A Tropical Adventure

It’s summer.  Everyone is going to the beach and on vacation adventures, and while in my heart I don’t really want to go, I still feel a tad of sadness and a bit of jealousy because most of my family is in Florida and my best friend is sharing the same coast.  Although, I admired and agreed with a passage in a book I read earlier that said “there’s no where I want to go because there’s really nothing I want to get away from,” and “we live like we are on vacation.”  Not exactly the wording, I thought I wrote it in my journal but didn’t.  Alas… I wish I was there with them all to cook, play, sleep, read, eat…. at the beach.

But last night I too went on a tropical adventure, to an island.  I allowed myself, in the quietness of our room, to drift away to a sandy beach and beautiful blue water lagoon with warm breezes blowing and four friends along.  We explored the island and found a waterfall with crystal clear, clean water and a jumping rock perfect for diving.  We swam and sat in the sun.  We found coconuts and breadfruit and cannibals…Eeesh!  Luckily I was safe in my bed and eventually my friends were  too, all within the pages of my book.

I smiled and thought “I just had my own tropical adventure too… thank you Lord, I don’t feel so left out.”  It’s amazing where a good book can take you if you allow it to.

This week’s read:  Bed-Knob and Broomstick, by Mary Norton.  Yet becoming another  favorite… quickly.

Help Wanted

As you may or may not know, I design and spend many, many hours compiling stories, creating ads and putting a magazine together for Sleepin' Bear Lodge and Farms annual Dove Hunt.  

I have three covers designed and would love your input on which cover to go with.  Please leave your comment and choose either cover A, B or C. 

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Eager Beaver!

Howdy Doo.  I am knee deep in yet another book by Edward Eager.  I'm stuck in the juvenile section and stuck on this author!  It's just child-like imaginative fun and has really sucked me right in.  After the second book, Half-Magic, I sought more on the library website and currently have two in my possession.  One of which I am reading now.  I was so utterly excited when I started reading this one, The Well-Wishers, because it is a continuation of the first book of his that I read in the beginning of this little book journey of mine. 

I am having fun with these books and can't wait to see what I'll pick up next.  The books I have chosen are fun, fast reads.  And so far, the Eager books have peaked my imagination. 

After popular request, not really just my lovely friend Stacy, I decided to creatively save my book journal page as a picture and post it here.  Feel free to blow it up, right click and copy it, print it or whatev!  So here it is.. have fun!

Product Review Time!

Time and time again while working in my kitchen I reach for one of my very favorite items... my herb scissors.  Herb Scissors operate just like regular scissors except the have five blades instead of one so chopping fresh herbs is easy as pie. 

This morning I was making potato salad for the big FDC 2011, (Father's Day Celebration) I popped out to the garden, cut some green onions, came back inside, washed them and cut them in to perfect slices in no time. 

My memory is foggy when I try to think of where I first saw a picture of herb scissors.  It must have been a magazine or maybe a kitchen website that I used to get emails from and on occasion a look book.  However I came to find them I do remember my jaw dropping and my eyes getting wide.  I actually got mine for free through my rewards on my credit card.  They aren't expensive at all so I had enough points to buy them.  I received them within a few days and have enjoyed them ever since. 

I know you can use a cutting board and chop the with a real sharp knife but truthfully, unless it's serrated, I'm not that good with a knife.  I like to hold my celery up and fhump the knife through it letting the ends fall into the sink.  I use my Pampered Chef food chopper to chop nuts.  I like my kitchen gadgets to an extent and if I were P.W. I'd have five pair of these hunnies to give away right now.   But I'm not so I can only pass on where you can get them for a very fine price. 

Herb scissors are a very handy kitchen tool to own.  They even come with a little friend that helps slide leaves and pieces from between the blades.  Here's where you can find a pair of your very own.