Sink your teeth into this....

I have - its SO yummy!

Halloween Peanut Butter & Toffee Bark
1 LB Bittersweet chocolate chips
3 2.1 oz Butterfinger candy bars (cut into 1" irregular pieces)
3 1.4 oz Skor or Heath toffee bars (cut into 3/4" irregular pieces)
8 .55 oz peanut butter cups cut into 8 wedges
1/4 c honey roasted peanuts
3 oz high quality white chocolate (i.e. Lindt)
Reese's Pieces and peanut M&M's coursley chopped

Line baking sheet with foil. Sitr chocolate chips in medium sauce pan over low heat until melted and warm (NOT hot). Pour chocolate onto foil and spread to 1/4" thickness (about a 12 x 10-inch rectangle). Sprinkle with Butterfinger, toffee, peanut butter cups and nuts, making sure all pieces touch melted chocolate to adhere. Put white chocolate in small saucepan. Stir constantly over low heat until chocolate is melted and warm. Remove from heat and dip spoon into chocolate, wave spoon from side to side over bark creating zigzag lines. Scatter Reese's Pieces and peanut M&M's over, making sure candy touches melted chocolate.
Chill bark until firm, 30 minutes. Slide foil with candy onto work surface, peel off foil and cut bark into irregular pieces.

Good luck Sister Forman -

This is Sister Ali Forman, our niece. She is leaving Wednesday to serve in the Washington Kennowick Mission (Spanish speaking). We are so proud of her and want to wish her good luck!

We love you Ali, and will see you in a "little while!"

Breakfast with the Witches

We got to have breakfast with the witches before Halloween - and it was lots of fun. They weren't scary at all, in fact, they were quite fun and put on a yummy spread!

As you can tell, Annie DID NOT like the attention from any of them, however, they were all full of life and laughter anyway. These witches had talent and put on a nice program to entertain us, complete with a rat choir and a rousing, active take on "Dem Bones"

Afterward, we did the usual, walked around and browsed shops (with the million other people). Annie asked if she could take some pictures with my camera and I let her. While looking through my pictures, I laughed at this feather on the floor she was so fixated with

But hey, look at the rest of these -

Lots better than I think I could have done. Here is the little photographer herself -

Happy Halloween !!

Master Gardner....NOT!

I have a garden that I tend to every year. It's not big - but is sufficient for our needs, you know. We plant the usual things, tomatoes, beans, squash, colored swiss chard, onions - you get the idea. This year I thought I'd branch out and introduce a new item to the usual - some cauliflower. I've even grown it before and it didn't turn out too bad, small - but it grew and produced. Well, I've been nurturing my little cauliflower plants all summer long and been SO excited about how big and beautiful this vegi was getting until I discovered...no fruit - or I mean, no vegetable whatsoever, no where. But --- I do have big, huge, beautiful cauliflower leaves:

4 of these babies to be exact. We have managed to find other uses for the leaves, like a fan - Cate, still loving the playhouse, grills them now and again - We use them to line baskets to hold pretty flowers - Even as plates to hold our BBQ's Just this year, we won't be eating any of this Well, we'll be eating it - just not fresh, from my garden. Maybe next year -

Miss Cate gets a new DO!

Marisa and I took little Cate to get her first "official" hair cut last week - she wasn't all that excited - but did like her little pink car

She also needed a little hug (reassurance) from mom part way through (I think mom needed it to!)

Introducing our little Miss Cate -sporting her new look