Karla loves the internet and drawing, it fits with her overall interest in the world around her. Naturally, when she noticed a young reporter using one of her illustrations for his story, you can imagine how excited and happy she became. The entire family received repeated emails about the event!
We gave Karla her own domain to post her drawings and she is catching on to the entire web design thing as well fairly quickly.
Congratulations Karla.
By the way, Karla’s big sister Karen (nick named by her ‘the poodle’) was an athlete at SC and previously Florida and drew lots of Trojans!
One of the many variety of Trojans Karla has drawn! ( Karen the fighting poodle?)
Laura and I have very fond memories of the USC and UCLA rivalry, because in 1969 it was our first date. We were high school seniors and as such my pockets were virtually always empty,I was very excited about tickets arriving from both schools for THE big game. I needed only a little money for gas and a couple of meals at Bob’s Big Boy on Colorado Boulevard and I was set. So, I borrowed the family car, dipped into my frugal collection of coins and off we went. The rest as they say is history.
No relationship is perfect, even the very long married will tell you that, but what they will also say is that they remember the good times and celebrate in big ways and small the special events in their lives as a couple. Three years ago, I wrote about a particularly long lived couple married over 80 years and what they attributed to their mutual long living attraction and love. Laura also blogged sweetly about the date… so what’s a guy to do?
Not every woman would enjoy a football game on her first date with a new guy, but fortunately, Laura did and maybe that has been the secret of a long relationship… mutual interests, positive shared experiences and the joy of just being around the other person.
Nothing says ‘Thanksgiving’ better than a great pumpkin pie!
On this blog I have talked about using the best ingredients, taking the extra steps and following the best rules of the road — whether new or old — for developing your recipe into something memorable.
So it goes without saying that to make the best pumpkin pie ever, there must be a little from the old chef and a little new. Before evaporated milk there was cream and this is an old and delicious idea. The abundance and variety of spices one can use is a new and wonderful phenomenon. Adding a topping of glazed nuts makes it complete.
Oh by the way, Nestle’ ( owns Libby and 80% of the Pumpkin Business) says it may not be able to supply the demand for Pumpkin… so… better go out and buy some or make a Sweet Potato pie.
I think Pixar did a remarkable thing, it made a movie named ‘UP’ that I really enjoyed. I was actually surprised.
Let me not spoil it for you, but my daughters would have said I would love it because of what they call all the ‘Inner Light’ moments in the film. ( ‘Inner Light’ was a hopelessly sentimental episode of Star Trek NG) I almost don’t want to post anything about it so I can lure my daughters into watching it!
I had no idea of the significance of the bottle cap pin when it came with my Blu-Ray dvd … but it has a very sentimental part in the movie.
Thanksgiving is one of the few universally enjoyed holidays in America and the ‘turkey’ is the star. Americans so love this bird that even Benjamin Franklin lobbied for the turkey rather than the eagle as our national bird! Although I do enjoy a plain bird with stuffing, on special occasions there is so much more we can do! I have prepared turkeys in all sorts of ways and there is nothing like a large bird to open the eyes of all the men gathered around! My oven limits what I can cook and a 44 lb was my largest. The size of the bird is one factor, but the flavor of many birds is quite an experience.
There is the TURDUCKEN and it’s many variations. The bird within a bird recipe goes back hundreds of years and I think the record goes back to medieval France with 15 birds in one recipe. This year, we will prepare a simple bird for our Thanksgiving, but during Christmas time while everyone is home it will be a Turducken with a twist. This year we will use: a turkey, a goose, a duck (2) and a chicken along with a wonderful stuffing for each. Obviously, the turkey stuffing will have sausages, including everyone’s favorite… ‘pheasant sausage!’
