journal entry: I signed up to bring soup. So did many others. People love soup. They love their own soup. I made the soup I love. Absolutely love. It is tomato. First of all I thought about what to put it in. Once it was made. And hot. Back and …
EAT, DRINK AND BE SCARY ! -Unknown- journal entry: Most holidays contain too much sugar. Not the holidays but the holiday food. I try to be a little early in taking things around. Just to be kind to stomachs and to parents who are frantic to avoid another sugar buzz. …
“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now, in October.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne- journal entry: Grandpa likes to wait for help. This kind of help. He thinks that harvesting from the garden or the …
“Come ye thankful people come. Sing the song of harvest home. All is safely gathered in. Ere the winter storms begin.” -Thanksgiving Hymn- journal entry: In October everything is beautiful. It is cool but not cold. It rains but doesn’t snow . . . much. The garden is overgrown. Leaves …
“Grandpa, look at our hands. They’re the same !” -Holden and Grandpa Painting Pumpkins- journal entry: It is October. Pumpkins are ready. All are harvested and lined up in the garden. Children have opinions about pumpkins. Once they have picked their favorites, I get out the paint and the glitter …
“Broken cookies don’t have calories.” -Unknown- journal entry: Collections. Most of us didn’t start out thinking we were collecting. I have several things that I have always been drawn to throughout my life. Like cookie cutters. Over the years, one here and one there . . . I have …
“In the childhood memories of every good cook there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom.” -Barbara Costikyan- journal entry: Grandmothers often take for granted that younger people know what their grandmother’s knew. That is because grandmothers have the mistaken impression that everything they taught …
“An apple is an excellent thing until you have tried a peach.” -George du Marier- journal entry: I am not the only one who feels this way. Everyone talks about it. The feeling they get when they are finished bottling peaches. The way the peaches look. Lined up. Beautiful. There …
“Good peach pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.” -Jane Austen- journal entry: Most people think that grandmothers can make pies. It seems so “old world” and “long ago”. I never did learn how to make pies. At least not very well. I could have enjoyed making pies …
“Pink, pink, pink . . . give me everything in PINK.” -Miss Piggy- journal entry: You may think that anyone can decorate cupcakes. I am here to tell you that I didn’t think I could. I knew I could frost cupcakes and put sprinkles on them. I wasn’t sure about …
