Lemon Jello Salad

This is a recipe from my college roommate. She fixed this for dinner the first time I visited her after I was married. She fixed a fantastic dinner. It was wonderful. We laughed after dinner because I told her I couldn't believe she was such a wonderful cook. None of those qualities were present in our college days.

This is a wonderful jello salad. I usually make it some in the spring. Don't ask me why the spring it would be great anytime of the year. My family is just not big on jello salads or I should say the men in my family are not big on jello salads.

2 small packages of lemon jello
1 large can (15 oz) pineapple tidbits or crushed drained
1 1/2 cups of miniature marshmallows
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 Tablespoons flour
1 small container of Cool Whip
1 cup Cheddar cheese
3 bananas sliced

Dissolve jello in 3 cups hot water. Cool. Add drained pineapple. Reserve liquid. Add l 1/2 cups of marshmallows and 3 bananas sliced. Chill in 9x13 casserole dish until firm. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons of flour, 1/2 cup sugar and 1 beaten egg to pineapple juice and mix well. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until thickened. Cool then fold 1/2 of a small container of cool whip into egg mixture. Spread over gelatin. Then sprinkle at least 1 cup of cheddar cheese over the top. You may need a little more than one cup.

I have a new camera but I need another attachment before I can download my pictures. So hopefully, I will get it soon and have a picture for you.

EGO

Edging God Out!

Kahlil Gibran

In my late teens and early twenties The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran was one of my favorite reads. I'm getting reacquainted with him once again. Recently read this passage and wanted to share it.

{When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns
to music. ....And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with
threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth....}

Saturday at the Hardward Store

How is your garden? Is it all planted yet? Mine isn't! The only thing good about the lack of rain.....my weeds are not growing. So I'm somewhat staying on top of everything. I have some of my tomato plants sitting in my breakfast room where they can get plenty of light. I just can't bring myself to put them out in that wind yet.

Sometime you need to make a trip to Chickasha to visit Ross Feed and Seed. It is pretty close to the old hardware stores that were around when I was growing up. I loved going to the hardware store with my dad. Looking in all those bins and there was just a certain smell about that store. I love going to Ross for the nostalgia it brings to my life and they carry a little bit of everything for the farmer/homeowner. Plus you always get a free bag a popcorn and on Wednesday carmel corn. Last Saturday, they had there annual plant sale. Flats were $10.00 and most of the plants and trees were on sale. Free bar-b-que sandwiches and soda pop, the local radio station was playing your favorite country song, and people were walking to the store from blocks away. You couldn't find a parking place. Just about everyone in Chickasha was there. The plants and flowers were beautiful and as I told a friend, for me, it's like going to the grocery store when you're hungry. I want to buy just about everything I see. The blackberry and blueberry bushes, strawberry plants really everything was beautiful.

Last year for Mother's Day my daughter bought me a Lilac bush. I had been wanting one forever. I love Lilacs and they smell so wonderful. I have a picture of it and a picture of the tulips I planted last fall in front of my old headboard.

True Success

This is something I read and it expresses how I feel about success. I thought it was really good.

Life is a journey and material abundance makes the journey more enjoyable. But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well being and peace of mind.

Even when we experience all these things we can still remain unfilled until we experience the the fullness of God in our lives. So really true success is experiencing the miraculousness of God in our lives not just sometime but all the time. When we are experiencing God in our lives in a miraculous way we will then know the true meaning of success.