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Dec 20th, 2018 at 09:15 PM
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Today is summer stoltice. The shortest day of the year. From now on it gets better, although you may not feel it right away. Just believe it.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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The moon is fairly full and bright tonight. I'm going to fall asleep in dancing moonbeams tonight. Sweet dreams all.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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Today is summer stoltice. The shortest day of the year. From now on it gets better, although you may not feel it right away. Just believe it. I do like this fact ! Goodnight sweet dreams
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Northern Star
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Happy Winter Solstice. Junie, the cookies are made with a lot of butter, flour, a bit of icing sugar and cornstarch (I'd have to measure it later to give you an estimate..I just usually go by consistency while mixing them). They are rolled out like a sugar cookie and topped with a bud of white buttercream icing and a half a cherry. DH's mother only made them for Christmas...so I have kept the tradition going. DH is like a child...he was all excited to see the bottle of cherries and pound of butter warming up on the counter this morning School has been cancelled again. There is a freezing rain warning this morning, to be followed by heavy rain tonight...the solstice is a bit mixed up this year.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Thanks Sunny. I am sure I can find a recipe, so not to worry. I will start with looking for recipes with 1 pound of butter. Up now, drinking coffee. I am hoping it gets rid of my headache. I will wrap a bit more today, then begin my baking.
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Northern Star
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The 1 pound butter made 4 dozen small(2 inch) cookies. I used 1 pound of butter, about 3 and 1/2 cups flour, pinch salt, 2 tbsp cornstarch, 8 tbsp icing sugar. Mix all and roll and cut. 350* for 10 minutes. Date squares are baking at the minute...butterscotch squares are next. I am on a slow roll.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Has quality control (DH) checked them out yet, Sunny? That is pretty much how I make shortbread. Only I skip the rolling out and cutting part. I pat the dough out flat in a pan, cut into squares and bake. Much less work. I'm lazy. I have stamps that put designs on the tops or a roller that adds designs. I have wavy or crimping rolling cutter for fancier edges if I want to do that. But when they look to much like store bought, I don't like it so much.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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Thanks, Sunny. Now I am hungry, Tina, I don't care when they look like fancy or plain I will eat them Bars are baked. as soon as the clothes are done I am off to bed. See you all Sunday at some point.
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Sweet dreams, Carol. What are you doing tomorrow?
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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Sweet dreams, Carol. What are you doing tomorrow? O am going to my Families Christmas party..(A Dudley Family Christmas) We have it the Saturday before Christmas. Only now it is a 3 hour drive, so we will say the night in a hotel. Because of this I will most likely NOT be in tomorrow at all. Sunday we will get up, go to church, eat some breakfast and then come home. I will be in when we get home. See everyone then,
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Have fun Carol. Tina, have you seen the full size rolling pins that are all embossed? I have only seen them on line but they are beautiful. I never thought of using a stamper...I have a holly one here that we used one year for ornaments. I think I will emboss some cookies next year with it. It is a mess outside. The freezing rain has turned to pouring rain..add that on top of all the snow we have and you have slush everywhere. When this freezes tonight, it will be a skating rink for a driveway. I can just imagine the leaks people are going to have on their roofs...from not shoveling before hand. I have no plans for today...besides cleaning the house. I also have to put a set of bunk beds together tomorrow(I am going to drop GG off at my mothers to surprise her).
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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I got to sit and have a cup of ciffee, so I thought to drop in.
Gracious, Sunny, be safe. Good luck with the bed assembly.
I really dislike winter. And yes I know I sound like a broken recor d.
I wish you all a great & safe weekend
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Have a lovely time, Carol. Safe travels.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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Back in the hotel now. Had a good time visiting with my family. The time was all to short to be sure. Tomorrow we will go to our church and then ( not that DH knows it yet, but we will go out to breakfast. There are actually restaurants here.)
Goodnight and sweet dreams.
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Yay, food with no dishes to do. Sweet dreams all.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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I just saw your post above, Sunny. Yes, I have one of the full sized rollers that put out 20 square cookies. I paid a fortune for it (like $30 about twenty years ago) and it doesn't work like it is supposed to. The carvings seem crudely done and tear up the dough. It could be my fault but I don't think so. I just made a poor purchase. My cookie stamps are just cheap plastic ones I bought when my first kids were little. They are fun doodads. I use to do a lot of baking. Are you surprising GG or your mother tomorrow? Sweet dreams all.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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Tina, My plan was to surprise both of them but now my mother has to go visit family in the hospital. I have two Aunts(one my mom's and one of my late father's) that took sick and will be there for the holidays. Oh well, GG knows about the bunk bed anyway. I am glad that you had a nice time Junie. GB's day care was supposed to close for a week for the holidays...now they are making it two weeks to do some renovations. Guess who will be here for all that time?
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Grandma's daycare. When I was a preschooler, my grandparents would babysit for me sometimes. No one else, just me. I was pretty possessive and insisted they were my grandparents, not my cousin's. Funny stuff. Do you have any budding chefs or something that will keep them occupied?
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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I am back ! And I have made a batch of fudge. Now we will hope it sets. It will take some time to cool as it is a double batch.
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Welcome home, Carol. Who's in charge of keeping the fudge safe from marauders until it finds a home?
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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Welcome home, Carol. Who's in charge of keeping the fudge safe from marauders until it finds a home? LOL....sadly me! It is a gift to Rod. I need to freeze some, we will see if I get to do that or not.
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Northern Star
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What kind of fudge...do tell Tina, the grands should keep busy just fighting with each other
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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It is called Fantasy Fudge..it has been on the back of the Kraft Marshmallow creme jar.
Rod's Mom made it all the time & he was wanting it again.
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Cookies done now to set my table then go to bed. We are Skyping with my DD in Virginia tomorrow morning. Sweet Dreams.
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~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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The only marshmallow cream here is from Fluffo...it is a small little bottle, Happy Christmas Eve Day to everyone. I have to pick up DD at work at 12...they needed to go in to do the payroll.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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You can make fantasy fudge with plain old marshmallows too. I prefer working with them for less sticky factor. I don't like digging the stuff out of the jars. Up today, laundry.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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If I thought that it would get to you, I would send you some marshmallow cream. The usual size jar is 7 ounces...but here IF you find any at all it is a large jar (13 oz) or some generic stuff that is also the large jar...gggggrrr
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight !
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Blessed Christmas to all.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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Good Morning, and a Very Merry Christmas to all of you!
I wish you all an extra special day, !
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Merry Christmas to each and every one and their family.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Sweet dreams all. Hoping for a happier new year for everyone.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Good Morning ! Yes Tina..very well said ! I need coffee !
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Hello! I guess No one is home yet from their Christmas swarais..(did I spell that right?)
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No soirée for me. Just home being good.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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thanks for the spelling Tina--I hope your day was wonderful !
________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!! .....
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Our weather the last 2 days has been lovely. Nice to be able to be outside on Christmas day.
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Good for you, Sheri. Our Christmas was cold and rainy. It was snowy at a little higher elevation and at least 20 car pileup went on a few miles up the pas from me. I am glad I was home then. I had a good day, Carol. Thanks for asking.
~Tina Drama Free Zone. What every gardener loves the most, Begins and ends in rich compost. (Tina)
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