I added a picture: Vote daily for the no kill shelter please

Petfinder and the Animal Rescue Site are teaming up on a challenge that will result in a total of $100,000 in grants to shelter and rescue groups. To give The Cat House a chance to win up to $25,000:



1. Go to The Animal Rescue Site.

2. Click on the 'Click here to give' button.

3. Click on the 'Vote now' button, it is hard to see, it is upper right.

4. Search for The Cat House Lincoln, Ne

5. Click 'Vote'.

6. Repeat daily until December 14th.



From my friend BETH: While we're up against some pretty big shelters and rescues for the big prize, there are also grants to the shelter with the most votes in each state. As I write this, we're #7 in Nebraska, out of 23 groups that have received votes, so let's get out there and click our way to some money!

Trotted around on my lunch break, look what I found, these are foot long suckers:

Blog Give-Aways

I am doing the Blogging by Mail, it sounded so fun! I really want to make the box special that I send to the person I am assigned. I'll see what I come up with.

I love Pioneer Woman, she gives away stuff all the time. If I were to have a giveaway, what would you want to see?

Mice...oh how I hate them!

I love fall weather, but this time of year we get a mouse or two in the house. I have an arsenal of mouse traps that I keep in a 2 gallon zip lock bag at the ready at all times. It consists of those cheap wooden traps, sold 4/$1 at the Dollar Store. The best thing I have found is the electronic mouse trap. Purchased from our local Wal-Mart store about 4 years ago. When all the wooden traps fail to trap the intruder, this one NEVER fails. It is available at Menard's. I am going there right after work Wed. to get another one!:













All you do is put a 9V battery in it, turn it on and wait. The mouse enters a little tunnel in the trap to gain access to the peanut butter you so cleverly smeared on the back of the trap. Once inside, there's a metal plate that 'puts him to sleep'. It is very humane. I really hate to kill them, but if you ask our daughter what nightmares occur when you DON'T eliminate them..........well, we'll just let it go at that. (ask her about the 35 member family that set up house in our garage at our old location) It was not very pretty. I am deathly afraid of mice, I had a hard time believing she convinced her dad to let 'JUST ONE' go............ha!

Tonight I am making Karen's recipe for Apple Butter in the crock pot. I'll post the recipe on Friday if I have a success. So far the house smells great while they cook.

Tomorrow we are helping a local man run for sheriff of our county. We're doing a dinner in the small town close to us, population 25, I think.(I stand corrected, I just googled it, as of the last census in 2000, there were 215 living there. Who knew??? WE'll grill burgers and hot dogs. The candidate will be available to answer questions. Then we'll call it a night.

Recipe Friday Oct. 3rd 2008

Recipe Friday

In preparation for Halloween,I have the mice cookie recipe. We are freaks about Halloween! I love the recipes that we find, the Halloween bash is going to carry on this year, even though my sister has her house up for sale, the party is in her outbuilding every year.

This time, I am going to tell you about a neat kit sold for making pretzels for Halloween. Wal-Mart is selling them for around $10, everything you need to make the pretzels is in there, except the pretzels.




















They are too cute, the witch's fingers are so adorable.

Here's the mice recipe I used last year:

Mice Cookies

4 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate
1/3 cup sour cream
1 cup chocolate cookie crumbs

1/3 cup chocolate cookie crumbs
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
24 silver dragees decorating candy
1/4 cup sliced almonds
12 (2 inch) pieces long red vine licorice (chocolate if you can find it)



DIRECTIONS

Melt the chocolate, and combine with sour cream. Stir in 1 cup chocolate cookie crumbs. Cover and refrigerate until firm.
Roll by level tablespoonfuls into balls. Mold to a slight point at one end (the nose).
Roll dough in confectioners sugar (for white mice), and in chocolate cookie crumbs (for dark mice). On each mouse, place dragees in appropriate spot for eyes, almond slices for ears, and a licorice string for the tail. I used these little black sugar balls I found at Mangelsen's for the eyes, they are PERFECT!!

Refrigerate for at least two hours, until firm.


Yield 3 dozen

Cont'd Trip to see grandbabies

A few more photos of the kids, they had a thing for the bibles in the hotel room. They each had one, carrying it around. It was funny. Noah was reading Olivia a story about Jesus and the shepherds. They also wrote tons of notes all over the hotel guest pads. They really have imaginations. Olivia loved looking at magazines on the sofa with Karen and I. In the one picture where Noah is sitting on the bed, he is looking at the Mormon bible. Olivia has the Gideon Bible.

We took a little trip to see the grandbabies this weekend, staying in a hotel with a kitchenette. We used it to make baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and to cook mushrooms for our ribeyes that Brian cooked on the hotel patio. We sat out there and ate, it was such a fun, relaxing weekend.

I love the picture of the kids on the luggage rack. Karen packed all that stuff for one night in a hotel, what would she do if she had 8 little ones like Jon and Kate????

Thank you Carolyn!

I love Blue Healer's beads. I first met her at a Bead Renaissance show in KC. She had her daughter Connie with her. Connie was drawing pictures in the booth, putting them up for sale so she could buy a scooter. I bought one for a quarter, I think. A drawing of a dolphin. She is quite the little gal, I have not forgotten her, she was quite young at that time, with a full understanding of what it took to earn money. She wanted a scooter, and was willing to earn the money to buy one.

I bought some of Carolyn's disc beads on ETSY. I have been patiently waiting for her to return from a show so she could mail them to me. They arrived yesterday. I sat up late last night to string them up into a bracelet. The photo isn't great, I took the pic and my camera died.