Merry Christmas from the Wards

The Twins Love Christmas!

Pictures with Santa

Family Picture

I apologize for not posting sooner.  Life just has away of throwing a curve ball at you.  Things are better now, but it was a bit rough there for a bit.  Now we have hospital bills, but I'll worry about that after the first of the year.  Right now, it's just time to have fun with my family during this holiday season!  Here's wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Mexican Fried Okra Recipe

                     MEXICAN FRIED OKRA

2 lbs.               Okra, sliced

3/4 cup           Flour

                        Salt to taste

1 med.            Sweet Bell Pepper, minced

1 med.            Sweet onion, minced

1                      Jalapeno pepper, minced

3                      Fresh tomatoes, chopped

Roll sliced okra in flour and place in hot skillet with oil to fry.  Add salt.  Add bell pepper, onion, and Jalapeno

pepper.  Cover. Turn occasionally until almost done.  Add tomatoes just before okra is done.  Finish cooking.

                                                 Grandma Eleanor Lowe

Baked French Toast Recipe

BAKED FRENCH TOAST

1stick  (½ cup) margarine or butter

6          Eggs

½ tsp.  Salt

1 cup   Brown sugar

2 cups Milk

1 tsp.   Cinnamon

1loaf    French bread

Cut bread into 1" slices.  Melt butter.  Mix in sugar.  Beat eggs, add milk, salt, and cinnamon.  Add to butter and sugar and mix.  Put cut French bread in large pans.  Pour mixture over the bread in pan.  Cover and let sit overnight.  The next morning bake in 325* degree oven at least 1 hour

Potato Pancake Recipe

POTATO PANCAKES

4          Potatoes, grated

4          Boiled, potatoes, mashed

2          Eggs

1 T.      Flour

2 sm.   Onions, grated

1/4 c.   Milk

½ cup  Oil

½ tsp.  Pepper

            Salt to taste

Mix potatoes in a bowl and add eggs and bat with a spoon.  Add flour, salt, pepper, onion and milk and stir until all the ingredients are well mixed.  Heat oil in a frying pan.  Drop 2 large spoonfuls of mixture and spread them.  Cook for four minutes on each side till the pancakes are brown and crisp.  Serve hot with sauce.

Young and in Love

I love scraping in monochromatic colors.  It can be the theme of your pages or as in this case just the coordinating back drop.

This is my mom.  This is my favorite picture of her.  Ever.  I just think she was so beautiful.  

Here she is laying on her bed in her dorm room at college and looking at a picture of her childhood sweetheart.  The picture that she is holding is the same picture  you see below.  Oh to be that young again!

(By the way, that's my dad she's gazing at so lovingly!)

Until the next scrapbook page...

G

Ward Woods Wildlife

We have bats!  Yes, we do.  Came home from Walgreens one day to find this hanging from our mosquito netting.

I don't know what kind of bat it is.  Anyone know?  Fortunately it was on the outside of the netting. 

Until Bud tried to catch it.

Now it's on the inside of the netting.

We never did catch it or see it fly out of the front porch.  I'm always wondering if that things is lurking somewhere on the porch.  Under the kid's picnic table?  Under the lounge chair?  Under the chair I sit in?

We have spiders, too.  These grandaddy long legs nest right by the front door. Maybe the bat will eat them?  One can only hope....

In this picture, they are still.  What  you don't see is the whole mass pulsating.  It's just freaky!

We also have hawks.  This baby got caught in the mosquito netting.  Pretty thing.

I've got my eye on you!

Ignore the clutter please.. Focus on the bird.

One the plus side, it seems we have fewer squirrels this year.

You're free little hawk.  Fly away!

In addition to the bat, the spiders, the hawk, squirrels, raccoons, possums, yellow crowned night herons, owls and other assorted birds, I found this black beauty asleep on our porch.

I think she's hiding from the hawk.  She must have heard about my friends cat.  They just live a few miles from our neck of the woods.  Katie (the cat) was sunning herself by the patio door and suddenly WHAMSMACK!  A hawk flew right into the glass patio door.  Sat dazed on the ground for a while before it flew off.  I think Katie is still hiding somewhere in their house.  She doesn't want to be dinner.

What wildlife do you have at your house?

G