Hello. I think Spring is hiding again. It's sunny but cold outside. I had to wear my coat to take the dogs out at 10 am. They did what they needed to do then ran back to the door to be let back in. They all but pulled me back to the door to be let in. The cats were hiding under the camper and as soon as the door was opened they jumped inside even faster than the dogs could move. Hopefully this is the last cold spell. I don't mind cool so much but I don't like cold
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Tropical Banana Bread
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
12 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large bananas, mashed
8 oz can crushed pineapple, very well drained
12 cup toasted pecans pieces
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large bananas, mashed
8 oz can crushed pineapple, very well drained
12 cup toasted pecans pieces
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 9×5 inch metal loaf pan with flour-added
cooking spray.
Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl. Set aside.
Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, using high speed of an electric mixer;
add eggs, one by one, beating 30 seconds after each egg. Beat in vanilla and
bananas. Stir in pineapple.
Stir flour mixture into banana mixture in three parts - mixing (not beating)
with a spoon. Stir in pecans. Transfer to loaf pan.
Set loaf pan on a cookie sheet and place on center rack of oven and bake for 60
minutes or until loaf appears done and a wooden skewer inserted in center
cooking spray.
Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl. Set aside.
Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, using high speed of an electric mixer;
add eggs, one by one, beating 30 seconds after each egg. Beat in vanilla and
bananas. Stir in pineapple.
Stir flour mixture into banana mixture in three parts - mixing (not beating)
with a spoon. Stir in pecans. Transfer to loaf pan.
Set loaf pan on a cookie sheet and place on center rack of oven and bake for 60
minutes or until loaf appears done and a wooden skewer inserted in center
Makes 1 loaf
....or 4 mini loaves (bake for 30-35 minutes).
....or 4 mini loaves (bake for 30-35 minutes).
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"To a New House at Christmas"
by Rosemary Clifford Trott,
from the December 1957 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Magazine
This year - and hereafter -
Let every beam and rafter
Echo love and laughter.
Store up the sound of fife and drum,
Hold close new babies and the cry
Of young delight. Let children come.
Enclose much love, for people die,
And years grow old. You cannot keep,
Except in mind, the footsteps gone.
The homing heart may joy or weep.
Yours is the wonder that is born
Of holding close all those who call
Your roof their own. Confide to boughs
About your eaves in spring or fall,
In June or now, that life endows
A house with Christmas laughter
For now - and ever after.
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This year - and hereafter -
Let every beam and rafter
Echo love and laughter.
Store up the sound of fife and drum,
Hold close new babies and the cry
Of young delight. Let children come.
Enclose much love, for people die,
And years grow old. You cannot keep,
Except in mind, the footsteps gone.
The homing heart may joy or weep.
Yours is the wonder that is born
Of holding close all those who call
Your roof their own. Confide to boughs
About your eaves in spring or fall,
In June or now, that life endows
A house with Christmas laughter
For now - and ever after.
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Guardian Angel Ornament
In case you haven't noticed, I am the Queen of Late Last Minute! I saw this on Pinterest on the way to do my last little bit of Christmas shopping (don't worry - Leigh was driving). Thanks to Samantha at Southern Bell Scentz for the inspiration.
It is kind of hard to tell in the picture but the glass ornament is full of white feathers. I only had the flat disc type glass balls on hand and think that it would look better in a round ornament. Oh well, maybe next year.
Here's a jpeg of the poem. I printed it as a 3.5 x 5 and used my 2 1/2 inch punch to cut it out.
It is kind of hard to tell in the picture but the glass ornament is full of white feathers. I only had the flat disc type glass balls on hand and think that it would look better in a round ornament. Oh well, maybe next year.
What makes the ornament so special is the poem on the back -
Here's a jpeg of the poem. I printed it as a 3.5 x 5 and used my 2 1/2 inch punch to cut it out.
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Billie C.
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