August Recipes

Kitchen Hints

• Peel your bananas the way the monkeys do it—from the bottom up—so you don’t get those little strings. Also, take the bunches apart when you get them home—they’ll last longer.
• Sweet peppers with three bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with four bumps are firmer and better for cooking.
• If measuring something sticky, like peanut butter, first rinse your measuring cup with hot water—the peanut butter will slide right out!
• To easily chop dried fruits, place them in the fridge for ½ hour first, then cut them with a knife dipped in hot water.

July's recipe

Oklahoma Weather.....

This weather is crazy this year....it is July!!

How much yarn do I need?

How much yarn do I need?

It’s a question every crocheter asks… how much yarn do I need? And what if I change the thickness of yarn?

Today, I’ll show you how to calculate how much yarn your project will need… no more guessing!

Discover your yarn + hook combo

The only way to know for sure is to calculate how much yarn each stitch (using your yarn and hook) takes. Using some yarn and hooks I had on hand, I did few examples:

As you see, the thicker the yarn (and the bigger the hook), the more yarn you’ll need.

Your calculations may be different depending on your exact yarn and gauge… but this should give you an idea!

How to calculate the total for the pattern

To find out the total amount of yarn you’ll use for your project, multiply the number of stitches in your pattern by the number of inches each stitch uses.

Let’s take Jay the Bird as an example. The pattern contains the stitch count at the end of each line.

Adding those up gives me a total of 1656 stitches.

How much yarn do I need if I want to crochet him in a fingering weight yarn?

46 yards! That’s less than the 85 called for in the pattern because fingering weight yarn is smaller, and the project needs less!

Calculate away!

Using this method, you can calculate how much yarn a project will require with any weight yarn and hook! No more guessing!

http://www.freshstitches.com/how-much-yarn-do-i-need/

Madison Rising

4th of July

Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July!!

Happy 4th!!!

Quakes

Oklahoma, United States has had: (M1.5 or greater)

• 4 earthquakes today
• 29 earthquakes in the past 7 days
• 105 earthquakes in the past month
• 790 earthquakes in the past year

The largest earthquake in Oklahoma, United States:

• today: 3.9 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, United States
• this week: 4.3 in Enid, Oklahoma, United States
• this month: 4.3 in Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States
• this year: 4.5 in Edmond, Oklahoma, United States

Between the  tornado's and earthquakes I so want to move...ugh. but where to is the question!!

June Recipes

May Recipes

The Star-Spangled Banner (in Minor Key) by Chase Holfelder

Oklahoma Weather

This weather is just flat crazy this year!!

This is for April 30 - May 6, 2014 all the way from a low of 38 Wednesday night to a high of 96…ugh!! Today we're about 15 degrees below normal...by the end of the week we'll be 15 degrees above normal!

April Recipes

March Recipes

Irish Blessings

Irish Blessings
May the Good Lord take a liking to you… but not too soon!

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
Until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

May you have love that never ends,
lots of money, and lots of friends.
Health be yours, whatever you do,
and may God send many blessings to you!

February Recipes

Drama, Drama

So tired of drama…do people really think life is all about them? The world would be so much better if everyone would just do their job and not worry about what everyone else is doing or what they think they are doing. Whatever happens will happen there’s not a whole lot that can be done about it. People are so about only them and what is in it for them. You give them a job with a title and all the sudden their head is twice as big as before!! Everyone is the same, no one is better than the next person, so get over it. Life is too short to bicker and fight over trivial things. Next year it won’t matter, no one will even remember…

Only in Oklahoma

Our weather has been a rollercoaster this year…..so ready for some SPRING weather.

Cold Weather

Cold weather...snow and ice are here for the week. I just want to go somewhere warm...ugh!!

Time off...oh yes!!

Took off work Friday and Monday for a long overdue break!! Went to Chicktown and the Big town of Mt. View. Had a good time visiting and just relaxing with family. Helped sis do some house cleaning and did a little shopping. I so dread going back to work….ugh.

Woke up Tuesday to snow…didn’t hear that on the weather report. Going to be in the low 30’s this weekend, a big change from the past weekend of high 60’s. Cold weather and snow is in the forecast for the next week and beyond…going to be some really cold weather near zero the way they are talking. Maybe we will get enough snow we can stay home :) that would be awesome :)

Free Skate 2014 US Figure Skating Championships

Awesome performance!!

Chickasha Lights

Christmas pictures....

Mom, Greta, Me and Keitha

Cooking....the Meany was for the ugly sister bit below...lol Greta thought I was a meany :)

Nick and Greta

Mom and Kendra

Nick and Greta

December Recipes

Just did one this month...just not enough time. 

Family Stiching

Shawnie crocheting...

Me knitting

A Hallelujah Christmas

"A Hallelujah Christmas" by Cloverton

I've heard about this baby boy

Who's come to earth to bring us joy

and I just want to sing this song to you

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth

the minor fall, the major lift

with every breath I'm singing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

A couple came to Bethlehem

Expected child, they searched the inn

To find a place for You were coming soon

There was no room for them to stay

So in a manger filled with hay

God's only Son was born, oh Hallelujah

Hallelujah

The Shepherds left their flocks by night

To see this baby wrapped in light

A host of Angels led them all to You

It was just as the angels said

You'll find Him in a manger bed

Immanuel and Savior, Hallelujah

Hallelujah

A star shone bright up in the east

To Bethlehem, the wisemen three

Came many miles and journeyed long for you

And to the place at which you were

Their frankincense and gold and myrrh

They gave to You and cried out Hallelujah

Hallelujah 

I know You came to rescue me
This baby boy would grow to be
A man and one day die for me and you
My sins would drive the nails in You
That rugged cross was my cross, too
Still every breath You drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah

First Week of December.....

December 3 - 9, 2013

Scary weather :(

I Corinthians 13: A Christmas Version

If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love, I'm just another decorator.

If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love, I'm just another cook.

If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love, it profits me nothing.

If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata but do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point.

Love stops the cooking to hug the child.

Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband.

Love is kind, though harried and tired.Love doesn't envy another's home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.

Love doesn't yell at the kids to get out of the way, but is thankful they are there to be in the way.

Love doesn't give only to those who are able to give in return but rejoices in giving to those who can't.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust, but giving the gift of love will endure

   By: Unknown Author 

They Missed Him!

They were looking for a lion,
He came as a Lamb, and they missed Him.

They were looking for a warrior,
He came as a Peacemaker, and they missed Him.

They were looking for a king,
He came as a Servant, and they missed Him.

They were looking for liberation from Rome,
He submitted to the Roman stake, and they missed Him.

They were looking for a fit to their mold,
He was the mold maker, and they missed Him.

What are you looking for? Lion? Warrior? King? Liberator?

They were looking for their temporal needs to be met,
He came to meet their eternal need, and they missed Him.

He came as a Lamb to be sacrificed for your sin
Will you miss Him?

He came to make peace between God and man.
Will you miss Him?

He came to model servant hood for all mankind.
Will you miss Him?

He came that we might have true liberty.
Will you miss Him?

He came to give you eternal life.
Will you miss Him?

When we submit to the Lamb, we will meet the Lion.
Join with the Peacemaker, and we will meet the Warrior.

Work with the Servant, and we will meet the King.
Walk with the Submitted, and we will meet the Liberator.

Concern ourselves with the eternal, and we will have the temporal.

If Jesus is not fitting into the mold you have, then come to the mold maker and get a new one.

Submit to His plan for your life and you will see the eternal need met first; then all the other things you have need of will be taken care of as well.

Author unknown

November Recipes

Cold Weather

Going to be cold this week but warm up for Turkey Day :)

Office Picture

Not a good picture but not that bad either....LOL

Night Shadows!

When the moon is full and bright
On a starry starry night
And the wind is deadly still
Down your spine you feel a chill
Something spooky's in the air
You look around and no one's there
Not a living soul in sight
Are there spirits out tonight?

October Recipe Cards

Witches go riding

When witches go riding,

and black cats are seen,

the moon laughs and whispers,

‘tis near Halloween.

~Author Unknown

Le Pompion-Pumpion -Pumpkin

Do you know where we got our word "pumpkin" from?

The word pumpkin originates from the word pepon, which is Greek for “large melon", something round and large. 

The French adapted this word to pompion, as in pom pom? The actual French word for pumpkin is potiron and it isn't pronounced pot iron!!

Which the British changed to pumpion and later American colonists changed that to the word we use today, "pumpkin".

THANKFUL.

The Lord gives each of us . . .

wings to fly on,

a light to hold on to,

and enough courage to succeed.

We just have to seek it . . . grab hold of it . . . and run with it.

September Recipe Cards

What does the Fox say?

Addicting.....

RANDOM . . . ness

random

Function: adjective

1 a : lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern

   b : made, done, or chosen at random

2 a : relating to, having, or being elements or events with definite probability of occurrence  

  b : being or relating to a set or to an element of a set each of whose elements has equal probability of occurrence

— ran·dom·ness noun . . .just because!