Jean's Crazy Life

Hi guys!
Just wanted to pop in really quick and tell you about my friend Jean's blog! We just started it last night-so we are still working out a few kinks-it's under my name-so it has my picture but we're going to fix that:) Here's the link---------Jean's Crazy Life---------

Thanks for looking!

Emma

Split Pea Soup

Hello! I have another recipe with share with you! Some really yummy Split Pea Soup! I know a lot of you probably don't like it, but it's really so good! Well, here goes! You will need...............

4 cups of Vegetable Broth





12 cup of Water

   1 cup of Dried Lentils

4 cups of Dried Split Peas

1/2 pound up to 1 pound of Diced Carrots
     (optional)

 1/2 cups Chopped Green Onions (optional)






1 piece 1-inch Chunk Minced Fresh Ginger

 4-5 cloves, Medium/large, Pressed Garlic

 2 teaspoons of Spike All-Purpose seasoning-or really any seasoning you have on hand-we didn't have Spike:)

1 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper-and a 1/2 teaspoon more for sprinkling in the pot when you pour it in.


And you are also going to need a very big pot-we
used our lobster pot:)

So first, pour the broth into the pot and bring that to a boil and then add in all the other ingredients.

Bring to a boil again, stirring almost constantly.

Reduce heat to low and simmer for 2 to 4 hours-until the soup is the texture that you like. Eat now, or freeze for a quick weeknight dinner.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this! Oh, by the way, here is the link to the recipe-my recipe was for 9 servings, but you can type in how many servings you want, and I automatically changes the recipe to fit how many servings! Here's the link-------Split Pea Soup-----------enjoy!

Thanks for looking at my blog!

Emma

Weekly Wrap-Up-Pea Soup, The Hobbit and A New Picture

Hello! I'm back with my second Weekly Wrap-Up! Well, I'll get right to it!

                               This week I have been.....................................

                        Reading // A New Song // The Hobbit // Roses for Mama //

         Listening to // John Denver Radio // Disney Songs // The clunk of snow falling from the roof //


Enjoying // Tea // Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies // Getting a letter and autograph from Janette Oke (!!) //                                                           New profile picture // Split Pea Soup (recipe to follow!)

                                             













Not really enjoying // Mud season // The freezing cold //

Thanks for looking at my blog!

a very cold Emma

Rocky Mountain High

Hello! I know I said I'd post the snow storm pictures, and I will but right now, I have a song to share:) My mom, dad and I all love to listen to John Denver radio and Mom was listening to it this afternoon and so I decided to share one of my favorites and I'll do more later:) First up..............Rocky Mountain High

  He was born in the summer of his 27th year
Comin' home to a place he'd never been before
  He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again
You might say he found a key for every door

   When he first came to the mountains his life was far away
On the road and hangin' by a song
  But the string's already broken and he doesn't really care
It keep's changin' fast and it doesn't last for long

  But the Colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
  The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullabye
Rocky mountain high

He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below
  He saw everything as far as you can see
And they say that he got crazy once and tried to touch the sun
  And he lost a friend but he kept his memory

Now he walks in quiet solitude the forest and the streams
  Seeking grace in every step he takes
His sight has turned inside him to try and understand
  The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake

And the Colorado rocky mountain high
  I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply
  Rocky mountain high

Now his life is full of wonder but his heart still knows some fear
  Of a simple thing he can not comprehend
When they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more
  More people, more scars upon the land

And the Colorado rocky mountain high
  I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
I know he'd be a poorer man if he never say an eagle fly
  Rocky mountain high

It's the Colorado rocky mountain high
  I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
Friends around the campfire and everybody's high
  Rocky mountain high

Here is a link- it's amazing!!! Rocky Mountain High
I love John Denver

Thanks for looking at my blog!

Emma

Butterball and Truffle

Hello! I'm back with some more photos of Truffle, my new guinea pig, and Butterball, my brother's hamster-I shared a picture of each of them in my first Weekly Wrap-Up! We'll put Butterball first! This hamster, is definitely worthy of the title-Cutest Hamster Ever Owned by the Masse Family-sorry about that:)

I think this one is pretty cute:) Ignore that bump on Anna's
forehead...............

My friends, you are looking into the face of cuteness

I say, old chap! Let me down! Let me down I say!

Cheerio darling! I seem to be in quite a pickle at the moment,
how about tea at four

Well, now that we have him out of the way, let's move

on, shall we, old bean? (sorry:)

Isn't he gorgeous?? His coat is really dark brown-
like chocolate, which is why we named him Truffle-and the tips of
his fur is coated with teeny spots of copper! It's so pretty!

Mom and I think he looks like a river otter:)

I. love. little. noses.

Well, that's all I have for now, but I will be back later with some more pictures of the snow!

Thanks for looking at my blog!

Emma

Weekly Wrap-Up- Shortbread, Snow and Cuteness

Hello everyone! I hope you all enjoyed that first chapter of At Home in Mitford! I really love those books! I'm currently on the fifth book-A New Song-and reading Anna the second book-A Light in the Window and she is loving them!! Anyway, if you have looked through my 100 in 2013 list, you'll see that one of my goals is to do a 'Weekly Wrap-Up' each week for a month! So, here goes! I think I will probably post them sometime on Friday or Saturday-I just needed something to do so I don't sit in bed like I did all day yesterday! (I was sick, I still am a little:P) Anyway, let's get started! (Since this is my first time, I'll be sort of copying Miss Emily from Borrowing Photographs since she is where I got the inspiration from:)

                        This week I have been................................

                          Reading // A New Song // Secret Sisters Volumes 1-6 // Habibi //

                        Listening to // Disney Songs // John Denver Radio // Elvis Presley Radio //

Enjoying // playing with my new guinea pig // shortbread cookies // the absolute cuteness of my brother's  
                                          hamster // the absolute cuteness of O-Boy

      Not really enjoying // being sick // one snowstorm after another // the endless noise of my house //

                   

Well, that's pretty much all! Oh, the hamster is Ethan's and his name is Butterball and the guinea pig is mine and his name is Truffle:) More pictures of the snow coming soon! Oh yes, I really do like John Denver and Elvis Presley;)

Thanks for looking at my blog!

{Emma}

At Home in Mitford-Barnabas-Part Five

Hello! I know I have been sounding like a broken record lately, but that will all change now that I finished this! Here we go with the last part!....................................

Barnabas

"Peedaddle!" said Emma, as she made an error in her bookkeeping.
   Barnabas leaped up and bounded to her desk, where he put his paws on the ledger, leaned over and fogged her glasses.
      "My God!" she exclaimed.
Why was she always saying My God! in a way that had nothing whatever to do with her God? He caught Barnabas by the collar and dragged him into the corner next to his chair.
   "I'm tellin' you the truth," Emma said, squinting as she wiped her glasses, "it's goin' to be either him or me." She grabbed her sandwich bag and put it in her desk, slamming the drawer shut.
     "Lie down!" he commanded. Barnabas stood and wagged his tail.
"Stay!" he said, as Barnabas ambled to the door and sniffed it.
       "Then, sit!" Barnabas went to his water dish and took a long drink.
"Whatever," he muttered, unable to look at Emma.
   He sat down and turned to the Gospel reading for Sunday. As he prepared to practice reading it aloud, which was his custom, he cleared his throat.
   Barnabas appeared to take that as a signal to stand by his master's chair and place his front paws on his shoulder, giving a generous lick to the Bible for good measure.
    He had just read that ignoring negative behavior and praising the positive could be a fruitful strategy. "Whatever you do," the article had implored, "do not look your dog in the eye if you want to discourage his attentions."
     "'And as Jesus passed by,'" intoned the rector, avoiding the doleful stare, "'he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?'"
       Barnabas sighed and lay down.
He continued, without glancing into the corner: "'Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that works of his God should be made manifest in him.'"
   He read aloud through verse five. Then, he stopped and studied Barnabas with some concentration.
"Well, now," he said at last, "this is extraordinary."
    "What's that?" asked Emma.
"This dog appears to be.....," he cleared his throat, ".......ah, controlled by Scripture."
    "No way!" she said with disgust. "That dog is not controlled by anything!"
Just then, the door opened and Miss Sadie Baxter helped prove the odd suspicion.
   Before she could speak, Barnabas had bounded across the room to extend his finest greeting, whereupon the rector shouted what came immediately to mind, and what Peter had told the multitude:
  "Repent and be baptized, every one of you!"
Barnabas sprawled on the floor and sighed with contentment.
       "I was baptized, thank you," said Miss Sadie, removing her rain hat.

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Well, that's the whole first chapter! Wasn't it good?? If you want to read the rest of the story, you'll have to go and buy the book!!

Thanks for looking at my blog!

Emma