Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Yesterday was a wonderful day....
We have had a wonderful run as Grandparents lately... wow.... How luck Ann and I are.
We got together with Jon, Randi, Kaitlyn and Dylan along with Heather and Andrew and Madison and Jake and Trisha last Saturday to share some time with the grand kids... watching them play and grow.. especially grow is truly something. What a very special time this is... and those times are truly numbered and won't be around forever, and we know this too.
Anyway there are photos from that special day online, and then yesterday we went with Andrew on his Zoo Trip with his class from Skyline School in Stillwater.
What a time we had. I have not been to the zoo since being there last when the kids were little, and I mean little! How the place has grown. And to be honest I loved the flowers and trees as much as the animals... they have done an amazing job with the trees and flowers and other plants.
Anyway... we were waiting for the yellow school buses to pull up like all the other schools... and to our surprise... the Big Blue Pioneer School buses pulled up.... how cool....
Look at how this flower looks before....
it opens... and then below to see how it looks open.... click for the big view...
Sometimes....
God's handicraft is just under our feet... all we have to do is open our eyes... especially me!
Monday, April 23, 2007
Cover the tick
Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20),the tick will come out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away . This technique has worked every time, Oneil
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Recipe contest celebrates
Born and bread
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| Grandma Alice’s Applesauce Cake is a 100-year-old recipe from an Oklahoma family. |
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Recipe contest celebrates Made in Oklahoma products
By NATALIE MIKLES World Scene Writer
4/19/2007 4:23 PM
The deadline for the Made in Oklahoma Coalition's Recipe Roundup is just about a month away, but some of the early entries already look like winners.
Hundreds of Oklahoma cooks' recipes will be judged by a panel in May, and the grand-prize winner will receive a $7,000 KitchenAid makeover. Runners-up will also receive prizes.
Kimberley Bevins, a judge for the contest, has already tested some of the recipes, and shared a couple of favorites.
One standout in the main entrees category is a pasta with chicken, spinach, garlic and cheese.
"It's restaurant quality," Bevins said. "As soon as you taste one flavor, you come across another."
The pasta recipe was submitted by Susan Litchfield of Mustang. Hers is baked as a casserole in a 9-by-13-inch dish, but it can also be made in two smaller casserole dishes. Bake one for dinner and freeze the other for another day. It makes a lot, so it's a good recipe for serving a crowd, and even big families will have leftovers.
Bevins said there are many interesting recipes in a new category in honor of the centennial year -- authentic 100-year-old recipes.
Sandy Day of Oklahoma City sent a recipe for Grandma Alice's Applesauce Cake. Grandma Alice was born in 1884 in Oklahoma. She started cooking for her family's farm hands at about age 15, and did so most of her life.
Applesauce cake, made with home-canned apples, is a recipe Grandma Alice made all those years ago, and that her family continues to make today. It's an old-fashioned cake, with an almost fruitcake-like consistency and spice-cake flavor.
Bevins will make the pasta with spinach and chicken on the KOTV, channel 6, noon show on Thursday, and the applesauce cake on April 26.
There's still time to submit recipes to the Recipe Roundup. Contest entries should include at least two Made in Oklahoma products. A complete list of those products can be found on the Web site, www.miocoalition.com . Entry forms and contest rules are also on the site. Entries must be received by May 15.
Spinach Dippin' Chicken and Pasta
Makes 10 to 12 servings
1 (10-ounce) package frozen chopped spinach
1 can artichoke hearts, drained
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 cups Braum's shredded mozzarella cheese
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 1/ 2 cups Hiland sour cream
1 1/ 2 cups Garden Club mayonnaise
2 teaspoons Head Country All-Purpose Championship seasoning
1 bag (20 ounces) Advance Fast Fixin' Fire Roasted Chicken Breast
12 ounces mini penne pasta
1. Thaw spinach and drain very well; chop with artichoke hearts and garlic.
2. In a large bowl, combine cheeses, sour cream and mayonnaise. Add spinach mixture and Head Country seasoning.
3. Boil pasta according to package directions; rinse and drain well. Meanwhile, cook chicken breast according to package directions (microwave method only takes 4 minutes). Slice cooked chicken breast thinly, and then add with pasta to mixture in bowl. Mix gently to combine well.
4. Lightly spray a 9-by-13-inch casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray; spoon mixture into casserole dish. Cover and bake for 45 minutes in preheated 325-degree oven.
Grandma Alice's Applesauce Cake
2/ 3 cup Braum's unsalted butter, softened
2 1/ 2 cups granulated sugar
3 cups applesauce
4 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons nutmeg
2 teaspoons ground cloves
2 cups Oklahoma-grown pecans, chopped
4 cups Shawnee Best all-purpose flour, sifted
2 cups raisins (soak in water, see instructions)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 loaf pans (9-by-5-by-3-inches).
2. In a small mixing bowl, cream together the softened butter and granulated sugar; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine the applesauce and baking soda well; add the creamed mixture, and the salt, spices and nuts; stir well.
3. Soak the raisins in a mixing bowl with enough hot water to cover them completely; let soak for 20 minutes to plump, and then drain very well. Toss the drained raisins in the sifted flour to coat evenly. Add the flour and raisins to the batter and stir until all dry ingredients are incorporated.
4. Distribute batter evenly between the two greased loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees.
By NATALIE MIKLES World Scene Writer
Austyn went to a Tiger Cub/Boy Scout Camp last weekend...
Here he is with some buddies playing games with their bows and arrows... They had a ball. Phil took these super photos... I stole this one, so I will have to ask him to tell about it here if he has time... and if it's ok to post more, or put them in an online album for you all to see.... ???? Enjoy the day!!
from the best kids in the world come the best grand kids...
not braggin' - just fact!!! haha...... enjoy the day....
Saturday, April 21, 2007
They may be cousins... but....
at this second... they are sharing something incredibly yucky... haha.....
Missy Maddie loves her Grandpa Blankinship....
yes she does... but on another note... do you see where her face is.... and how clean it is coming up.. haha... now that is a coy young lady..... haha... but oh my she loves her Grandpa Blankinship, and he loves her... they are fun to watch together... even if his shirt suffers... hahaha...
Click to enlarge....
Andrew got a great hit to open the season, and was, as Great Grandpa Moffat would have said... pouring on the coal to get to first.. he made it and ... SAFE! Great hit and great game Andrew! Ya Did Good!! And in my eyes.. they won, especially in the 'spirit of the game' area!
This might be a photo to share with some young man who comes calling... haha...
oh come on guys.... ya gotta love me with a face like this.... hahaha...... she was the 'hit' of the game.... but oh my goodness, Mom, you might get DHS after you... child endangerment, dirty face! section 341.a subsection 413.b.qe3! haha...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Jon .. this is for you, sorry buddy.. haha....
BlackBerry Woes Getting Better
POSTED: 11:53 pm EDT April 17, 2007
UPDATED: 1:35 pm EDT April 18, 2007
NEW YORK -- New information emerged Wednesday on a BlackBerry system failure that NewsChannel 4 first reported. The company that makes the handheld device said things were repaired Wednesday morning. Research in Motion, the Canadian company that provides the devices and e-mail service, said the interruption affected users in North America. RIM said the cause of the problems was still under review, but that service for most customers was restored overnight. Online news reports cited message boards that claimed the outage began at 8:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday. A recording on the BlackBerry helpline acknowledged a problem getting and sending messages, but said little else. The company serves about 8 million subscribers, having added about 1 million of them in the last quarter alone.
I am an IMUS fan, and can not beleive that only now somone stands up for him... and look who it is... sigh... what happened to freedom of speech?
I don't agree with IMUS, but loved his show, fresh interviews of real folks in the news, current events, and great music... just had to close my ears to the chatter of the show, which I found I did not listen to much, cuz I hardly ever agreed... but this is AMERICA, right? and Free Speech is one of our principles??? anywho...
KERRY: IMUS FIRING UNFAIR
By MAGGIE HABERMAN
April 18, 2007 -- Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry yesterday said he doesn't think Don Imus should have been fired for his racially charged comments - a sharp break with the current Democratic 2008 front-runners.
"You know, the punishment has to fit the crime, so to speak," Kerry, the Democrats' defeated 2004 White House hopeful, told NY1.
Kerry, who had Imus' support in that race, said he might be willing to go on a future Imus show if the radio host finds a new station - but "if he goes back to doing the same old, same old, I'd have trouble doing that."
OH MY GOODNESS... and he defends the poor???
Q-C barbers call Edwards' $400 haircut 'impossible'
By Bill Wundram | Thursday, April 19, 2007Quad-City barbers put down their shears and sputtered words like “preposterous” and “impossible” Wednesday when they heard of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards spending $400 for a haircut. In the Quad-Cities, $10 or $12 is about average.
“If I charged $400 for a haircut, they’d come after me with white coats,” said Leo Fier, who has been cutting hair for 49 years at his shop in DeWitt, Iowa.
Edwards’ campaign committee filed a financial report with the Federal Election Commission noting that the White House hopeful paid $400 for haircuts in California and New Hampshire, and $248 for salon services in Dubuque, Iowa.
“That’s impossible, $400,” said Don “Dutchman” Braafhart, who runs Dutchman’s Barbershop in Davenport.
Next time he’s in town, Edwards would get a real bargain at Davenport Barber College, where supervised student barbers charge only $7.50.
Even some Quad-Citians who allow their locks to grow long are shocked by a $400 haircut.
“My Santa Claus long hair is my trademark,” said Terry Lunardi, Davenport restaurateur. “I just had my hair cut Monday for $10. And I have a lot of hair to cut.”
Kurt Ullrich, a Scott County deputy auditor whose hair runs long, said, “Edwards and I are of a similar age and I took note of his hair when I visited briefly with him in Davenport. His hair is thick, full and beautifully coiffed, whereas mine is counter-culture long. Sixteen dollars is the most I’ve ever paid for a haircut.”
There are a few Quad-City shops that rise above the $10 average. A man’s haircut may range from $18 to $42 at some specialty salons. Operators at two of those shops said they would welcome Edwards, and not charge his campaign $400.
A barbaric price for cutting hair may not be unusual. Jay Ledford, who runs Cut Rite, Moline, with his dad, Jay Sr., insists that a number of years ago, President Clinton had his hair cut in Davenport. “I can’t remember the barber, but he only charged him $150,” Ledford said.
Bill Wundram can be contacted at
(563) 383-2249 or bwundram@qctimes
Singing competition auditions scheduled
Singing competition auditions scheduled
By RITA SHERROW World Television Editor
4/18/2007
KOTV has scheduled auditions for this summer's "Gimme the Mike" vocal competition for next weekend.
Auditions will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at Woodland Hills Mall, 71st Street and Memorial Drive. Those auditioning must complete the application, available online at www.kotv.com and at the station, 302 S. Frankfort Ave., and bring it to the open auditions along with a photo ID. All auditions will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
To be eligible, participants must be at least 18 years old or older at the time of the audition. Those performing will have up to 60 seconds to sing a song of their choice without musical accompaniment.
A judges' panel will select the top 20 finalists who will then compete on the fourth season of the televised competition on channel 6. Five individual winners, plus a wild card favorite chosen by the viewing audience, will compete in a one-hour live broadcast from Cain's Ballroom in August.
For more information, go online at www.kotv.com.
By RITA SHERROW World Television Editor
the shortest street in the world.
 Street measures up to new record | ||
A town in Caithness is to enter the Guinness World Records for having the shortest street in the world. Ebenezer Place in Wick measures 6ft 9in and has one address, the front door of No 1 Bistro - part of Mackays Hotel. A Guinness World Records spokeswoman confirmed that Craig Glenday, the editor-in-chief of the Guinness Book of Records, visited Wick. She added that Ebenezer Place had beaten the current world record of 17ft Elgin Street in Bacup, Lancashire. 'Great interest' Mackays Hotel owner Murray Lamont said he had always been confident Ebenezer Place would set a world record. He said: "Everyone is delighted. "The street was built in 1883 and people here know about it but I decided to put it firmly on the map. It has certainly become a great point of interest." Mr Lamont said he did not know where the street's name had come from. "It could have religious or Masonic roots," he added. Ed note: the kind of things that fill my mailbox each morning.. haha.. love them! and those that send them!! thanks for taking the time! | ||
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