I heard of people scattering lawn clippings for them. Wish I could get my extra lawn cuttings and plant trimings to where they could do some good. They all go to the city composting site. I never buy that finished compost however, because it has too much glass in it. I see my neighbors put trash in their green waste containers all the time. *sigh* How I would love to live somewhere you might actually see a deer. We don't even get squirrels. Lucky for me our possums don't eat roses. I wish we could have some rain. It has been in the 90's everyday. It's a land of make believe here. Things are green because everyone is watering. But outside the boundaries of the freeways, things are so brown and dry. My poor shrub roses are shriveled and I cut the buds off to conserve energy for the plant. I feel sorry for you and the deer at once. Wishing for a wall for you. I'd like one too, not for deer but to keep out salesmen and missionaries and a people who litter my property with flyers and cards and real estate oppertunities, etc. I must get at least 3 or4 people every day wanting me to give them money for something. I'd trade them all for deer any day.

Good morning! I too try to visualize people and it rarely, if ever, works out. it is nice to put faces to names. Shirley, still thinking of you and keeping you in my prayers. i know that's your daughter, brittney and dawson -- who are the others (inquiring nosey minds want to know) and as for your mom, you never know what the next roommate may be, perhaps you can hold off on the move until you see what comes in LOL, however, I think I'd want to be with my own and her secrets kept!!!! annie your dogs are beautiful, as are you. my aunt and uncle, for as long as i can remember, were the first home for service dogs until they were ready to go into training. they had several different dogs from what i recall. sorry about your lizzie...i know how hard it is to lose a beloved pet. my next dog is going to be a shepherd, but it's been decided that we will only have one dog at a time now, so I have to wait my turn. (we'll see) i made an anniversary cake for a group i belong to, it was our 7 year anniversary so i made this massive cake. i filled it with alternating layers of buttercream and lemon curd, and dang, if it was not tasty. I was able to take a slice home for the family to taste and seriously wish there had been more leftover, would have made a nice breakfast!!!! a real nice combination, even though it started out that i was going to use raspberry as well...i just couldn't get enough to cook them down to make a nice sauce/filling. it's still so cold and seems to be staying that way until at least next week, when it's supposed to go to the high 40's, with rain. by then, i'll think it's summer. this cold is bone chilling and of course, they are calling for more snow. we haven't got much of it, but.....this year it is bothering me like mad! i shouldn't complain, there are parts of the country that are in the negatives, so i'll just keep my mouth shut on this subject any further! so whose left to post their pic? come out. come out whereever you are! speaking of which, jeanne, how are those triplets of late? is mary ellen still a part of this group? i feel like i haven't seen her in a long time...maybe since she became a grandmom, or right before that? hae a nice thursday! maryanne

Karen : Thank you :), I really took what you said about putting the mind effort elsewhere and went with it. Ah yes, my roomie.. he's a pretty big guy (the same one who lost his home to fire on V-day eve), so I think I'm in good hands there. Poor man doesn't know what I'm like when in a tizzy though. Bless him! LOL The way I am now with just DH flying away, I KNOW I wouldn't make it if a whole bunch of my people got up and left. LOL I never do vignettes as I'm just not to good at grouping items together but it struck me that I could use that little space for something. Anndd when you mentioned berries , I just remembered , I have some! LOL I think they are out in the shed so I will have to go find them and try it out. Bless you woman! Jeanne: Thank you! Coming from someone who creates such absolutly beautiful vignettes that means allot (maybe I can be taught, I hope..lol). BOTP is "back of the potty" coined by I believe OA (and please forgive me if I have the wrong person , I don't mean to). In my case though , it could well be "bottom of the toilet paper" though as I have the white cabinet over the potty and the TP is above the vignette. LOL I really like the saying you have on your keyboard. I'll have to remember that, TFS it with me.

Thanks everyone. I'm still eating it.... I would call this a success, but I did learn some things for next time. At least use onion powder if I don't have an onion, and be a little more generous with the salt. I'm adding both of those each serving now, and it really helps. I'm glad other people wondered what coarse meal looks like, that made me smile :o) Sewhappy, thanks for the suggestion.... Plastic wrap is not my friend, and I think for me at least using it in that manner would be harder than cleaning the worktop surface of the portable dishwasher. I scraped the dough off with a plastic pan scraper, and then just brushed the loose stuff into the trash... so much easier than trying to wash with a sponge and getting a gluey mess everywhere! Duane, I agree. I have made things before (think pumpkin stuffed ravioli) that were not worth the effort to cook them, nor the clean up process. When I make something big, it is because I want to, I never force myself to.... sometimes I am very glad I did, and other times, even halfway through the process, I mutter, "why oh why" or "never again!" I hate finishing a project and thinking "Man, I should have bought that, it would have tasted better and saved me all this work!" Annie, you like every food, don't you? :o)