bake about 50 mins. to 1 hr. Crust will magically appear & cover entire surface of cobbler.

Enjoy!

Recipe courtesy of my mother-in-law. Laundry is still tumbling but I took some time to clear off one of the more cluttered surfaces in my studio and make a list of projects and their degree of completion. Thankfully, the list is not as daunting as I imagined. I think I'll go to work tomorrow to take it easy for a few hours. . .

Ahhhhhh Sunday

Well here we are at 3:00 Sunday afternoon and so far - it's been a really productive day! I taught Sunday School for the last time this school year and the kids were great. I took a photo to post but I have to wait for one more parent to give me permission to post it before I can share. The Pentecost service was great complete with an awesome sermon. Then after a quick stop at Wally World to exchange a boo-boo purchase I made last night, I came home, started a roast (Sunday roast - gotta love that!), changed clothes and ran to the quilt shop. We won't talk about how it's my third trip there in as many days. They did not have the fabric I went to get. I had to change my game plan for my show quilt. Fortunately, I don't have much trouble with this sort of thing. I decided what plan B would be, made my purchase and headed home. I have now finished the quilt top for what will be one of 3 show quilts and it is so freakin cool!! Wanna see a photo? Too bad! I don't want to post a photo until show time in July.

Next on the agenda is some baking. I have to get a peach cobbler into the oven and then I will bake a loaf of beer batter bread to go with the roast. The peach cobbler will be made with peaches from our tree! They are delicious and thanks to my mother-in-law, I have a great recipe for cobbler. In between all this kitchen nonsense, I will knock out a couple of loads of laundry. Boring, I know, but I am building a picture of productivity here so I felt compelled to throw it in. Curtis is coming for dinner. Maybe Morgan and Harris too. Maybe I'll talk to Clayton and make it a perfect day. . .

In the blogging beginning. . .

I really, REALLY enjoy other peoples blogs. I think I will see if anyone enjoys mine. . .

The photo was taken on Mother's Day eve. We went to dinner and then they boys posed for the photo. Clayton was somewhere in West Texas.

Prepare for photos of quilts - especially ones under construction, photos of our fruit trees - they are overwhelmed with fruit that we are just now harvesting, and photos of people I love. I'm going to be 50 next month. There will be extensive photography of that!

Okay, I'm off to be inspiried. . .