Eclipse Day 2017, A Tip in a Recipe, Pearls and Feathers

Good morning Y'all!!!    Are y'all ready for the eclipse?     Are ya gonna be looking up to the sun?   Oh, I know a lot of people are making a big hub bub over this eclipse.   Maybe if I was smarter, I might have made a bigger todo over it myself.    But, what I really wanna look up and see is the "SON"!!!!   What about you?    With looking at the sun, there is a possibility of damaging the retina in your eyes.  But, looking at the "SON" and focusing on the "SON" is a much more wonderful experience.   Even with all the brilliance and light that will be surrounding the "SON" when He comes again, it will NOT damage the retinas of your eyes.    Looking upon the "SON" is a very healing experience!      We just need to keep our eyes focused on the Eastern Sky, and He will split that sky someday, and someday soon!!!  

But, it was kinda fun waiting to see how dark it would get.   When it got dark here, there was lots of fireworks going off up town.    Although it didn't get as dark as I was expecting it to.  There was gonna big todo at the square up town.   We didn't get out and go up to it.    I just wanted to spend the day right here at home with my hubby.    We was outside with our cameras.    I had my cell phone and he had  two Canon 35 mm digital cameras, mine and his, both on tripods.    Mine wasn't set properly, so it didn't get anything much, just a lot of us talking.     But he got some pretty good pictures with his camera.    He also had the outside cameras recording non stop for about an hour, so we will have to go thru those and see how well the recordings turned out.    But I do have 4 pictures I want share with y'all.   Hope you enjoy them.

 I just had my husband pick out the 4 best pictures in sequence, starting with this one.

 This one is just barely starting to come out of the eclipse.

My husband said this was the starting of the diamond ring.   (He knew what he was talking about, I didn't.   I would have asked for a larger diamond ring, had I known we was gonna be looking at diamonds.    Hey, don't mention diamonds if I can't have a large one.    hahaha)

So here it was really starting to come out of the eclipse.    We didn't know if he would be able to get any pictures or not, but he did.    I even got some on my cell phone, but the eclipse didn't show, just the really bright sun, even when it was behind the moon, it was still just a shiny spot in the pictures.   And no, I didn't look up and take pictures.   

Well, the eclipse is over and I still feel the same as I did before the eclipse started.    No life changing experience for me, what about y'all.     I would have been soooo thrilled if Christ would have split the Eastern sky while as many eyes was turned heavenward as there was.     Wouldn't that have been an amazing and awesome event!!!!     It will happen some day soon!!!!   Praise God!!!    That WILL be a life changing, eternal, experience!!!!!     Hallelujah and Amen!!!

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Ok, so I have a recipe with a tip in it.   hehehe      Who loves the sauce at the Japanese restaurants?     You know what I'm talking about, the Yum Yum Sauce and the Ginger Dressing.    Oh my gosh, that stuff is "smack yourself stoopid" GOOD!!!!     Yeah, I see you grinning, because you know exactly what I'm talking about!!!!   Oh yeah!!!     I have tried to replicate it  and searched high and low for years for recipes, and I finally just said "forget it"!!!     Well, I had forgotten it.   I was fixin' lunch the other day and I wanted something different.    I got to thinkin', sometimes that can be very dangerous and volatile, but the other day, the explosion that took place was in my mind, when the recipe finally came together, and I had whipped up a very good replica of Yum Yum Sauce and it can also be used as Ginger Salad Dressing.     So, I am gonna share it with y'all!!!      And just so ya know, this is my recipe, I did not copy it from anyone else and post it here.    This came from my noggin.   hahaha

Patty's Stoopid Good Yum Yum Ginger Sauce

2 tablespoons ketchup, plain or spicy, I used spicy

2 tablespoons Dukes mayonnaise (or a light mayo to help with calories)

2 tablespoons grated ginger, (in a tube)

4-6 tablespoons almond milk, depending on how thick you like it

Wisk all ingredients together in a small bowl.    Finish with a dash of salt if so desired.

(Then lap it right outta the bowl just like a dog lappin' up water!!    Ok, that's what I was thinking, not what I shoulda typed.   hehehe)

Adjust any of the ingredients to your likin'.     My husband gave it 2 thumbs up!!!!   That's a BIG deal!!!!    Hope you enjoy this simple, easy, and quick recipe.    The calorie count is not too bad either.

The tip in this recipe is to use the grated ginger in a tube that you can get in the refrigerated produce section.  It's a pretty good deal.   I like it.     I had found some grated ginger in a squeeze bottle at our local Kroger and it has some kind of flavor in the preservatives and additives that I just can't get past. (It would gag a maggot on a gut wagon,) but I did find the squeeze tube ginger and it is pretty good.   Nothing is as good as fresh, but the ginger in a tube is next best.   All the scraping and grating has already been done.   Just keep it in the fridge and you are good to go.

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I have a quick pair of earrings to share with y'all too.     These come about from necessity.     I had gotten a beautiful pearl (fake) necklace and I needed something to wear with it besides my pearl studs.  So, off to my craft room (which looks like a craft store exploded in it) and I start digging.    Out I come with these really large hoop earrings, not the circle kind, but the long oval ones.    I had some beaded head pins laying close too, so I took the beaded head pin and strung 3 pearls on it and formed a loop on the end and slid that onto the ear wire and then I threaded 4 beads over each ear wire itself and then closed them.    They are perfect!!!!!    So simple and easy.  

They look really nice on my ears too, I like 'em, hope you do too.     I really like the little head pins with the bead on them instead of the flat head that they usually have.     The thing about these, I can fix more of the head pins with different color of beads and then swap out the beads on the earrings to and have a bunch of different earrings with just one set of ear wires.   I really like that too.    When I get more made to interchange, I will share that too.    Wa-hoo!!!!     hahahaha

I have another project to share with y'all too.     We had our Family Community Education Club meeting last Thursday and I wanted us to do a fun project.   I cut some water color paper, Canson 140 lb, into 3 x 9 inch strips and took some water colors and we painted our pieces, front and back.   Once painted and dried, we drew feather designs on them lightly and then fussy cut them.   We took a small paper punch and punched a hole in the stem end of the feather and ran some cord thru the hole and place a gold bead on each feather, then tied all three together to make a pretty book mark.    Hope you like this, it was a fun quick project.

I took some Kohi Noor fine tip markers and quickly drew in some detail with different colors.   It was a fun project.   Nothing fancy at all, very rustic, but the ladies all enjoyed it.

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Well, that's about it for today.   Sure hope y'all enjoyed the eclipse today.   I hope we can all look as eagerly toward the Eastern sky in anticipation of seeing Christ Our King coming in all His glory one day!!   Won't that be an awesome day!!!   I hope the next time you are craving Japanese food that you will whip up some of my "Stoopid Good, Yum Yum Ginger Sauce", hahaha.    I hope you enjoyed the quick and easy projects today.   Be on the look out for some more, ok.    Have a great rest of the day and tell someone you know to keep looking toward the Eastern sky, they just may see Jesus coming, soon.    Be blessed and have a wonderful night of rest and healthful sleep!    Remember that God loves y'all, and so do I!!!   hugs, Patty