Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Monday, November 27, 2017

Returning Home Through a National Forest...for Monday's Country Backroads

 
Today's Country Backroads are from my Thanksgiving travels,
 back to the Prairie.
 
I decided to take some backroads
 through the Sam Houston National Forest.
 
 
It's a beautiful drive, with very few places to pull off the road
 and photograph.
There are four (4) national forests in the state of Texas.
This particular one, established in 1936,
 has 163,045 acres.
 
Evidence of human occupation, in these forest lands,
 has been found dating back 12,000 years.
 
In more recent times,
it was home to the Atakapa-speaking native Americans.
 
 
The Thanksgiving Holiday has now become a memory.
 
It's Monday, the beginning of a new week....
with December just around the bend.
Meggie Mac
 

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Last Slice of Pumpkin Pie Has Been Eaten....Homeward Bound

 
 
So our holiday is coming to a close...
last look as the day light fades away.
 
Two grandchildren...
indulging  their grandmother and her camera,
 one last time.
 
I'll be going back to The Prairie,
and they will return to Florida.
 
Holidays... over too soon.
Meggie Mac

Friday, November 24, 2017

Saving a Tree Taken To a New Level ....for Friday Fences

 
  I could see how it would be easier to build the fence around the tree.
 
Plus.....
 I have never been comfortable with removing
 a living tree. 
 
My family and I are still enjoying our holiday time together.
Two more days to taste what it is like to live on a lake.
 
 
A view of last evening....right after sunset.
Meggie Mac
 
Linking today with Gosia
and Good Fences
 
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to view other fence photos,
from around the world

Thursday, November 23, 2017

A Very Grateful Thanksgiving.....for Thankful Thursday

 
I'm sitting here this early morning,
 before all the  activities begin....
 
No, this is not The Prairie.
I have rented a lake house for Thanksgiving.
 
Isn't this a perfect spot for morning coffee,
on this crisp cool November morning ?
 
I am so very grateful for my loving family....
while missing my youngest daughter,
who is studying abroad.
 
I hope today finds you,
my dear readers,
surrounded with the love of family and friends.
 
Happy Thanksgiving !
Meggie Mac
 
Linking today with It's a Small Town Life!
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to read her amazing blog and.....
 Thankful Thursday posts.
 

Thursday, December 3, 2015

A New Family Tradition with Granddaughter...

 
The past week has been a whirlwind of family,
passing through the doors
of The Bungalow.
 
 
It's results have put the 2015 Thanksgiving Celebration at the top of the list,
 of my all-time favorites.
There is such joy in having all of your adult children home, at the same time.
 
 
My youngest granddaughter is adopted from Guatemala, as is her brother.
She can be described as a "firecracker"...so bubbly and full of energy....
and, eager to be in the kitchen.
 
It was decided that she and I would bake cookies together.
 Here are the results of what I hope will be a new tradition, in our family.
 
 
Wanting to do something a little different, I decided we would give a cookie press a try.
I purchased mine through Amazon for only $10.00.
 
Have you ever used one?
The tool reminds me of a caulking gun...
something I'm very familiar with, using it with my old house renovations.
 
 
 The cookie recipe for Spritz Cookies, is a very simple recipe.
Click HERE for the recipe and decorating ideas.
It is much like making a pie crust.
 
 
The cookie press, made by Wilton, came with 14 different templates.
What I like about the grip handle press is...
 I could steady the press,
while my granddaughter's tiny hands gripped the handle,
 to punch out the cookies.
 
 
In less than 8 minutes of baking,
we had the first batch of seven dozen cookies.
 
 
 
These are perfect cookies, for traveling as Christmas gifts.
Rich in butter...
they literally melt in your mouth.
 
 
I must admit...
the cookie press excited me as much as
my granddaughter baking in
The Bungalow Kitchen.
Meggie Mac

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving


Happy Thanksgiving....this is a day to sit back and be mindful of all our blessings, while enjoying family and friends.

Meggie Mac
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