BAKE A LOVELY CARROT CAKE

Yesterday I baked a Carrot Cake.

I had been sewing downstairs and

at about 3:30 pm I thought I'm 

going to quit and go bake something.

Do you love to bake?

As you can see the cake was quickly

cut and enjoyed after dinner.  

Several pieces went to Senior neighbors

and slices were frozen for another

day down the road.

This cake is really so easy to make and

requires 4 cups of grated carrots, 4 eggs,

1 Cup vegetable oil, 2 cups flour,

2 cups sugar, 2 tsp baking powder and

1 cup chopped walnuts for the cake

body.  Always mix the dry ingredients

 first and then add the eggs and oil.

We are talking 350 degrees for

baking 30 minutes in a regular oven

or 25 minutes convection oven.

The icing was wonderful too and easy.  

1 pkg 8 Oz cream cheese, 4 Tb butter, 

1 3/4 Cups of Confectioners Sugar, 

1 tsp lemon juice and 1 tsp vanilla

 all mixed together and then another

 1/2 cup walnuts sprinkled on top.

This week I had fun making some little

Ephemera Thanksgiving cards:

To me the Canadians have a better

situation in that they have their 

Thanksgiving in October and move

on to decorating for Christmas.

I also made an ephemera Thanksgiving

medallion for my kitchen

window:

We had a rainy night and now

a very windy day so staying in

seems quite delightful.

RAINY DAY BOONVILLE VICTORIANS

After going out to lunch today we drove

through a favorite part of Boonville where

the really interesting old houses stand.

The new owner of this Bed and Breakfast
(above) has renamed it "The Grand 

Victorian" and there have been

 improvements to the property.

I love the flags which are 

always waving here. (below)

This house (below) sold not long ago and

 has been experiencing major renovation

 and soon, possible paint color change.

I have taken so many photos over

the years of these same houses.  These

are the types of houses that scare my

husband to death.  He sees all the 

issues and the $$$$ signs start

clicking in his head.

The brick ones

 look so "sturdy"

to me.

I have always admired the yellow Victorian

which seems small compared to some of

these others but I find houses always do

seem smaller when there are no 

attached garages. 

 I think this house is perfect.

The owners of this house below,

have definitely done a lot

of work (or had it done).

This building is an old jail and is

open sometimes for tours but this

summer I heard that a snake got

into one of the cells.....yipes.

In the past I shared Roslyn Heights

during their Christmas tour.  It

is owned by the Missouri State

Daughters of the American

Revolution.

These are just a few photos of the

 ones I took photos of and then

the last two.  The one on the right

is greatly admired but this is the

kind that my husband fears.

Boonville is a town of less than

9,000 people.  At one time their

was a historic military academy

here for young men but that is

long gone.

There are many farmers in this area

and the corn has been harvested, also

soy beans and sorghum.  We did have

a drought in August through September

so I am not sure how that worked out.

AN AUTUMN TEA TIME for "Tea In The Garden"

 This week we are having amazing weather.

I love when the daytime temperature drops 

to the 80's and even 70's here.  Last week

 we had cold nights so I expected the

 hummingbirds to leave and they did 

but later I saw one at the feeder. 

 Now they

are all gone.

What a beautiful day we had today.  The 

squirrels were so busy dropping 

thousands of acorns and also walnuts

although this year the acorns are

 probably

20 to 1.  

I am sharing one of my quilts I pull

out in the fall and some brown

calico English wares.

Please enjoy one of these muffins

that I had put in the freezer.

They are delicious and the

recipe can be found right here:

Fall Harvest Muffins

This is the base of the oak that is

producing so many acorns.

Things are still green in our yard

but changing daily:

I gathered up a little of this

and that for a bouquet:

Last night it went down

to 39 degrees - burr......

We had a drought here this summer

in Central Missouri.  The corn is

being harvested now.  I was amazed

 on a recent trip to Kansas City.  The

harvest was happening everywhere

on both sides of the interstate.  Corn

and soybeans were in abundance.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING CANADA

 

CHI ALPHA GALS FOR AFTERNOON TEA

Today I was blessed to give a Fall

Afternoon Tea for a group of Chi

Alpha college gals.  This is a Christian

Sorority funded by the Assemblies of

God and a wonderful program.

I took this photo outside 

at the end of our tea:

It was a beautiful day and we were

all lovely the cooler temperatures.

This was the menu:

Peaches and Cream

Scones Recipe (here)

Except I substituted buttermilk

instead of heavy whipping cream