Happy New Year 2023!!

Gonzales (no name) Burgers

 Last week sometime we had the timing right to stop into Gonzales Burger on Silver avenue in Donna Texas. We have been there many times over the years but due to Covid and many other things it had been years since we had been there. There is no name on the outside of the building so you usually are introduced to the place by someone else. It is not a place you would just stumble upon by accident even though the place has been in business since 1945. 

They have a given amount of hamburger that they sell and when the meat is gone they are closed. They open at 10:30 AM Monday through Saturday. 

Butch and I order one cheeseburger and fries. I cut off 1/3rd of it for me and it is plenty for both of us. Their prices have gone up over the years but they are still worth the money.

We were surprised to see the sprucing up done to the place. Maybe I should correct that to I noticed the changes. Butch didn't seem to notice.

Here are some photos I took while we enjoyed our very tasty burger:

New Clock

 I have wanted to buy one of these clocks ever since we moved here. I do not have a bedside table on my side of the bed, and I am used to half opening one eye during the night to check the time. I think that is a habit of light sleepers. So it was delivered yesterday and Butch has a reputation for reading directions and getting things set up in the proper method. I do not have that reputation. Now the time appears large and clear on the ceiling. I love it! 

Lime Jello with Cottage Cheese

 This recipe has been around for a long time and I ran across it a few weeks ago and decided to make it for Christmas dinner. I did not think Butch would even touch it because it has cottage cheese and pineapple and those are two things he would never consider edible. But then he tried it and liked it! Surprise! I love the stuff and cannot leave it alone.

Lime Jello with cottage cheese

Ingredients

3 ounce package lime gelatin

1/4 cup granulated sugar optional

3/4 cup hot water

8 ounces crushed pineapple = 1 small can, undrained

1 cup whipped topping defrosted

1 cup cottage cheese

Instructions

Dissolve gelatin in sugar and hot water.

Stir in pineapple and chill until mixture begins to stiffen, but is not firm.

Whip lime mixture using an electric mixer. Add cottage cheese and beat all together.

Fold in whipped topping.

Pour in a flat pan, we use a square 8 x 8 or 9 x 9' pan. Chill.

And then...

 We had a very pleasant holiday with friends Alex and Renie. After our dinner when we all ate too much food, we played cribbage and then we played the card game Golf which I have grown to like and we finished up the day playing Bridge. 

It was reminiscent of the holidays at the Brooker house, not the Butch and Barb Brooker house so much as the J.R and Marion Brooker house, Butch's parents. Every holiday and even just a visit it would not be long before a card game was in progress. It was the way it was and all frequent visitors knew it was going to happen. I loved his parents. 

When the bulk of your life is behind you instead of in front it brings about reminiscences of nearly everything. And when you see Grandma or Grandpa dosing in their chair it might be they are having a peak back at 1950 or some other decade and enjoying the show.

And that's the way it was, and is!