An Oldie, but Goodie

Received from my friend, Trish, in an email a little bit ago.  I really do love this one.

Once again this year, I've had requests for my Tequila Christmas Cake recipe so here goes:

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. baking powder

1 cup white flour

1 cup water

1 tsp. salt

1 cup brown sugar

Lemon juice

4 large eggs (room temperature)

Nuts (your choice)

1 bottle tequila

2 cups dried fruit

Directions:

Sample tequila to check quality; take a large bowl.

Check tequila again to be sure it is of the highest quality.

Repeat.

Turn on the electric mixer.

Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.

At this point, it's best to make sure the tequila is still OK.

Try another cup just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the fruit up off the floor.

Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the tequila to test for tonsisticity.

Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something.

Check the tequila.

Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven.

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don't forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window.

Finish the tequila and wipe the counter with the cat.

Cherry Christmas!

My preference would be Vodka or Wine -- the effects would be the same, I guess! Merry Christmas, everyone!

Another Anniversary

From lanai looking up through screen

Looking through the Live Oaks

The evening skies recently have looked like they are on fire.  I took these shots between Trick 'r Treaters on Halloween.  The Spanish Moss on the Live Oaks looked as though they could burst into flame at any moment.  I love this time of the year when the temperatures are more temperate and we should have relief from the heat and humidity for the next 7 months.  We had rain most of the day today but it cleared in time for another gorgeous sunset.  Winter sunsets are so different from the summer sunsets here.  They seem so much more colorful.

We still have a few plumeria blooms hanging in there.  My roses are getting ready to bloom again.  And the rain trees on my street are gorgeous right now.  I have started driving around with my sunroof open and all the windows down.  

Today is the 21st anniversary of our move from Midlothian  to Tarpon Springs.  November 3, 1992 was the beginning of a new chapter in our lives.  It was hard leaving children and grandchildren in Virginia, but we have no regrets. We haven't had to scrape a windshield in 21 years. Or shovel snow. Or throw salt on ice. Or swat a fly.  We have gnats and mosquitoes occasionally but no black flies, deer flies or June bugs. Or ticks.  Being close to the Gulf has those advantages.  Farther inland, it's a different story. 

I think I love it more here every day.  

Feeling blessed to be celebrating the start of another lovely winter here.

Best Laid Plans....

Every time I think I will be able to spend more time on my blog, I encounter other things that take precedence so it has been a pretty long while between posts.

I still want to get back to painting.  But that's on a back burner until November 20.

What's so special about November 20?

It's the Woman's Club Art Mart held on the third Wednesday of each November to benefit our art scholarship fund.  Each April we award a scholarship to a deserving Senior in the art program at Tarpon Springs High School. So I spend a good part of the Fall making things to sell in the Art Mart.

This year I am focusing inexpensive little earrings, cards and bookmarks with  "Think Pink," birthday, and holiday themes.

I've done a couple dozen pairs of earrings in four different designs: Think Pink, Cupcake, Christmas Stocking, and Santa Claus

And Thursday I started with the cards and bookmarks and earring cards.  Hopefully, I'll pick up speed on these things.  November 20 is only a month away.

Actually, all I need to do is stay off the damn computer and get it done. ;-)