Not a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

It's better!

Cookie Swap has come and gone

There was a little crying, a lot of food, and from my impromptu home makeover project last night I left sharp staples in the carpet that my baby nephew almost ate. But all in all it was good. Lots of good friends, family and homemade food and gifts - and plenty of butterscotch bitches.

We did a marketplace this year of what we make. Though I didn't make anything to sell, I did make my first trifle - with my famous coconut cake - chocolate pudding - whipped cream and raspberries.

I haven't been posting here much lately; but we've been working more on updating our blog for work. Check it out.

Deer Count 4

Don't ask. Let's just say there is a deer head in the freezer and a carcass hanging in the yard.

Not much new

I'm in a writing slump. It's FRICKING cold right now (0 degrees with -12 windchill), I'm in my flannel pajamas over my long underwear, winding down after the turkey-leftover-potpie-stick-to-your-ribs dinner.

I don't know what it is about this winter, maybe I'm getting old, but I feel colder than I have in years!

No news on the deer front, except for the fact that I've got multiple people who are lobbying ME to get Tom to try muzzleloading.

Isn't muzzleloading old guns with powder and special civil war costumes? Camo is about all I can take.

Hope you are warmer than I am so far this winter!

Move over deer, it's cookie season

The good news is that we made it through Thanksgiving, the bad news is that deer hunting season is NOT over yet, at least for the bowhunters out there. To be honest, I am more than ready to end the "did you see any deer when you drove in" madness around this place.

Making it through Thanksgiving means the cookie brigade begins, at least for me. And I'm putting my foot down, there will be no venison cookies this year.

I'm contemplating what new cookie will be added to the repertoire. Each year I try to add something new. I'm considering a ginger cookie, because I love the ginger cookies so. I've been researching how to make chewy gingery ones and am considering a little sandwich cookie with cream cheese/orange filling. Mmmm, ginger.

One year I added the Lime Rickey. It's the lime coconut ball thing that I love so. Mmmm, Lime Coconut Balls....

And of course, there will be the traditional butterscotch bitches, cornflake christmas wreaths and the Cobb County butterscotch puppy chow.

post your orders here.

remember when buck

meant a ride on the back of your banana seat bike? Now it means my beloved got his 2nd deer. His male deer.

Oh how life has changed.

too much information

Over the years, my relationship with the too-familiar pharmacist Steve has become comfortable.

Take tonight for instance. While Steve was spending time on the bench talking with someone he shouted out "I'll be with you in a minute Heidi!"

I smiled and turned around and studied the sale items, wanting to give the bench lady some privacy. I held up a bottle of Airborne, wondering if it actually works and if it actually was invented by a teacher.

A lady pharmacist came to help me while Steve was busy.

As she was ringing up my prescriptions she looked at my finger and said, "Is that your wedding ring?"

Magically, Steve was done with his customer and suddenly in our conversation too.

"Yes" I said. Hoping there would be no more questions.

"I like it!" she said.

"Me too!" said Steve, "Is it platinum or white gold?"

I sighed. I wished I could lie. I answered, "Neither."

They both stared at me.

"I lost my real wedding ring" I said. They kept staring at me. "And my engagement ring actually."

"What happened?" Steve asked.

"Well, I don't remember what happened exactly with the engagement ring. A supper club parking lot with my mother I think... but the wedding ring I lost while I was picking up trash by the Mississippi River on Earth Day."

They just kept staring.

"So this one my mother bought for me on the street in Las Vegas. It's weird because people comment on it all the time."

Steve wondered if I had insured my wedding ring. I hadn't. Then he made a funny pharmacist joke. "Some kid will find it someday with a metal detector and wonder whose ring it was!"

Good one Steve!