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Cream Of Sweet Potato Soup   

Ingredients
3 sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced 
2 c chicken broth 
1 tsp sugar 
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg 
1 1/2 c half-and-half or milk
Salt and pepper to taste  

Directions
Place sweet potatoes and broth in slow cooker. Cover and cook on high 2
to 3 hours or until potatoes are tender. Puree potatoes and liquid in
blender. Put back in slow cooker with remaining ingredients. Cover and
cook on high 1 to 2 hours. Serve hot or chilled with a dollop of sour
cream if desired. Makes about 1 quart. 
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YooHoo

We are back in Jefferson! Butch landed on the lawn mower right away and has been busy ever since. We will most likely be here till we head south to Missouri. Butch will help Gary and Susan with an auction in Savannah MO on October 5th. I will stay with Susan's mother Eloise and help out in that way.
So we will be in Jefferson until the 2nd or 3rd. It is getting so crowded at the Peculiar campground and the Carthage campground that those are places we should remember to call for reservations. Haven't done that yet.
Anyway...if you are in the Jefferson Iowa area stop on by...we would love to see you.
One of my plans for the near future is to go through my address book and nudge those I haven't heard from in quite some time with a personal message. It is amazing to me the people that travel through my mind as we are traveling through the countryside and I will think, I sure haven't heard from them in a very long time. I wonder how they are doing and then we stop and I get busy and you know the rest. But rest assured if you haven't emailed me in awhile, you are on my list!!

Fisherman on Lake Anita

Ann Graduates

Granddaughter Ann of Georgia/Florida graduated this Spring. I am just a little late!!

Make a Smilebox greeting

For those few

who asked for more Clay County fair pictures...

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Forgot to mention...

Forgot to mention that we played in a golf tournament this past weekend. Naturally the weather was as crappy as it has been the entire month but we endured. It was a three couple team, alternating shot format so it went fairly quick. We played with Randy, Sherri, Chuck and Corinne and we came in first in the second flight. Not too shabby considering the conditions.

Whew!

My Internet connection has been giving me fits again but I may have made a discovery this AM that helps...we will see. But I have not been able to post pictures or much else web related however email has not been a problem so you can see why I was puzzled. I took this one yesterday afternoon.
We went for a walk yesterday afternoon and I did not have my camera so after returning home I grabbed my camera to try and get some of the shots I had missed. One was of a crane sitting on a dock...well he had moved but it was still a good shot if I could get it. So I went down the hill and he held the pose the entire time it took me to get there. I turned on my camera and he instantly scrunched his head down into his shoulders making one ugly looking bird. So I waited...and waited but the d--- bird stayed scrunched so I took a shot of the geese instead.