Over The Top

Heidi, Heart and Home, has chosen me to receive a fun "Over The Top" award for my blog, as long as I pass this on to five blogs and answer the following questions with one word. Sweet Heidi is totally gorgeous and has the most beautiful blog.  If you have never been to Heart and Home, it should be your next stop!  Thank you, Heidi - you're so sweet!

Can I answer these questions with ONE word?  We'll see...
Where is your cell phone? charging

Your hair? decent

Your mother? strong

Your father? amazing

Your favorite food? sugar

Drink? water

Dream/goal? Italy

What room are you in? kitchen

Your hobby? painting

Your fear? loss

Where do you want to be in 6 years? beach

Where were you last night? shopping

Something that you aren't? warm

Muffins? blueberry

Wish list item? beach

Where did you grow up? Smokies

Last thing you did? grandbabies

What are you wearing? nightie

Your tv? big

Pets? Noah

Friends? loyal

Your life? happy

Your mood? content

Missing someone? Linda

Vehicle? new

Something you're not wearing? shoes

Your favorite store? Kohl's

Favorite color? pink

When was the last time you laughed? tonight

When was the last time you cried? weeks

Your best friend? Jeri

One place that I go to over and over? church

Facebook? never

Favorite place to eat? Antonio's

I'm passing the Over The Top award on to:  Anyone who would like to take it!  There are so many over the top great bloggers that I can't chose 5!

Highlighting "Twirl and Taste" and Some Odds & Ends

I was visiting Libby Murphy at her beautiful blog,Twirl and Taste, this week and found that she has a wonderful giveaway going on. It's a darling 7 piece French Home etched wine set. I must tell you that I have fallen in love with it! Libby posts fabulous recipes every day and fun stories about people you read about in the newspaper and magazines. I especially enjoy reading Libby because she is from the same place I am originally from, near Knoxville Tennessee.  Libby talks like my people, she cooks like my people, and she makes me feel like I'm home again when I visit her. Libby's current post includes a wonderful southern recipe for Refrigerator Rolls.  I remember my own mother making these.  So if you haven't done so yet, check Twirl and Taste out soon - I think you'll love it!

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This Blog:

"Contains Brilliant Content and/or Design"

and/or

 "It's Creator Has Been An Encouragement To Me"

One of the sweetest and classiest ladies in blogland, Kat, Just A Beach Kat, sent me this sweet blog award last week.  Coming from this beautiful, classy lady, the award is an honor.  I'm going to pass the Honest Scrap Award along to:

1. CeeKay, Thinkin' of Home - My old friend encourages me, keeps track of what's going on with me, and she prays for me faithfully.  She has shared her life, her family, and her friendship with me for nearly 30 years. Plus she has an awesome blog of "brilliant content and design" and she is the one who introduced me to blogging nearly two years ago!

2. Janie, Blondie's Journal - Janie writes beautifully (check out her current post) and she's a lovely new friend

3. Suzanne, Southern Inspiration - What a lovely lady Suzanne is - and she writes a beautiful blog!  She's been a source of encouragement to me.

4. Bernideen, Bernideen's Tea Time Blog - Bernideen's blog is filled with the most beautiful tea related things and she is just a wonderful, encouraging lady too.

5. Libby, Twirl and Taste - I've just got to add Libby tothe list because of all the reasons I listed in the beginning of this post!

6. Catherine, Catherine de the Cups - Catherine has a classy, beautifully written blog and she has been so lovely to write me encouraging notes during the paast months that my father has been so ill.  Thank you, Sweet Catherine!

7. Ro, A Hint of Home - I can't tell you how many times Ro has written me notes and comments to let me know she is praying for me.  What an encouragement!  Plus, her blog is just filled with photos of her beautifully decorated home and tutorials for crafts and projects.

Here are the rules for the Honest Scrap award:

1) Post "10 Honest Things" about myself.

2) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me.

3) Tell those 7 people they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving.

 

Ten Honest Things About Me:

1.  I love plain white cake so much that I could eat one all by myself in a weekend!

2.  On average, I go to bed at about 3:00 AM and sleep about 4 or 5 hours.

3.  I sleep with both a fan and an electric blanket on year round.

4.  The beach feels like church to me.

5.  I met my husband when I was 15, became engaged to him when I was 16, married him when I was 17.

6.  I despise dishonesty.

7.  I actually DO NOT pray that my son and DIL will have quads, even though I may have on occasion hinted that I do.  I'm not sure why - just a mean streak I guess.  Well, yes, I do know why.  It makes my son crazy, especially if I hint the quads might ought to be all girls!  Oh, the fun in turning the anxiety around once in a while!

8. I have watched General Hospital since I was coming home from elementary school to watch it on my lunch hour.

9.  I did not rest on my beloved deck swing ALL SUMMER LONG - why, why, why???

10.I start getting depressed in August because summer is almost over and I CANNOT enjoy Autumn because the trees will be naked and my garden will be bare soon, and the seemingly endless winter will over take us any minute.  I know...I need an attitude adjustment.

Ok, ladies, I spilled my guts.  Your turn!

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Have a beautiful week, ladies!

Lazy Beach Days For Two

Hubby and I are on our way to the Florida beach after a busy, busy month. We can't wait! Our daughter and son-in-law and their two little girls are staying home this summer and our son and brand new daughter-in-law are on their European honeymoon, so Hubby and I will be spending two lovely weeks at the beach alone this year. Not bad. It seems we rarely go anywhere alone and while we will miss our beautiful family, we are really looking forward to lying in the sun and walking on the beach together. I've mentioned before that we've stayed at the same place in Florida during the same weeks for over 30 years. So it's a home away from home and we've made lots of wonderful friends there that we always look forward to seeing and visiting with. I am looking forward to being totally lazy! It's been a non stop month of wedding prep and getting ready for out of town company. Even though both of those causes are lovely, it's nice to have some days to have absolutely nothing to do other than be lazy.

I haven't posted much in the last month so I've prepared some posts to publish while I'm away in hopes you won't forget about me! One of the posts will include pictures from our sons June 20 wedding. Enjoy the July 4th celebrations and lots of fun, safe summer days!

Liz, Craft From My Heart, recently gave me this "One Lovely Blog" award. Thanks Liz! I'm so sorry that it's taken me so long to post your award. I do so appreciate it though! I believe the instructions were to pass the award along to 14 bloggers that you have recently discovered. I'm going to have to think about that one! I have been so busy with the plans for our sons wedding that I have spent very little time on the computer in a month. I haven't even been to visit my good old favorite blogs, let alone have time to find new ones! I will look forward to finding and passing it along to new blogs as soon as the wedding and our vacation is over. It will give me lots of fun hours of blogging to look forward to! Thanks Liz!!!

What Memory Problem???

All bloggers are happy for their friends when they receive well deserved awards, but let's face it - awards are not the most exciting thing for fellow bloggers to read about. Well, how about an award most of us can give ourselves and for a cause most of us share?

Sometime during the early winter Kat, Just A Beach Kat, posted this cute Dory Bad Memory Award and she offered it up to anyone whose memory fit the description. I copied it to a file and then forgot about it! Recently I have been busier than usual getting ready for a bridal shower, my sons wedding, and a couple of trips. It seems like I have ten too many important things floating around in my head to remember. The lack of carbohydrates while getting ready to wear that pink chiffon dress at my sons wedding hasn't helped either! Well...today is the perfect day to resurface that Dory award.

I have spent the last two weeks shopping for wedding and shower supplies and for accessories for my outfit for the wedding, in addition to keeping track of the shower RSVP's. I'm not complaining about doing any of it - I am grateful that my sweet little daughter-in-law to be trusts me enough to ask me to decorate for her wedding. I mean, what an honor that is! And I love it all. But today...well, today was one of those days which lead one to get some extra rest - and maybe a cookie!

The day started so well. I had a few errands to run this morning. I left the house feeling quite chipper, fitted perfectly in a pair of jeans I hadn't been able to wear in a year. My hair looked especially cute, if I say so myself, and my nails were coming along nicely. I had decided I would heed my doctors advice and forgo acrylic nails - besides they cause ridges and really thin natural nails. My nails were looking pretty good - no bumps or ridges and growing quite long. I went to Kohl's to look for a few things to take on an upcoming trip since they have a great sale going on. I immediately found some things I liked, but managed to leave most of them on the floor WITH MY PURSE while I wondered around the store looking at a few other things. "OH, NO!" came to mind when I needed my purse. Backtracking, I found all my loot and my purse unharmed. I eventually bought several items without trying them on and continued on my way to Lord & Taylor at a mall across town. I was in search for a gift, which I didn't find, but managed to leave my reading glasses on a counter. When I say I need reading glasses, I mean I NEED READING GLASSES! Thankfully, I hadn't gotten too far, but I still had to waste more time going back for the glasses that should be welded to my head whenever it would be convenient to see. I left the mall where Lord & Taylor is and went on to my next stop - the cleaners. I needed my Springy lime green jacket to wear to the shower on Sunday in case nothing in my shopping bag worked. There seemed to be some kind of discrepancy with another customer, but I waited patiently, just happy the problem was not with my jacket. Not so fast. While the gentleman argued his point that his wife's Delta Airline uniform blouses should be white with red trim, not white with red streaks up the sleeves, another employee searched for my lime green jacket. Oh boy, this was not looking good. She ran the automated clothes rack around in circles with such speed that my lime green jacket became a blur. More amazing to watch was the young lady, as she ran around the same circle under the rack with equal speed. Gee...it's difficult to get those clothes off that rack without stopping it first. Thankfully, a light bulb moment struck this bright young woman and she stopped the rack from its twirl in order to fetch my jacket. Clean lime jacket in hand, I was off to Hobby Lobby to rent two lovely white candelabras for the June wedding. My son met me there to choose the set he and his sweetheart wanted to use. He left for a job site and I searched out an employee to write it up. Now...our Hobby Lobby is brand new. One hour and 6 ladies later I was on my way out the door with rental agreement in my now NAIL BITTEN HANDS. Not one single person in the store, including the manager, knew how to rent out the stinking - I mean, lovely wedding items. Two more stops, I thought to myself gratefully as I got back into the line of traffic extending for two miles - and I might add, trying to avoid pot holes large enough to eat an automobile for lunch. I needed to run into the hardware store to pick up some - wait...I'm in the hardware and I can't remember why I came here. I left without whatever it was I needed. Thank the good Lord - literally, last stop! But the theme of the day wasn't quite over yet. I remembered what I had forgotten - I hadn't needed a thing at the hardware store, but I did need an album from Kohl's as part of the shower supplies. I returned to Kohl's and quickly chose two albums since they were on sale. I didn't know what I needed the second one for but on a day like today, I wasn't taking any chances. Back in my car, now 8:00 pm, I headed for what was going to be my last stop. I started tanning this week so I won't burn to a crisp in Florida. I wanted to stop to do that so I wouldn't have to go out again tonight. I thought about the day as I waited for my 13 minutes of mindless pretend sunshine. I would try to relax while I tanned, I would go home and have a nice bubbly whirl tub bath, and I would treat myself to a low carb "treat" bar - yum and joy. This nightmare day was almost over. My name was finally called - "room 7 is ready for you, Kathy". As I happily placed my purse on the chair in the room I glanced in the mirror. BACKWARDS! My hooded, navy blue with white stitching running suit jacket had been on BACKWARDS ALL DAY.

Today, I am awarding myself the Dory Award and an extra low carb protein bar. If any of you girls can top my day, go ahead - you deserve to claim Dory for your own! As for tomorrow, maybe I should rethink those acrylic nails.

Vintage Jewelry For Show & Tell

I thought I would show you some of my vintage jewelry collection today for Show & Tell. Some of it was my mothers, some of it was my mother-in-law's, and some I collected over the years from antique shops and flea markets. I have quite a bit more that I'll get out and show over the coming months.

To find links to more Show & Tell posts visit Kelly, There Is No Place Like Home.

Charlotte, Robins Nest, has honored my blog with the Proximadade Award, which translated from Portuguese means:

"This blog contributes to and supports or believes in close friendships.

This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

I simply can't choose between the many wonderful women I have developed friendship with through blogging. If you are a visitor and/or follower of Mimi's Garden I hope you will allow me to pass this award along to you. Please accept it with my gratitude for your friendship.

Christmas Spirit

Ro, A Hint of Home, recently gave me this great award. Thanks so much, Ro! Ro always has interesting posts and wonderful pictures of her beautiful home and town. She is a fabulous decorator.

Here are the rules for this award:
You must be a true Christmas lover to receive this award. The person to whom you give the award must also be in love with Christmas. You must link back to the person who gave you the award. You must list 5 things that you love about Christmas. If you can’t limit it to 5 things, then keep going till you run out of space! Pass the award along to as many people as you like. That can be 1 or 50. It’s up to you! But, you must pass it on to at least one person in order to keep the Christmas cheer going! Let your recipients know that you have tagged them by leaving them a comment.

Five Things I Love About Christmas:

1. Christmas is celebrating with joy, the birth of Jesus Christ. That is the most important reason I love Christmas!

2. I love getting together with family and friends - special foods and treats!

3. Special events like theater, concerts, home tours, etc. always make the holiday season fun!

4. I LOVE Christmas decorations - trees are my thing. Love 'em!

5. Seeing all of my family together!!!!

I'm passing the award on to Carolyn, Aiken House and Gardens. If you have never been to Carolyn's blog, it is a must see! She has a breathtaking home and her decorating skills are just incredible.

More Holiday Party Recipes

Mini Party Quiches
Crust:
1 stick butter
3 ounces cream cheese
1 cup flour
Mix all together well and press into bottom and sides of mini muffin tins.

Custard Filling:
4 eggs
1 tablespoon flour
1 ½ cup cups half & half
¼ teaspoon salt
pepper to taste
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons melted butter
2 tablespoons diced onions
½ pound bacon, fried crisp & broken (if desired)
1-2 cups Swiss cheese

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Break eggs in bowl with wire whisk. Stir in next 6 ingredients. Layer each prepared, unbaked, pastry shell with bacon first, then cheese, then onion. Spoon custard filling over these ingredients in each shell until 2/3 full. Bake at 375 degree oven until slightly puffed and custard is set, about 35 minutes.
Note: This recipe can also be made in a pie plate or quiche pan. When having a party, the basic custard recipe can be used to make a variety of mini quiche appetizers using your choice of vegetables and meats; vegetarians could even try Crumbles.

Chocolate Coffee
1 quart half and half
1 quart milk
1 entire small bottle Hershey’s Syrup
10 cups strong, hot coffee

Heat the half and half, milk, and chocolate syrup in a saucepan over low heat until it comes to a simmer. Pour into heat proof punch bowl or other large heat proof serving vessel. Add coffee. Mix all thoroughly. Serve garnishes on the side, such as whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
Makes 16 - 20 servings.

Green Holiday Punch
2 packages lime Kool-Aid
1 ½ cups sugar
2 quarts water
1, 12 ounce frozen orange juice concentrate
2 juice cans water
1 large can pineapple juice
1, 2 liter bottle Verner's or 7 Up
lime sherbet

Mix all of the ingredients together well in a punch bowl, reserving sherbet and soda. When ready to serve, scoop sherbet in punch and add cold soda.
Makes 5 ½ quarts (22 cups).

Frozen Banana Crush Punch
Dissolve 4 cups sugar in 6 cups boiling water.
Add:
46 ounces pineapple juice
2, 12 ounce cans frozen orange juice concentrate
1, 12 ounce frozen lemonade concentrate

Blend 5 ripe, mashed bananas and juice of 2 fresh lemons in blender until smooth. Add to above concoction. Freeze in small amounts. Allow the frozen punch to thaw approximately 4 hours before serving time. Place still slushy punch in punch bowl when you are ready to serve the punch and add equal amounts of lemon lime soda.

Charlotte, Charlotte's Weblog, sent me this great award. I do enjoy receiving all awards and consider them all an honor, but this one is especially meaningful to me. Charlotte described the "Lemonade Award" as one received by someone who knows how to make lemonade out of lemons and who shows gratitude. That means a lot to me because it is my heartfelt desire NOT to be a whiner, but to move on and live life as the blessing it is even when it's difficult. Thanks Charlotte! You made my day!!

I would like to pass this award on to Sweetie, Sweetie's World and to CeeKay, Thinkin' of Home. Both Sweetie and CeeKay know how to make Lemonade out of lemons!

Charlotte also sent me this Friends Award. Isn't it pretty? Thanks Charlotte - you're so nice!

I am sending this award along to Kathy, Shocking Pink Thread. Kathy is just the nicest lady and she has a beautiful blog.

My friend Sweetie, Sweetie's World, passed along the Butterfly Award to me. Thank you, Sweetie! Stop by to visit Sweetie soon. She has a big beautiful family and a wonderful blog and she really is a sweetie!

The rules of this award are:

1. Put the logo on your blog
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you
3. Nominate 10 other blogs
4. Add links to those blogs on yours
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs

I am passing the award on to CeeKay, Thinkin' of Home; Shelia, Note Songs; Heather, Family Forever; Jan, Jan & Tom's Place; Heidi, Foxgloves, Fabric, & Folly; Ro, A Hint of Home; Mary, Seashore Days; Suzie, Suzie Button Creations; Katy Lin, The Great Adventure; Maryjane, Beehive Cottage; Ellen, The Happy Wonderer. Now, I know this is a very busy time of year and if you ladies would like to wait until another time to post this award, please feel free to do so.

I hope you will eventually make your way to visit these ladies beautiful and creative blogs!

If all of the ladies mentioned above, including Charlotte, would accept, I would love to give you Mimi's Friendship Blog Award as well. No strings attached - just post it on your blog with a link to Mimi's Garden - just because I think you are all nice women with great blogs!

Holiday Recipes

Everyone likes a few new recipes to try during the holiday weeks or for their Christmas guests. I am posting three today that are tried and true wonderful! I hope you enjoy them.

This chocolate cake is absolutely to die for! It's an old Pillsbury Bake Off recipe, probably from the '60's. My mom made it every Christmas when I was a kid at home. It has several steps and looks involved, but it's worth it if you love chocolate AND coconut!

Chocolate Macaroon Cake
3eggs, separated
1 teaspoons vanilla
2 ¼ cups sugar, divided ½ cup, ½ cup, and 1 ¼ cups
2 cups coconut
2 cups flour and 1 tablespoon flour
¾ cup hot coffee
½ cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon soda
½ cup sour cream
½ cup Crisco
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Prepare coconut mixture:
Beat 1 egg white with 1 teaspoon vanilla until soft peaks form. Add ½ cup sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. Stir in coconut and 1 tablespoon flour; set aside. Dissolve coffee in cocoa; set aside. Beat 3 egg whites until soft mounds form, add ½ cup sugar; continue to beat until stiff peaks form. Add soda to sour cream; set aside.

Cake Batter:
Beat 1 ¼ cups sugar with Crisco, all egg yolks, salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and ½ the coca/coffee mixture. Beat until light and creamy. Add 2 cups flour, sour cream, and remaining cocoa mixture; blend well. Fold in beaten 3 egg whites. Turn half of the cake batter into a greased, floured tube pan. Top with ½ coconut mixture. Turn in remaining half cake batter and then top with remaining ½ coconut mixture. Bake cake at 350 degrees for 55-65 minutes. Cool before removing from pan. Frost or glaze if desired.



This pie was my grandmother's recipe. She made it for her family when my mother was a child. It's easy and wonderful.

Grandmother’s Coconut Buttermilk Custard Pie
3 large eggs
1 cup sugar
¾ stick melted butter
½ cup buttermilk (be generous with your ½ cup)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/3 cups Angel Flake Coconut
9 inch unbaked pie shell

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix eggs with a whisk, add all remaining ingredients except coconut and mix again. Stir in coconut. Pour into prepared, unbaked pie crust. Bake at 325 for 45 - 50 minutes. Cool before serving. This pie is best served the day it is baked.



I have made this cheesecake for so long I no longer remember where I got the recipe, but if I say so myself, it's the best I've ever had! I hope you agree.

Kathy's Famous Cheesecake
Crust:
1 ¼ cups graham cracker crumbs
¼ cup sugar
¼ cup melted butter
Stir together and press into bottom of 9 inch spring form pan. Don't bake the crust at this point.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cheesecake Filling:
3, 8 ounce packages cream cheese
¾ cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sour cream
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla

Beat the cream cheese, ¾ cup sugar, eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla together until smooth with mixer. Pour into 9 inch spring form pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 - 40 minutes, or until knife inserted in middle comes out fairly clean. Ten minutes before time is up for baking, stir together 1 cup sour cream, ½ cup sugar, and ½ teaspoon vanilla. Spread over top of cheesecake. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Chill; top with strawberries and prepared strawberry pie glaze.



A Tag and An Award


Mary, Seashore Days, passed on this tag and pretty Fairy Steps Blog Award to me. Visit "The Merry Mermaid" soon - she has a very interesting blog. She's an actress and posts lovely pictures and items about her life, family, and home.

According to the rules of acceptance of this award, it is to be passed on. Leave a comment to let them know they've been awarded, then you are tagged to list seven random things about yourself.

Seven Random Things About Myself:
1. I am in love with Richard Gere.
2. I am becoming my mother!
3. I was born on my father's birthday.
4. Can't do it, but I admit I'd like to wear a nightgown 24 hours a day!
5. A South African woman and I have written each other e-mails on a daily basis for 10 years.
6. My favorite old movie is Meet Me In St. Louis.
7. My favorite Christmas song is Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.

I am passing the tag and award on to Bonnie, Interiors By Design and Brett, Southern Hostess.

Friends Awarding Friends

My sweet friend Heather, Family Forever, has blessed me with this awesome award today - on my birthday!! Thank you so much Heather! The rules are to deliver this award to eight bloggers of my choice, who in turn choose eight bloggers of their choosing to send it to...and so on.

Here are the guidelines to follow in choosing your recipients:

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these kind writers. When you pass the award along please include include these guidelines.

I would like to pass this award on to the following people:

CeeKay, Thinkin of Home; Sweetie, Sweetie's World; Neabear, Neabear & B-Daddy's Nest; Kathy, Shocking Pink Thread; Cori, Gingerbread Crumbs & Company; Sharon, Techno Nana; Pam, Grey Like Snuffie; and Rechelle, Walnut Haven Cottage.

Bloggy Goodness Award

My blog friend, Sweetie, Sweetie's World, gave me a Thanksgiving gift - this Bloggy Goodness Award! If you have never been to Sweetie's blog, it is a must! She has lots of wonderful posts - recipes and interesting stories about her family and home. Sweetie is one of the bravest ladies I know. In the face of unspeakable sorrow and loss one year ago this week, Sweetie courageously and selflessly carries on - loving and taking care of her children and grandchildren.

Thank you, Sweetie, for this award and for your friendship.

A Really Nice Award From A Really Nice Lady!

Just a quick hello today to thank one of the sweetest ladies in Blog Land for this award. Kathy, of Shocking Pink Thread wrote a lovely note about me and my blog on Friday. She included several other ladies in her post which she considered friends, all met through blogging, with the exception of her own dear sister. Kathy then awarded this Blogging Friends Gold Card to each of us.

Are you not continually amazed at the wonderfully nice, loving people you meet blogging? Thank you, Kathy, for your very kind and generous comments in your post about me and my blog! You made my week! If you have never been to Kathy's wonderful blog, it's a must!

An Award For Me? Thanks!

Thank you to CeeKay of Thinkin' of Home for the "You Make My Day" award. CeeKay quite often makes my day! She's a wonderful friend of 28 years. Thanks, C! I am passing the same award on to a new blog contact, Constance of "Slim Pickins From My Brain"! edelweisstexas.blogspot.com. Thanks, Constance for your sweet note.