{"id":3490,"date":"2014-09-22T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2014-09-23T00:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T00:38:20","slug":"oh-frabjous-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3490","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Frabjous Days!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The halcyon, golden days of Autumn are upon us. \u00a0Summer ends tonight. \u00a0It seems like a dream that happened long ago. \u00a0So much happened and yet, I felt we should have done more. \u00a0Picnics, walks, auctions(not one) were in our plans. \u00a0 I did the walking. \u00a0 Two 5ks under my belt. \u00a0 Now that the weather is cooler, I know I will walk more. \u00a0Especially since I have another dog to walk.<\/p>\n

Speaking of dogs….<\/p>\n

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Molly Marshmallow is growing by leaps and bounds. \u00a0She doesn’t nip at our heels as much anymore and has learned to sit for her treats and has been on a one mile walk with me. \u00a0She is learning to behave on the leash. \u00a0 That said, she has managed to do some damage.<\/p>\n

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Let’s just say Molly tripped me up a bit and I fell on the steps and got bruised. \u00a0It looks worse than it is. \u00a0 I was just glad I didn’t land on her when I fell.<\/p>\n

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Miss Belle has been doing a good job training Molly not to bite. \u00a0Let’s just say Molly has yipped a few times after nipping Belle on the nose. \u00a0Belle would have been a good mother.<\/p>\n

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Getting several of these butternut squashes from the garden. Since I don’t eat them very often, I will store them and cut them up for the chickens this winter.<\/p>\n

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We’ve picked nine of these from the garden and there are another nine or ten still ripening.<\/p>\n

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It was nice to be able to decorate our porch with our own pumpkins this year. \u00a0The best year I have ever had for them. \u00a0Usually, if I am lucky, I will get one good one to grow. \u00a0It’s all that chicken poop, I’m telling you.<\/p>\n

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Tis’ the season to burn candles. \u00a0Our house smells like this right now. \u00a0Delicious. \u00a0Makes you think I’ve been baking all day.<\/p>\n

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I’ve made twelve of these mini loaves in the past two weeks. \u00a0It’s pumpkin bread and it’s addictive. \u00a0I will not be making it again for a while. \u00a0I cannot walk that much.<\/p>\n

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Into each life some rain must fall and we had to bite the bullet and buy a new furnace this week. \u00a0Our old one was eighteen years old and would have cost half the cost of a new furnace to repair. \u00a0Funny, when we replaced our first old furnace eighteen years ago, it had been in our basement since the 1950’s. \u00a0Now we are told a furnace’s lifespan is about fourteen years. \u00a0They sure don’t make them like they use to.<\/p>\n

I managed to fit in a porch party before it got too cold. \u00a0Our Sunday school class came for a candlelight dinner of lasagna, homemade garlic rolls, salad and angel food cake with Cool Whip and strawberries. \u00a0A good time was had by all I think.<\/p>\n

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This gal brought some of the best salad dressing I have ever eaten. \u00a0She gets it in Georgia. \u00a0Her husband, the fellow on the right, plays softball in Florida every year and they go down there often and she found the dressing in a store on the way. \u00a0I am going to ask her to buy me a case of it the next time she goes!<\/p>\n

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I love fixing food for people. \u00a0Everyone cleaned their plates.<\/p>\n

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These are friends and he is our Sunday school teacher. \u00a0Last time I had everyone over, I fixed fried chicken. \u00a0He went in the hospital the next day with a heart attack. \u00a0I felt so bad, but I think it was going to happen anyway. \u00a0 \u00a0I haven’t heard anything bad yet since this meal, so I think he survived my cooking once again.<\/p>\n

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I have been going through some old National Geographics that we have had for years dating back to the seventies. \u00a0I quit taking it years ago, but after looking through them, I think I want to subscribe again. \u00a0Anyway, I had been looking for one particular one for years that had an article about Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland. \u00a0So funny, but when I brought a few in from our shed where they were stored, the very first one I picked up was the one I had \u00a0been looking for. \u00a0Eureka!<\/p>\n

I so enjoyed reading about Lewis Carroll or Charles Dodgson which is who he preferred to be called.<\/p>\n

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He remained a bachelor all his life finding himself more comfortable around children than adults. \u00a0He made up whimsical stories and nonsense poetry for them \u00a0I have always loved his poem \u00a0Jabberwocky. \u00a0The tongue twisting lines were fun for me to read as a child. \u00a0He made up words, frabjous being one of them meaning wonderful, elegant, superb or delicious.<\/p>\n

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Alice \u00a0in Alice in Wonderland was based on this little girl who was Dodgson’s neighbor, Alice Pleasance Liddell.<\/p>\n

I will leave you with Autumn garden scenes.<\/p>\n

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Hope you are having a frabjous day. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n

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The halcyon, golden days of Autumn are upon us. \u00a0Summer ends tonight. \u00a0It seems like a dream that happened long ago. \u00a0So much happened and yet, I felt we should have done more. \u00a0Picnics, walks, auctions(not one) were in our plans. \u00a0 I did the walking. \u00a0 Two 5ks under my belt. \u00a0 Now that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking-in-my-kitchen","category-fun-times","category-pets-i-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}