MercyMe - God With Us (Music Video)

We are doing this song at our church. My husband plays the guitar part.

President Bush

"I have examined all the Democratic

candidates and have decided on these

two guys." -George W. Bush (not!)

"I don't particularly like it when people

put words in my mouth, either, by the way,

unless I say it."  -George W. Bush

I Love Lucy

I must admit I do love Lucy.  I always have and always

will.  I grew up watching her shows and re-runs.  She's

a zany gal and I love her.  So I will show you my Lucy

doll.  I have had her for years.  She's never been out

out the box.  


The Vitameatavegamin commercial girl:

So tasty too!  Just like candy!



I have been tagged for a meme by Kitten and someone

not too long ago tagged me for this same meme.  I don't

do well getting my meme's done.  This one is the six or

maybe it was seven random things about me meme.  I 

believe I have done this one before.

1.  I love Lucy.

2.  I like chocolate Ovaltine.  I bought some yesterday

for the first time in years.

3.  I seldom watch tv shows until they become re-runs.

Like "Everybody Loves Raymond", I never watched it

until it was over.  Now, unfortunately, I have seen every

episode.  The same with "King of the Hill."  I am watching

this show now and finding it very funny.  I love Bobby

Hill and Hank.  I can't stand Peggy.

4.  I have watched "America's Next Top Model" a few seasons.

Especially when someone from Oklahoma is a contestant.

5.  I don't know why but I like "The Apprentice."

6.  I watched a few seasons of "Survivor."  Not a big fan of

it though.  I would rather watch "Amazing Race."

7.  I love to watch Martha Stewart.

8.  Here's a bonus:  I love cooking shows, gardening show,

anything about houses, like "Trading Spaces" or construction,

selling, decorating.  

I Love Lucy Vitameatavegamin

The answer to all your problems...

Oklahoma Treasures

These are not pictures I took, I found them on webshots and wikipedia:

When I get time soon I will run over and take the pictures myself and

post my views.  I am looking for pictures from the 1960's or 70's. 

Pawhuska, gateway to the Tallgrass Prairie.


I love this town.  So many good memories.

The picture below used to be the J.C. Penney store.

The picture below used to be the C.R. Anthony store.

You can see the Triangle Building at the end of this block.

It is a very cool old building.  It divides Kihekah, one way

on either side of it.  

Below is where the TG&Y used to be.  Next to it

on the corner was a nice bank building.  It is pictured

above as the white building with apartments or offices above.

The Tulsa skyline at night.  This is not my picture.

This is a view from Talimina Drive.  Ouachita forest.

We drove this road from Wilburton, Oklahoma going

north and east for several miles.  It was beautiful.  We

accidentally took the road thinking it was a shorter way

home.  Not.  But it turned out the most beautiful drive

that went past Robber's Cave too.  This drive is very

close to Arkansas.  

Raspberry Pie

Ok, you asked for the recipe.  You will notice the great

difference of the picture of my pie and what the actual

pie should look like.  Now you can laugh, but the pie

tastes the same even if mine looks sooo different!  It

was my first attempt and I used all the ingredients they

said to.  I used the store-bought pie crust and it shrank

and the sides collapsed in the oven.  You just have to try

to attach the crust better than I did.  I did not grease the

pie dish maybe that would help it stay but even so it tastes

the same.  I just happened to fill the whole dish with the

filling and you could not tell that there was a crust there!

Next time I make it perhaps it will look prettier and I will take

a picture to show.  

Dazzle Berry Pie

1/2 package (15 oz) refrigerated pie crusts (one crust)

1 cup boiling water

1 package (3 oz) raspberry gelatin

1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam

2 sqares (1 oz each) semi-sweet chocolate for baking

1 container (8 oz) sour cream

1 container (8 oz) frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided

1/2 pint fresh raspberries (about 1 cup) divided

powdered sugar

1.  Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.  Let pie crst stand at room temperature 15 minutes.

Gently unfold onto lightly floured surface.  Roll to an 11-1/2 inch circle.

Place crust in deep dish pie plate, pressing dough into bottom and up sides.

Prick bottom and sides using pastry tool.  Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

Cool completely.

2.  Stir boiling water into gelatin.  Stir at least 2 minutes until completely dissolved.  

Add jam; stir until smooth.  Cool until gelatin begins to thicken.

3.  Place chocolate in microwavable bowl; microwave, uncovered, on HIGH 1-1/2 minutes,

stirring after each 20-second interval or until chocolate is melted and smooth.  

Pour chocolate into small resealable plastic food storage bag; twist top of bag

and secure.  Cut a small tip off of bag to allow chocolate to flow through.  Pipe chocolate

around top edge of pie crust.  Using remaining chocolate, pipe 8 heart-shaped 

decorations onto wax paper;  refrigerate 15 minutes or until set.

4.  Combine sour cream and 2 cups of the whipped topping.  Add gelatin mixture;

whisk until smooth.  Reserve 1/3 cup raspberries; set aside.  Sprinkle remaining

raspberries evenly over bottom of pie crust; pour filling over berries.  

Chill at least 3 hours or until set.

5. Fill Easy Accent Decorator (Pampered Chef) with remaining whipped topping.

Pipe 8 rosettes evenly around edge of pie.  Arrange chocolate heart decorations 

between rosettes.  Place reserved berries in center.  Lightly sprinkle pie with powdered

sugar.  Cut into wedges and serve.  Yield:  8 servings

Weekly Winners Sunday Meme

Here we are again.  Sunday Weekly Winner's.

Go visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom for more

entries.  

This little pie is Raspberry.  It took some effort to make.

I wanted to test it out before Valentine's Day.  It passed

the test.  It was good!

I took this picture one night when I was outside and

I never noticed that my cat got in on the action.

See her head at the right bottom corner?


The hidden "orb" 

Blast from the Past-Mode-o-Day

Here's a post of something of a past I lived through.  Does anyone remember

Mod-o-Day or Mode-o-Day stores?  I don't know if there are still any around,

maybe in California or Colorado?  When I was young, my mother took us to

another bigger town to shop in that seemed to have every store you could possibly

want, or so I thought.  This was in the 60's and 70's mind you!  This little town

now no longer has a one of these wonderful stores.  The town was booming

back then with oil production and cattle ranchers.  This was the town that

Ree lives not too far from.  Now Ree never shopped here when she was young,

she lived in a much bigger town east of this one.  With golf courses.  But actually

this little town had a very nice golf course too.  I would imagine that MM's 

mother shopped in these little stores though, just like we did.  I couldn't wait

for Saturdays to come around and we could go to shop.  There was a J.C. Penneys,

C.R. Anthony's, TG&Y, (kinda like a Target back then) Montgomery Ward, (I think

this was mostly a catalog place but it always made me think of tires!) and lastly this

wonderful new store called Mod'o'Days.  It was so cool and modern.  I was pre-teen

and finally found some clothes that fit me.  They actually had sizes like 1, 3, 5, etc.

I always had trouble finding small enough sizes.  Most clothes in J. C. Penneys were

labeled S, M, L.  I had to still shop in the children's department to find a fit.  Mod'o'Days

had the new modern styles of California.  Some things seemed a little outrageous for

Oklahoma but it was a fun store.  I found clothes that fit (size 1 back then was a little big

for me, finally they came out with 0's).  I found style!  So great.  Another wonderful

part of this trip was going to the drugstore and getting Dr. Pepper's and ice cream.

This was a time when streets were safe and life was much slower paced.  We had

the time of our lives in this small town.  I still love it.  Memories are good!

Java Junebug

Lee Ann Womack I hope you dance

Lovely message.

Snackalicious Super Snacks

Ready for the snacks?  Join all enthusiasts for the game.

This dip is one I've been asked many times to bring to school for

my kids.

FESTIVE TEXAS DIP

Put everything in layers on large round platter.  

1st layer) 1 large can bean dip, spread 1/2 inch thick.

2nd layer) 2 avocadoes mashed up with 1 tblsp. lemon juice

1-1/2 tblsp. mayo, 1/2 tsp. garlic powder, 1/2 tsp. onion salt.

3rd layer) 1 pint sour cream.

4th layer) 1 small jar picante sauce.

5th layer) 2 bunches green onions, chopped.

6th layer) 1 can black olives, chopped.

7th layer) 2 medium tomatoes, chopped.

8th layer) 1 pound cheddar cheese, grated.

Chill before serving and eat with Mexican style chips

or corn chips.

Here is another simple recipe:

HAM AND CREAM CHEESE ROLL-UPS

16 oz. ham slices

8 oz. Philadelphia cream cheese, softened

bunch green onion stems

Spread ham slices with cream cheese; place onion stems in center;

Roll up tightly and place in freezer for about 30 minutes.

Cut each rolled-up ham slice in about 1/2-inch slices.

And just for a refreshing different kind of drink:

SPARKLING RASPBERRY TEA

2 cups cold brewed tea

2 cups chilled raspberry or cranberry-raspberry juice

2 cups chilled sparkling water

Raspberries, lime slices or lemon slices, if desired

Fresh mint leaves, if desired

Mix tea, juice and sparkling water.  Serve over ice.

Garnish with raspberries and mint.

Martha Stewart Body + Soul Challenge

I am taking the Martha Stewart Body+Soul Challenge.  It started January 23, 2008, but it's not too late for anyone to get started.  They are just now getting going with exercise and food tips.  You can comment on their blog and get responses back from Dr. Brent and the fitness expert and others.  I need something to motivate me to eat healthier and exercise.  I am looking for a gym near me to participate in aerobics and weights.  I have to get out of the house and pay money to make myself work at exercise.  There is a Fitness For Her about 20 miles away and another gym 20 miles in another town too.  I hate to drive that far but I need to get out to get started.  The school has built a new gymnasium and are allowing people to use it for a couple of hours a morning to walk.  I may try that out too.  I have a treadmill and stairstepper at home, lots of weights and dvd's on pilates, ballet, and aerobics.  I think if I can get back in shape, then I can stay at home and do the rest once more.  I need to do this.  Yes!

Wordless Wednesday

Moon Nest


For more Wordless Wesnesday go here.

Weekly Winners Sunday Meme

What you need to do is click on the youtube post under this one and turn on Los Bravos song "Black is black" and listen to it while you are reading this post:

I have made my comeback to Weekly Winner's this week.
This meme was started by the lovely Lotus.

You can pop over there for a list of photo-phenoms.

I never know whether to put my caption above or under

the picture.  What do you say?  I'll try under.

Big Chief tablets.  Does anyone remember going to

grade-school with these babies?  I can remember the

great anticipation I felt going to buy my school supplies

and getting this big red tablet.  They always smelled 

so good to me.  I loved the fresh smell of books and

back then mimeo-graphed copies of papers.  Oh, my!

Those purply- looking ink papers.  I loved that smell too!


I love blue willow patterned plates.  These are Spode

Blue Room and Italian patterns.  The one above called
"Greek".

This one is called "Aesop's Fables".


Anything blue willow, blue delft, blue cobalt appeals
to me.  I collect blue delft and wooden shoes too.

Black is black.  I want my baby back.  It's gray, it's 
gray, since you went away. 

Peering through the vines.  Does she ever terrorize these

ferns.  She gets a little spray of water bottle mist if she

misbehaves.  It helps her with her daily bath.  He he.

Go check out more entries at Sarcastic Mom's.  There's

always room for more!

los bravos_black is black

Such amazing songs back in the day.

Ziggy

French on Friday

Bonjour.  Francais le vendredi.

A little French lesson for you.  I will be posting this little ditty on Fridays.

Une petite lecon francaise pour toi.  Je signalerai cette petite chansonnette le vendredi.

Today's lesson will be simple.  Oh, every lesson will be simple.

La lecon d'aujourd'hui sera simple.  Ah, chaque lecon sera simple.

Because I only know simple phrases.

Puisque je sais seulement des expressions simples.

To begin:

Pour commencer:

Hello.  Do you speak French?

Bonjour.  Parlez-vous francais?

I speak a little French.

Je parle un peu francais.

Numbers.

One- un

two- deux

three- trois

four-  quatre

five-  cinq

six-  six

seven- sept

eight- huit

nine-  neuf

ten-  dix

Days of the week:

Monday- lundi

Tuesday- mardi

Wednesday- mercredi

Thursday- jeudi

Friday- vendredi

Saturday- samedi

Sunday-  dimanche

What did you think?

Que pensez-vous?

Did you like it?

Vous l'aiment?

See you next week!

Voyez-toi la semaine prochaine!

I will give some pronunciation guide later today perhaps.  This is a light-hearted attempt, so please don't judge me harshly if you speak French fluently.  I have always wanted to learn several languages.  I have some German lessons also.  I also need to figure out the keyboard change for French symbols.  Does anyone know how to do that?  I have an iMac.

Pensieve's Poetic License-January

Pensieve's Poetic License for this month of new beginnings is a terza rima.  I had never heard of one before and I will need a lot of poetic license with this one as you'll soon see.

Time Flies

My how time does fly

Who knew how fast

That year went by.

Before we know it

It slips through our hands

Every little bit.

We dare to remember

To number our days

But here comes December.

And out of our sleep

We look back at time

We would like to keep.

So when the clock does chime

We must be ready to climb.

Because I'm a Copy "Cat"

Call me a copy "cat" but I found this so funny on Bossy's blog today that I just had to try it.

Of course, the real person we are copying is HER.

I decided to show you my dance moves wearing my 

lovely new Hunter boots.  I would like to call this

my "first-and-a-half position" but sweet Minne-sota

wanted to come closer to my side.

Now this is my "second-no-fourth position" move.

Notice Marsipan is not as big as a cow.


Now I like to call this my "battlement frappes" position.

Notice I said "I like to" not that it is really.  Notice Marsipan

has spun around for a quick "glissade."


Minne is quite enthralled that I am in this position.

I will call it "focus on the cat plie." Not to be confused

with the "cow pile."


I entertain Minne with a "grand plie" and she does a

"ronds de jambe a terre".  Please take note that "terre"

means "earth."

To be good in ballet it helps to be flexible.

That is why I am wearing rubber boots.

Flexible moves.  Minne looks a little
irritated.  I wonder why?

Hobbes is working on the "cow pie scratch."  He has

got that move down.  

Now just to pick and choose, "which pie do I want?"

Preferably the drier ones work best.  "Plie, anyone?"

The cows hear me laughing.

Pas de deux...

They come for a closer look.

Oh, that might be my zoom lens.

The "rest" of the cows are resting. 

Flowers in her hair

I am a Snapdragon What Flower Are You?

My first attempt came up snapdragon:  meaning I am mischievous and love to make people laugh.  Which is true.  But I went back to get the quote about the snapdragon and couldn't find it so I re-took the test with the same exact answers and they told me I was a sunflower.  Here is the quote about the sunflower:  "When your friends think smile, they think of you.  There is not a day that goes by that you can't find something good about the world and your fellow human."  Now I love this quote because I could only hope that people would say or think that about me.  My blog name being "God put a smile upon my face" hopefully makes you think of me when you think of smile.  I try my best to find the good in everything.  I have to, I can't live any other way but to do this.  Life is too short and would be too sad without looking for the positive and good in it.  I have a poster above my work desk that is Ziggy running with a net full of stars.  It says:  "Capture all the joys life has to offer."  That is my motto.  

Now I will have to thank Sandy for having this little test on her blog.  Thank you, Sandy!