Greek Bonfire
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and thank you for both videos!
Thank you so much. I hope my mom gets well soon too.
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and thank you for both videos!
All the recipes sound so good. I'm giving directions on making a good stocking stuffer... both to gift yourself and others. My Mom has been making them for years and calls them Cozy Warmers (if you put them in the freezer they make great cold packs too.)
Cozy Warmers
Take a small terry washcloth (dollar stores are great to pick them up at). Either with Christmas designs on them or if you want to get fancy you can make a little quilt square to applique on - or a little embroidery - no metallics as you heat them in the microwave.
Fold the cloth in half - turned inside out seam up the sides but leave a space so you can turn them rightside out. After fill them with uncooked rice so you have a nicely filled beanbag. Then hand sew the opening. You microwave them for 90 seconds and have the coolest little heating pads that drape nicely over whatever part you put them on. A cute variation is to make them heart shaped 6" at the widest part of the heart and 5 1/2" tot he point of the heart. Those you can use for handwarmers or to put on poor cold sinuses. These only get a 20second turn in the microwave.
:lol: ARrghhhhhhh the kitchen shackles are pulling back to Cookiemaking duty. Lots of Love and Good Health to you all Creaks
Nicolette Larson was a backup singer who went out on her own and made a mild success of it back in the eighties. I remember her because of her long hair and an album a boyfriend had.
Irish Lullaby - Nicolette Larson - YouTube
NICOLETTE LARSON - Rhumba Girl - YouTube
About Hendrix's song "Hey Joe": when we moved to Fresno in 1968 my mom met the guy who wrote the song in a laundramat. Small world.
Cromwell becoming head honcho had an effect on my ancestral family because when he came in most of them left for America to get away from him.
It is still the sixteenth here and as far as I know no one else opted for it. So...
DECEMBER 16 IS NATIONAL CHOCOLATE COVERED ANYTHING DAY IN THE USA
Good grief what on earth would we have done without you, if the mean C had rounded up your female ancestors and stuck them in a dunking chair or worse!:shok:
It is already December 21st in Greece (and i am sure it is a bright day in Western Pacific already), so this is my treat, this year from... Crete!
First, White Mountains (Lefka Ore) which are the mountains over the city of Chania. White Mountains obviously are named like this because they are under snow for the most part of the year. 10 days ago that i was in Chania, i was amazed to realise that during the night, they reflect the light of moon and stars and have a unique blue-colour-giving-light all around. THe closest photo i could find online is the following
Chania Blogs »
although some of the snow is gone. The weather forecast is about new snow to come the next days, so, i am looking forward for more blue mountains in holiday nights.
THen, as we are dancers, i am uploading the link of a traditional music piece and song which i fell in love with 2 months ago. It is called Stafidianos Skopos, originating probably in 19th cent. and with many different versions all over the island of Crete. THe version i prefer is the one i think fitting more a long night or the more ritual one -a version originating in Rethymnon city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvzRFNKTPDg
The english translation of the lyrics are the following:
Tears are falling from my eyes with grievance, I ponder with pain
That everything is pointless in this lier world where I live in
But you are the reason and the excuse and my heart is in pain
And I am in torment and I cannot anymore escape, alas!
But the stafidianos beat, it gets older but it does not melt
Because hidden loves are revealed by this beat
Merry Winter Solstice! Merry Christmas!