tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76864587395482213342024-02-20T19:59:09.086-08:00EveryDay Fisk Family StuffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-67387357787894425272012-12-09T15:44:00.002-08:002012-12-09T15:44:46.323-08:00Christmas Greetings 2012Since we're sending our Christmas letter soon, it's time to update and add a few photos here in case you really want more information about how the Fisk Clan is doing....<br />
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Dale is still busy with music at 2 Lutheran congregations (Calvary, KC,MO and St. Paul's, Concordia, Mo). Lynette still makes stuff, jewelry mostly, and is cutting back from commitments this year to help Laura and Aaron with childcare.<br />
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Because our big news this year was the addition of Highland Elenna Roose - born June 14, 2012 - to Laura and Aaron, currently living in KC while Aaron attends UMKC's grad school.<br />
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She's going to be 6 months old in just a few days!<br />
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Such a gift, to be able to watch her growing week by week. Grandma Lynette has been staying with her 2 days a week while Aaron works on his master's thesis, teaches classes, etc. We will surely miss them when they move on next year! (location to be determined by graduate school or job applications)<br />
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Jonathan's tribe has now been in Naperville, Illinois, for a whole year. He's one of 3 pastors at Bethany Lutheran and also busy with his online congregation (check out www.worldvieweverlasting.com or http://www.facebook.com/WorldviewEverlasting), speaking engagements around the country and his new book, <a href="http://cph.org/BROKEN" target="_blank">published by CPH.</a><br />
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His children are lovely, precocious and the apple of Grandma Fisk's eye - naturally! And just as normal as children everywhere....<br />
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<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/107771940904834621391/FiskChristmasAlbum2012?authuser=0&feat=directlink" target="_blank">For more pictures, jump to our online Christmas photo album.</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-81703806185303885602011-11-15T10:46:00.000-08:002011-11-15T10:46:17.147-08:00Fisks Moving to Naperville,Has been a while since I put anything newsy here, but this is news...Jonathan and family are moving to Naperville, Illinois, so will be only a day's drive away - hurrah!! Here they are in front of their new house.<br />
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Now an assistant pastor at Naperville's <a href="http://www.bethanylcs.org/" target="_blank">Bethany Lutheran Church</a>, his installation is Sunday, November 20 at 4 p.m. <br />
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His video blogs - Greek Tuesday and Ask Da Pastor - will continue beginning again with the first week in Advent, so look for a Greek Tuesday on November 22. Sunday, November 27 is the first Sunday in Advent this year - Christmas being on a Sunday!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-28236736893035196512010-03-25T09:40:00.000-07:002010-03-25T09:49:11.091-07:00Mom's (Grandma's) Quilts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Friday, March 12, 2010, I got to help my Mom, known to most of the family as Grandma Ruth or GreatGrandma Baumgarten, with a presentation of some of the quilts she has made for family members to the Clarinda (Iowa) Home and Garden Club. See more in Kristin's <a href="http://photos2.walmart.com/shareethumbnailshare/AlbumID=3068406002/p=830181268939480218/l=922288002/g=4108463/albumcount=1/pns/share/p=830181268939480218/l=922288002/g=4108463/cobrandOid=1011/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB/action=_xffurlnotdefined">online album here</a>.<br />
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When I arrived on Thursday, her famous "party room" was set with dainty card tables decked out in St. Patrick's Day green, awaiting the luncheon provided by other ladies. We brought six quilts Mom has made for us for her to include in her talk My sister Kristin came from Spencer, bringing a baker's dozen more. She has more children, so there are more quilts in their home. Kathy joined us for dinner on Thursday evening, bringing even more quilts. Friday morning, before I was out of bed, Mom and Kristin arranged the collection of 33 quilts around the perimeter of the party room - draped on quilt stands, on the rocker, on the stair rail and stacked on the couch.<br />
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She had her first quilt, US State Birds made in 1949 before she was married and an unfinished quilt she's still working on. The first State Birds quilt has 48 birds. She made another State Birds quilt later, altering the design to add state birds for Alaska and Hawaii.<br />
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This Fishing Boy quilt was made for her first grandson, Jonathan Fisk. She creates quilts for each of her 16 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren - a baby quilt, a youth quilt and a high school graduation quilt.While some quilt designs have been repeated, no two quilts are alike. She got creative with later grandson, since Kristin's family had five boys and Kristin didn't want identical quilts.<br />
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Mom showed the first of the over 30 denim patch quilts she made from old blue jeans. The first ones were made with our Dad's old jeans, later ones made recycling old jeans gathered from various people and thrift stores.<br />
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Unfortunately, photos don't exist for ALL the quilts she has made and some she has given away or donated to auctions she has no record of.<br />
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In all, the number is well over 100 quilts, not counting simple tied quilts she has done for charities and missions.<br />
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Note: Grandma Ruth designs and pieces, embroiders or appliques the quilt tops and has the quilting done by various local quilters or machine quilting businesses.<br />
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The Clarinda Herald Journal carried a nice write up and photos (done by Ruth and Kristin) in their March 18, 2010, paper. Kristin is compiling a photo album for Mom with all the pictures she took of the quilts, that day and later. You can view Kristin's photos in an <a href="http://photos2.walmart.com/shareethumbnailshare/AlbumID=3068406002/p=830181268939480218/l=922288002/g=4108463/albumcount=1/pns/share/p=830181268939480218/l=922288002/g=4108463/cobrandOid=1011/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB/action=_xffurlnotdefined">online album here</a>. The ladies of the Garden Club enjoyed the show and the stories told that day.<br />
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As a quilting artist, Mom's body of work is amazing, but the tangible evidence of her love is the more important element. Over the years, her family members will continue to be warmed by her embrace as they use quilts she made especially for them.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's great tip for frosting. Mix up the standard powdered sugar frosting (1 Tbl melted butter, 1 Tbl milk, 1 tsp vanilla, food color to suit, powdered sugar.) But add sugar gradually and keep the frosting too thin to spread with a knife. Check by drizzling frosting from the spoon - it should flow back into the liquid immediately and not hold its shape. Then, the best part: frost the cookies with a clean pastry brush - the bristle, paint-brushy kind. Paint the frosting all around, over the edges, and put cookies onto a cooling rack set over waxed paper. When dry, cover air tight overnight or stack carefully between layers of parchment inside an air-tight storage box. The next day you can decorate the smooth, hardened surfaces. I used a butter cream mix with my Wilton decorating tips, but it's fragile. If you want permanent, shippable decorations, you need royal icing ....I just don't like the hard, crunchy sugar. But they didn't last long at the <a href="http://oureclecticlives.blogspot.com/2010/01/hearts-hearts-hearts.html">Heart Felt Valentine Showcase at Eclectics</a>, so no matter!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qyfspTKXt1kW0tR5kOUYomHIBmVg8fixCYk1YnQH0ELEBuTJdSFT3Jgnxxsio42WH6ZYnIsACHr9mQlwXiuwAu_FdfB_sNhYNNchVWZ3bimJ_Vp7cUNFOgc1PXMKE3NR3iJB2C58WtU/s1600-h/CIMG7380.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qyfspTKXt1kW0tR5kOUYomHIBmVg8fixCYk1YnQH0ELEBuTJdSFT3Jgnxxsio42WH6ZYnIsACHr9mQlwXiuwAu_FdfB_sNhYNNchVWZ3bimJ_Vp7cUNFOgc1PXMKE3NR3iJB2C58WtU/s320/CIMG7380.JPG" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UG5WaPdtpp1TF6FioRD9d_3VkQI40P1WKwQunKbP19TLBc4B-DSpUtY1WdBDCEIF_S0pNILfzSqLpBTYqero_IojHAJ65W5z-u6zaQq7WVWB_jpRY7HGsoq-QoSucB2HJrzgLz6IWp0/s1600-h/CIMG7381.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UG5WaPdtpp1TF6FioRD9d_3VkQI40P1WKwQunKbP19TLBc4B-DSpUtY1WdBDCEIF_S0pNILfzSqLpBTYqero_IojHAJ65W5z-u6zaQq7WVWB_jpRY7HGsoq-QoSucB2HJrzgLz6IWp0/s320/CIMG7381.JPG" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwEk2fb_OTvq4a_jH5J0XBASubVF4JwODEiYiyy7S7Fph93AThnBTa5g8wg1yblqaWg0YcIC-iMpp3T5oby8oGFxOqwEf4IFsqHQDdwhDRcKh6MDkGNYzKZkrzEw1cuc8lYR8R-48z7FU/s1600-h/CIMG7385.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwEk2fb_OTvq4a_jH5J0XBASubVF4JwODEiYiyy7S7Fph93AThnBTa5g8wg1yblqaWg0YcIC-iMpp3T5oby8oGFxOqwEf4IFsqHQDdwhDRcKh6MDkGNYzKZkrzEw1cuc8lYR8R-48z7FU/s320/CIMG7385.JPG" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDKxIQ1kcjnNxp6psOS7J8TLRkz3uhq3NCCWf4Y-VJ1wLYKHj6gd2CT2mXmCmIgIoM-gDtl0j6W6PkhSsc409o6xrDAY7GtiU6aRoflpjBeMEQYX0kcj2bGvNfOGoWmBC6nny724WkMQ/s1600-h/CIMG7383.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDKxIQ1kcjnNxp6psOS7J8TLRkz3uhq3NCCWf4Y-VJ1wLYKHj6gd2CT2mXmCmIgIoM-gDtl0j6W6PkhSsc409o6xrDAY7GtiU6aRoflpjBeMEQYX0kcj2bGvNfOGoWmBC6nny724WkMQ/s320/CIMG7383.JPG" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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My glorious Christmas gift from my talented Mother - Ruth Baumgarten. With signatures saved from both sets of grandparents, my parents, siblings (including me), my husband, children and grandchildren, she crafted my personal Family Tree Quilt. She even left 2 blank spots for future grandkids' names! Even though I am not usually a "purple person", when we shopped I chose this romantic lilac print fabric, with coordinating greens and purples. I also got to choose the quilt design - which she found quite challenging - early last fall and voila! She also did one for each of my sisters. A prolific artist, my mother. I can't wait to see the other two, which I''ll post here when I get pictures.<br />
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But, family packages are (mostly) all sent. Customer orders are filled and shipped. With the exception of handbell and choir rehearsals I'm free to cook and create. So why am I sitting at the computer?? <br />
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Gotta go!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-33743824506104995942009-11-25T14:48:00.000-08:002009-11-25T14:48:29.832-08:00Cooking Day<div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'><a href='http://localhost:2755/ce3b384f4420c5d5de980b16223aae34/image/eeef0e47708b2fd9.jpg'><img src='http://localhost:2755/ce3b384f4420c5d5de980b16223aae34/image/eeef0e47708b2fd9.jpg?size=320' border='0' alt='' /></a> </div><br />
For me, the day before Thanksgiving is usually PIE DAY. So today I made four pies - 2 pumpkin, Dale's annual Thanksgiving Day cherry pie and a Coconut cream with dark chocolate. (A pumpkin pie and the coconut pie were for friends - they have been receiving a pie-a-month from me all year, my donation to our church's fundraising auction last fall.)<br />
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Such a simple task - making a basic pie crust, adding a little sugar, fruit and tapioca or mixing up a batch of pumpkin and baking up a bit of bliss for family and friends. It always seems to be so impressive, at least to the non-cooks, but really the most difficult part is watching the clock and the oven temp so your efforts don't burn up or spill into the oven!<br />
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I took my leftover pie crust crumbs and trims, added the crumbs from the nearly empty granola cereal box, some walnuts that have been in the pantry long enough to smell bad, smooshed it all together and voila! Bird feed! So the neighborhood woodpeckers and nuthatches will find a treat on their feeder today.<br />
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I also sliced and dried out 2 lovely loaves of crusty Italian bread, now awaiting onions, celery, sage and broth. This will make a LOT of dressing, which seems to disappear faster than the turkey in our house. That's tonight's task. Hmmm, now I just need a good wild rice pilaf stuffing recipe for my diabetic guests who don't need lots of white bread stuffing. Can't wait to cook up the hand-harvested wild rice we brought home from Wisconsin last month.<br />
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We have been greatly blessed, and tomorrow will be a relaxing day with our friends Liz and Gary from San Diego. Hope your day will be lovely and filled with thankfulness for all the Lord is doing for you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-28875421885393742802009-11-21T14:05:00.000-08:002009-11-21T14:07:23.227-08:00Fisk Family Sugar Cookies<p>(Recipe below - scroll down if you're impatient! This was written last year for a recipe submission somewhere...hence the lengthy story preceding the recipe. Hey, I know I talk too much....sorry.)</o:p><br />
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My family’s favorite Christmas cookie has always been sugar cookies, but when I first tasted the cookies other people called “sugar cookies” I was astounded. They were pretty, sweet and buttery, but hard, crunchy and not remotely like what my mother made. My mother got this recipe from her friend Doris, and they made hundreds of cookies on their annual Cookie Day. So this is really an Otte family recipe (see below), adopted by the Baumgartens and now the-sugar-cookie-of-choice for the Fisk Families. <br />
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In early December, Doris packed up boxes of ingredients, cookie sheets, mixing bowls, kids and headed for our house (they alternated kitchens each year). The entire day was spent baking Christmas cookies of every kind – new recipes were tried, but these were the staples: <b>Pfeffernusse </b>(the German classic), <b>Chocolate Chews </b>(rolled in powdered sugar), <b>Thumbprint Cookies </b>(rolled in nuts, with jam or frosting filling the thumbprint divot), <b>Krumkake</b> (cooked in a special round iron on top of the stove, then rolled around a tapered, wood rod), <b>Snickerdoodles</b>, <b>Chocolate Drop Cookies</b> (densely chocolate, frosted with fudgey frosting and a pecan half on top), <b>Peanut Butter Stars</b> (using old fashioned chocolate star candies), <b>Chocolate-dotted Peppermint Kisses </b>(meringue with chocolate chips), <b>Peanut Butter Fingers </b>(squeezed through a cookie press, the ends dipped in frosting, then chopped nuts), <b>Rosettes</b> (deep-fried on special irons, then gently coated with sugar), <b>Apricot Bars </b>(tart and sweet), <b>Coconut Bars </b>(a simple variation of the ubiquitous graham cracker crusted sweetened condensed milk concoctions, topped with pure semi-sweet chocolate chips), <b>Fruitcake Squares</b> (one of the Eagle Brand Milk © variations),<b>Good Bars</b> (a dense, chewy oatmeal bar covered with a layer of peanut butter melted with butterscotch chips), <b>Fudge Nut Bars</b> (thick, chewy with more chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk), <b>Spritz</b> (buttery, shortbread from the cookie press) and <b>Darrel’s Sugar Cookies </b>(Darrel was Doris’s husband and the sugar cookie recipe came from his mother, Clara Otte.) <br />
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The evening was spent frosting and decorating the sugar cookies. In the early days, they were artistic and outrageously creative, using tweezers to place the correct colored decors in just the right places. That ended the year a two-year-old pulled a tray of completed cookies onto the floor! But we kids got to help squeeze bows onto bells and eyes onto angels. <br />
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At the end of the day, which lasted into the evening and included making dinner for their husbands and children, they split a couple thousand cookies and headed home. The cookies were used as gifts – for school teachers, the mailman, the pastor, neighbors and the many “shut-ins” my mother visited. Packed onto paper plates or into small boxes, they were a welcome treat and a way for my cash-strapped mother to give to many, many people at Christmas. <br />
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We also ate them. Christmas Eve supper was always oyster stew, jello and Christmas Cookies. After church, we opened presents and were allowed to eat as many as we wanted all evening. <br />
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As a young wife and mother, I continued the Cookie Day tradition in my own kitchen, although I baked alone, over several days. Sugar Cookies were always my husband and children’s favorite. Now my daughter makes them for her husband and their friends and my daughter-in-law has learned the “right way” to make sugar cookies for my son.<br />
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<b>Darrel’s Sugar Cookies</b><br />
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2 c sugar<br />
1 c butter<br />
1 c sour cream<br />
3 eggs <br />
1 tsp soda<br />
½ tsp cream of tartar<br />
½ tsp salt<br />
1 tsp vanilla<br />
Flour, enough to roll (about 3 cups) <br />
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Cream sugar and butter together until well mixed. Add sour cream and eggs and mix well. Add remaining ingredients and one cup of the flour. Mix then continue to add flour until dough is stiff, but not dry. Cover and chill for at least an hour. To roll, scoop out a manageable amount onto a floured board and pat flat. Do NOT knead. If dough is sticky, work in a little more flour. Use a floured rolling pin and gently roll out to 3/8”-1/4” thick. <br />
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Metal cookie cutters work best – these cookies will puff slightly when baked, so the plastic cutters with designs will not work well, and cookie dough will stick in them. Dip cookie cutters into flour before each cut and using a metal spatula gently place cookies onto cool cookie sheets. Leave at least ½” space between cookies, as they will expand just a bit.<br />
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Bake at 350-375º for 8 minutes. Don’t let them get brown! Cool on racks and frost.<br />
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If they start to brown at the edges, they are overdone. Cookies should be baked, but not browned – the perfect cookie will be only slightly golden brown on the bottom, tender and soft. Be gentle with them! Cool and frost with a basic powdered sugar frosting, adding coloring and other decorations as desired.<br />
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The dough is sweet and delicious before and after it’s baked - my brother always tried to eat as much of the raw dough as he could sneak - and as many unfrosted ones as he could grab. But the BIG SECRET of these cookies involves the process.(Disclaimer: raw dough has raw eggs, which is technically not safe to eat. Be warned!)<br />
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1) Not TOO much flour – just enough so the dough is thick enough to roll out. It will be slightly sticky, hence the chilling step. Re-roll the scraps to cut more cookies, the dough will get easier to work with, but also begins to toughen. Too much flour makes crunchy cookies!<br />
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2) Roll them out THICK – 3/8” is good. <br />
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3) Don’t over-bake. 8 minutes means 8 minutes!<br />
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4) They are DONE if just barely tanning on the bottom. If they get brown around the edges you have gone too far. <br />
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5) These cookies freeze well, but be sure they are cool before stacking. If you frost, then freeze, the colors may bleed a bit, but they'll still taste fine.<br />
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<b>Powdered Sugar Frosting</b><br />
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2 Tbl. butter<br />
2 Tbl. milk<br />
½-1 tsp vanilla<br />
Powdered sugar (2 lb. package)<br />
Food coloring as desired<br />
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In saucepan, melt butter with milk. Remove from heat and add powdered sugar until of spreading consistency, beating well with spoon to remove lumps. Frosting dries out, so add milk a few drops at a time if needed to keep it spreadable. Cream or half & half makes it richer and it stays a little softer, if you like that sort of thing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-55519639084919608632009-01-08T07:46:00.000-08:002009-03-05T09:00:12.531-08:00Gotta Love Living in Missouri!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3auHuXJ7olbn-2US5eCp1JSqLMD8j3GXhOI87QbZikHuFWxVGNrUK9CP8ZlqKsCVvtOFeVMqruHcCZqWJGza0PdCMJVuLWXI2HKBE6-RXSevgvQS-ovq6cOWOHsjYPE_J9jpxEmOPbEM/s1600-h/image0.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3auHuXJ7olbn-2US5eCp1JSqLMD8j3GXhOI87QbZikHuFWxVGNrUK9CP8ZlqKsCVvtOFeVMqruHcCZqWJGza0PdCMJVuLWXI2HKBE6-RXSevgvQS-ovq6cOWOHsjYPE_J9jpxEmOPbEM/s320/image0.jpg" border="0" /></a> This was in today's Kansas City Star - under the<br />"Good Things to Eat" category it says: Raccoon Meat, with a phone number. Yum.!<br /><br />Laura and Aaron went with me to PHill's annual wild game dinner. We actually ate rabbit pot pie, goose chili, racoon barbeque (this is the Kansas City area, after all!) deep fried pheasant, fried duck, venison pasta, venison brats and more. Some was good, some were better classified as "interesting". Beer might have helped. Plus salads, desserts and a vendor fair where you could try your luck at target shooting, buy a raccoon or other pelt and buy stuff. Oh yes, except for us, everyone was wearing plaid, camo or both! Talk about cultural exchange!<br /><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: right"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-87492414796961897412008-12-15T10:49:00.000-08:002008-12-15T11:26:46.198-08:00Some highlights of 2008<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKZ9D2UP0Q3jBO0_y4yEbGjvl-GtimDLaFk6GwzUeO5x5c7TN0rBqJ7fzRdNku1NWqnoQRhZ-LanDpXuEtZn9EzI4n-jyaM_9bfW2W3KzeSclWK0p6HExoyG3w6ObJa52k7sN4RmNYgJs/s1600-h/Alaska-40.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280099560209920962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 290px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 208px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKZ9D2UP0Q3jBO0_y4yEbGjvl-GtimDLaFk6GwzUeO5x5c7TN0rBqJ7fzRdNku1NWqnoQRhZ-LanDpXuEtZn9EzI4n-jyaM_9bfW2W3KzeSclWK0p6HExoyG3w6ObJa52k7sN4RmNYgJs/s400/Alaska-40.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p><br /><br /><br />I'm not a great blogger, but here are some links to photos from our year. </p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Our Alaska Trip</strong></em><br />If you're up for it, our Alaska Trip in August is summarized in a <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bylynette/AlaskaSlideShow?authkey=KmQj2jxpXFs#">slide show</a>. You can watch or click through. It was great fun, rainy and wonderful.<br /><br /><strong><em>Thanksgiving</em></strong><br />In November, we drove (naturally) to Pennsylvania for <strong><em><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bylynette/Thanksgiving2008#">Thanksgiving</em></strong> in Philadelphia with Jonathan and Meridith, Chloe and Anastasia.</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-53612491750020411262008-11-02T15:27:00.000-08:002008-11-02T15:34:48.663-08:00Slinky vs. SquirrelWe have been using the ol' Slinky trick on the bird feeder this summer, and the squirrels have given up.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/njVi40H_Bo4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/njVi40H_Bo4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-25158076758751116352008-11-02T15:22:00.000-08:002008-11-02T15:26:27.413-08:00Fall Color to Inspire You<p>Dale came home from Kansas City today and was so excited about the beauty of the fall leaves we grabbed the camera and drove around town a while, snapping photos of the neighborhood trees. Perhaps the extra moisture we had this summer, or the warm fall days have lead to the spectacular color in the trees. But they are certainly at their peak this weekend, and the weather is warm! 75º on November 2. We were actually able to seal our deck today, expecting no freezing weather for at least two more days. The colors are inspiring me - must get back to my studio in the morning to create something red, orange and yellow.</p><p><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6OCe-yyDaCU"><br /> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6OCe-yyDaCU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed> </object></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-7200173897103831162008-10-04T13:15:00.000-07:002008-10-04T13:21:33.824-07:00We are Published!Kristin wrote a book about Lynette's jewelry - <em><strong>Polymer, Peyote and Prose</strong></em>. Grandma Baumgarten wrote a 2nd book about our family - <strong><em>The Next Generations</em></strong> and she also has a book of wisdom called <strong><em>Things I've Learned from Others.</em></strong> If you didn't get a copy from her for Christmas, you can order them online.<br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="src" value="http://www.lulu.com/author/widgets/msf/ministorefront.swf?theme=6&showThumbnail=true&showDescription=true&showTitle=true&widgetName=Buy+Books+by+Lynette+and+Friends&luluID=598783&lang=en_US&version=20081001144434"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><br /> <embed src="http://www.lulu.com/author/widgets/msf/ministorefront.swf?theme=6&showThumbnail=true&showDescription=true&showTitle=true&widgetName=Buy+Books+by+Lynette+and+Friends&luluID=598783&lang=en_US&version=20081001144434" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><em></em><strong></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-20602109349185697212008-09-05T14:26:00.003-07:002008-09-05T14:27:20.953-07:00Birthday/Anniversary/Reunion DinnerBirthday/Anniversary/Reunion dinner at Grandma B's on July 20 to celebrate Kathy and Allan's 10th wedding annivsary, Lynette's 7.549834² birthday and a brief visit from Becky and Sadie who live in North Carolina. Thanks to Grandma Ruth who cooked a fabulous dinner for us all! Thanks to Kristin who drove down just to see everyone. Becky was in Clarinda for her South Page high school class reunion and Lynette and Dale were on their way to Seward, Nebraska, for an LCMS church music conference.<br /><br /><div><embed src="http://widget-4d.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&il=1&channel=2594073385370544461&site=widget-4d.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385370544461&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-4d.slide.com/p1/2594073385370544461/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385370544461&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-4d.slide.com/p2/2594073385370544461/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385370544461&map=F" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-4d.slide.com/p4/2594073385370544461/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-44755700358424890662008-09-05T14:26:00.001-07:002008-09-05T14:28:12.754-07:00My BirthdayI'm receiving unconventional and wonderful birthday celebrations this year. My daughter Laura took me out for an afternoon of Thai food, random shopping and my first mani/pedi - but without the mani. Need those fingernails for beading, claying and sewing.<div><embed src="http://widget-d7.slide.com/widgets/themepic.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&il=1&channel=2594073385369646807&site=widget-d7.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:271px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385369646807&map=A" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-d7.slide.com/z1/2594073385369646807/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385369646807&map=B" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-d7.slide.com/z2/2594073385369646807/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide4.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385369646807&map=R" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-d7.slide.com/z3/2594073385369646807/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide16.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385369646807&map=G" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-d7.slide.com/z4/2594073385369646807/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></div></div><br /><br />My sweetie bought me a plane ticket to Philly to spend a week visiting our granddaughters and when I get back we are going on a cruise to Alaska, something he's wanted to do for 20 years. I'm taking a pile of books, some beadwork and plan to work out every day so I can eat that yummy cruise food.<br /><br />Meanwhile, my summer studio hours are shot since I'm gone so much and my neighbors will get to eat my tomatoes!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-63611371927370701572008-09-05T14:25:00.001-07:002008-09-05T14:25:33.177-07:00Flowers in my Yard for Liz<embed style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 320px" name="flashticker" align="middle" src="http://widget-1d.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&il=1&channel=2594073385370546717&site=widget-1d.slide.com"></embed> <div style="WIDTH: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385370546717&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-1d.slide.com/p1/2594073385370546717/bb_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385370546717&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-1d.slide.com/p2/2594073385370546717/bb_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=2594073385370546717&map=F" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-1d.slide.com/p4/2594073385370546717/bb_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686458739548221334.post-23596137451350902482008-09-05T14:23:00.001-07:002008-09-05T14:23:36.372-07:00The Perils of a Crumbling Retaining WallThe crumbling retaining walls next to my mother's garage have needed work. 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