Still waiting . . .

Winter is taking it's time about descending upon sunny California this year, that's for sure! I want to go into pre-holiday baking mode and it is hard to feel the spirit of the approaching season when you have to turn on a fan to survive a baking cake.

I did take a step in anticipation of Thanksgiving and made a couple of pumpkin pies yesterday. Oh, not for mere consumption (one is already gone!) but to make sure I'm still an expert at preparing one . . . I am!

Reading cookbooks is a favorite hobby of mine. My husband picks up interesting ones from the Friends of the Library for me and some of them have become stand bys while others were quickly donated back! The Translyvanian Cookbook did not have one recipe that I could see myself trying or adapting. Besides, I have never seen bear paw on sale at my grocery store so no use trying to prepare that one! The latest 'find' was one called something about from my grandmother's kitchen. I approached it with an open mind but have to tell you, I think those grandmothers were abusive when it came to food! Either that or it didn't take much to impress their relatives.

Since the bear paw was unobtainable, I suppose we will go with turkey this Thanksgiving! We are having guests and that is something to look forward to as I think the wonderful smells of turkey cooking and the lingering scent of pies cooling on the counter should be shared.

Your choice . . .!

“Girls: You will catch the kind of guy that reflects your character.”

Don't know who to credit with the quote but it says it all about the state of the world today. Funny to think that women's lib actually made life easier for men to be immoral!

Real life in quotes . . .

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
-- G. K. Chesterton

"Silence is the virtue of fools."
-- Sir Francis Bacon

"Men who never get carried away should be."
-- Malcolm Forbes

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
-- Thomas Jones

In line with what's going on today . . .

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
-- P. J. O'Rourke

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."
-- Ben Hecht

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
-- Don Marquis

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-- Albert Einstein

Quotable quotes . . .

"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
-- Daniel Webster

"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."
-- Gracie Allen

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
-- Jean Cocteau

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
-- W. C. Fields

Heading for Purgatory . . .

My husband and I disagree on this topic. He likes to push the freeway speed five or six miles over the speed limit 'to keep with the flow' of the traffic. I asked a patrol officer about this and he said that if he perceives someone going over the speed limit, he will stop and ticket them. If there are several speeding, he gets to pick and chose and it is the luck (or misfortune!) of the draw if you win that particular lottery.

I also feel that obeying the traffic laws comes under 'give to Caesar what is Caesar's and what is God's to God'. Seems obeying traffic laws comes under obedience to the Fourth Commandment, too. How we act in any situation is an example to our children.

Anyway, this topic provides travel conversation for myself and my husband and insures my job security . . . as a backseat driver!

Quotes that seem to go together . . .

"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
-- H. L. Mencken

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
-- Theodore Roosevelt