Jason sent me these photos taken in Boone Iowa on 3/13/2024!
Daffodils
Tulips!! Pella's big celebration will be in jeopardy.
Jason sent me these photos taken in Boone Iowa on 3/13/2024!
Daffodils
Tulips!! Pella's big celebration will be in jeopardy.
Rhubarb doesn't grow in the South. But it will be starting to peek its leafy head before long in the midwest. I have had a Rhubarb Pudding recipe for most of my life that was a must-make every Spring.
Here is the recipe from an earlier post;This is an old-time, all-time family favorite and one the whole family asks for every Spring. You cannot even imagine my relief in finding it. Like finding a long-lost friend. Thank you, Sherri Clark for sending me on the last of many searches for this recipe.
Magic Rhubarb Pudding Cake
Yield: 9 servings. Cook Time: 45 mins
Ingredients
2 cups of rhubarb, chopped
1/2 cup white sugar, 1 cup white sugar (for topping)
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup sifted flour
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2/3 cup boiling water
Directions
Cover the bottom of an 8 or 9 inch square baking pan with fruit.Mix 1/2 white sugar, brown sugar, butter, baking powder, salt, extracts, milk and flour together. Add a little more milk if it is too thick to pour; pour over fruit.
Grease or spray an 8-inch or 9-inch square baking dish
Put the chopped rhubarb evenly in the baking dish.
Mix 1/2 cup of white sugar, brown sugar, butter, baking powder, vanilla, almond extract, milk, and flour. If batter seems too thick to pour over the fruit, thin it with a little more milk.
Pour the batter over the rhubarb. Make sure the batter reaches clear to the edges of the pan.
Mix the remaining 1 cup of sugar with the cornstarch. Stir well, so it's thoroughly combined.
Sprinkle the sugar/cornstarch mixture evenly over the batter.
Gently pour the boiling water over the sugar mixture.
Bake at 375 degrees for about 45 minutes. The top will be crinkled and crackled.
In 100 years like in 2124 we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.
Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.
Our descendants will hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father?
After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos, and deeds disappear into history's oblivion. We won't even be memories.
If we pause one day to analyze these questions, we may understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was.
If we could only think about this, our approaches, and our thoughts would change, and we would be different people.
Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all, they would fill our lives with joy.
Some of us waste it daily with greed, selfishness, and intolerance.
Every minute of life is priceless and will never be repeated, so take time to enjoy, be grateful for, and celebrate your existence.❤️
There was a happy hour conversation about Salisbury Steak so I started perusing the Internet and came across this recipe. Sounds like a good one!
The winners of the Men's in-park Olympics for men are; First place winning gold Ron Beeksma, Second place winning silver Butch Brooker and Third place winning bronze Greg Dowhaniuk.
By the Ides of March, the population of the park will be diminished. It is just the way of things and after all the years we have watched it happen we know how it goes, and it is okay.
I looked at the calendar and noticed it was Bill Stilson's birthday. Bill is gone now. He and his wife Kay were close friends of ours when we were in Magnolia. Kay is back in Iowa and we miss them both very much. I know she keeps track of us through the blog and we check in on each other once in a while...So Hi! Kay. Thinking of you today.
This is going to be one of those days where I will write randomly about whatever pops into my mind. The daily happy hour: Some people have a misconception about Bill and Sandi's happy hour. Everyone is welcome. It takes place from 4:00 to 5:00pm daily. Bring your own drink. No politics or gossip. It has been my experience that the knowledge obtained is priceless. You will find answers to nearly every question you may have. Some days are a history lesson of the park, while others are local places to find the best food. Somedays we just laugh...and laugh from the funny stories of our youth. I really enjoy happy hour.
Looking through old files in my laptop. Lable on the file was Articles of Interest. Here is a sample. Number 17 puzzled me a bit.
For boys and men.
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” ―Khaled Hosseini
I took my super-duper camera with me this morning and photographed the moon in the western sky.
Also taken this morning...
I came upon this photo of Mars. It is a NASA photo taken by Mariner 9 easily found on the Internet. It is the clearest photo ever taken of Mars. This was on Facebook. Being an amateur photographer, it caught my eye. I have a Nikon P900 camera and I have taken many close up pictures of the moon.