be you

I love this!!

~Susanna

something...

Something pretty

very pretty

Something precious

I like cowboys!!

Something sweet

I'm going to have to make this

Something VERY different

I need one of these :)

Something fun

I want to play more

Something for your house

for someone that feels tired. :)

Something beautiful

Warsaw, Poland. Going there next.

Something cute

like I said, I need one of these...

Something for you

You all have an awesome day!

~Susanna

Awesome-Tasting Food!! // fruit slush

We used to make this a lot for Sunday breakfast. It is really good and kinda tart and kinda sweet. Sometimes we also add strawberries.

Fruit Slush

4 cans Chuck Pineapple
5 to 8 bananas
1 can (29oz) Peaches, cut into thirds
1 can (15oz) Mandarin Oranges
1/4 can Lemonade, add 1 1/2 cup water
1/3 can Orange juice, add 2 cups water
1/4 cup sugar

Put pineapple in a bowl with the juice. Drain oranges and peaches; add to pineapple. Mix all ingredients together. Put into containers and freeze until solid.

Eat frozen or you can set it out an hour before eating.

 

Makes: a lot

~Susanna

packing?

I've been packing today, because I going to North Carolina tomorrow at noon...hopefully.   

At this moment I am feeling kinda like this...

but right now it looks worse than this...

My stuff is all over my bed, but soon it should be in my duffel bag. Obviously it's not going to get there that soon because I'm sitting here telling you about it. hmm... 

So, I'm going to N.C. to a conference and to see my brother!!!! I can't wait to see him again and go to the conference.  After that we're headed for Pennsylvania to see my niece!!!!! and my sister...and my brother-in-law.  Somewhere in between those two we will either see the ocean and/or Washington D.C. and battlefields, and whatever else we spot.  

If it were up to you would you either see Washington D.C. or the ocean??

I would tell you more but I think you know what I should be doing. :) Hopefully I will keep this thing updated while I am gone.  You all have a awesome Monday evening.

Oh, and if you want to see more about this conference I'm going too check it out here.

~Susanna

poll for you...

I got a poll for you to do. It's to your right, on the side bar.

Since I love the change of the seasons, I thought it would be fun to see what other people think of it. This week the weather finally changed in Kansas. Before that we were painting our house and it was still hot. AND IT WAS OCTOBER!! Something was strange, because it is NEVER hot in Kansas during October. Monday morning my sister, Addy, and I went outside to finish up the painting. We both came back in for another jacket with a hood. Five minutes later we were back in again looking for gloves. Times change...

Although I like fall, I don't think I'm ready for winter. Winter comes way to soon for me. Oh well. 

 Someday, I'm going to get a moose in scenery like this.

Fall is a time to drink more coffee than normal. 

So, don't forget to vote on my poll. I would love it if you would tell me why you picked a certain answer. Or maybe you have something else you like about fall.

~Susanna

Awesome-Tasting Food!! // banana muffins

Hopefully everyone has had a banana muffin once in their lifetime. If not here is your chance to try them. I don't think I could eat them without chocolate chips, but you can do whatever you want.

Banana Muffins

3 large ripe bananas
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup flour
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1 cup chocolate chips

Mash bananas, add sugar and egg. Mix well. Mix in butter. In a separate bowl mix all dry ingredients execpt chocolate chips. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients. Add the bananas, sugar, egg, and butter. Mix well. If you want add the chocolate chips.

Pour batter into sprayed muffin tins. Bake for 18 minutes at 375 degrees.

Makes 10-12 muffins

~Susann

dogs, dogs, dogs

I wonder why I love dogs so much and yet I hate them. Now if I change that sentence around it would sound like this:  I wonder why I love MY dogs so much and hate my NEIGHBOR'S dogs. I love our Australian Shepherd and wouldn't know what to do without her. Actually, before we got her we used to lose a couple of chickens everyday to hawks. After she came to live with us we've only lost one chicken in 2 and a half years!! 

Well, one morning last week my mom and I took a walk down the road. One of our neighbors has a dorky chihuahua that looks like the one below.

Don't they all look the same??? By the way, I don't like chihuahuas, so that didn't help. (No offence if you like them.)

Then I have no clue what the other dog is. It's about a medium height, has pointy ears, no tail, and it speckled black and gray.

On a normal day these two will come out to bark and snap at us. (That freaks my mom out because she hasn't had a good experience with dogs.) Today they decided it would be fun to follow us. Their owner must have been gone because they followed and followed, right along all the way home.  You don't know how annoying it is to have 2 ugly dogs hanging around you. At our house no one was going to want them.  

They hung around for awhile to sniff everything in their reach. Not until I tossed a bucket at them did they take off running like the world had ended.

All that to say, they finally went home.

  Someday if I could have a dog of my own, I'd got one of Black Lab like this.

or one of these German Shepherds.

What kind of dog do you have or would you like to own?

~Susanna