If you’ve known me long enough you know I’m an animal lover. As a kid my sisters and I would rescue stray & injured cats, birds, bunnies, squirrels, raccoons and even snakes. We’d nurse them back to health and some would stay and some we’d have to turn loose.
I still have to feed the strays that come by the shop. There’s usually one or two that I feed at any given time. Some are wonderlusts and just roam the neighborhood because they really DO belong to somebody else. But I can always tell the ones that have lost their way.
There’s been this one scroungy soul that has been visiting the food dish for the last several months. He’s a very pale orange Tabby cat and he reminds me of the poor old guy we had as a kid. That cat had 18 lives and we named him Pinky. So I secretly named this kitty Pinky too. I don’t usually name cats but this one struck a cord.
Week after week I’d see him slinking around the one side of the shop. Sometimes I’d catch him catnapping on a pile of oak leaves in the sun. Sometimes I’d catch a glimpse of him at the food dish. Ever so slowly he was getting a little braver and he would sit at the side of the porch and watch as I refilled his food and water dishes. One morning he was on the porch waiting for me as I pulled in the parking lot but ran as soon as I opened the gate. As the weeks went on that too would change and he would come closer to the dish as I filled it but shyed away if I came too close.
This morning was different.
I put the food in the dish, he came over while my hand was still in the dish and he nudged my hand away! He did that twice and I thought then that I’d try to rub his head. HE LET ME! He was so happy and so starved for attention. He timidly slinked into the shop by the front door and stopped but rolled on his side by my feet. I sat there for several minutes stroking and petting him. He meowed and purred the whole time, telling me this is what he’s wanted all these months but was so afraid.
Pinky
It’ll be fun getting to know Pinky Lee!
~*~I’m Okay now Dad, two’s enough~*~
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It happened! And it was nice! Euphoric. A sense of Well-Being, like all was right with the World : ) That’s how I felt when I woke up this morning and it was, well I don’t know how else to describe it other than, Yummy.
You might be wondering what I was dreaming about! Well…..there was nothing Sexual about it at all! LOL It was just the neatest feeling. No aches or pains, no negative thoughts in my brain, just yumminess! Wow! What a terrific way to start the day! I woke up Happy!
I just wanted to know how often you wake up feeling this way? Do you feel like this every morning? Have you ever felt like this? Please comment below. I’d love to know!
(Yep, that’s me on the Beach this morning…..NOT! LOL)
Note to self: Eat more pears before bedtime.
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Even though I live in Florida I still long for the whites of winter and the frosty window panes and windshields. I’m silly I know but it’s just my hometown roots. I just remembered the snow fences along the back roads in the farmers fields. The fences were put up to stop the snow from drifting across the road. Most farmers didn’t take them down after the winter season. I remember them painted in barn red paint and the jagged roughness to the wood. And how they were strung together with twisted wire. This winter most fences are completely buried under a snowdrift and won’t see the light of day until Spring.
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I treated myself to a nice soak in the tub and lit this McCall’s Cabin Scents Candle for the soft candlelight and aroma therapy I so much needed. When I snuffed out the flame I noticed this precious heart at the very tip of the wick! How sweet for Valentine’s Day. Now I don’t want to burn the candle!
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Vintage Style St. Valentine's Day Card
To My Valentine, You’re Sweet, I Love You, Hug Me, Sweet Talk, Be Mine, Kiss Me. Remember all those messages on the Necco Sweetheart Candies? It was always fun to read the loving words. I didn’t like the candy very much though. LOL Now the messages are a bit different then they were from back in my day. You might read: Fax Me, Love You, All Star, It’s Love, My Way, Love Me and Awe Some just to name a few.
How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? A dinner out? A Card sent with Love? A movie at the theater? A Heart-Shaped box of Chocolates? A weekend away? Or just a nice quiet evening at home in front of the TV?
I’d love to hear about your most romantic Valentines Day. Post me a comment!
XOXOXO
Donna
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- So-Wee Baby Doll Sun Rubber Co
My Baby Doll from the mid-’50′s still sits on a shelf in my bedroom. She’s not been played with in years. But rather is tucked back in the corner of the nightstand where I catch glimpses of her from time to time. She jogs my memory of times past.
Her long dress was an original pattern that mom or my great Aunt Margie made for her. The fabric was left-over scraps from hand-sewn dresses. She had many handmade outfits and her clothes were changed often. This dress is adorned with red rick rack and a brass safety pin on the back keeps it from falling off. I’m sure there used to be a snap or hook-and-eye back there at one time.
This baby doll spent time in the bath tub with me and she probably played with me outside too. The rubber has turned brittle from 50+ years but her sweet features, fingers and toes are still cute as a button.
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Bald Eagle in Pine
Mother Nature paid us a visit yesterday morning. Here’s our resident Bald Eagle drying her wings in the Pine snag across the street from Quaint. We had a nasty downpour the night before and she was soaked. I watched her from a distance for many minutes before she was content enough to go back to nest building.
The immense stick nest in the tower down the street “mysteriously” disappeared during road construction last summer. Luckily the babies had flown the coup and the happy couple is back rebuilding. It’s great to see them bringing sticks and spanish moss to their aerie.
Did you know the largest Eagle nest on record was one built in Florida that weighed in at 3 Tons?
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Jack Daniel Chocolate Pecan Pie
Ohhhh Myyyyy Gosh! My BFF Pam just brought me the most sinfully decadent pieces of pie I’ve ever eaten. I just couldn’t wait to take a bite! LOL!!! Yes, there are 3; no, make that 2-1/2 pieces left on the plate but what do you want to bet my hubby doesn’t get a piece! Heck, they might not even make it to the dinner table! HaHa! (Man, my hands are so cold right now from this frigid weather. I’m having a hard time typing!) Pam also brought in a jar of Frog Jam made in Tiger, Georgia. The main ingredients are raspberries, figs, oranges and ginger. I can’t wait to try it with my morning toast.
Can you tell I just love to eat way too much. And Wow is my heading spinning from all that Jack Daniel Whiskey. And I’m at work today. (Just kidding about my head spinning : )
Check back later incase I post the recipe. What do you say Pam? Or is it a secret….
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Ideal Dutch Process Hot Cocoa
There’s nothing as warm and cozy as getting wrapped up in your favorite blanket and curling up with a good book and cup of hot chocolate on a chilly day. It’s very chilly here in Florida right now and I had a “hankering” for a good cup of Hot Chocolate. My favorite secret stash of cocoa powder was tucked in behind the rice and soups in the cupboard. (There was always a tin of Ideal Dutch Process Cocoa powder in mom’s cupboard at home and when I go back home to visit I always pick up a box. It’s made at Wilbur Chocolate Co. in Lititz, PA.)
I use the recipe on the side panel and in under 2 minutes have a steaming cup of hot cocoa. I love to dunk buttered toast in it too. Sometimes I’ll cut the toast into four strips which makes it easier to dunk! Hot Chocolate and Toast is a great comfort food and just makes you feel warm all over.
Hot Chocolate Recipe:
1/4 c. Ideal cocoa
1/4 c. sugar
1 c. water
1/4 tsp. vanilla
3 c. milk
Mix cocoa and sugar thoroughly.
Add water to form paste. Boil
1 min. Add vanilla, then milk
and heat. Do not boil.
I added a dollop of whipped cream and of course served with buttered toast!
Only one thing would make it taste better and that’s if I were drinking it in front of a rip roaring Hickory wood fire crackling in a stacked stone fireplace in my own log cabin in North Carolina! A girl can dream…..
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