Thanksgiving ☺

I started off my Thanksgiving, greeted by:

"The Blob"

The night before, as I always do, I made my dough for my infamous potato crescent rolls. For some reason (the world of yeast and what it does sometimes still makes me scratch my head) it went crazy. It's supposed to spend a minimum of 8 hrs in the fridge, and this was what I had when I woke up!

Still made excellent dough though!
They came out fantastic...yummy, buttery goodness! ☺ After stuffing our faces with all the food we made: Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes with gravy, glazed carrots, candied yams, crescent rolls, and apple salad...we had dessert...pecan, chocolate, mixed berry and pumpkin pies!

There was alot of laughing, and many things to be thankful for. I am thankful for my family, and so many other things . Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

♥

Happy Thanksgiving

Hoping everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!!

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

Friday Fill-Ins 29

Another Friday Fill-ins....and it's almost turkey day!!

1. Why does the cranberry get jellied and shoved into a can?

2. Try to change the way you see the world.

3. Thank you for all that I have, my family, my pets, myself.

4. Christmas is my favorite holiday because of many reasons: I love to give, it reminds me of being a child again, magic still exists, snow can make everything look beautiful again, hot cocoa is heavenly when done right, and family is the best thing there is.

5. I am SO thankful for all that I have.

6. Others can't make up our minds to be.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to family coming to visit, tomorrow my plans include even more family coming to visit and Sunday, I want to watch the game, GO PATS!

Lil' Exercise And A Lil' History

A few days ago, we grabbed all the pups and headed for a historic walk. "The Battle of Guilford Courthouse" is now a historic site. Smack dab in the city limits is what is now being turned into a revolutionary war memorial for all those in the southern regions that fought in the war. It even includes the burial sites of two of the three North Carolina representatives that signed the Declaration of Independence. Along with the burial sites of many others. Full of walking trails, historic markers and statues, it's a walk through history.

"On March 15, 1781. the largest, most hotly-contested battle of the Revolutionary War's Southern Campaign was fought at the small North Carolina back county hamlet of Guilford Courthouse.

Major General Nathanael Greene, defending the ground at Guilford Courthouse with an army of almost 4,500 American militia and Continentals, was tactically defeated by a smaller British army of about 1,900 veteran regulars and German allies commanded by Lord Charles Cornwallis. After 2 1/2 hours of intense and often brutal fighting, Cornwallis forced his opponent to withdraw from the field. Greene's retreat preserved the strength of his army, but Cornwallis's frail victory was won at the cost of over 25% of his army.

Guilford Courthouse proved to be the high water mark of British military operations in the Revolutionary War. Weakened in his campaign against Greene, Cornwallis abandoned the Carolinas hoping for success in Virginia. At Yorktown, seven months after his victory at Guilford Courthouse, Lord Cornwallis would surrender to the combined American and French forces under General George Washington." -Excerpt from their website

It was pretty neat...and the dogs of course loved the walk.

(Mom and I and the dogs next to one of the bigger statues.)

(Toby)

(Beepa and the dogs)

Breaking And Entering

She was caught 'red handed'. I had my windows down just trying to air out my car, since it had leaked some rain water recently. I wondered if I had to worry about squirrels possibly causing trouble in there. But I never thought I had to worry about the cat!

Macy (cat burglar) haha!

Charity Art Event 11/4/10

So last night was the actual event! What I have been paintin' like crazy for and getting anxious about for about a month now, is all done!

After hours in the car, Beepa and I finally met up with Cortney and we all arrived for the 1st annual Charity Art Event to benefit Alzheimer's disease. It was held at an immaculately kept senior living community:

First thing we had to do, was run everything in and get our tables all set up:

Cortney getting all set up... Trying to get my table all set up...
Cort was ready to go...
I was just about done with my rearranging and nit picking...but was still waiting on my display cards...

There they are....
The artiste next to her paintings ☺ Tada...ready to sell my stuff!

I musta heard "those are so cute!" from everyone that came through the room :-p Now if only they had bought them all too, hehe. In all Cortney and I sold 4 pieces each...all my snowmen and snowman 'bucket' went. Turn out was low from the rain..but we still raised $1,026!! Not bad for a handful of artists and most of us not knowing what we were doing.☺I still have hopes of selling more (I never thought of it beforehand but was asked a few times for a business card...learned my lesson on that one). I do have some people from the event that still want to buy some stuff and will keep in contact with me.

I was proud of myself for facing my fears and going, a couple years ago there was no way I would of even considered it.

I almost forgot to mention...we had free wine, woohoo!! And Beepa entered in one of the raffles and WON~ a portable DVD player! YAY!!

It was alot of fun and wouldn't mind possibly doing it again next year! ☻

Friday Fill-Ins 28

It's Friday, so gonna do another Friday Fill-Ins....

1. Sometimes, moving outside my comfort zone is a good thing.

2. I am not sure how everyone felt about the whole thing.

3. Small gestures make a big difference.

4. Walking in someone elses shoes is very enlightening.

5. I keep meaning to bike, but I keep making up excuses, I better cut that out.

6. I am not sure how my life is gonna turn out ...yet.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to relaxin', tomorrow my plans include just about anything and Sunday, I want to visit with family and try and catch the game, as always, GO PATS ♥!

Laying By The Hearth...

Laying by the hearth...isn't just for the dogs. Lil' Lily musta been chilly...cuz she was all curled up next to the roaring fireplace. I know I am biased, but she is just so stinkin' cute (even when she is gettin' into trouble, which happens quite often). Whoever said "curiosity killed the cat" musta meant it towards her. I've been saying, since she was the size of a pea, she needs a lil' helmet...hehe.☺