Egg-straordinary!

Don't you just love fresh-off-the-farm eggs? These eggs were given to me by Amelia Adams, who writes the Coweta Cooks feature for Newnan-Coweta Magazine. We are working on the art issue and these beautiful natural sculptures were some of the "props" for our story and I couldn't not have been more appreciative than when she gave me a dozen assorted free-range eggs to take home after our photo shoot.

The eggs were courtesy of Donna Dougherty and Emeline Loughlin who apparently provide Adams with the eggs she uses at home. The recipe she shares is one I can't tell you about now, you'll have to wait to get your copy of the magazine on September 2, but I can tell you it is a mouthwatering treat. You will really miss it if you miss this issue, or this recipe! That was a shameless plug, but I had to do it.

Back to the subject of art. I took these photos because at some time in the future, I intend to paint these beautiful eggs. People really love brown eggs and speckled brown ones are especially prized. I think the contrast of dark, light and green eggs are particularly beautiful and would be very nice in a painting.

The chickens who laid these brown eggs are Buff Orpingtons and Black Copper Marans. The green and blue eggs are from Araucanas. It really does make me want to get a chicken coop and raise some "layers' in my back yard. I am sure my subdivision covenants would prevent it and I can't say I would like to have a rooster waking me up, but it would be nice to have these treasures provided every day.

Oh well, maybe one day. Meanwhile check out the photos in the magazine and the amazing recipe. By the way. We had these eggs for breakfast and they were rich and tasty. Much better than store-bought ones.

Sea Foods

Seafood refers to any sea animal or plant that is served as food and eaten by humans. Seafood include seawater animals, such as fish and shellfish (including molluscs and crustaceans). By extension, in North America although not generally in the United Kingdom, the term seafood is also applied to similar animals from fresh water and all edible aquatic animals are collectively referred to as seafood.



Edible seaweeds are also seafood, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia. See the category of sea vegetables.



The harvesting of wild seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation and farming of seafood is known as aquaculture, Mari culture, or in the case of fish, fish farming. Seafood is often distinguished from meat, although it is still animal and is excluded in a strict vegetarian diet. Seafood is an important source of protein in many diets around the world, especially in coastal areas.



sea foods dish

sea foods red small fishes

sea foods which one you like ?

different kind of sea foods

sea foods restaurant

sea foods with souses the most i like.

Sea Foods

Seafood refers to any sea animal or plant that is served as food and eaten by humans. Seafood include seawater animals, such as fish and shellfish (including molluscs and crustaceans). By extension, in North America although not generally in the United Kingdom, the term seafood is also applied to similar animals from fresh water and all edible aquatic animals are collectively referred to as seafood.



Edible seaweeds are also seafood, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia. See the category of sea vegetables.



The harvesting of wild seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation and farming of seafood is known as aquaculture, Mari culture, or in the case of fish, fish farming. Seafood is often distinguished from meat, although it is still animal and is excluded in a strict vegetarian diet. Seafood is an important source of protein in many diets around the world, especially in coastal areas.



sea foods dish

sea foods red small fishes

sea foods which one you like ?

different kind of sea foods

sea foods restaurant

sea foods with souses the most i like.

My Revue on John Mellencamp Album American Fool!

Yesterday I was going through so many albums to figure out which one to write about. So I have not wrote about John Mellencamp at all yet so I decided to write about this album. Yes this is before he changed his last name. This is an awesome album by him.

I remember when this album came out and I went to get it. I really like this album a lot. I was listening to it and my dad told me to turn it off. He didn't like the music at all. So when I would listen to the album I had the volume down real low so it would not bother him.

Here is what I think of each song on the album-

Hurt So Good- This is one of my favorites on this album. I know it has been over played but a great song. Just the beat of the music makes me want to dance.

Jack & Diane- This is another great song on the album and another of my favorites. The beginning with just the music is so good. It also tells you about a relationship. Listen to the drums that is great.

Hand To Hold On To- This is a really good song. I really like this song a lot. He has a way with his songs to get you to really like them.

Danger List-  This one I really don't care for. I don't know why but I don't.

Can You Take It- This is another one I really don't care for.

Thundering Hearts- This song is not bad I do like it. It is really different not like an other kind you would hear. The music is great.

China Girl- I really like this song. The music is great on this song and it is a little slower almost like a ballad.

Close Enough- I love the beginning of this song it is really different. This is a really good song I do like it.

Weakest Moments- This is a ballad song. Not to bad of a song but not one of his best on the album.

American Fool- The title track of the album is a great song. I really like this one.

I don't know what is is about him. I just love his music it is great music by him. I don't know if is something about his voice or the music that I really like or if it is a combination of both. He has a lot of great music out there. I would really like to hear what you think about his album so please leave your comments. I am leaving you with a video.

Geraniums: Thriving in the heat

My mother always loved geraniums and this year, in particular, I understand why. Her red geraniums are always beautiful in the hot summer months. When most patio flowers have withered and died from heat exposure, her geraniums put on a grand show. They look great until frost.

The foliage is a rich green and some varieties have variegated leaves. This one has solid green leaves that are round and kind of ruffled. They also come in other colors but I think I like the red best of all. I think the red varieties do better in the heat but I don't have experience with other colors. I just see the red ones more often. The flower clusters shoot out above the green leaves and they just keep on blooming.

These geraniums are sitting below a hummingbird feeder and my mother loves to sit out and watch the hummingbirds buzz around the geraniums and other flowers. Her coleus are blooming too, but they just don't put on the show the geraniums do when nature turns up the heat.

I have never had geraniums but after seeing my mom's beautiful display, I am thinking they would be perfect for my patio, too.

My First Grandchild's Baby Shower!

Saturday was the baby shower for my first grandchild. We didn't know if it was going to still go on. As of Thursday when my son called me I found out my granddaughter is due any day now.

My youngest daughter, my ex's youngest daughter, my boyfriend and I left Friday after I got off of work to go up north for the baby shower. As we were going around Milwaukee we got stuck in an hour of traffic. Come to find out that there was a seven car accident by the zoo. A three hour trip took us about four to four in half hours. I had a seven year old and a eighteen year old in the back seat. But we finally made it.

Then Saturday was the baby shower and I was able to see some of my family. I was able to see my older daughter, my mom, my younger sister, my boyfriends mom, my oldest niece and her daughter and a friend of the family that is like a sister to me and her daughter. It was really nice. This was the first time my boyfriends mom got to meet my family and it is the first time she met my kids.

My son's girlfriend was doing really good. You could see in her face that she was very uncomfortable. That is because the baby has dropped and she is crowning already. She made it through the baby shower and everything was really nice. There was three games that we played and the food was really good that she had. As you can tell by the picture she really got a lot of gifts.There was a lot of Winnie the Pooh things because that is what the baby's room is going to be. My mom had gotten a really pretty Winnie the Pooh lamp for the room.

Everyone had a really good time. When it was over my mom, my boyfriends mom and I went outside to wait for my boyfriend to come there and we really had a good time just talking. The seven year old told me when my boyfriend got there to have him go inside and get her. So I told him what she said to me.

My youngest daughter stayed up north because she wants to be there when the baby is born. But after the baby shower my boyfriend, my ex's youngest daughter and I came home. It took about and hour just to say good bye to everyone.

Dragonflies

There are two reasons I enjoy having our garden next to a lake. One is because we water from the lake (a huge benefit) and two, because we receive an occasional visit from dragonflies -- my favorite insect. The other day a dragonfly decided to sun him/herself on our garden fence. We didn't have the electricity on at the time. I am sure if we had he would not have visited.

I don't know enough about dragonflies to identify this one. It is not the easiest thing to do because they are very fast creatures. I used to think they liked me and were very curious and that was why they hovered around me when I was close to the water. Now I know they ARE very curious, with compound eyes that have, according to experts, 30,000 lenses -- the better to see you with. But I think they know they are so much faster than I am that they can hover and inspect me without fearing they will be caught.

This one sat sunning on the wire while I crawled almost underneath him to grab these photos. I suspect he was watching me closely, too. This one was almost all black and though I don't know what to call him, I imagine it could be a Southern Sprite, a Sun or Shadowdragon, or even a River Cruiser, Spiketail or Skimmer of some kind.

I do know they eat mosquitoes, ants and other insects so they are welcome visitors. There have been times when I have held out my hand and a dragonfly has accepted my invitation and landed for a second or two. I have frequently been buzzed and inspected. I have also read that since they spend most of their lives as immature nymphs and only spend a couple of months with the ability to zoom around inspecting the larger world around the pond, that they make the most out of the time they have. It may be a "life lesson" -- I don't know, nature provides many of those.

I disagree with the European view that dragonflies are sinister. They don't sting and I've never heard of anyone being bitten. The Japanese love them and use them as a symbol of strength, courage and happiness -- I agree with that and will always enjoy watching them zoom around while I garden.