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Today's Mama Kat Thursday is a selection of my favorite posts from 2015; one from each day's category! Now's your chance to go back and re-read any you missed! Best of Good Eating Monday recipes: Italian Cream Cake By far, the best, easiest, most delicious cake for serving a crowd I've made this year! Best of Garden Pic Wednesday: Amazing 4 O'Clocks Also called the "Marvel of Peru," I was amazed to discover that, here in the Deep South, this heirloom flower that's normally an annual, is perennial and has been coming back every spring from thick, bulbous roots.  Best of Mama Kat Thursday: Dream Jobs The various "dream" careers I considered as a kid. Best of Friday Finds: Things To Do With Old Christmas Cards Several crafty ideas for putting them to use or an address to mail front covers to St. Jude's Children's Ranch for them to be re-purposed for you for charity! ...

Today was mowing-the-back-yard day, especially since thunder showers are possible this evening. I also tied up tomatoes & hibiscus, trimmed off the outer edges of both Pampas Grass out front and watered the veggies & blackberries with Miracle-Gro. Today's interesting Garden Pics are 4 O'Clocks, which are an old-fashioned flower. It also has a more elegant nickname: "Marvel of Peru," which comes from it's genus-species name, " Mirabilis Jalapa ." 4 O'Clocks were exported from Peruvian Andes around 1540. Three years ago I bought seed from Park Seed for 2 specific colors of 4 O'Clock: Limelight & Broken Colors. And they've performed beautifully. They are short & bushy in form and bloom profusely at dusk every evening. They also come back faithfully every spring. Pictured below:  Limelight 4 O'Clocks Bright lime green leaves with fushia blooms. Next: Broken Colors: An heirloom, this is the original 4...