Baked Little Smokies wrapped in Bacon

Baked Little Smokies wrapped in Bacon

1 pound bacon

1 pound little smokies

brown sugar

melted butter

Wrap the bacon around the little smokies

Mix the melted butter and brown sugar

Pour over smokies and bacon

Sprinkle a little more brown sugar on top

Bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes

Turn oven up to 400 degrees and continue to bake until bacon is crispy

Thanks Kennda and Melissa for the recipe and photos!

 

Friday Foto

Sometimes when I am looking for a photo, I run across one I forgot about in my files. This was taken going up the hill to the place where I was raised. It causes lots of memories to travel in and out of my mind. It makes me think of my Dad and Mom and sister and brother and of all the life time of fun.

Pumpkin and Cake Mix Muffins

Another Facebook easy to make recipe.

Getting Old

I posted this on Facebook and said you know you are getting old when you tie your tennis shoes in a double knot so you can slip them on instead of having to tie every time...I keep noticing other things about getting old too! Some are funny and some are not...what is your favorite thing about growing old?

 

 

Biscuit Bubble Pizza Dish

This looks like a easy work night dinner...my daughter sent me this.

Thanks to who ever had this idea...

looks like you just spray the pan

cut the biscuits into quarters

add meat, sauce and cheese

bake until the biscuits are done.

 

CeeLo Green - GreenHouse Foundation

CeeLo Green does more than just turn his red chair on the VOICE...

he is using his voice to help others.

CEELO GREEN & SISTER SHEDONNA LAUNCH GREENHOUSE FOUNDATION

Educating and Empowering Our Youth to Live, Love & Be Green

 

 In the words of Kermit the Frog, “It’s not easy being green.”  But, Grammy Award Winning artist CeeLo Green and his sister Shedonna Alexander have together co-founded the GreenHouse Foundation, a non-profit organization with a mission to help make “green education” easier and accessible to students in underserved school districts. The GreenHouse Foundation will educate, inspire and influence children to become responsible stewards of their environment, communities and future.

 

CeeLo Green - photo source

 

Officially launching on August 17^th in Atlanta, GA, this sibling team will dedicate their first “teaching GreenHouse” in memory of their late mother Sheila J. Callaway Tyler. The dedication will take place on the campus of Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, a “GreenHouse School Partner”, where CeeLo attended elementary school.

 

The GreenHouse Foundation is an extension of CeeLo and Shedonna’s long family legacy of philanthropy. They grew up surrounded by great role models – their maternal grandmother Ruby Callaway Robinson and mother Sheila J. Callaway Tyler.  Ruby started a nationally recognized non-profit organization “Comprehensive Auxiliary for Southwest Community on Alcohol and Drug Education” (CASCADE) that focused on drug-prevention and education in underprivileged communities. She initiated the nationwide “Just Say No” kids march in May 1986, which drew over five million participants and achieved broad and tremendous support, including recognition from former First Lady Nancy Reagan and Soliel Moon Fry aka “Punkie Brewster”. Their late mother Sheila followed in her mother’s footsteps, serving as one of the first female firefighters with the Atlanta Fire Department, plus years of other volunteer work throughout the community.

 

The youth are our future leaders, so CeeLo and Shedonna recognize the importance of empowering children to love and protect the planet. As a result, the GreenHouse Foundation’s first initiative is the “Green Garden Education Program,” which will offer schools an opportunity to become "GreenHouse School Partners” and start making their green footprint. Through this program, the GreenHouse Foundation will build outdoor green gardens on campuses and introduce “green education” into their everyday curriculum, teaching children the importance of “being green”.

 

CeeLo Green - photo source

 

“The Green Garden program will use outdoor gardening as an innovative tool to teach math and science. It will allow students to experience a new approach to “green education,” states co-founder Shedonna Alexander. “We are committed to the mission to empower children with the knowledge, attitude and desire to positively influence their futures, their communities and the long-term sustainability of their planet.”

 

The University of Georgia’s Cooperative Extension service for Atlanta’s Fulton County is playing a key role in the GreenHouse Foundation’s education and community outreach.  UGA Cooperative Extension extends lifelong learning to the people of Georgia through unbiased, research-based education in agriculture, the environment, communities, youth and families. As part of the GreenHouse School Partnership and Green Garden Education Program, they are providing curriculum support through their agricultural and family sciences programs.

 

“Through the Green Garden Education Program, the GreenHouse Foundation is supporting schools with the tools, curriculum, and resources necessary to create and maintain an outdoor ‘teaching garden’. With the garden as the primary focus, children will learn the fundamentals of gardening along with the health and environmental benefits of growing their own produce. Children will also learn how to start and manage their own school farmers market,” explains co-founder CeeLo Green. “The hands of our children will help feed those in need, like the homeless or elderly who live in ‘grocery deserts’ with no access to fresh produce.”

 

In the future, the GreenHouse Foundation plans to launch other initiatives such as “The School Waste Diversion Initiative”, which will provide schools with waste receptacles to divert non-biodegradable waste from local landfills and create a local competition among the schools. Annually on Earth Day, they will start “The Clean Atlanta Green Day” to unify the city’s local businesses, schools and government officials to collectively clean up the City of Atlanta. Another key initiative will be the launch of “The GreenHouse Community Gardens Program”, which will take the concept of their on-campus “school gardens” to the next level by adopting land around Atlanta to develop organic community gardens maintained by volunteers. Additionally, the GreenHouse Foundation will also create a “Green Collar Career Development & Training Program” that will introduce and educate students on jobs that impact our environment. As the foundation grows larger, it will also offer students the opportunity to earn the “Green Career College Scholarship” based on academic performance. Teach Green, See Green, Live Green – GreenHouse Foundation.

 

GET SOCIAL WITH GREENHOUSE FOUNDATION

Official Website: www.GHFoundation.org

Daylight Saving Time - Fall Back

Time to FALL BACK

I am not a fan of daylight saving time, but it was passed to save energy. It has never really been determined, as far as I can tell, if it actually does save energy. I am just tired the entire time we are on the Daylight Saving Time. My body stays on Standard Time. I really hated it when my kids were young, they stayed up later because there was more daylight time to play.  I wish they would just decide on one time or the other and leave it alone!

The phrase "Spring forward, Fall back" helps people remember how Daylight Saving Time affects their clocks. At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of Standard Time ("Spring forward"). We "Fall back" at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November (November 3, 2013) by setting our clocks back one hour and thus returning to Standard Time.

The change to Daylight Saving Time allows us to use less energy in lighting our homes by taking advantage of the longer and later daylight hours. During the eight-month period of Daylight Saving Time, the names of time in each of the time zones in the U.S. (map) change as well. Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time, Central Standard Time (CST) becomes Central Daylight Time (CDT), Mountain Standard Time (MST) becomes Mountain Daylight Time (MDT), Pacific Standard Time becomes Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), and so forth.

Daylight Saving Time was instituted in the United States during World War I in order to save energy for war production by taking advantage of the later hours of daylight between April and October. During World War II the federal government again required the states to observe the time change. Between the wars and after World War II, states and communities chose whether or not to observe Daylight Saving Time. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which standardized the length of Daylight Saving Time.

Daylight Saving Time is four weeks longer since 2007 due to the passage of the Energy Policy Act in 2005. The Act extended Daylight Saving Time by four weeks from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November, with the hope that it would save 10,000 barrels of oil each day through reduced use of power by businesses during daylight hours. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly difficult to determine energy savings from Daylight Saving Time and based on a variety of factors, it is possible that little or no energy is saved by Daylight Saving Time.

FALL BACK from 2:00 am to 1:00 am



Clorox - 100 Years!

 

I was surprised to see this Clorox label that said 100 Year Anniversary,

so I looked up the following:

 

The Clorox Company kicked off the celebration of its centennial anniversary, marking 100 years of growth that has led to its becoming a $5.5 billion multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer products used every day in millions of homes around the world. 

  

“One hundred years ago, five men invested $500 to start a business in Oakland, California, with the vision of fulfilling their American dream through a bottle of bleach,” said Chairman and CEO Don Knauss. “Clorox has come a long way since then. Today, we share the same innovative and tenacious spirit of our founders in pursuing growth opportunities for our business and in ensuring the care and quality that goes into every product.”

 

Friday Foto

Wearing his new overalls from his Great Great Granny Pansy.

My Grandpa would be so proud because he always wore overalls.

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN...BOO!

 

This is as scary as I get for Halloween...LOL...all those chins are not the latex ones from the store...they are real and like everything else gravity is beginning to drop them lower and lower...I took this photo with my phone one morning to send to my kids...so I thought I would use it to wish all my readers Happy Halloween! The following is a brief history of this candy grabbing trick or treating festive day...

Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day, incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows’ Eve and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a secular, community-based event characterized by child-friendly activities such as trick-or-treating. In a number of countries around the world, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people continue to usher in the winter season with gatherings, costumes and sweet treats.

This is my sweet husband humoring me by posing, with the trick or treat pumpkins we got for three of the grand children that live near us. He cracks up at some of the crazy things I want to photograph to us on my blog. He is use to whiplash when I come to a screeching halt along side the highway or turning in to a place I see that I want to take pictures...he has even got really awesome at taking them too!

I love CAT photos!

Natural Painkillers

 

Thanks to Ema's Herbs for posting this on Facebook...Cracks me up "The Farmacy" at the top is a cute name...and to think we can get these from our kitchens!

Cheese-Garlic Biscuits Mix

My daughter sent me these photos and assures me that we all need to try this mix! She said they are almost as easy as canned biscuits and really good. I love quick mixes!

 

 

Apples

This is a really awesome "chart" to know how to shop for apples.

My daughter sent it to me and she probably found it on Facebook,

so I don't know who to thank for putting it together.

 

 

 

Honey Maid Grahamfuls

 This is a yummy snack bar...

 

 

Friday Foto

Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren enjoy the fall carnival.

Photos by Danny and Shelby...thanks for sharing!

This was set up in the local grocery store parking lot...

only in Western Oklahoma!

 

 

Brown Beans & Cornbread

My husband made brown beans in the crock pot. Normally he cooks brown beans on top of the stove in a dutch oven or large stock pot. The top of the stove method is to bring the pot to a boil and then turn down on low and let them cook for several hours until they are done. This crock pot cooking is such a good way to put something on in the morning and have ready to eat when you arrive home from work! With his crock pot beans he washed two pounds of pinto beans and picked out the goofy looking ones. He dumped the beans in the crock pot and added fourteen cups of water.  

Normally we add ham hocks or bacon ends or salt pork to the pinto beans, but this time he took a canned ham from the cabinet, cut it into little square pieces and put in with the beans. He also chopped one medium onion and added to the beans.

Next he added garlic powder, salt, pepper and a couple sprinkles of red pepper flakes. He does not measure so the amount is to your individual taste. He is not crazy about the red pepper flakes, but I love them. Stir everything together and put the lid on the crock pot.

He cooked the beans on high for seven hours. And the beans were just perfect. He likes to eat his brown beans in a bowl with lots of bean juice. You can see in the photo he was able to have enough. If you do not want so much juice cut back on the water a little bit. Just make sure you have enough water to cook the beans. They soak up a lot so I would use 12 cups for sure.

2 pounds pinto beans = $2.00

1 pound canned ham = $2.50

1 medium onion = .50

salt, pepper, garlic powder, red pepper flakes 

Approximately $5.50 for the entire pot of brown beans!

The bean package said 13 servings per pound of beans...now that made me laugh...if those fools think there's 26 servings in this pot they must have a really small bowl! 

YOU HAVE TO HAVE CORNBREAD WITH BROWN BEANS...

Shawnee Best White Corn Meal Mix made according to package directions: 2 cups corn meal mix, 1 1/2 cups milk, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons melted oil. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Put the oil in a cast iron skillet and place in the oven. Mix the rest of the ingredients together. Pour the hot oil out of the skillet into the mix. Stir and pour the mixture into the skillet. Bake at 400 degrees approximately 35 minutes until golden brown. Yield: 16 two inch squares.

Ok we are not going to get 2 inch squares out of a round cast iron skillet! NOTE: The reason for heating the oil in the skillet is to obtain the golden brown crust on the bottom of the cornbread like the example above.

He makes the best cornbread. Sometimes he adds jalapeno peppers or corn or onions or cheese to the cornbread and sometimes he puts them all in at once. You did note that he uses Shawnee Best White Corn Meal Mix because it is MADE IN OKLAHOMA!