I can remember my mom making biscuits when I was very young. She would use Crisco instead of butter. I guess that's because she made pies every weekend and used Crisco for the shells. Everything was made from scratch, no frozen pies back then. With 8 people too feed, desserts were plentiful! I will get into the desserts my mom made in another post. in the meantime, enjoy this recipe that is a Bojangles rip off,

Ok, so I'm not a great baker but I am learning as I  get older, by looking up recipes on Pinterest.  I found this one but i changed it a little to suit my way.. ok so I wanted it easier and Gluten Free.  Of course if you want regular just use flour. 

Bo Berry Biscuit Recipe

 

 Biscuits: 

2 Cups Gluten free Flour 
1/3 Cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 Cup milk (or buttermilk)
5 T of butter 
3 oz of blueberries or raspberries (fresh or dried)

Glaze: 

1 Cup of powdered sugar
1/8 Cup of water
1 tsp of vanilla
½ tsp of lemon juice 



Directions: 

Freeze butter squares.  Preheat oven to 450F. Mix salt, sugar, GF flour, and baking powder in a bowl and sift. Add the cold milk into dry ingredients and mix by hand. As dough begins to form, use a cheese grater to grate your frozen butter evenly over dough. Fold dough and knead… repeat until all butter is spread evenly throughout dough. 

Fold in the berries. Dough may be too sticky to handle. Spoon onto un-greased cookie sheet.

Place in oven and bake for about 7-12 minutes (until golden). Mix glaze ingredients in a bowl, and drizzle over Bo Berry Biscuits.

The Boat!

She gets a new name.. coming soon!

All 37ft!

We finally got a boat, well some call it a yacht, I call it a new adventure! It's a Silverton convertible, 37 ft!


I'm excited to start some new memories with family and friends. I have a fishing pole and license so I'm ready to go!  


She's getting a new name soon that my husband is choosing. 
I'm excited about adding my own personal touches to the inside. Won't be doing a lot, mostly just brighten it up with lots of color,  make new curtains and hang some pictures, I will post some before and after pictures as time goes on. Just want it comfortable for us to take a few trips or just relax on the boat a few days at a time. 


The hubby is making changes too. He added a new radio and updated the GPS and is working on a few other things. 

It will be interesting to go from a 4 bdrm, 2 bath,big kitchen ... to a tiny bathroom with shower, a bedroom (called a birth), a "galley"(aka, a kitchen).  Not to mention not big closets..lol. For now, we have waterfront property, ;-)


They say the 2 best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. Well I am happy for now! 

As long as I have a coffee pot.. all is good....

 

Campfires

 There's just something wonderful and special about a campfire. The aura that it gives to the evening. So relaxing if you want it to be or exciting when families laugh, talk and roast marshmallows. You can close your eyes and your mind brings the smell and the crackling sounds of the fire right to you. Amazing how the brain does that. Good memories come from these little things in life. We hurry through the days, everything so fast paced we hardly have time to stop and just enjoy our lives. Then something as simple as a campfire is so settling and calming to our minds. We can relax and just enjoy the tranquility it can bring. It's especially nice if we turn off the cell phones, house phones and shut out the world for a short moment.   
The memories our minds store up. When I think back over the years of the campfires in my life I remember when I was a girl scout, we got to roast hot dogs over the fire. High school brought bonfires for the football games.  Camping when our girls were much younger at the state park in Hobe Sound, Fl. Then I was a girl scout leader and our girls were brownies and girl scouts, more campfires. AWANA in Fl we had a weekend camp, again, campfires. Youth group trips to Ridgecrest youth camp in NC, more campfires. Reunion in Michigan at the camp ground with a fun hayride and...campfires. We even had a campfire in Alaska that was awesome. It brings back special memories, all wonderful and the smiles when you remember something special from each time you were sitting by the fire. Sometimes just a cup of hot chocolate or coffee, quietly looking at the stars and just feeling peacefulness at the end of a long day.
Building memories for our children and grandchildren is so important. I hope one day they will look back and remember fun times around... the campfires.

More Journeys.

More Journeys..

So many things happen in this life journey and sometimes you wonder who is the Captain of this vessel.  I want to say that God is but as much as I want Him there ,I seem to grab the wheel and try to steer in another direction many times.  I'm sure it's like that in many peoples lives, trusting but not fully.  So we try to navigate away from the bad things that we see in front of us, desperate not to let it happen, unfortunately, we  aren't suppose to avoid the storm. So we hit it head on and try as best we can, only to find that the wheel is spinning out of control. Finally when we are at that last resort, we turn over the wheel to the Lord and he steers us through the storm. We got a bumpy ride, tossed about, and scared but once we let Him take the wheel, HE steered us in the right direction and calmed the storm. I guess it falls back to Adam and Eve, when they were given a choice, good or evil, right or wrong. We aren't any different today than they were except we have the Book. Oh, I have read it, not fully understanding it like so many, but the basics are there. Faith, Trust, Honor, and Love.  I'm sure everyone can add there own to the list. 
My journey is 59 years now and only God knows how much time I have left since we are never guaranteed a tomorrow.  Hopefully I will start turning over the wheel more freely as I continue on in this long journey. The best part of this journey is knowing that I am not alone. Whatever comes my way, I will hold tight to the Captain.

Life through pictures

This is just the beginning of my blog about my life's travels. Maybe a few pictures, maybe just a few stories. As I look back over the years there are so many people that have touched my life in a positive way and many that have left a "heartprint" too. For those that have been hurtful in my life, well, I have learned that God gives us things to learn from and grow from. He gave us the choice to make something good out of something bad or allow things to destroy us from the inside out. My choice is to grow and become stronger from the trials that are put in my path through this walk in my life.
As we travel through life we take mental pictures of things around us, people we see and places we visit. We never really forget them, we just add so much into our "mental file box" that the recent pictures are easier to remember. However as with anything in life, things that mean the most to us always stay in the forefront of our thoughts. We see so many things everyday but we still remember those we knew and lost years ago. And even though we can't see our friends or family everyday, we can "see" them in our mental pictures. I am so thankful God gave me a Huge "File box"!