King of the hill

Lucy, a sweet Beagle, reigning over her subjects at my in-laws farm.

You can see Lucy's sweet face here.

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Lucy

My BIL/SIL's dog, Lucy, in October 2013.  Sweet, sweet, sweet.

They have a lot of strays and rescue animals on their farm and Lucy is one of them.

Winner, winner

Our son is returning to campus this weekend so he got to choose last weekend's meals.

He asked for steak on Saturday and for Sunday he wanted chicken, dressing, creamed potatoes, gravy, etc.

Essentially, Thanksgiving, but without turkey.

My husband loves to cook.  He can make a mean roasted chicken.

At the risk of getting a bit raunchy, he cleans it, rubs it, stuffs it, and dresses it.

I didn't get a photo of the cooked chicken because it fell apart and just didn't look very photogenic.

(BTW, that red enameled iron pot is the best thing we've bought for cooking in a long time.

It's not that really expensive brand, it's a Lodge, and we recommend it highly.

We bought a second one in a smaller size.)

The nineteen year old's plate.
(first plate, that is)

Rollin' and reminiscin'

Really, Amy?

You didn't have anything better to do?

It's down to about 90 degrees here, but I've decided it's still too hot and muggy to do
anything but stay inside after I water everything.

Yesterday, in between scouring the house and slaving over the hot stove,   :)
I went through old stuff and purged some from the computer.

That's cleaning out something, right?

Well, I didn't purge these.

Not only am I keeping them, I decided to put them on the world wide web.

The above three were all taken over the years at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Yes, we go back for more.

This is The Hulk at Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Florida.

This is outside the Rockin' Roller Coaster at Disney.
It is an indoor coaster, but don't think it's lame.  It's not.

The park was MGM Studios, but they changed the name and I don't remember what it is now.

Hollywood Studios, maybe?

Anyway, this dude does not look like a lady.

The Hulk and the Rockin' Roller Coaster are two of my favorite roller coasters.

The Orlando photos are usually more money than I want to spend on a fuzzy photo of me with my mouth open and the G's distorting my face, so you'll just have to visualize it.

 And, this dude definitely does not look like a lady.
This is Griffon.  He terrorizes Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Go ride a roller coaster.

Barn Charm #90, thanks to Dep

Barn Charm Ninety @ Bluff Area Daily

Another relative's barn.

We were there another day and I took more pictures.

 This one complete with Cardinal.

There are a lot of barns in my home town.

You just have to look.

My Own Barn Charm

My father built this barn in the 1950s.

I like it.

Rock City Barn Charm

This barn was in my hometown and was built by my Great Grandfather.

The barn collapsed about two years ago.

I didn't take the photo.  A friend did and I'm so glad he did.

I edited it a few years ago to include my Great Grandparents.

The barn is pictured in this book, but it is just a small black and white in the back.

Rock City Barns - A Passing Era
Photographed by David B. Jenkins

And here is an article about the barn painter, Clark Byers, from the NY Times.


Do you have a Rock City Barn in your area?


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The Pioneer Woman Cooks

I love it when a package arrives.  Especially when it brings a beautiful item.

An item with so many things in one package.

Food.  Color.  Photography.  Cats.  Dogs.  Horses.  Cows.  Kids.  Rural.  Life.

The Pioneer Woman - My New Cookbook

We watch several cooking shows and I have seen The Pioneer Woman television show a few times.

I like the show, but the airings usually coincide with other activities so I don't get to see it all the time.

I was interested in her cookbooks, but my friend's blog The Woman at the Well showcases many of her recipes.  So, I just visited Kerry's blog and The Pioneer Woman's blog and tried to be happy with that.

Kerry belongs to the Sweet As Pie Cooking Club and the club recently attended a book signing by Ree Drummond. 

Kerry brought her book for me to see before I bought it and the decision was made.
I had to have one.

The book is beautiful so I had to share it.

It draws me for many reasons other than the simple, scrumptious, step-by-step recipes
(see book cover above title :)).

There are many, many photos in the book.

Beautiful photos of not just the food and food preparation, but photos from her life.

The first place I went was to the index.

Burgers.

I.Love.Burgers

I was going to include photos here of photos in the book, but the fine print said bla, bla, bla about reproducing bla, bla, bla, so I'm going to leave you curious with just my text that would go along with the photos.

Isn't that a wonderful looking burger and a beautiful photo of a burger?

Handsome men and horses.

If you like horses, there are many wonderful horses.

Cats.  What can I say about a cookbook with lots of cat photos.

Simply wonderful.

Kids.  Sweet photos of kids doing kid things.

If you just love beautiful books, I can recommend this one.

And then, there is The End.

And what a delightful end it is.

Speaking of flowers

I'm on a roll today with posts.  Really?  Three in one day?

Since my last couple of posts have been flowers, I thought I would resurrect these from my vacation folders.

This was a trip we took to visit relatives near Pittsburg and in New York.

And we spent a couple of days at Niagara Falls on the Canadian side.

These flowers were in a small town we drove to one day.

Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada

Google Map

The flower clock and Bugle Boy here were taken on the way to Niagara on the Lake.

This was way before I used any editing software so I'm a little surprised at how bright some of these flowers are showing up.  They would have been taken with my first digital camera, a Casio.

I see my son's feet at the top right and that is probably my husband's feet barely in the frame by the tree trunk.  They weren't very tolerant of my picture taking stops and just kept walking.  It's a little better now.

Someone posted a tree with huge thorns the other day.  I don't remember who it was.  (If it was you give a shout and I'll mention you).  These trees were all over Niagara.

I think the above photo was in Niagara Falls rather than Niagara on the Lake.

I want to go back.

Amy

Noblit-Lytle House

The same dreary day as my previous two or three posts.

Again, just off Hwy 11, Giles County, Tennessee

There is a barn, of course, but I'll save that for Barn Charm.

I missed the composition on the fence photos.

Heads shouldn't be chopped off in photos - including fences.

A view of the home place from the hill where the cemetery is.

Should you be interested, here is a link to Noblit Cemetery on Find A Grave

And, for any history buffs, I Googled "Giles County Noblit" and got several interesting pages.

This one explains the "Announcement Bell"

There is more moss planned for the future.  I hope you like it.

Amy

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