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The Mama Kat for today was to, "write a post in 13 lines." I really didn't have any ideas, so I wrote about that. I must find an idea But here to look? Under the sofa? Just dust bunnies there. In the cabinet? Hmm, I could eat a snack How some coffee? Maybe Pinterest will inspire me. 3 hours and 2 mugs of coffee later... Still nothing. Under my closed eyelids? Maybe tomorrow. ***** (Really, I didn't look at Pinterest at all or eat a snack, I just started typing and let it free flow to come up with this. I did have a cup of coffee.) Thanks for Visiting! Join the Mama Kat fun! Sign up for her Writing Prompt list email!  Remember the Link-up is for posts on one of the Weekly topics!

The Mama Kat challenge today is, "What's better? Being a kid or an adult? List 10 reasons for your choice." Photo from Pixabay When I was a kid, getting to be "grown-up" seemed optimal. Now that I'm a grown-up, I see many advantages of being a kid I didn't fully appreciate at the time: 1)  Less to worry about. The biggest worry I had as a kid was whether or not I was liked well enough for someone to want to trade papers with me. It seemed huge then, but, looking back, it was trivial. I just didn't have the judgement to know it. 2)  I didn't have to earn money. My whole profession was going to school and learning stuff for free. 3)  Related to earning no money is having no bills. 4)  Being a kid was a life with minimal demands. I did have a few household chores to be responsible for, such as changing my bed or helping hang laundry outside and taking turns washing dishes with my sisters, but really my time was my own the ma...

In Florida, Spring starts "springing" around the first of March, though the Azalea's are already done and everything else is still prepping to bloom. So for Mama Kat today,  we have a brief tour of what's Springing in my neck of the woods: Piles of Pink Shamrocks! This display is in a large oval bed out front that's centered by a large Gardenia shrub. This pile of Shamrocks actually planted themselves here and periodically I move clumps of them to other places, since they do make such a wonderful ground cover. On the other side of the Gardenia in the same oval bed, I have this container garden: It's centered with Gladiolas surrounded by cheerful golden-colored Creeping Jenny, which stays beautiful all winter! I added the Dusty Miller as well, for visual interested doing the drab days of winter, since it also thrives through the cold. Next is another bed in front, this one closer to the house. It fills the corner between driveway and sid...

I n honor to October 15 being "National Grouch Day," today's Mama Kat blog writing topic is "What makes you grouchy?" To answer this I had to ask the Hubby for his perspective. To me, the distinction between being irritated and being grouchy isn't that clear, but he says, "there's definitely a line of difference between the two," and he can count off the 3 things that make me grouchy on his fingers: I can be grouchy in the mornings. Hubby is a bubble of cheery sunshine from the moment he gets up bright & early and he married me, who is not-a-morning person.  The earlier I have to get up, the more likely it is I'll be grouchy. My brain doesn't start firing on all thrusters until after 30 minutes and a cup of coffee.  I can be grouchy if I'm overly hungry.  This usually only happens if I don't eat enough protein with a meal. Or if there's too much space between one meal and the next--and my blood sugars drop t...

Actually, I found this recipe and pinned it on Pinterest myself, which to me is close enough. I was interested in it because it was a no-bake cookie bar. A pan of No-Bake Rocky Road Bars sounded delicious! And easy. Well as it turns out, it wasn't quite so easy. Nor did it work as expected. There was too much graham cracker crumb and not enough evaporated milk called for in the recipe.  The picture attached to recipe Plus, the pic attached to the recipe wasn't even the correct one. This is it. A fancy 3-layer bar. (And there's even coconut on top!) How the bars should look This pic is what the bars should look like, since you're not layering anything, but just clumping all the ingredients together in a bowl, then pressing them into a pan! Mine didn't come out looking like this--not quite. A mere 3/4 cup of evaporated milk mixed into 12oz of melted chocolate chips DID NOT make the chocolate thin enough to adequately saturated 4 cu...