The Twelve Days of Christmas!

Now don't go gettin' your knickers in a twist....
I know that it isn't the start of the 12 Days of Christmas....
In fact, I know that the 12 Days of Christmas don't even start UNTIL Christmas.

However, I was browsing studying and found all this really good great stuff and felt the need to share.

Click and play.

www.cleanjoke.com

 www.ahajokes.com

 www.ahajokes.com

 www.dezert-rose.com/

www.youtube.com/

Now wasn't that fun?

Love, 

Buddy

 

 

Okay, NOW you can start thinking about Christmas.

Today is December 1st.  Well, at least it is December 1st where I live and I think that today should be the first day Christmas decorations should be allowed in stores.

I don't mind retailers having sales before Thanksgiving, or putting out merchandise that I would consider buying as a Christmas present for someone.  In fact, I rather like getting stuff all year and putting it in the back of the closet in anticipation of the holiday season.

However, I would very much like to enjoy the time between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving without having decorated trees, colored balls, and tinsel stuffed down my throat whenever I enter a store.  Can't you just WAIT?

Please let me enjoy one holiday at a time. You don't want me getting confused and putting sparklers in the turkey do you?

Love,
Buddy

Way cool photographs...

Now I am on a mission.

Having started this conversation about interesting photographs, I needed to go out (and spent wa-a-a-a-a-y too much time surfing the internet) and find more, more more. You can thank me later.

First I Googled the term "unique photographs" and the first page was full of professional photography studios touting themselves as unique.  So my question is... how unique can you be if everyone else is unique as well?

Then I looked for "way cool photographs" and found some amazing images, (and spent wa-a-a-a-a-y too much time surfing the internet). You can thank me later.

Anyway, I did track down some sites that I found interesting for your amusement.  Enjoy.

Denis Darzacq

Prepare to spend a lot of time here.  Lots and lots of way cool pictures.

 Cool pictures and tutorials on how to do them.

This one caught my eye, it seems to have the work of several artists.

This is a fun site despite it being a site for "fashion trends and glamorous models".  Check out the "funny" gallery.

Most are a  little over the top for me, but I think I am in love.






Take a look around, try not to get sucked into the blackhole of internet exploring.  You can thank me later.

Love,
Buddy

Photographers

I have noticed that when the artist and the photographer come back from an expedition that they take very different pictures.  They go to the same place but they look at the world differently.

For instance,

this is  David's picture.











and this...

is the one Ronnie took the same day.








See what I mean?


This is the site of a photographer with a lot of interesting images.
Most of the site isn't written in English, but I have no trouble understanding the photos.
My favorites are the Riddles.

 Guess what this is...







 or this? 












Now, go...have fun!




Love,
Buddy

Is this what you mean by "going green"?

Love,
Buddy

Ready for Something New?

I think this just might be the last post about food for Thanksgiving (only because I now have to turn my attention to Christmas) but I couldn't let the weekend pass with out giving some pointers in what to do with all the leftovers.

One of the best things about having such a large amount of food cooked for one day isn't just having a full (or in my case, overfull) stomach.  It is all the wonderful leftovers to be consumed over the weekend.  That's why Thanksgiving is on Thursday you know (not really).

Again I am sending you to;

All Recipes

A new one, Ready Set Eat

Another new one, About dot com Southern Food









And please be careful with the care and feeding of your leftover turkey.

Love,
Buddy

Happy Thanksgiving

 

 

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, I am grateful you are part of my life.

Love,

Buddy

Save Room for Dessert!

No Thanksgiving is complete without a tiny bit of dessert.  I am all for having the pie while waiting on the turkey but for some reason the humans don't agree with that order of doing things.

Of course if you have waited until the last minute and forgot to plan dessert, you can always run down to the corner grocery and buy some yummy tidbit already made.  But if you are all about doing it from scratch....

All Recipes

The Food Network









AND

Taste of Home











...all have wonderful recipes suitable for any Thanksgiving table.

Go forth and bake, then have a wonderful time sharing with family and friends.

Love,
Buddy

Side Kicks

For me, the main attraction for Thanksgiving is the turkey but I guess at some point I have to admit that the side dishes can lend to the overall success of dinner. 

So, in that vein, I have found a couple of sites with a whole slew of recipes.  Of course, for all those vegetarians these would be all important.

I really like the Food Network
(and profess a certain love for Paula Deen). 

You can't go wrong with anything from Southern Living.

Now, go find something really yummy, fill out your grocery list, and get busy, it is almost time!








Love,
Buddy

PS  Don't drink and fry!

Please sir, may I have some more....

I'm not going to say that I am obsessed with the food for this Thanksgiving, but I will say that I do think about it just about every morning when I get up....and pretty much every evening before I go to bed, oh and maybe at lunch and mid-morning and late afternoon, and early evening....and pretty much the rest of the day too.  Oh well, maybe I am obsessed.

Anyway, I came across this recipe for turkey cooked in a slow cooker, which I really hadn't thought of, but when you think about it is a good idea for one or two people who aren't cooking for a crowd, or if you are eating at Aunt August's house and won't have any leftovers of your own, and you NEED leftovers because they are the BEST thing about Thanksgiving dinner.

Of course if you are going to have turkey you absolutely NEED mashed potatoes as a side, or in some cases (like Aunt August's youngest daughter Maddie) mashed potatoes are the main dish with a bit of turkey on the side.

Try this recipe for traditional taters.

Go here for more potato information, including some non-traditional offerings.









I can hardly wait!!

Love,
Buddy