Happy Halloween

For all the preschoolers out there that need something to do! Or the parents wondering how to keep their preschooler busy try this: Hollow out your pumpkin (or leave whole as is) give the child all your golf tees and a hammer and let them pound them into the pumpkin!! Show them how to remove the tees using the other edge of the hammer, and it will keep them busy for quite a while. Plus, it is great eye hand coordination!! Our neighbor kids loved it yesterday as well as Katie's 3's at pre-school!!

For those pumpkins that are hollowed out-- place a candle inside and they have their own Jack-o-Latern.

Have fun. Kathie

November celebrations

It has been a year since we started the blog!! It does not look like I collected all the November birthdays. Let me know who I missed.
November 2 --Bianka Stewart
November 4 -- Barry Threadgold and Laura (Threadgold) Barringer
November 8 --Erin & Sachin Choudhary
November 11--Terri Threadgold
November 16 --Katie Threadgold and Heidi Beach
November 23 --Hannah & Branden Stewart
November 27--Keegan Stewart
November 28--Maria Palmquist
November 29--Barry & Nicole Threadgold

Hunting shack

Another book

I thought of this book when I read that it was the 2nd anniversary of the Amish school shooting this past week and when I mentioned it to Dale, he knew right where it was.  The Happening is an easy reading and tearful book by an Amish author, Harvey Yoder. It gives true details of the Amish school shooting woven into a story told through the eyes and heart of a young survivor.   I got the book from our former Hutterite neighbor who works for an Amish man who came from the community and was a neighbor of the man who did the shooting.

Betty

October question????

Sometimes when I'm around certain members of my family they remind me that I "have to talk" to everyone!! That I just can't stand or sit there but that I have to find out who this person next to me is!! And example: ( I'm wondering if it is a family trait; or just me??) I don't know but this is the next question to all of you:

Have you every struck up an enjoyable conversation with a total stranger?

Pumpkin!!

I love this time of year because: I love pumpkin !! I think it started back in 1981 when Derek got his Oct. "Our Big Backyard" magazine which had a pumpkin cookie recipe (we now make them every year --doubling the batch each time); than Grandma T's pumpkin pie (found on Libby's label); Kathleen makes a great pumpkin pie and I believe she uses Loretta Mooney's recipe; Diane made a delicious pumpkin roll on a Thanksgiving that were in Kansas; SDSU pumpkin ice cream (it's seasonal so it is hit and miss when I get that!!); Dairy Queen has a pumpkin blizzard that I could enjoy anytime!!; pumpkin bread and muffin are good; there is a pumpkin dessert recipe that I have had with crust, pumpkin and nuts on top that is great aslso. And as my brother Don would say: Where is the real whip cream!! (I know we've been spoiled in life with all the conveniences--but the one time a year I really like real whipped cream is in the fall with pumpkin pie!!
If anyone has another favorite recipe of favorite story about pumpkin share it!!
Kathie

Beer Label for the Nordtvedt's

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Big buck in Sioux Falls