Oh, You Dirty Dog!

Pictures Speak Louder Than Words!

After a shower with Dove Aloe Vera Shampoo and a full bowl of dog food, this guy will sleep like a baby.

Merci Beaucoup

A blog reader from France just gave me my 53,000th page view!

Merci Beaucoup and hope you enjoyed looking at my photos of the hand stitched quilt flimsies I found last August.

Drone Transporting White Asparagus Crashes and Fries

Now that is definitely news!!!

A drone carrying the first white asparagus of the season to the Dutch restaurant de Zwaan in Etten-Leur crashed and burnt up. And the cargo was also fried!

Could this be a new item on the menu at the famous restaurant in The Netherlands?

A borrowed photo of fried white asparagus.

Fried White Asparagus, anyone?

Pet Turkey Vulture

We are not too happy with our new tenant.

If I have identified it correctly, I think this is a Turkey Vulture or Turkey Buzzard.

It has an injured wing and has been living in the surrounding forests for at least six months. 

Now the vulture has discovered the insects on our back porch. 

I frighten it off, but it comes back.

And, NO, I am not feeding it!

Now I can't say there aren't some juicy morsels of Easter Bunny that Flip has left around the yard.

This Mama's Easy Banana Pudding

This Mama's Easy Banana Pudding

Total Time:
30 min
Prep:
30 min
Yield:12 servings

Ingredients:

1 box of Nilla Wafers
3-4 bananas, sliced
2 cups 1% milk
1 1/2 boxes ( total 5 ounces) instant banana pudding
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (8-ounce) container frozen whipped topping thawed

Directions:

Line the bottom of a trifle bowl with vanilla wafers. Add a layer of sliced bananas.

In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a handheld electric mixer. 

Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk together and mix until smooth. 

Fold the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture. 

Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and stir until well blended.

 

Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and continue alternating layers. 

Top layer should be pudding mixture with cookie border.

Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Wonder who ate the cookies off the top?

Yum!

An adaptation of a recipe by Paula Deen.
Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/not-yo-mamas-banana-pudding-recipe.

Linda's NOTE: My husband liked this but requested no vanilla wafers the next time I make this banana pudding. He said a graham cracker crust would be better. I'll try it that way. Sounds like a banana cream pie to me! In fact, he said this pudding would make a great Tompouce filling. I agree!!

In My Easter Bonnet

It is cool and rainy on this Easter Sunday in southwest Louisiana. Who would have thought this hat would serve as my Easter bonnet on my morning walk? A little froggy took a ride.

Have a "Bless ed" Easter!

Linda

Easter Eve Watch at Wetcreek

We are back home in Louisiana. Who would have thought I needed a scarf and heavier jacket on my walk along the path this morning? That wind was cold!!!

While hunting for Easter eggs, I found this--

And this Wool Sower Gall on an oak tree

And this

And this wild azalea

And more wild azalea

And this apple blossom

And this apple bloom

And this ladybug 

And another ladybug

And teeny tiny grapes

And even more grapes

And last fall's Dutch cabbage

And these beauties

But no Easter eggs.

Guess there won't be any this year, because Flip ATE the Easter Bunny!

No joke!!!!

Guilty!!!