Tuesday Stuff

My post titles are getting more scintillating by the moment, ain't they?

Lamar and I went with our friends yesterday to eat then for a drive into the Ozark Mountains to sight see and look at the Fall foliage. We went first to Jonesboro to eat at a local catfish buffet. It was very good and I had the fried catfish fillets, fried breaded shrimp and corn nuggets. Everything was great and on Mondays the lunch buffet is only $5.65 plus your drink, and if you get water there's no extra charge for your drink.

After our lunch we drove west toward Hardy, Arkansas but took a different route than we usually do, and I'm so glad we did! We drove toward Williford, Arkansas and saw some of the best Fall foliage I've ever seen. It was cloudy and rainy all day, with a few glimpses of sunshine here and there. I tried to take some pictures to share but it was so cloudy that the pictures were too dark.

I'm sharing three of my pictures to prove that we did indeed take that drive I've mentioned several times but ended up being postponed until Monday. It was misty and cloudy most of the day but even the mist was beautiful in the valleys with the bright colors of the foliage on the mountains as a backdrop. It was gorgeous to view with the naked eye but my camera just couldn't do justice to the subtle colors and dark natural light.

Sad to say, these three were the best of the lot.Last year I had to opportunity to take some pretty good Autumn foliage pictures and I'm going to include this slide show from last November. I hope you enjoy them, especially those of you who have started reading my blog in the meantime and didn't see the slide show last Fall.


Create Your Own
Recently I was contacted by a publisher about doing a book review on my blog. I've been contacted before about doing this, and agreed to have the book(s) sent to me with mixed results. I have a few more books that I'm reading and mulling over my thoughts and opinions about, but several of the publishers have never gotten the books to me.

But the particular publisher of the book I'm going to review today was as good as its word, and the book arrived promptly and in mint condition.

This book is a children's book and usually I wouldn't have much interest in a children's book since my baby is now 20 years old, but with the birth of my first grandbaby, Princess Emmy, May 8, 2007, this piqued my interest.

Beautifully illustrated and simply but profoundly worded, this book tells the story of a parent's love for a child, and then from the standpoint of the child for a parent. It can even be read by grandparents or other loving adults with almost any relationship with a child, and the book is written in a clever flip style so that when you finish reading the adult's viewpoint, you simply turn the book over and read the child's viewpoint.

I liked this book and hope it becomes a favorite of Emmy's to read with her Mom and Dad and hopefully, Grandma and Grandpa. I plan to wrap this book for Miss Emmy's first Christmas.

You can click on the book pictured above for a link to Amazon if you want to check out pricing and availability, and you can CLICK HERE to read more about the author and illustrator of this book.For those of you following the riveting story of whether I finally got my coffeemaker or not, I'm thrilled to report that I have indeed received my new coffeemaker and so far, I'm very pleased with it. My new office chair, Prince Charming, may even be displaced by my new suitor, Sir Bunn the CoffeeMaker. Right now they're both courting me as I sit here in Prince Charming's lap drinking coffee from Sir Bunn's thermal carafe.

I know it's not polite or delicate to speak of it, but I'm enjoying this particular *three*some, LOL! ;o)I just talked to Jason and he says that Emmy is feeling much better, praise the Lord! It's about time. Lamar and I hope to see Jessica, Jason and Emmy Thursday for supper at their house this Thursday night. Lamar was on his way to Texas weekend before last and missed the cookout at Jessica and Jason's place so Jessica is cooking supper for us Thursday night. I'm still fighting my sinus infection/bronchitis but I feel a little better over all. My throat isn't as sore as it was and I'm not coughing quite as much, although I still sound more like John*Wayne than his sister. I started taking 5oo mg. of cepha*lexin twice a day and I think it's beginning to clear up the infection. I haven't had any fever and I don't really think I'm contagious, but I want to be feeling much better by Thursday when I see Emmy and the kids. I sure don't want to share my germs with them just when they're all feeling better.Supper tonight is in the works. I have a whole chicken thawing that I'm going to cut up, flour and fry, Southern Style, and then I'll make cream gravy from the drippings and crumbs. I also have some speckled butter beans simmering and some mixed greens that will round out the meal. If I felt a little better I'd make some homemade buttermilk biscuits to go with the gravy, but Lamar will have to make do with light bread this time. I think he'll manage to muddle through with the fried chicken, butter beans, cream gravy and greens. Poor feller. ;o)

Gotta go cook supper, so I'll wish everyone a great mid-November week.