My Everything Corner

While browsing a few of my favourite blogs yesterday, I found a recipe that I was eager to try at The Enchanting Rose .  These chewy lemon cookies looked divine and I suddenly had a craving.  I headed to the pantry sure to find a white cake mix, but only came up with chocolate.  I'm sure I could have made a very similar cookie from scratch, but I have never tried using a cake mix before, so I whipped up the chocolate one in exactly the same way, (sans la extroit de lemon) and I was so very not disappointed.  Fresh out of the oven - incroyable! Cooled down - formidable. And frozen on the next day - delicieux. Why all the french you ask?  Doesn't a foreign language make it sound better?  That, and I really should try to use a little of a language that I studied for no less than 8 years. I encourage you to give these a try, except maybe if you are a French cook or a purist, and anything out of a box offends you.  I picked up the ingredients f...

It seems like it has been such a long time since I posted anything, but it's only been a week and a half. The past ten days have been filled with many ups and downs, plenty of uncertainty and more than a few tears.  Our Dear Uncle continues to struggle, and it is very painful to watch.  We all feel very helpless in times like this. There is little to do, other than just be there for him and send him all of our love. On a completely different note, I have had a photo that I have been wanting to capture and share for some time.  It is of our little crested gecko, Chocolate.  She has the most incredible eyes.  They are a deep gold with all sorts of interesting detail.  She is such a sweet little fun pet to have and the easiest thing to care for. I'm sharing this photo on Eileen's blog for her wonderful ' Saturday's Critters '.

It is the perfect day to get a lot of fall yard work done.  It is also the perfect day to do many other things.  Things that I don't often take the time to do. Go for an early morning stroll with my kids. Wander around the yard gathering interesting seed heads for an arrangement.  Read a book on the sunny deck with a coffee.  Finish up a cute pumpkin experiment which involved roaming around in the trees in the backyard looking for the perfect 'stem'.  Take lunch out to the wheat field and picnic with my husband on the back of the truck. I even snuck in a nap shortly after lunch which truly made it feel like my much needed day of rest. I shared this post HERE at Viewing Nature with Eileen. With an old black and white enamel bucket, my daughter and I wandered around the yard and picked anything that caught our eye.  I just love how it turned out. It sure brought a lot of texture to my front porch! These sunflowers that resemble 'Big Bird...