Bye Bye November

 

Short post today--

As we leave November and begin December,

I wish you HOPE, PEACE, FAITH, LOVE and

BELIEVE.

December is the month for these.

Happy December!

~Keep on Dreaming~

Who Likes Shopping?

 

Popping in with my annual PSA for Shopping

Small.

Tomorrow is Shop Small Saturday. This year 

more than ever our small local shops will rely 

on us shoppers. I know that Amazon and the 

big box stores are necessary to shop in but if 

we can let's try and help out those Mom and 

Pop stores, those that are just starting out 

and those cute little fave stores we enjoy.

A lot of our stores are offering curbside 

pick up, if you aren't comfortable going 

in a store, see if they have that as an option.

Good luck! As I write this post, I think Mr. 

Ken is working on what we call "covert 

operations." Basically that is code 

for "don't be nosy."

~Keep on Dreaming~

Time for Thanks

Mr. Ken and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.

may you have a day filled with all things good.

We will be hanging at home but all will be good,

the menu is set and we will have a delicious

Thanksgiving lunch just the two of us.

I am sure we will talk to family during the day,

watch football and enjoy the peace the day will

bring.

Then Christmas will hit the floor!

Thank you, my blog friends for hanging

with me during this crazy time. I am thankful

for each of you!

Enjoy your day!

* Update--I made the apples and pecan recipe

for tomorrow, Mr. Ken said they were 

"scrumptious."

~Keep on Dreaming~

Thanksgiving Week

 

Hello!

While looking through Pinterest 

(which I should not do.) I came 

across this recipe that would be 

great for an addition to your 

Thanksgiving table. I am going

to try this one!

Thanksgiving Southern Fried 

Apples with Pecans

Prep Time 5 mins    Cook Time  

10 mins      Total time 20 mins

5 apples -cored, peeled and 

sliced

4 T butter

2 T granulated white sugar

2 T light brown sugar

1/2 T lemon juice

Salt to taste

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/4 c pecan pieces

1.  Prepare apples

2.  Melt down butter in skillet 

on medium heat, this should 

only take a few minutes.

3. Add apples, sugars, lemon, 

salt, pecans and cinnamon on 

top of apples.

4. Stir apples. As you stir, the 

sugars will break down and 

become syrupy liquid.

5. Keep coating and stirring 

the apples on med-high heat 

for approx  6 minutes.

6. If the liquid is evaporating 

too quickly or starting to burn 

down, you can adjust the temp 

to med-med low.

7. After 6 minutes, put a lid on 

the skillet and let the apples finish 

sautéing on med-low heat for approx 

6 minutes or until theyare crisp tender. 

A knife should cut through an apple but 

not be mushy. If need be, cook a little 

longer.

Serve hot for breakfast or as a side 

dish.

Looking forward to trying this one.

~Keep on Dreaming~

Things of the Past

 

Hello! Hope everyone is having an awesome 

Wednesday!

I ran across an interesting article on Family 

Heirlooms in one of my Country Living 

Magazines.

The article was titled "12 Ideas For Family 

Heirlooms."

With most of us hanging at home and cleaning 

our areas of "clutter," maybe you have ran across 

things that you are not ready to give up yet.

Here are some of the ideas:

1. Turn pins or brooches into napkin rings by 

looping thread through the bar pin then tie 

around your napkins.

2. Use old silver coasters as Placecards.

Paint part of the coaster with chalk paint. 

Write names with erasable chalk markers.

3. Arrange old photos in a "Family Tree" in a 

shadow box. Draw a simple tree shape on 

watercolor paper, cut the paper to size of your 

box frame. Paint the tree with watercolor paints.

Add mini clothespins with hot glue then clip pics 

on the pins.

4. Display odds and ends in a Cloche.

They could be person specific too.

5. Turn baking tins into frames for recipes.

Print out old favorites, cut card stock to fit 

your pan or tin. Glue to the inside of tin then 

glue your recipes inside of the pan or tin. 

Hang up using adhesive strips. These could 

be pie pans or tart tins.

Another use for old faves is mod podging 

recipes to the outside of a wooden recipe 

box. A recipe could also be put inside the lid. 

Make copies of the recipes unless they aren't 

meaningful to you.

6. If you have a torn or stained quilt that you 

can't part with, choose the "good" areas to 

stretch over canvas for wall hangings.

So, as you are "going through things" maybe 

some of these will work for you.

~Keep on Dreaming~

Happy Friday!

Hello! Hope everyone is doing well!

No school today, happy for a day off. 

Got to spend some time with friends 

today, lots of fun and laughter shared 

as we enjoyed a BBQ lunch.

Our numbers keep going up so this 

might be the last time I gather with 

friends for awhile.

Nothing has been said but I feel it 

coming. Came home to Mr. Ken still 

working but able to spend time with 

him as he worked. We have decide to

spend Thanksgiving hanging at home,

as I think each family unit in our family

will do. It was a hard necessary decision

to make.

Family is utmost right now. So are friends.

It is so hard to be apart from either group

but we want everyone to be safe. 

My hope for you is that you are healthy,

safe but still see family and friends via

the internet.

Have a great weekend!

~Keep in Dreaming~

 

Time is Tickn" By

Happy November!

October sure flew by. We ended it

with 12 trick or treaters. Pretty

surprised that we had that many.

Hope everyone is doing well. We are

plugging along. The time change has 

been a bit tough this go around but I 

think we are catching up.

Tomorrow Mr. Ken and I are off 

on a small day trip. No school for

the kids so I took the day off and

so did Mr. Ken. the weather is 

going to be so nice and time away

is just what we need.

 

I had a birthday, it was quite but nice.

We will do a bit more birthday fun this

weekend.

Hope to celebrate the kitchen being done

soon. This project is taking FOREVER!

More on our trip in my next post.

Take care of yourselves.

~Keep on Dreaming~