Let's Smile (The Men)

Today, let's smile with these quotes from some famous men:

Winston Churchill:

A young man after seeing Churchill leave the bathroom without washing his hands: "At Eton they taught us to wash our hands after using the toilet." Churchill: "At Harrow they taught us not to piss on our hands."

Bessie Braddock: "Sir, you are drunk."
Churchill: "Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "
Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"
Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price."

Lady Nancy Astor: "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."

Oscar Wilde:

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
              
Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
               
P.J. O'Rourke:

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

W. C. Fields:

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

 

Ambrose Bierce:

 

The covers of this book are too far apart.

 

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

 

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

 

George Bernard Shaw:

 

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech

 

Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music

 

Mark Twain:

 

Classic- a book which people praise and don't read.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any, but that wrongs the jackass.

If you can't sleep, try lying on the end of the bed. Then you might drop off.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it won't be allowed.

Will Rogers:

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
 

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

 

***Tomorrow, the women!

 

                                             Love ya'll, Shelli

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book on Wife

My husband only reads nonfiction and automotive nonfiction to boot.  That's right, owner's manuals, vintage salesman literature, vintage car magazines, and best of all "Hemmings Motor News".

  I can't imagine it!  There is nothing better than a good work of fiction. Historical novels, who dunnits, science fiction; especially in the winter on a cold, rainy day sitting by the fire....oh, my!

Well, any way, I have tried to get James to broaden his reading repertoire for years.  I bring books home from the library for him to read.....doesn't work.  I try reading him excerpts from whatever I'm reading.....really doesn't work! I had given up hope until I started reading a nonfiction book of my own recently, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.  It was required reading for my niece and nephew when they were in high school.  It is about a woman in 1951 who had cervical cancer and whose cells were taken without her knowledge (or at least without her complete understanding).  Her cells were cultured and grew into an immortal cell line used to this day for research. It is very interesting from both the ethical and medical perspectives.

Now James works in the medical field, so I just knew that I had finally found the book that we could both read and have long "book club" discussions about.  I decided to go the "excerpt reading route" again to get him hooked.  (Granted, reading excerpts had never worked in the past, but who knows if the next time will be the charm.)  I laid in wait and trapped him at his desk when he was waiting for an email to be returned. I had chosen an especially interesting selection and read it with all the inflection I could muster.  When finished, I closed the book and waited.....

                                    

 "Most people have books on tape", he said, "I have books on wife, but if I ever go blind I'll be in good shape."

 

Foiled again :(

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O’Rourke

Recommendations:

The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Brother Cadfael Mysteries by Ellis Peters

Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall

&

a nonfiction choice

The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World form the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean

Love ya'll, Shelli

Date Night

If you enjoyed the movie The Hundred-Foot Journey, if you live in our neck of the woods, and if you are looking for a fun date night, I've got the thing for you.  Rosemary's Kitchen is hosting A Journey to Old Bombay, an Indian themed dinner event this Saturday night, September 13th. Here's the link:

http://simplefreshgood.blogspot.com/p/date-night.html

Wedding Bells

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We are so pleased to announce

 the engagement

 of

 our daughter,

 Katherine,

 to a wonderful young man,

 Collin Jilbert.

 

 

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

 ~Malagasy Proverb

More Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, Redecorate

So as you know from an earlier post, I am trying to clear out my attic and hot house.  Here are some items that have recently gotten a face lift and will soon (I hope) be residing at someone else's home.

 

Update: SOLD!!!!

Update: SOLD!!

                                                                     Update: SOLD!!!

Keep your fingers crossed,  Shelli

Fairfield Market Blondies

OK, Ruth, here is the recipe for the brownies I brought to the reunion.  They are a staple at the Fairfield Grocery & Market Café' in Shreveport and the recipe can be found in their cookbook. They are super easy and really delicious, but not nearly as good as Kenny and John Wayne's chicken!

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Fairfield Market Blondies

 

Ingredients:

2 sticks of butter

2 cups light brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1 1/3 cup all purpose flour

1 t. salt

1 t. vanilla

4 eggs

1 cup pecan pieces 

 

Directions:

1. Melt butter.

2. Stir in sugars, flour, and salt.

3. Stir in beaten eggs and vanilla.

4. Mix in pecans.

5. Bake in 9x12 baking dish at 325/350 degrees for one hour or until done.

 

 

Muscadine Wet T-shirt Contest

Get your mind out of the gutter!!!

 

 

This is not that kind of a blog!!

 

 

Our second variety of muscadines got ripe and needed to be picked, but it was raining.  James and I were leaving that afternoon for his family reunion, and we were worried about leaving the grapes on the vine any longer.  So we just picked them in the rain......

 

 

Here's the wet T-shirt!!

 

 

Now we are in the process of making wine!

Our first batch ever!

 

2014

Turkey Creek Garden

Muscadine Wine

(about three bottles worth)

 

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Love ya'll, Shelli