Butterhorn Rolls

These homemade crescent rolls are a family favorite!

Recipe

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1 1/2 c milk

1 c butter

1/2 c sugar

Place these in large glass measuring cup, microwave 1 minute.

Pour warm mixture into electric mixer bowl and add....

3 eggs

1 t salt

1 pkg yeast

5 1/2 c flour (gradually as mixer is running)

Cover with damp towel and let rise until doubled.

Punch down. Oil top and cover with plastic wrap.

Refrigerate overnight.

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Divide into 4 balls. Roll each into a circle.

Brush with softenend butter (2T each circle).

Cut each circle into 16 wedges. I use a pizza wheel.

Roll into crescents, starting at the wide end.

Rise on cookie sheets 2 hours, lightly covered.

Bake 350 until golden, 10-12 minutes.

Brush with melted butter (optional)

These tiny little beetles are so cute....outside!

For some reason, I've had some want to be inside

now that it is cold! It's not an invasion,

but still...2 or 3 found in the kitchen every day is a little weird!

So far, I've been kind and relocated them outdoors.

Did you know...

1. The U.S. has more than 450 types of ladybugs.

2. A ladybug may fly 100 miles in search of food.

3. In the winter, ladybugs hibernate under leaves.

4. A ladybug can have 0 to 24 dots on its body.

5. And, I hear it's good luck if they land on you!

Theme Thursday = Castle

Aren't these sand castles and sculptings amazing? (Images from Google.)

• Compacting the sand is essential.
• Art. Imagination is the only limitation.
• Sand and water are the only materials allowed.
• Tools used range from common garden tools to intricate dental instruments
• Live ~ most are done as part of organized competitions worldwide. Professionals are hired as entertainment for gatherings.
• Essential to all sculptors is the basic drinking straw for blowing away excess sand!

"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." ~~Henry David Thoreau

Daniel and the Mouse Video

So, as I was saying last evening, Taylor's friend Daniel is deathly scared of mice. We finally caught ours in a trap and Taylor wanted to save it to scare Daniel. He laid it on a plate in the cupboard so when the hungry college student came to the kitchen for a bite to eat, he would be greeted by said dead mouse. Well, as the evening went on, Daniel didn't want anything to eat! So, Plan B had to come into play. Taylor called Daniel into the kitchen and Daniel walks in to see Taylor holding the plate. He's running his cell phone video in the other hand and a chase begins. After a few seconds, Taylor drops his cell and the plate to minimize distractions, takes the mouse by the tail, and the chase continues! Most of the video is of our ceiling fan, but the audio is worth the listen. ha! They both eventually stop from exhaustion and laughing (or screaming) and Taylor flings the mouse at Daniel! Nobody can find the mouse...because it actually stuck to his shirt! (more screaming!) So, all in all a funny prank! I wonder what Daniel will do for revenge!? Maybe I'll get lucky and it won't happen here at home! LOL!

College Pranks

Well, as you can see, we finally caught the mouse!

I made the picture small so it wouldn't be too

traumatic for some of you! LOL!

Taylor insisted on keeping the dead thing to play

a joke on his good friend, Daniel, who is deathly

afraid of mice...dead or alive. I guess Taylor has

tormented his friend with them before, even using a

girl's pet mouse and let it go in his lap. I say

Daniel needs to pay him back! ha!

I did some funny pranks in college, too.

We did a lot of the typical things....Vaseline on

the dorm room door knobs, taking some one's towel

and clothes while they were in the showers, and the

ever famous Saran Wrap on the toilet seats.

One girl in my unit of my junior year stole a dead

cat from the Biology Department (specimen for dissecting)

and hid it in her roommate's bed. Oh the screams!

So, do you remember any good pranks from your

siblings or college roomies?

BTW...as I'm typing this, Taylor and Daniel are here

watching Monday Night Football. The mouse is

laying on a plate in the cupboard, waiting for the

poor hungry college student to reach for it.

Taylor promises to disinfect everything in the

cupboard after he revives his friend. LOL!

Playing Hooky!

Harry and Spencer

I had to go get Spencer (in the black pj's) from school

both Wednesday and Thursday afternoons last week

because he threw up. He didn't seem sick at all

after getting home. I think he was faking! When

I put everyone to bed Thursday evening, Harry

sounded like he was getting a cold, so I thought I'd

just keep them all home. I couldn't bear the clinic

calling me again! So, we lounged in our jammies

and had a relaxing day. Hopefully I broke the

cycle for Spencer and today will go without

any calls from the school nurse!

Or maybe I won't answer and let that call

go to The Mister, again! ha-ha!

Did you ever fake sick or play hooky?

You know, I never did! In fact, I would cry

if I was sick and had to miss school!

(what was wrong with me!?)

****THIS JUST IN****

The boys' teacher just sent me an email saying Spencer made himself throw up after lunch and requested to go to the school nurse! Finally, she's on to him and said "No!" See...moms always know, don't they? Now if teachers would just believe the moms! LOL!

Brown

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"Since golden October declined

into sombre November

And the apples were gathered and stored,

and the land became brown..."

~~T S Eliot