Pineapple Upside-Down BIRTHDAY CAKE!

"who doesn't like Birth Day Cake!"

"HAPPY BIRTH  DAY"

"On the day that you were born, the angels got together--

and decided to create a dream come true.

So they sprinkled gold dust in your hair 

and golden star light in your eyes are..."

3-Step Lemon Cheese-cake Bars!

Literally! Easy-peasy-puddin' and pie!  The hard part is waiting for it to chill! (3 hours per recipe)
     I'm postin' my new potholderz too, they're gifts for Son's birthday's this month.  Oldest will be 24 and middle will be 22!  Any prospective fiances' out there?  Heh! Is it asking too much to be a Grandma?  If these Lemon Bars are as tasty as the batter was, maybe I will make them for their birthday brunch.  ;) <3<3

Waldorf Salad for Easter Brunch

Recipe:
Green sour apples, 5 or 6 chopped
     I used Granny Smith, 5
     and 2 fuji's
Celery 7 or 8 chopped stalks
Red seedless grapes or Raisins
     I used grapes cut in half
Walnuts chopped
1/2 cup real mayonaise
1 cup sugar depending on how much you make.

I also tried whipped topping and like the tangy taste of the mayo & sugar better, which is the true recipe anyway, and you can see the fruit.

My Grandma Willson used to make this with fried chicken, of course deviled-eggs and we also had potato-salad.  I never liked Waldorf Salad when I was a kid, (hate celery and walnuts and the apples were sour)  since blogging, I'm collecting our family recipes.

Adams' Curse

The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood
Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,
Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt
As though it dragged road-metal. My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theatre business, management of men.
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.

A Line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these...

Seamus Heaney

Happy Birthday Patricia 

March 30, 1940

Potholderz & Placemat

VANITY, n.  The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when 

There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid;

And there are hens, professing to have made 

A study of mankind, who say that men

Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen

Make the most clamorous fanfaronade

O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid

They're not entirely different from the hen.

Lo! The drum-major in his coat of gold,

His blazing breeches and high-towering cap--

Imperiously pompous, grandly bold,

Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap!

Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue

Is that in battle he will never hurt you?

Hannibal Hunsiker.

Exempli gratia

Exempli gratia, mostly known in English-speaking countries by its abbreviation e.g., means for the sake of example in Latin. It's often confused with id est

Fudge For Bear-No they ddidn't!

Too much muscle--no, it's not!
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IF STACEY DIDN'T SEE IT-DIDN'T HAPPEY!