Fall Daze

My Favorite Things About Fall

• The air is cool and crisp
• The mountains surrounding the valley turn beautiful shades of orange, red, and yellow
• Pebbles was born at the beginning of October

Trees ~ I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make a tree. ~ ~Joyce Kilmer~

Favorite childhood games we played in the Fall

Spook in the Cellar

This game involved a child hiding in a pile of fall leaves raked in a huge pile....the mother, played by a child, would send the children down to the cellar for a food item, when the children approached the pile of leaves which represented the cellar, the child hiding in the pile of leaves,called the spook, would jump up and chase the approaching children.

~ Upset the Fruit Basket

This wonderful game was played around the bases of four trees...can't really remember the rules, but can vividly remember running to the next tree while an Assortment of Fall leaves cascaded to the ground all around the playing children.

~ Tag game called "Colors"

The runner stands at home base and tries to guess the color the runee is thinking of, when the color is guessed the runee takes off running around the school building and tries to make it back to home base before the runner catches him.

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Ante Over

This is the game where a ball is throw over the rooftop of the old one room school, the thrower yells, "Ante Over", and the team of children on the other side of the building try to catch it before it hits the ground.....sometimes, you had to yell back over, "Didn't Come Over"

~ Ahhhh......The beautiful memories of childhood play filled with laughter and fun.

October is the month my daughter, Pebbles, was born.

Happy Birthday, Pebbles

This is one of Pebbles' favorite recipes: ~

Special K Bars ~ 1 Cup Karo syrup 6 cups special K cereal 2/3 Cup sugar 6 oz. chocolate chips 1 Cup peanut butter 6 oz. butterscotch chips

Over low heat, dissolve sugar into karo syrup; do not boil. Remove from heat and add peanut butter to mixture. Pour over cereal in a well-greased bowl.

Coat cereal evenly with the peanut butter mixture. Spread evenly into a buttered 9 x 13 inch pan. In double boiler melt chocolate and butterscotch chips together. Spread over cereal. Refrigerate until firm. Cut into bite sized pieces. Enjoy.

Then the days start to get cooler..... In November, we give thanks for all the blessings we have in our lives.

Kitty gives thanks for all she has: a loving family, caring friends, her cats, and most of all for the Good Lord up above.

God is Great And God is Good Now we thank Him For this food By His hands We must be fed Give us Lord Our Daily Bread

Amen

At our home at Thanksgiving the children and I always read the children's book called, "Cranberry Thanksgiving". Here is a recipe for the cranberry bread we bake for our meal.

Cranberry Bread: INGREDIENTS: 2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. baking soda 3/4 cup orange juice 1 Tbsp. orange rind, grated 1 egg beaten 1/4 cup melted butter 1 cup chopped cranberries 1/2 cup chopped nuts DIRECTIONS: Sift together first 5 ingredients. Combine juice, rind, egg and shortening and add to the dry mixture. Mix just to moisten. Fold in cranberries and nuts. Bake in a greased 9 by 5 inch pan at 350 degrees for one hour.

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All too soon the big meal is over, then right around the corner ..........................

Rooster, Santa's helper, says "Christmas is coming"

I hid my wrapped presents in the lower right hand corner...don't peek!!!

 

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