Firecracker Chicken!

Check out this wonderful new recipe from allrecipes.com. If you love spicy food. You'll love this!

INGREDIENTS
8 chicken drumsticks
1/4 cup hot pepper sauce
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon salt

3 cups vegetable oil

DIRECTIONS
To Marinate: Remove skin from chicken and place in a resealable plastic bag. Pour sauce over chicken, seal bag and refrigerate to marinate for at least 1 hour, up to 24 hours. The longer the chicken marinates, the spicier it will be.

In another resealable plastic bag combine the flour, cornmeal and salt. Add chicken, seal bag and shake to coat.

Heat oil in a large, deep skillet to medium high heat. Add chicken and fry, uncovered, for 25 to 30 minutes or until juices run clear. Turn occasionally to brown evenly.

I served this with white basmati rice and steamed broccoli. YUM, YUM, YUM!

Bedroom Musings

Isn't this a lovely picture? I found it on the Internet and it inspires me. Oh, how I love a beautiful bedroom! It's a place for dreaming...

Our bedroom is blue and our furniture is a really nice french provincial. I am looking for just the right coverlet for our bed.

Isn't this one pretty?

Love,

Elizabeth

The 3rd of July

Yes, you read that correctly, the 3rd of July.

A nearby town has its big celebration the day before the other towns do and my friend, Teri, who lives blocks from the school where this celebration takes place, hosted the funnest BBQ/swim party at her house.

Above is Teri's daughter, Mara, and my Sarah. They sang a wonderful duet of patriotic songs!

Above is my Robert with Teri's son, Josh, battling each other with a "noodle".

More fun! Aubrey and Teri.

The food was really yummy. Everyone brought something to share and then we all BBQ'd. But, the best part was sitting around talking.

This is Sarah and her poor dad, who came to the party despite a bad injury to his shoulder. He was in a lot of pain.

The fireworks were a blast. We let off some of our own and then we sat in the front yard and watched the big show above the rooftops. It was one of the best shows we'd ever seen.

Wow!

What did we do for the 4th?

We slept and slept and slept. Then we saw a movie, visited with friends and went to see another, more local fireworks show.

Our favorite part of the holiday? Teri's 3rd of July party!!

Love,

Elizabeth

Trish

I can't access your blog at all, not even using the link from Sarah's blog (it doesn't work). Please give me your web address!
Elizabeth

Thank You So Much!

To all of you who have said prayers in our behalf, my husband and I are so grateful. Currently, Mark is holding his own. Although he cannot raise his right arm past about the point where he would shake hands, if that makes any sense, he is not in terrible pain anymore. He's in doable pain. He is having trouble sleeping and driving a stick shift (one handed!). However, he actually attended a BBQ with us last night, although he spent most of his time resting on a couch while we were all outside.

We are taking this one day at a time.
Thank you again!!
Elizabeth

Prayer Request

I have a prayer request for anyone who accesses this post. Last night, my husband injured himself pretty badly. He believes he may have done serious damage to his rotar cusp, right shoulder, (he has a background in physiology) and is in a lot of pain. Our health insurance doesn't kick in until August 1st. Please pray we can make it until then before going to a doctor. Our hospital bills are steep.

Thank you so much and I will let you know what happens!
Blessings,
Elizabeth

Favorite Nook

Hello, Friends!

Today, I thought I'd show you one of my favorite places in my house. It is a little corner of my livingroom that is great to curl up in with a book, if the kitties don't curl up in it first and steal the whole thing for themselves.

I'm not happy with the picture, because the flash from my camera washes out the color. Ugh. Oh, well.

I feel like the seat needs a nice accent pillow (something with flowers in it?). And the table needs another accent cloth on it.

This tea set was left to me by my mother, who passed away in 2007.

I will show this to you again when I've done more to it. Any suggestions?

Don't you just love green? It is the color of living things.

Have a great day!

Elizbeth

Drip System

Hello, wonderful friends!
Today, I want to show you my homemade drip system. I learned how to do this from the Internet and then gave it a try. It works!

Store-bought drip systems can be expensive and time intensive to set up. This method is inexpensive - all one needs is recycled milk jugs (or even kitty litter jugs for big watering jobs!) and it only takes a few minutes to put into place. Using this system also helps protect against water born problems that can be introduced to your vegetable plants by overhead watering. This is an ideal system for drought stricken areas, plus it saves on one's water bill big time!

All you need to start is an empty milk jug and a kitchen paring knife. Turn the jug upside down and begin working a small hole in the bottom, right about here...

Be very careful to make this hole slowly, because it is easy to make too big of a hole. You want just enough of an opening to allow for a steady drip of water, not a stream. Too small of a hole will become easily clogged up and won't work. I went through a couple of milk jugs before I got this part down right.

Then, you just fill with water, nestle the jug up against the plant stem and let it do it's job!

I mainly do this for my veggie garden and for my flowering plants in the backyard. I am aware that milk jugs in the front yard might impress my neighbors too much. :)

Take care and have a great day! Elizabeth