Happy, Little, Time Waster

 

Rob Cart - Inspired by Byzantine Tile Design

The Friday Five Good Things

 Five good things that happened this week

1. I made a few and ate more than a few of the acorn treats

2. Under a pile in the office, I found something I had been looking for

3. My SIL texted me the date of the annual December family gathering.

4. I planted some bleeding heart seeds

5. Play day at Teague's, and we made plans for another runaway trip.

How was your week?

Doodling for Stress Reduction

 

On Mondays via Zoom, I participate in a class where we spend  a half an hour doodling our stress away. I don't remember if the leader said something inspired her.  Her design was various circles on one side of the paper and wavy, thick and thin lines on the other. 

We were free to add color or not. I added color a little bit at a time during the week. I used watercolor pencils.

Hershey Kiss Acorn Treat

 

I was asked for instructions on how to make the Hershey Kiss Acorn Treat.

Ingredients:

1 box Mini Vanilla Wafers

1 bag of Hershey Kisses

1 bag of Butterscotch baking chips

1 tub of chocolate frosting (Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, etc)

Decide on how many you want to make. I did 3 dozen for my meeting.

Count out the number of cookies you want, in my case 36. I put them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper

Unwrap the same number of Hershey Kisses. Discard the wrappings.

Pour some of the butterscotch chips into a small bowl.

Open the tub of frosting and give it a little stir with a knife. 

Grab a Hershey Kiss and put a dot of frosting on the flat bottom. 

Take a vanilla wafer and press the flat side of the cookie to the flat side of the Hershey Kiss.

Take a butterscotch chip and add a dab of frosting the the flat side of the chip. 

Press the butterscotch chip to the middle of the rounded side of the vanilla wafer.

Ta-da! It should look like the acorns that are at Monet's feet in the picture above.

Place on the baking sheet to dry or eat.

Repeat until you have the number of acorns you wanted to make.

I also saw a variation that used a mini peanut butter sandwich cookie for the acorn hat or top and a peanut butter chip. I'm not a fan of peanut butter so not my choice.

T Stands for Nasturtiums

 

Nasturtiums are an edible flower. With all the nasturtiums Himself planted, he decided to pick some and add the flowers and leaves to a salad.

It's said the flowers taste a little peppery with a sweet flavor. The leaves are also peppery with a citrusy flavor. I'm not a fan of black pepper so I was glad I didn't pick up on that taste. To me the flowers and leaves were bland. No pepper. No citrus notes.

I forgot to take a picture of my iced tea. Here's a picture with lots of rocks.

Drop by hosts, Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog to find out what the rest of the T Stands For gang is up to. If you want to play, include in your Tuesday post a beverage or container for a beverage. Don't forget to link your blog to Bleubeard and Elizabeth's page.

Monet and Me

 

made adorably, delicious acorn treats to bring to a potluck lunch/meeting.

The treats are quick and easy to make using mini Vanilla Wafers, Hershey Kisses, butterscotch chips, and a tub of chocolate frosting for the glue.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

One bright spot about the loss of Summer and the pains of Hell Winter

is the best holiday of the year, Halloween (and Ink's birthday)

Coleus gone to seed

A carpet of red leaves

And just like that the leaves

changed color

On the way home, Himself pulled over to the side of the road so I could take a picture of the magnificent sunset from the farm at the top of the hill.

How does your garden grow?