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Friday, December 7, 2012
Natural Elements of Home
71 comments:
- Stephanie said...
Wonderful post, as usual, Mia. I am always so inspired by your posts...they are so simple and heartwarming. We have lived on land for about a year now, and I am just now able to put the things I have learned from your blog into practice. Thanks so much for all you share!
- December 7, 2012 at 6:52 PM
- *~Sarah Lynn~* said...
Merry Christmas Mia! As always love your stunning photos. They are always so calming ad vintage. You are very blessed. :)
- December 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM
- Magnolia Tea said...
Hello there, your post is so inspiring. My laundry room pales in comparison to your lovely outdoor one. Have a wonderful weekend!
- December 7, 2012 at 7:07 PM
Thsnk you for the lovely pictures. They are so beautiful and homey. Can you give us the recipe for the gingerbread cookies? They look delicious!
- December 7, 2012 at 7:36 PM
- Amy Jo said...
I was so happy to see a new post! Those cookies look good! And your laundry room is very inspiring. I have been redoing mine and am still working on it.
Blessings to you and your family,
Amy Jo
- December 7, 2012 at 7:45 PM
- Julian said...
Your home always looks so inviting,thankyou for giving us a small glimpse. Its always nice to see a new post.
- December 7, 2012 at 8:39 PM
- Simply Shelley said...
I have missed you :) Do show us your sweet cottage all decorated for Christmas...I am sure it will be just lovely.....blessings sweet friend.
- December 7, 2012 at 10:06 PM
- Country Mouse said...
Lovely as always, Miss Mia! Can't wait to see how you use your natural decor.
- December 7, 2012 at 10:08 PM
- Elaine @ Sunny Simple Life said...
Your posts are always so warm and full of contentment.
- December 7, 2012 at 10:34 PM
- Michelle Marie said...
Beautiful. It made me feel all heart-warmed. :)
- December 7, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Everytime I read one of your posts I feel I have received a gift. Blessings!
- December 7, 2012 at 11:43 PM
- Salina Kenyon said...
Yet again, another beautiful post. I plan on making some gingerbread cookies as well next week. Take care!:)
- December 7, 2012 at 11:48 PM
- bayrayschild said...
It's always so nice to see you post.
A lot of what you post remind me of my youth when Summers were spent in the south on my relatives farm. That kind of life is the one that I hold closest to my heart. It's where I learned that working with my hands could be so rewarding.
Thank you for sharing your life with us.
- December 8, 2012 at 12:05 AM
- wendyytb said...
Another wonderful post! Thank you! Miss Mia, do you think your brother would be willing to share his recipe for skillet apple pie? It looks delicious!
- December 8, 2012 at 1:01 AM
- Fanny said...
As always, your photos make me feel warm and fuzzy... thank you for sharing them with us!
- December 8, 2012 at 3:29 AM
- Leslie said...
Your house is so cozy and homey--it's how I'd like mine to be. I just love getting these little glimpses of your life--they really do inspire me to live better. Thank you for the beautiful post!
- December 8, 2012 at 6:21 AM
Hello Mia,
these gingerbread cookies look so good! Could you maybe share the recipe? I would be very happy to make them, too.
Beautiful post!
- December 8, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Bonnets and Boots said...
What beautiful pictures! Your family is truly an inspiration.
- December 8, 2012 at 10:06 AM
- For His Glory said...
This is such a wonderful post. I have really enjoyed your blog very much. I love the "poetry" and deep thoughts that were in this post. It just made me realize that I need to make a list of everyday things that I am thankful for and enjoy. Once again, this is very encouraging post.
~Corina Dickson
- December 8, 2012 at 10:33 AM
- kitty25 said...
Lovely post...again (as always) feel that I've had a visit with a wonderful and welcoming friend. Could you please, please, please, share that gingerbread recipe? I can already smell that beautiful aroma wafting through the house!
- December 8, 2012 at 12:08 PM
- Kim @ Light Cottage said...
Dear Mia, The light in your photos is absolutely beautiful! Each one is filled with Light and Peace. Thank you for sharing them with us. Blessings,
- December 8, 2012 at 5:10 PM
- Alisha Ann said...
beautiful pictures miss mia...i love having you back :D
serving HIM,
- December 8, 2012 at 7:25 PM
- Linda said...
Another beautifull post, thankyou Mia :)
- December 9, 2012 at 3:20 AM
- Daughter of God by grace. said...
I love your blog so much.
- December 9, 2012 at 11:28 AM
- Sandy said...
What a beautiful, peaceful life you lead. May your family be blessed this Christmas season.
- December 9, 2012 at 5:25 PM
- Ginny said...
Lovely! Just Lovely. and that goes for you. Love your ways.
- December 9, 2012 at 7:31 PM
- Katie in FL said...
So glad you are back as I miss your recipes. Great photos as usual!
- December 9, 2012 at 7:49 PM
- The Desert Dragonfly said...
WOW ... I have missed You and your beautiful family. Mia, your wonderful posts lifts the spirit. I guess the blessings of having a warm winter is that the harvest season is extended. Wishing all a fantastic Christmas season =D
- December 10, 2012 at 1:42 AM
Merry Christmas to you and your family - natural elements are the best:) I absolutely loved seeing the cast iron on the wall in your previous post. I hope to one day have the wall space for our own collection. Thank you for the lovely inspiration.
- December 10, 2012 at 1:52 PM
- BLD in MT said...
True artist, indeed! Happy holidays to you and yours!
- December 10, 2012 at 2:52 PM
Thank you~Mia....Lovely post as usual. God Bless and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours.
- December 10, 2012 at 6:20 PM
- Aniesa said...
I always look forward to your new posts. They are so warm and inspiring, and they always make me hungry, lol. God Bless!
- December 11, 2012 at 4:41 AM
- elizabeyta said...
I am thoroughly enjoying the pictures. I was just thinking that I should make gingerbread but I do not believe I will have time. Let us know how it turns out please.
- December 11, 2012 at 3:46 PM
I happened upon your beautiful blog. I'm so glad I did. It's so amazing. I love your heart.
- December 13, 2012 at 5:34 AM
- Sarah with an "h" said...
Beautiful! I just found your blog today and love it! You live a life I dream of. Merry Christmas!
- December 14, 2012 at 12:30 AM
- Dorothy Adamek said...
Beautiful and inspiring, as always.
Blessings from Australia,
- December 14, 2012 at 2:59 AM
I always get so excited when a new post from you pops up! Beautiful pictures and lovely thoughts as always :) happy holiday season to you and yours! X
- December 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM
So good to move away from all the artificial glitter of Christmas and focus on Him! God bless you!
- December 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM
you are a lovely young lady :)
May God Bless you and your family .
this blog is a blessing on such a difficult day
- December 14, 2012 at 8:16 PM
- Rena said...
Oh Mia, I'd given up looking for you! THANK YOU for two beautiful posts. Beautiful mellow autumn just flows out from these photos, and grateful serenity, as usual, in every word.
- December 17, 2012 at 5:34 AM
- janice15 said...
Ginger bread recipe sounds divine maybe one day soon you can share it with us. So glad to see you post again. pine needles remind me of visiting with my grandmother...thanks for the lovely memory ... wishing you a most lovely Christmas Mia, to you and your family. with love Janice
- December 17, 2012 at 3:55 PM
- Kennesa O'Neill said...
Thank you for another wonderful post, Mia! I've been thinking about you and am happy to see that you are doing well. I look forward to another post, sometime in the near future... :)
Love you!
- December 17, 2012 at 4:49 PM
- Kennesa O'Neill said...
Oh, and I just noticed that the can of tomatoes is from Westville... LOL
- December 17, 2012 at 4:55 PM
- Twocans said...
What a refreshing young lady you are! I just found out about your blog, so I have bookmarked it.
God bless!
- December 17, 2012 at 11:53 PM
The natural decorations look so pretty. Oh the smell of gingerbread cookies baking...hmmmm :) I too did baking for gifts this year. So many people look forward to homemade goodies this time of year. :) You, your sister, and your mom have lovely skirts...I really like the lace trim.
May God Bless You and Your Family this Holiday Season and into the New Year.
- December 18, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Hey Mia! Your most recent blog post is absolutely heartwarming! You should consider photography school- you've got great natural talent! Your pics are beautiful! Your Thanksgiving was wonderful, beautiful. And your brother's Apple Pie!?! He's been holding out on us!!!! :)It looked soo scrumptious! You're a beautiful blogger keep it up. KeshaB
- December 18, 2012 at 10:35 PM
- Alpine Flowers said...
I have been a follower for about a year, since I found your blog on Pinterest. I just love everything about it and find it to be one of the prettiest and most inspiring blogs of this sort out there! I share a lot of the same interests as you do and it is a comfort to know there is a young woman out there like me!
I just started to blog, visit anytime! I live on a rented farmstead and will be writing about gardening, vintage things, cookery, old-fashioned living, and my budding yarn business.
- December 19, 2012 at 10:27 PM
Just found your blog and I love it. You live a beautiful life. Please keep writing for us. I love your writing style. Thank you!!
- December 23, 2012 at 2:31 PM
- Alisha Ann said...
I love your pictures Miss Mia!! You and your blog are such an encouragement to me :D
I'm inviting you to follow my blog :D
Serving HIM,
- December 28, 2012 at 1:52 PM
- Tiff :o) said...
I am so glad to see you posting again! I found your blog right after you started your break so I have been witing for more. :o) But even without any new posts, you inspired me to do more this summer/fall. I am finally starting on a 1840-50's dress. I just LOVE that green skirt with the lace underneath. Thanks for sharing these snippets of yuor life.
- December 28, 2012 at 2:37 PM
- Marie said...
I always love love love your blog. I visit every so often and when I do it is like a breath of fresh air. You all are so inspiring!
- December 31, 2012 at 9:24 PM
- Donna B. said...
As always a beautiful post. Can't wait for your next entry. God Bless.
- January 12, 2013 at 1:26 PM
- Sandy said...
Wishing you updated more often.
- January 17, 2013 at 9:45 AM
Hi Mia, what a beautiful and inspiring blog. I have recently discovered this and truely believe God has led me to it. I am a stay at home Mum in New Zealand with 3 young sons. We are a Christian family and I desire to raise my boys in a way that sets them apart from the world. We live in a city suburb but I am a country girl at heart, love to grow my own vegies, preserve, sew and many other craft hobbies. I have always been old fashioned and love all things old, I have been a fan of Anne of Green Gables since I was 8 years old. Your blog is a beautiful ministry, you are a blessing to others and to your family. Your photographs are lovely and yours words so sweet.
Many blessings to you and your family,
- January 19, 2013 at 2:11 AM
Absolutely enjoy your blog everytime I visit. It's beautiful, heartwarming & full of life. So much inspiration for homemakers. You give us a glimpse of a life of simplicity in it's true beauty. Your photography of your life is lovely! Thank you so much for sharing.
- February 2, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Dear Mia,
I've just discovered your blog, so fresh and inspirational! I just can't stop reading about your life, your family, your style and I really hope that you will continue blogging, please!!!!
warmest regards from Italy!
- February 4, 2013 at 5:30 AM
Hello Mia and Family
I so enjoy your blog -the photos are as if from another time-I adore the simplicity -hope you will be back again soon
- February 5, 2013 at 6:58 PM
- Lynn said...
Beautiful post :) It looks like you all have been busy at home.
- February 5, 2013 at 11:37 PM
- Janet said...
I found your blog through Mrs. B's website. I wanted to tell you how much I love this post. It's so peaceful. I hope you'll be back to writing again soon.:)
- February 6, 2013 at 9:23 PM
- Connie said...
I just found your blog and it is wonderful. Your photography is art museum quality . . . do you do art shows? I love the fact that we have singing and guitar playing in common. I go around and play is nursing homes and at the farmer's market and county fair . . . sometimes with our local Old Time Fiddlers group and sometimes solo. I believe that if the good Lord gives us a talent . . . it should be for sharing and spreading joy.
Your blog is amazing:)
Your newest blogging sister, Connie :)
- February 9, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Hope to here from you in 2013! Have you considered putting some of your sewing patterns on your site? I really like your skirts!
- February 9, 2013 at 3:54 PM
- Pamela@ Our Pioneer Homestead said...
Hope to see you back here at Blogger soon:) your photography is so inspiring!
- February 9, 2013 at 6:13 PM
Come back soon :)
- February 13, 2013 at 7:28 AM
- Sarah, lovely wife of... said...
Hey Mia. I love your blog and the peace that is evident in your home. Where have you been? I cant wait for your next post. BTW, I love your skirts in your "afternoon break" photo! I just might copy it!
And now that I finally have myself a daughter, I am eager to see what kind of woman she will become. I love the way your parents reared you, as you seem to be God-fearing, gentle, creative, intelligent, and all-together lovely. They really did a great job.
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- April 23, 2013 at 7:43 PM
- jolynn said...
As I read and look at your pictures I of the simple things of life give me the most joy and very humbled as i read and feeling very blessed. God has been so good to me.
- June 7, 2013 at 12:05 PM
- Lisa Hallahan said...
Hi MIA! I really enjoy your blog...I think you would be blessed by mine as well. I hope you get the chance to look at it. My whole heart an ministry are for stay at home daughters aspiring to be keepers of their homes... =)
- June 10, 2013 at 7:20 PM
Looking at your post is like looking at Heaven. Beauty and peace and joy. It is truly inspiring. You're an angel.
- June 30, 2013 at 3:01 PM
No entendí gran parte de lo que dicen, pero esta claro que Usted vive una vida mas tranquila que la mayoría de nosotros. Puedo solo envidiarle por la manera en que encontró paz en su vida. Saludos
- August 5, 2014 at 12:26 AM
- Sara said...
I miss your blog!
- August 17, 2014 at 2:13 AM
- a disciple of Jesus said...
Hello Mia! May the lord Jesus the messiah bless you and your family.
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Back in 2008, Major League Baseball had a problem with broken bats. That season, bats were breaking into multiple pieces at a higher rate than ever before: around once per game.
The problem coincided with a surge in the popularity of maple bats over the traditional ash.
A bat that simply cracks isn't too big a deal. But in 2008, maple bats kept breaking apart. Often, they'd break along the handle, sending the heavier upper barrel of the bat flying.
Bat shards struck players and coaches all season. A fan named Susan Rhodes was struck by a bat during a Los Angeles Dodgers game in April. Near the end of June, Brian O'Nora, a home plate umpire, was sent to the hospital after a bat left a gash on the back of his head.
That very day in June 2008, MLB's Safety and Health Advisory Committee had met to discuss the issue. The committee announced that it would consult with bat experts and conduct research with bats and their manufacturers.
One of the first phone calls went to the U.S. Forest Service, which operates a wood laboratory in Madison, Wis., where researchers study things like construction lumber, or ways to use underutilized woods, like the trees killed by pine beetles. The league called up Dave Kretschmann, a research engineer there.
"I have a sense of how wood breaks," he says. "I've broken a lot of wood over the years. So I certainly thought I'd be able to help them out."
Over the following months, MLB sent Kretschmann and his collaborators more than 2,200 broken bats, along with video footage of every break during the season. Other researchers visited bat companies to examine manufacturing techniques.
There was one main pattern to the bat breaks — they weren't splintering apart. Instead, the maple bats tended to break cleanly.
"If you looked at the handle, and the players still held onto the knob in his hand, and you looked at where it broke, there was an oval shape." Kretschmann explains.
That, he says, indicates a break along the grain of the wood. Wood doesn't hold up well to pressure applied perpendicular to the grain. Maple bats tended to have a "slope of grain" issue, where the grain sloped at an angle through the cylinder of the bat — and the pressure of hitting a fastball at just the right angle was enough to split the bat in two.
Kretschmann and the other researchers made initial recommendations in time for the 2009 season, and the rate of bat breaks have continued to drop since then. This season, it's down by half.
If you're just joining us, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.
And after the show, what better to do with your sunny August evening than visit the old ballpark.
LYDEN: Now if you go to a game today, there's something you're not too likely to see: a splintered bat. As recently as five years ago, though, bats were shattering all over the place. Why the drop? Well, bats made of maple were all the rage.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Three balls and two strikes.
LYDEN: In 2007, Barry Bonds used maple...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: And Bonds hits one hard. Hits a deep. It is out of here.
LYDEN: ...to do a little thing called breaking the all-time home run record. When the next season started, more than half the league was using bats made out of maple, but they seemed to break a lot.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: And he probably hits one with a busted bat.
LYDEN: That season, a bat broke into pieces an average of once every game. Like in this one, on April 25, 2008.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: And part of the bat wound up in the stands.
LYDEN: Facing the L.A. Dodgers, the Colorado Rockies' first baseman Todd Helton knocked a routine single into shallow center. His bat split at the handle, leaving just the bottom in his hands while the larger, heavier, upper half flew into the stands. It struck a fan in the face, knocking her out and breaking her jaw.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: I'll tell you what, the bats they are making today apparently are awful.
LYDEN: A little later in the season, the Rockies were in Kansas City, playing the Royals.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Miguel Olivo breaks his bat.
LYDEN: The Royals' catcher Miguel Olivo knocked a bouncing grounder toward second base. His bat split at the handle and went spinning right into the head of Brian O'Nora, the home plate umpire, sending him to the hospital too.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: And it looks like he suffered a pretty serious gash.
LYDEN: That very day, the MLB's Safety and Health Advisory Committee had met to discuss the epidemic of broken bats and decided something needed to be done. And that's where Dave Kretschmann comes in.
DAVE KRETSCHMANN: I'm a research engineering at the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin.
LYDEN: The MLB called Kretschmann because Dave is an expert on wood.
KRETSCHMANN: And you have a lot of choices when you grow trees. You can grow them fast, you can fertilize them, you can space them differently.
LYDEN: At the Forest Service's laboratory, Dave and his coworkers research things like construction lumber or what to do with the wood from trees killed by pine beetles. And they take phone calls from the public with tough, wood-related questions. When the league asked for Dave Kretschmann's help, he said sure.
KRETSCHMANN: Because I have a sense of how wood breaks. I've broken a lot of wood over the years. And so, I was, yeah, I certainly thought I'd be able to help them out.
LYDEN: There was one main pattern. Bats weren't splintering apart. They were breaking cleanly. Dave Kretschmann calls that a slope of grain issue. Wood doesn't hold up well when you put pressure perpendicular to the grain. So when the grain slopes at an angle through the cylinder of the bat, the pressure of hitting a fast ball at just the right angle can split the bat in two.
KRETSCHMANN: If you looked at the handle and you - the player still held onto the knob in his hand and you looked at where it broke and there was an oval shape.
LYDEN: Now, maple bats had this issue more than any other wood. Dave Kretschmann and his team figured enough to give recommendations in time for the 2009 season and things have steadily improved since then. Now, the incidents of bats breaking are down by half. And Dave Kretschmann has changed too.
KRETSCHMANN: When I watch a game now, I pay attention to what bat's being used and what species it is and what happens as opposed to kind of paying attention to the game.
I'm sure Major League Baseball takes comfort in that. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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****Contest Closed**** :-(
You know what? I have cabin fever and I'm cranky because we have WAY too many snowstorms already and it's only the beginning of January people. Of course to make myself feel even worse I read the Farmers Almanac and it said we are going to get a ton of storms. Yay! Wonderful. Isn't that great?
So to cheer myself up, I want to make you happy by having a giveaway. See if you're happy then I get happy.
I want to give away a couple fabulous cookbooks. If you are a cake lover; a kicked up cake lover that is, like me, then these are the books for you. The winner will receive BOTH of these cookbooks by Warren Brown. The cake god himself. I adore Warren Brown. He is the owner of Cake Love Bakery. Remember when he had the show Sugar Rush on the Food Network? That was such a good, relaxing show; I miss that. That and Gale Gands Sweet Dreams. I wish Warren would come back to TV, but I hear he's a busy man. If you go check out his website, he has a free cake app. How cool is that? And the best part, I hear he's super sweet--definitely a chill person with mad decorating skills; definitely a super nice person you want to bake and create with. Check out his blog too!
All you have to do is leave ONE comment with your name and email address about your all time favorite cake. And you could win BOTH of these cookbooks. Yep both.
Let's do the drawing on 1/23/2011.
Please no anynomous entries. Have a valid NAME and EMAIL address.
It might help you win if you become a fan on FB & Twitter.
Hahaha, kidding. I kid, I tease.
giveaway time - two cookbooks!
****Contest Closed**** :-(
223 comments:
WHAT a giveaway! I agree....even the South is getting pounded. Whats up with this craziness? I'd love to win these cook books. I haven't had a lot of experience with cake making and would love to expand my skills. I think the best cake I've ever had was a german chocolate cake. My name is Erica ;) and my email address is itzyskitchen at gmail dot comReplyDelete
Texas Sheet Cake with pecans. Gooey Butter Cake is a close second.ReplyDelete
My all time favorite cake comes from a recipe I found at my Great Grandmother's house. It's called Hummingbird Cake. It is absolutely delicious and always reminds me of being small at Grandma's house.ReplyDelete
The recipe combines banana, cinnamon, walnuts, and crushed pineapples. The flavor is so unique and the recipe is tightly guarded in our family.
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My all-time favourite cake? This drumstick cake/pie at my family's favourite Italian restaurant back home. Ice cream with peanut butter layers, crunchy peanuts and chocolate syrup... To. die. for. We always get one piece and the four of us share it. I guess it's also my favourite cake because of all the great moments associated with it... :)ReplyDelete
Fun giveaway!!ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is a yellow cake and chocolate frosting, I can't let a slice pass me!
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favorite cake? chocolate pudding cake by all means! although chocolate matcha bundt also tugs at my heart.ReplyDelete
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My favorite cake...please do not laugh is strawberry cake from the box with Strawberry icing...store bought too
I would love these! Your recipes are always so neat. :)ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is my mom's triple chocolate cake with chocolate chips in the frosting. :)
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I love cake! My favorites are chocolate cake with peanubutter frosting AND orange cake with fudge frosting.ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is a burnt sugar cake I made for my birthday last year.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous1/12/11, 1:27 PM
How on earth to pick just one? The best cake I have ever eaten - a multi layered plum cake with cream and pastry when I was in Germany. No idea how to make it, but I still think about it 15 years later.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/12/11, 1:27 PM
So excited about this - I have been lusting after CakeLove for awhile now... the best cake I ever made was a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, studded with pecans around the outside. Westville restaurants in NYC have amazing carrot cake and chocolate souffles to die for!ReplyDelete
I probably shouldn't enter, because I already won your cookbook giveaway (Baked Explorations), but I'm greedy and I'm entering anyway. :)ReplyDelete
my favorite cake is a single round funfetti cake (meaning you have a spare cake, which is always swell to have around), on top of a layer of chocolate ice cream, itself on top of a layer of chocolate, which is, finally, on top of a cake sized cookie. white frosting. eat alone with your roommate, rejoycing about for once not having a crapton of people over eating your food.ReplyDelete
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My favorite cake is actually homemade "Pilgrim Bread" which I make as cake and top with a homemade vanilla cream frosting.ReplyDelete
all time favorite cake: my mom's homemade chocolate cake and homemade chocolate icing. Priceless. And it proves that homemade = always better than boxed or premade!ReplyDelete
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My favourite cake is the traditional american apple cake, I do love it
My favorite cake would have to be molten chocolate cake. The type that has ooey, gooey chocolate in the middle that melts out when you take a bit. Yum!ReplyDelete
My name is Michelle and my email is michelle.ballow at gmail.com. Thanks for hosting such a fun giveaway!
Holy Moley I love cakes! Lemon buttermilk pound cake always makes me extra happy. Thanks for your recipes--they are delish. rebekahewood[at]gmail[dot]comReplyDelete
Awesome giveaway! My all time favorite cake is the raspberry cake made in my hometown! Not too sweet, moist and delicious!ReplyDelete
I like Ina Garten's yellow sheet cake with chocolate frosting. Basic, but done really well.ReplyDelete
Hands down favorite - yellow layer cake with chocolate frosting. :-)ReplyDelete
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hi,I'm Lisa and my favorite cake is cheesecake -- lemon to be specific. :)ReplyDelete
Chocolate peanut butter cake! Chocolate cake, peanut butter filling, chocolate buttercream frosting, peanut butter glaze! It's amazing.ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is German Chocolate Cake - love the coconut frosting!ReplyDelete
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Hummingbird cake by a mile!
My all-time favorite cake is one I just started baking recently, and I've already been informed by my family that I'm not allowed to bake any other kind! It's a Chocolate-Avocado cake, and yes, it IS slap-your-mama good. :)ReplyDelete
Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream! I live in DC and I still haven't tried Cake Love bakery...I should be ashamed of myself.ReplyDelete
- Maggie
What a great giveaway. We did not get much snow yet and I am happy about it. I love a good Opera Cake. My favorite.ReplyDelete
Guinness chocolate cake with Bailey's Irish Cream frosting. Forever my fave.ReplyDelete
My favorite is German Chocolate! These books look amazing...ReplyDelete
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i love white chocolate cake with a simple lemon buttercream!ReplyDelete
I'd have to say it's Black Forest Cake...at least that's my choice today. (truenorth67 AT gmail dot com)ReplyDelete
Yummmmmmm. My very favorite cake is: carrot cake with real bits of carrots and raisins and cream cheese icing!! email@example.com
Pistachio almond cake is one of my favorites. email@example.com
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My favorite cake is the 7 layer chocolate fudge cake that my mom and dad made growing up. It takes two people to get it just right and tastes amazing!ReplyDelete
My all time favorite cake is a strawberry shortcake. I can't get enough of it. rhisomers(at)gmail(dot)comReplyDelete
My favorite cake is truffe framboise from this bakery in san diego, ca. It has fresh raspberries and layers of chocolate cake. It's also surrounded by a chocolate mousse. Thinking about it makes me want one!ReplyDelete
- Kathleen Fontaine1/12/11, 3:23 PM
For my 5th birthday my mom made a huge layered cake for my party and made a Christmas Tree (as my birthday's in December) out of icing that stood about 8 inches tall - 5 inches in diameter, complete with "garland", "colored lights", and a "star" on top. It was the most delicious and moist chocolate fudge cake......yum!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/12/11, 3:23 PM
I hear ya on the snow, we have been getting slammed up north! My favorite type of cake was an ice cream cake I made last year for my boyfriend's mom. It had vanilla cake on the bottom layer and strawberry ice in the middle and topped with another layer of vanilla cake. Whipped cream and fresh strawberries on top made it even better.ReplyDelete
my email is: firstname.lastname@example.com :)
The chocolate fudge with French cream filling I made for the first time as a birthday cake for one of our daughters on Dec. 23 has become my all-time favorite! Taking a narrow lead over German chocolate, which incidentally won me a blue ribbon at the fair two years in a row. I just found your site today!ReplyDelete
I love pound cake.ReplyDelete
rchandsa at yahoo
All time favorite cake? That's tough. I think the cake I made for Rauliot's birthday (Cuban opera cake) was definitely one of the best.ReplyDelete
Ohhh,I LOVE my carrot cake recipe! It's the BEST carrot cake ever, even if I do say so myself! :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/12/11, 3:47 PM
I will never say no to a red velvet cake or a moist vanilla bean cake.ReplyDelete
- Sarah1/12/11, 3:56 PM
My favorite cake ever is strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream frosting. SO NUMMY! :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/12/11, 4:02 PM
I love CAKE and would love these books. I also loved his show. My favorite cake is a sour cream pound cake. Brandy firstname.lastname@example.com
When my mom was alive she always made an orange slice candy cake for Thanksgiving. Still my all time favorite!ReplyDelete
Linda Taylor
Fresh Coconut Cake--used to help my grandmother make it at Christmas. She would grate the coconuts herself and let me put the coconut milk on the layers. Then she and my grandfather would make the 7 minute frosting together! Definitely a cake that reminds me of great LOVE and FAMILY :)ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is strawberry short cake - yum!ReplyDelete
White chocolate cake with raspberry swirl in it...yummm! SarahReplyDelete
What an awesome giveaway!!! Thanks for doing it!!! I live in Idaho and I totally understand your crankiness, I can't wait for spring and summer! My favorite cake has to be plain old vanilla or yellow cake with white chocolate chips and half a can of condensed milk baked and then the rest of the can added to it! Super sweet but amazing!ReplyDelete
Whitney Vasquez
My favorite cake is an iced lemon pound cake. That said, I am an equal opportunity consumer and wouldn't turn my nose up at anything!ReplyDelete
- Jennie1/12/11, 4:15 PM
It has to be carrot cake, but I am the only one who would eat it. So, I never make them. Cheesecake has the same problem. That would be even more dangerous.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/12/11, 4:18 PM
Italian Cream Cake-served for special occasions-ReplyDelete
sponge cake, rum flavored custard -one chocolate layer, one vanilla,
covered in whipped cream and toasted walnuts
Chocolate birthday cake. For some reason birthday cake always tastes better!ReplyDelete
my favorite is a rich dark chocolate double layer cake with a whipped cream type frosting and a big scoop of vanilla ice cream. My b-day is soon and I am looking forward to a slice ( or maybe two )ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is green tea layer cake with green tea cream cheese frosting! Absolutely delightful!ReplyDelete
Here is the link:
italian cream cake--my mom's recipe! :)ReplyDelete
natalie (natalie.mclaury at gmail dot com)
I have a super-dense chocolate bundt cake that I make that I alter somewhat by adding different liqueurs to the batter. My friends in England refer to it as 'That Chocolate Thing You Do' and request it every time they're stateside!ReplyDelete
i love, love, love cake. it's so hard to decide what my fav is. it quite possibly might be a coconut cake that my grandma makes. mmmmmm!ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous1/12/11, 4:47 PM
A simple chocolate bundt topped with powdered sugar that my dad would bake for me at every birthday.ReplyDelete
Great giveaway! My all-time favorite cake is red velvet with cream cheese icing.ReplyDelete
cjpeacockbird at gmail dot com
A double chocolate cake that used a chocolate cake base then after baking punch holes into it and soak it with dark chocolate sauce and ice with a dark chocolate butter cream icing.ReplyDelete
carrot cake coconut, walnuts, raisins, and pineapple and cream cheese frosting. Done and done, I could devour the entire cake!ReplyDelete
My favorite was a red velvet cake from Reeve's in DC. Sadly Reeve's shut down a few years ago but all their cakes were fabulous.ReplyDelete
Best cake would be Dark Chocolate Raspberry cake with Chocolate Buttercream icing. YUMM!!!ReplyDelete
Dark Chocolate Raspberry with Chocolate buttercream icing.ReplyDelete
The best cake I have ever had was the Betty Crocker recipe for carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, sans walnuts. It`s just too yummy for words.ReplyDelete
but at the end of the day, Im a `purist. Give me a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting any day.
Lemon cake with a little lemon curd!!ReplyDelete
Wow, thanks for the giveaway! Who doesn't love some good cake? My very favorite cake is from a restaurant in central Florida, so that doesn't really count. But, I also love a good Texas chocolate sheet cake. And Paula Deen's gooey butter cakes are so so good.ReplyDelete
snbjork at gmail dot com
Three favorites stand out: Tres Leche cake that I made for the first time this year. Used a recipe by Alton Brown. So good. Second would be "the" cake my Mother-in-law makes for birthdays. It is the chocolate cake recipe found on the can of Hershey's cocoa powder but it is so good. Third would be my Mom's individual pineapple upside down cakes. Yum. - Ilene, firstname.lastname@example.com
a free cake app? sounds like that needs to go on my phone :) ~sigh~ all this snow, and i'm still at work...ReplyDelete
Carrot cake is my favorite of all cakes, but anything homemade is best. Would love to win the cookbooks.ReplyDelete
Awesome! Canèt eat much these days, but when I do partake (and that is WAY too much), cheesecake is like Kryptonite to me. And Black Forest, and chiffon, and limonchello, and tirimisu, and ice cream, and ¨please stop me... I WILL keep going you know! ~ It's sometimes hard being a Diabetic! LOL}ReplyDelete
Carrot Cake with Cream cheese frosting. It was my mom's favorite. She's been gone 7 years and we still have it every Thanksgiving because her birthday is at the end of November. It is my fav not only for the awesome recipe but because it makes me feel so good inside when I remember the reason we eat it.ReplyDelete
- Tricia M.1/12/11, 5:33 PM
I have to pick ONE kind of CAKE!? I have three words for you...Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate. :-)ReplyDelete
tricia at malobicky dot com
- Anonymous1/12/11, 5:36 PM
Chocolate cake!ReplyDelete
june_spirit2628 at hotmail dot com
My fave is called Rodeo Mocha Chocolate Cake.....a very moist, fudge, luscious, buttermilk based concoction! What's not to love about chocolate and espresso? YummmReplyDelete
I love eating so much it's terribly difficult to pick a single all-time favourite cake! But upon deeper reflections, it has to be a carrot cake with a whole load of walnuts in it, lined and topped with cheese!! *drools*ReplyDelete
- Melodie1/12/11, 5:57 PM
any kind of cake with real whip cream icingReplyDelete
My friend makes the best cake. She takes a butter recipe cake mix and makes it as directed but she also adds about 2 cups of Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. The ice cream just makes it sooooo moist. Then we top it with a piece of Hershey's Cookies and Cream candy bar. MMMMMMMM! It's so simple but soooooo delicious!ReplyDelete
Kari Howell
LCH2004 at gmail dot com
- Anonymous1/12/11, 6:03 PM
The Strawberry Lemon Poppyseed layer cake from the famous Rick Dessert Diner in Sacramento California. I punished that slice of cake, it never had a chance. From Lo email@example.com
My favorite kind of cake is Tres Leches! Yum!!!ReplyDelete
My fave is a rum pound cake from fine cooking. Its a very zen cake. It seems plain and unassuming but will knock your socks off!ReplyDelete
A vanilla sponge cake layered with lemon curd and frosted with lemony SMBC.ReplyDelete
I love cake, but I haven't strayed far from cake mix yet...pineapple upside down cake would be my favorite at the moment.ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is a hot milk cake that my mom made to me each birthday. But I also love carrot cake with the cream cheese icing mmmmmReplyDelete
Emily Wells firstname.lastname@example.com My all time favorite cake is a recipe my grandmother used to make called an Ugly Duckling Pudding Cake.ReplyDelete
My all time favorite cake is a classic yellow cake with buttercream frosting.... add a little vanilla ice cream... HEAVEN.ReplyDelete
Amanda firstname.lastname@example.com
Oh we are so tired of snow here in MN too! Favorite cake...hmmm I think the fresh strawberry cake I made a few summers ago might be the winner.ReplyDelete
- Julie1/12/11, 6:41 PM
Oh goodness my tastebuds are turning! My favorite cake is buttery pound cake, I can't resist.ReplyDelete
- Lauren1/12/11, 6:49 PM
Tough! But I think German Chocolate...because it reminds me of my grandmother!ReplyDelete
My favorite cakes are Italian Creme and German Chocolate, and only when they are made by my granny!ReplyDelete
my favorite cake is dark chocolate with not too sweet chocolate icing or ganache. anything thats not to sweet is fine by me :)ReplyDelete
White chocolate pound cake with raspberry icing :)ReplyDelete
Fantastic giveaway.ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is pound cake next to my manderine orange/chocolate cheesecake both of these are the most requested cakes that I make.
My name is Laurie and my e-mail is email@example.com
LOVE Friendship Bread which is really a cake--especially when you add a generous handful of chocolate chips! THE BEST!ReplyDelete
Strawberry cake made with REAL strawberries in the frosting (and, I confess, fake strawberry jello in the cake)...see, I need a cake cookbook :)ReplyDelete
super mega obscene cake lover! Right here! Ugh we had snow again today. I'm sick of it.ReplyDelete
I LOVE CAKE!!! favortie would have to be chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting :)ReplyDelete
Chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream. With a big tall glass of very cooold milk on a hot summer day. Oh and sprinkles on top of the cake, those colorful flower-shaped ones. Yeah.ReplyDelete
i found a cooking light recipe for an apple cinnamon cake. it was delicious!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/12/11, 8:07 PM
I love Ina Garten's Chocolate layer cake. Its delicious! My name is Amanda and my email is email@example.com
My Favorite Cake is a Cake my Aunt always made for my Dad Bruce whenever we went to visit. She called it Bruce Cake it's a Dense Almond flavored Pound Cake that she baked in a Bundt pan it was always a Choose your own toppings and had to be served Warm..ReplyDelete
My Favorite Cake though that i had the Opportunity from Cake love was Crunchy Feet :-)
I absolutely Love Buttermilk sheet cake...yum..yum..yummers!ReplyDelete
Julie Pia
I read that too in the Farmers Almanac. Man, you guys have been getting pelted havent you.ReplyDelete
A very nice giveaway!
- Chelsea1/12/11, 8:53 PM
I would love to try gooey butter cake. heard so many good things about it! i love anything chocolate too!ReplyDelete
email is: firstname.lastname@example.com
My favorite cake would have to be hummingbird cake, which is basically a banana and pineapple bundt cake with pineapple icing. I would never have thought to put those two fruits together on my own, but I found this recipe in one of my mom's cookbooks and made it on a whim, and man was it delicious.ReplyDelete
>>>Kezia, email@example.com
A cake app? Good God there goes my hips!ReplyDelete
Favorite cake of all time is German Chocolate Cake.
I love Jello Poke cake. I know it's kind of cheesy but it's still my favorite, especially with cool whip icing.ReplyDelete
Thanks! Cheesecake, that's a cake, right?!?!?ReplyDelete
The Motherlode Cake from Claim Jumper!ReplyDelete
clarahuh at gmail.com
I love my mom's Mint Chocolate bundt cake! Melody- email@example.com
Favorite cake has to be spice cake with toffee sauce. Scrumptious.
- Anonymous1/12/11, 10:38 PM
well if cheesecake counts as a "cake" that would certainly be my favorite hands down. after that would come gingerbread in the fall/winter and lemon & blueberry in the spring/summter.ReplyDelete
jacquieastemborski AT comcast DOT net
boston cream pie sounds like a pie but its the bestest yummiest cake in the world! my name is michelle at email@example.com
I love a Sour Cream Pound Cake !!ReplyDelete
This is a great give away! I love making all different cakes !!
Awesome giveaway :) We are getting a lot of snow here (ok well not a lot compared to last year - but they keep saying its going to be a lot).ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is a fresh strawberry cake layered with strawberry sauce AND lots and lots of whipped vanilla icing.
My name is Alyssa and my email address is alyssakuminski at gmail dot com and my blog is fashionfitnessfoodie.wordpress.com
I love any kind of baking books so would love these. My favorite cake has to be German's Chocolate Cake. In fact, I think I need to make it again.ReplyDelete
My all time favorite cake is a homemade apple nut pound cake that I make in a bundt pan with a caramel frosting. omg this is soooo yummy! My email is email@example.com
Hope I win, I love to bake.
Oooh coconut cake with coconut icing!ReplyDelete
My momma makes a sherry cream cake that knocks your socks off. I request it every time I go home.ReplyDelete
Ohh what a hard question. I think i have to say rhubarb and strawberry pie. I can eat it all day long.ReplyDelete
Already folloing you on Twitter and Facebook :)
My favorite cake is this amazing lemon cake with lemon frosting that my mom makes. I have yet to get the recipe from her! lauwil07 at gmail dot com.ReplyDelete
My favorite cake would be a classic chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting.ReplyDelete
- Rachel1/13/11, 1:04 AM
I love red velvet cake. There is just something about the cream cheese frosting...ReplyDelete
larkspurpurple (at) gmail.com
amazing! My favorite cake is flour-less chocolate cake - if i EVER see is ANYWHERE i have to order it!ReplyDelete
e-mail: "rachelh.egan at gmail dot com"
my favorite cake is butter vanilla with holes poked in it while its hot and some sort of fudgey chocolate frosting. YUM!ReplyDelete
One of the best cakes I've had was actually from The Cake Mix Doctor's Chocolate Cakes book. I forget the exact title of the recipe but it's something like The Best Birthday Cake. A triple layer chocolate cake with ganache filling and a wonderful buttercream frosting. It's great!ReplyDelete
growing up, my mom would make a cake called ugly duckling cake that had fruit cocktail in it and she would coat the pan with sugar and butter that would crystalize. it was amazing.ReplyDelete
i sure could use a new cook book.
I think my favorite cake is a classic moist chocolate cake with perfect chocolate buttercreamReplyDelete
I love cookbooks, and I would have to say my favorite cake is good old fashioned homemade chocolate cake with buttercream frosting!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/13/11, 8:15 AM
My name is Laurie.....ReplyDelete
My favorite cake is my Grandma's homemade yellow cake with homemade chocolate fudge frosting. My mouth waters just thinking about it. She's been gone for many years now and I always ask my Mom to make it for me for my birthday.
My favorite cake is the one my 4 kids and amazing hudband make me on my birthday. It's an orange cake-with x-tra orange juice concentrate in it and extra orange zest. Then they make their own Paula Dean-inspired orange cream cheese icing-again with extra concentrate and zest. So gooooooood. And my 7 yr old says she blows kisses into the batter. Life is GOOD!ReplyDelete
Great giveaway! I found your blog last week, and have been stalking through your recipes alllll weekend/week long! :)ReplyDelete
My all-time favorite cake would probably be the new one I tried and made for my birthay-apple butter cake with cinnamon cream-cheese frosting! :)
Pistachio cakeReplyDelete
My favorite cake is Wacky Chocolate Cake with Richmond Chocolate Frosting. The frosting is cooked on the stove, you pour it on the cake hot and let it set up to a thick, rich pudding-like frosting. YUM! I make it for everyone's birthday and everyone raves about it!ReplyDelete
Patty - email@example.com
I haven't really heard of this, but I would LOVE to win it :)ReplyDelete
The best cake I ever ate was a flourless mississippi mud pie, the non ice cream sorts!! LOVEE!
Can I enter if I'm in Mexico? I hope so. I really want those books! hehe.ReplyDelete
I just love carrot cake with a good, rich cream cheese frosting. Delicious!ReplyDelete
It is way too hard to narrow down to an "all-time-favorite", but one of the top 10 (and most recently made) is a dark chocolate gingerbread. It's super dense, moist, made in a bundt pan & topped with confectioners' sugar. Perfect winter-time cake!ReplyDelete
The best cake I ever ate was from 17 North in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina...carrot cake. Yum!ReplyDelete
Yay, cookbooks! I read them like text!ReplyDelete
My all time favorite cake is wedding cake, followed closely by birthday cake. Something about them different than any other sort.
Lauré ... email@example.com
- OTA Mom1/13/11, 12:55 PM
Coconut cake with buttercream frosting and toasted coconut garnish!ReplyDelete
All time favorite- that's a big bite. Well, I'd have to say Spiced Cake with Orange Cream Cheese icing. Mmmm, now I want cake. I have recently started decorating cakes and am always looking for new recipes to try out. :)ReplyDelete
Alice Dutton
Black Magic Cake can satisfy my chocolate/childish/creative desires....anytime! I used to call it, "Aunt Mary Grace's Black Magic Cake," due to the fact it was in upstate New York where I first found this tasty feast in my Great Aunt's kitchen. She was the kind of cook who'd cook with one hand and smoke with the other. Her finished products always brought a bit of heaven to my taste buds (despite the nastiness of the ashes she was sure to have deposited whilst stirring the pot). Yes, Black Magic Cake can bring joy to anyone's heart. I guar.an.tee. My name is Tracy and my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
- Anonymous1/13/11, 3:01 PM
my fav cake is red velvet cake cream cheese frosting..yum!ReplyDelete
i want to Cake Love book :))))
Miss Z.
Just recently I had a lemon poppyseed cake with lemon frosting and it was heaven!ReplyDelete
morsekittyl AT yahoo DOT com
I'm a sucker for old school chocolate cake with butter cream icing. My mom's family is from Amish country and she has an old Amish cake recipe that is AMAZING.ReplyDelete
My mom's pistachio cake. It's awesome... and it's made with jell-o pistachio pudding mix, box cake mix, and cool whip - all things I NEVER normally bake with. So moist. And pistachio-y. And green. Nothing beats it.ReplyDelete
My favorite all time cake is a Milky Way Cake that is made with about 10 candy bars melted in the cake and icing and it has lots of PECANS. It is amazing!!ReplyDelete
cjpike at indiana dot edu
I would love to win! As for my favorite cake... does ice cream cake count? I really have never had any amazing cakes, but I'll never turn down a piece of chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream!ReplyDelete
Chocolate mayo cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.ReplyDelete
My mom used to get me this regular store-bought sheet cake for my birthday when I was a kid, and there was just one thing that was special about it. It was mocha! I LOOOOOOOVE mocha flavored stuff, and the icing on this cake was to DIE for. I've tried for years to find something similar, and I've never managed. Maybe someday I'll just have to reverse-engineer it.ReplyDelete
~ Lynne, tollbaby at yahoo dot com
My all time favorite cake is a German cake with almonds and apricots. I had it when I visited several years ago, and i've never found anything in the states that compares. It was about an inch of almond cake topped with custard, then a gelatin of apricots, orange segments, and slivered almonds. So moist and absolutely amazing!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/13/11, 7:14 PM
My name is Megan, firstname.lastname@example.com, and my favorite cake= Yellow Cake with Grand Marnier frosting. I am a very picky frosting eater but can handle this by the spoonful!ReplyDelete
Cheesecake... Preferrably raspberry.ReplyDelete
love the books…have taken cake love from local library & enjoyed his back story!ReplyDelete
i love cheesecakes (layers of mocha, espresso or chocolate) with dark chocolate ganache…
thanks for including me in this giveaway!!
- suzanne1/13/11, 8:36 PM
chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream is my all time favoriteReplyDelete
My favorite is either flourless chocolate or snickerdoodle cake. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Chris M.
zekks at yahoo dot com
Favorite? Geeze..I dunno. Lets see. I am going to go the boring route..yellow cake with fudge icing. love u!ReplyDelete
I am a fan of traditional white cake and chocolate buttercream, when done correctly is amazing!ReplyDelete
German Chocolate Cake, with tons of coconut and pecans and all the good stuff!ReplyDelete
My all time favorite cake changes each year. This year I am loving vegan sweet potato cake with real cream cheese icing! Shelley firstname.lastname@example.com
Elizabeth DonaldReplyDelete
Black Forest Cake with Ganache
twitter user: zanista
My all time fav cake would be tiramisu. I went to Italy once and for breakfast (yes) we had the most amazing cake, perfect.ReplyDelete
a cake with apples and pudding :-) yammyReplyDelete
Chocolate Italian Cream Cake- Yes it is as good as it sounds. It is amazing!ReplyDelete
Will you send some snow down to Texas?
My favorite cake is my brother's mint chocolate chip ice cream cake with dark chocolate ganache...It is to DIE FOR! The mint infuses the chocolate, and the cake is so moist for an ice cream/flourless...SO GOOD! If I win, I will definitely be sharing the books with him. I can cook a mean dinner, but he is the one to follow it up with a real sweet dessert!ReplyDelete
Thanks! Caiti email@example.com
My favorite cake (like it's actually possible to choose just one!) would have to be a flourless chocolate cake I make. It is so fudgy and rich- you just have to keep straightening out the edges!ReplyDelete
(if you know what I mean!)
my favorite cake changes from day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute. right now, i'd say the winner is an apple cake with penuche frosting. yowza!ReplyDelete
I love homemade angel food cake! And I would love to have these cookbooks!ReplyDelete
- Stacey1/14/11, 8:16 AM
I have a love affair with red velvet cake, my thighs don't love it but my mouth says more more more!!! My name is Stacey, my email address is szocki at stny dot rr dot comReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/14/11, 9:05 AM
fave cake...schargenberger's recipe THE chocolate cake...yum! love your blog, never grated butter before the levain choc chip clone cookies...email@example.com
Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting!ReplyDelete
too much snow. my arizona blood can't handle it! A great way to warm up is through the kitchen.ReplyDelete
my favorite cake is ina's orange bundt with chocolate chunks and ganache. so good.--lindsayReplyDelete
Hey...Yes I remember his show on Food Network. I wonder why they took him off? Get giveaway...pick me, pick me!ReplyDelete
Nice giveaway!ReplyDelete
I will cook Mexican for you any time as long as you bake for me. Deal?
P.S. My favorite cake is German chocolate with coconut pecan frosting. YUM.ReplyDelete
I love pineapple upside down cake!ReplyDelete
My all time favorite cake is just a double chocoalte layer cake with buttercream. I just made Beatty's Chocolate cake from Ina Garten, and it was to die for!ReplyDelete
I'll never be able to choose just one...but today it is a hummingbird cake. I'm a Southerner through and through. Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
Fun giveaway! I always go for carrot cake first :)ReplyDelete
My all time favorite cake is aReplyDelete
Kentucky Butter Rum cake. It is super yummy, and the recipe is so easy, my hubby managed to make one for my birthday this year. I gave the recipe to one of my blogging friends, and she posted about it here if anyone wants the recipe.
Hi! My name is Meagan and I love reading your blog. My favorite cake would have to be just a deep dark chocolate with chocolate buttercream.ReplyDelete
My email@example.com.
p.s. I'm already a fan on facebook and twitter. =)
I'm a sucker for red velvet, and pretty much anything else that uses cream cheese frosting!ReplyDelete
This cake is one of my favorites. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pineapple-Coconut-Layer-Cake-10154 I know it as Dominican Cake. Another long time favorite is Orange Cake using the cake recipe from "Memories of a Cuban Kitchen" and the Lemon (in this case Orange) Buttercream recipe from Magnolia BakeryReplyDelete
Carrot cake has always been a favorite!ReplyDelete
Chocolate cake with a pistachio mousse and frosting, it was amazing and I wish I still had the recipe lolReplyDelete
My name is Melanie and my email is arielmacsween at hotmail dot com
My all time favorite cake is a simple cake---my grandmother's Poppyseed cake. I've never tasted a cake like it or seen a duplicate recipe. It's a MUST have to have every Christmas!ReplyDelete
lisaberkery at gmail dot com
Love love love German Chocolate cake with Coconut Pecan Icing but Lemon Meringue Cake with lemon filling is a close second.ReplyDelete
themoonmom at hotmail dot com
I love cookbooks. I'd love to win this giveaway. I have one on my blog too. Take a look. My favorite all time cake would be chocolate fudge cake with vanilla frosting. So good.ReplyDelete
coconut cream cakeReplyDelete
- Jann (email@example.com)1/18/11, 12:41 AM
http://www.food.com/recipe/best-ever-chocolate-cake-78541 is my favorite cake. SO yummy.ReplyDelete
My favorite cake ever would be pineapple upside down cake! With carrot cake and red velvet close behind :)ReplyDelete
Desiree Vick - firstname.lastname@example.com
- Anonymous1/18/11, 10:27 PM
My favorite cake is my mom's chocolate sheet cake. the most interesting thing and my favorite part about the frosting is that it has cinnamon in it.ReplyDelete
Homemade Italian Cream Cake!ReplyDelete
My favorite is spice cake with caramel frosting.ReplyDelete


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Access issues inherited from Sächsische Schweiz
Most parts right of the Elbe are located within the Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz with all the rules you'd expect associated with this, but climbing is generally allowed. Left of the Elbe, the area is mostly covered by a lesser degree protection area (Landschaftsschutzgebiet), also with a well marked network of hiking trails. Some few summits are located on private property, see the guidebook. During spring and early summer, selected summits may be closed because of nesting falcons or owls - check at http://dav-felsinfo.de .
Ethic inherited from Sächsische Schweiz
You want ethics? This is the home of ethics. Most of these are peculiar for outsiders, but have a long history. Although every few years eagerly debated, they are still valid and even legally binding by being referenced by the Nationalpark regulations. They can be summarized as:
- Climbing is only allowed on free standing rock towers. With only a handful of exceptions, all other rock walls are off limits
- No climbing on wet rock - for your safety and the soft rock's sake.
- No hardware protection (friends, rocks, pitons). The gaps between the sparse ring bolts may only be filled with slings (jammed knots, V-threads, lassoed chickenheads). A wooden or plastic "dagger" may be used for better placements.
- no chalk, no pof
- Sign the summit register.
- Jumping is an accepted way of reaching a summit. This can range from slightly more than a stepover to completely insane kamikaze operations. The respective grade system (1-easy to 4-hard) is currently extended to 6 or even 7.
- Boosting a climber ("unterstützt", i.e. supporting his progress by providing "human holds") is accepted or even necessary on some routes. "Ausgiebig unterstützt" goes as far as building multistory human ladders.
- Toproping is frowned upon. For first ascends only ground-up ascents are accepted; minimum bolt distance is enforced. Be sure to contact a local, as there may be restrictions on certain cliffs.
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Kohl's asked me to test out a few items from their Bobby Flay Cookware line.
How could I say no?
Stainless steel bowls with a non-skid bottom?
What a dream these are!
I'm never going back to plastic mixing bowls!
These are some of the best bowls I've used, and trust me I've owned a lot of mixing bowls, most of them plastic--which never last long, and tend to wilt, stain, and crack.
Never really thought of stainless steel used in a mixing bowl, but now I see why.
Good thinking Bobby Flay. When he created these, he had durability in mind.
The cast iron pan from Kohl's is my favorite.
First off it's square and holds a lot more.
Second it's a lot lighter than your traditional cast iron pan.
And thirdly, it has a handle on both sides for easy removal from the oven--love that.
You know cast iron just isn't for grilling?
You can make a banana bread with it too.
AND chocolate chip cookies.
A kicked up banana bread.
I think I prefer making my banana bread in a cast iron skillet. It bakes up moist with a nice crust to it.
I call it a cake, a bread, not sure what it is really, more of a cake as it's not as heavy as a banana bread.
You need to get the Bobby Flay Cast Iron Pan. So much easier to move, use, grill and take out of a hot oven. Square size just holds more too. Plus it comes pre-seasoned!
Stainless steel. Just those two words had me sold. We all know stainless steel will last a lot longer and is less likely to scratch, dent and warp over time.
The Bobby Flay stoneware line is stunning. You should see the other colors!
I'm partial to the yellow color. And this 3 1/2 quart stoneware casserole dish has a whole other stoneware line that goes with it: the cutest 4-piece ramekin set, ceramic square baking dish, and a ceramic lasagna pan.
Have you made a cake use cast iron pan?
It's really quite simple--almost one-bowl easy too.
Just mix the batter, pour into greased cast iron pan, and bake!
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I'm getting that cast iron for my BIL! He really wants one and is graduating from Med school. If I win the Kohls GC, I am going to give it to him too! I think Bobby needs more grilling pans!ReplyDelete
I think he should invent a waffle iron with removable plates so you can SUBMERGE it.ReplyDelete
GREAT looking butterscotch cake. I want it!
I always love to see more pans with spouts so it's easier to pour my sauces!ReplyDelete
What a great giveaway -- these pans are now on my birthday list! :)
I think they should come out with cupcake pans.ReplyDelete
- sharon5/8/13, 11:40 AM
I would love to see more bakeware in his line - perhaps a new type of cookie sheet? newlywedcook @ gmail.comReplyDelete
Oh, an ice cream machine would be peachy! :DReplyDelete
Yes, an ice cream maker!ReplyDelete
mami2jcn at gmail dot com
It seems like they have a lot covered. Maybe some glass bakeware too in addition to the ceramic baking optionsReplyDelete
fencingromein at hotmail dot com
I think Bobby Flay's line should include a panini maker.ReplyDelete
I would love a yogurt maker or rice cooker.ReplyDelete
ooh, i've done one cake (cranberry upside down) in my skillet, but now i want banana bread :) love those nonskid bowls! i bet awesome for whisking and such. bobby's got alot in his line already, but what i really want someone to make is a colander with tall feet! they all have such short feet i really don't understand...ReplyDelete
I think Bobby Flay should have an electronics line with mixers and toasters.ReplyDelete
cupcake pan!ReplyDelete
laviejaime (at) gmail.com
Everyday dinnerware that is light enough for kid's to use and durable enough for kid's to use without it shattering. Too many plates now a days are already heavy even without the food we pile on. annaeed at hotmail dot comReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/8/13, 3:01 PM
they should come up with an ice cream maker or hot dog heaterReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous5/8/13, 3:01 PM
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- Elena5/8/13, 3:19 PM
an ice cream maker!ReplyDelete
I would love if he came out with cupcake making items :)ReplyDelete
Pacholke21 at gmail dot com
Ooooh, maybe a baking stone for the grill-for pizza or bread. Yum!ReplyDelete
I would have never thought to make a cake in a grill pan. Way to think outside the box.ReplyDelete
Hmmmm, what should he make next. A heavy duty cake leveler pan of some sort! That would be dreamy.
WHY do I live somewhere that is so not near a Kohl's at all! These products sound awesome.ReplyDelete
And banana butterscotch is my new favorite flavor combo. I made bars with it a few weeks ago and fell in love. It's like you knew. :P
I actually LOVE Kohl's and recently discovered Bobby Flay's stuff there. . love him! He seems to have most everything already covered in his cookware. . but I'd say to add a wok? . . I want those stainless steel mixing bowls!! :)ReplyDelete
I don't think I saw this in his stuff... he should add blenders!!ReplyDelete
I would love to see some enamel-coated cast iron!ReplyDelete
I think he should make some matching heat resistant silicone spatulas!ReplyDelete
I need a great vegetable peeler. There is not a good one one the market. Not even good grips.ReplyDelete
I would love for him to come out with his own grilling line, Pizza stone, smoking box, grilling utensils, bottles for marinades, etc.ReplyDelete
n_proctor at hotmail dot com
I second that waffle iron with removable plates idea. But not Belgian waffles. I like the regular kind!ReplyDelete
A waffle iron/sandwich maker with reversible plates that can be taken out and washed easily.ReplyDelete
Wow! I have to go to Kohls! How about a countertop grill that looks nice enough to keep out all the time? Or a nice pizza stone and peel? islabee711 at gmail dot comReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/8/13, 10:51 PM
I have no idea what to even suggest next - I could easily use every item they now have.ReplyDelete
perhaps a really good set of cutting boards. I know not really what you think of w/ him but you still need to chop - right?
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I'd love a smoothie maker.ReplyDelete
Didn't see one- thank you.
I would love to see a rectangle ceramic baking pan with a lid for easy storage of leftovers.ReplyDelete
smartmomj at gmail dot com
A set of knives. I love Bobby!ReplyDelete
I have to go with an Ice cream Maker!ReplyDelete
The product line is so innovative and I am happy that kohls has it! i lie the stainless steel grill basketReplyDelete
I would love to see them create a waffle iron or Panini makerReplyDelete
I would like to see more baking items, like cupcake,cake, pie or tart pans.ReplyDelete
Non-stick cookie sheet with handles, not just a lip. I have arthritis and I look for anything with handles as it is far easier to remove things from the oven and not burn myself or drop things if they have nice big handles. I would like a mixing bowl - maybe 1 and 2 qt. sizes with definite pour spouts and again, a nice big handle on the other side. Open handles please, not just a solid one. These would make my life easier in the kitchen.ReplyDelete
An ice cream makerReplyDelete
Maybe an electric griddle?ReplyDelete
Everything looks beautiful. I think Bobby Flay has many of the essentials covered already in his line. I would like to see BBQ supplies. He has rubs, but perhaps marinating bags?ReplyDelete
an ice cream maker!!ReplyDelete
What a great collection. I love the colors of the bakeware.ReplyDelete
It would be nice to see pie plates in those colors.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Like the Bobby Flay™ 3-pc. Mixing Bowl SetReplyDelete
I want a dutch oven with an easy to clean steam insert.ReplyDelete
- Kate5/10/13, 8:48 PM
Bobby Flay inspires my non-cooking husband to cook! I would love it if he came out with a great working mandoline that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Not everyone has the chopping and slicing speed he does!ReplyDelete
kabowddoxa AT yahoo DOT com
I think more bakeware would be nice.ReplyDelete
I'd love for them to come up with shape baking pans like hearts, bears and things like that.ReplyDelete
Jamie Brigham
PrettyInPinkWife @ aol dot com
a great panini panReplyDelete
I love Kohl's - and I love your review -- some affordable high quality enamel coated dutch ovens -- ? Le Flayeut?ReplyDelete
I love this skillet.ReplyDelete
well, he's in dire need of some baking pans! springform pans, pie plates, muffin tins--i know he can make all these things because i've seen him do it, but there's no evidence of that in his line!ReplyDelete
YUM that cake looks delicious :) thanks for the giveaway! email@example.com
I dunno! I love those stainless steel bowls, what about a line of silicone baking things that really workReplyDelete
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I really like the bakeware selection, so cute.ReplyDelete
cake looks delicious!ReplyDelete
I like the Bobby Flay 14-pc. Professional Knife SetReplyDelete
I like bobby flay's products! bakeeware/cookware, all of it! the cake looks great!!!
How about a donut pan?? Wouldn't that be fun? :)ReplyDelete
- Diane5/13/13, 1:41 PM
A pizza stone would be great.ReplyDelete
I'd like to see a popover pan (with straight vs slanted sides)...ReplyDelete
Thanks for the giveaway!
- Anonymous5/13/13, 3:33 PM
Leela -ReplyDelete
A cast iron pizza pan!
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I'd like to see a muffin pan and more bakeware.ReplyDelete
hewella1 at gmail dot com
I'd love to see a cupcake pan!ReplyDelete
alaine74014 at gmail dot com
I didn't see a cake pan (so that would be great)ReplyDelete
tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com
There are already so many items that it is hard to think of a new one. I didn't see a pretty bread keeper and we make a lot of bread so maybe he could do a nice bread keeper.ReplyDelete


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There can't be gaps, where the audience wonders "how did we get from here to there?"
The outline should have the basic structure. It should link each scene.
The detailed continuity should be up to the person doing the storyboard.
This storyboard was done by Vincent Waller. Those little sketches were done by me, either in the layout poses first and then doodled onto the board to time from, or I doodled them first and then addedd them in the layouts. I don't remember...
Either way, pose artists animators, directors and assitant animators each fill in more continuity.
The storyboard artist/writer links the dialogue, the action and the acting. Between each major expression, there are smaller expressions that connect them.
The outline is where you contruct your story. The storyboard is where you write it and connect the dots.
Understand Personality
This is not essential, because many cartoons are not about personality. Tex Avery never used layered characters in his MGM cartoons, but still made some of the best cartoons in history.
Disney's characters are one-dimensional (if they are lucky!) but that didn't stop him from being pretty successful.
But you should know enough to not have your characters all of a sudden do or say something that is totally out of character-unless the story supplies a believable reason for it.
Your characters' actions and their dialogue should come out of their character.
Ren doesn't do things the way Stimpy does. Bugs talks and acts different than Elmer, etc.
I had a really good board artist doing a scene for "In The Army". Ren and Stimpy were doing KP duty, peeling potatoes, and in the board Stimpy was cross with Ren. He was chewing out Ren for getting them in trouble with the sergeant over and over again. It was beautiufully drawn, but out of character, so I asked the artist to rework the scenes so that Ren is the mean one and Stimpy thinks that KP duty is a reward. Stimpy almost always thinks that Ren's mischief is a good thing. You have to push him pretty far to upset him.
Needing to understand character seems obvious, but I have yet to meet another cartoon writer who can keep their characters consistently in character. I usually have to do that part myself, but I could sure use some help if someone exists out there! There are a lot of great and funny artists, but less that can create inspired characters and certainly none of the writers can. That's the whole history of the business. Warner Bros. seems to have been the big exception.
They (TV execs) make you do that when you start a project or pitch one. They make you write a "story bible" and as part of it you have to describe who your characters are and worse, what their catch phrases are.
The bad thing about this is that if you force yourself to try to figure out everything there is to know about your characters before you start making your cartoons, you end up restricting yourself to what you thought you knew about them early on. The execs make you stick to it and your characters are forever limited to being cardboard cutouts.
What you find from actually making cartoons is that you think of many more and better ideas along the way and your characters evolve as they find themselves in new adventures.
Ren and Stimpy, George Liquor, The Ripping Friends and old cartoons all evolved along the way. They would maintain some of their core traits, but they would get more shaded as more stories got produced.
Catch Phrases
If catch phrases happened, they happened by accident. They weren't "created" upfront, like they are now. How many times did you cringe as a kid when you heard "Welcome to the 90s!" or such other writer creations? (Hey share some of the most obnoxious catch phrases from your childhood cartoons here in the comments!)
When I had Ren say "You bloated sac of protoplasm!" and similar things, people would yell them at me at appearances. I would see them on t shirts. People make me say "No sir, I don't like it" all the time. None of the lines in R and S were ever meant to be catch phrases, but they would just catch on, and Nickelodeon would lean on me to use them again. I resisted as much as possible, figuring that funny dialogue in the next cartoons would also catch on naturally.
Characters should issue from your loins
If you are truly a good character creator, you understand your characters from inside. You feel what's right for them, but you allow them to breathe and grow naturally as you make cartoons. They aren't a list of arbitrary traits and catch phrases. They exist and you are just relating their adventures to the audience.
Many of the artists who work with me add shadings-although if they add something that I feel doesn't fit, I suggest something else. Voice actors would also bring new shadings to the characters when we rehearsed the stories, and their inflections would give me ideas for new stories and new ways to develop the characters' traits further.
If you watch the Ren and Stimpy shows, you can see the characters evolve not only in design, but in their personalities too. I would purposely write whole stories just exploring their personality traits-like Stimpy's Invention or Ren Seeks Help.
OK, enough crap...to get to the point, I did write up a character treatment for Ren and Stimpy-not for myself, but for the Nickelodeon executives and for the artists and story crew on the show. Here it is, if you are interested.
I have one for the George Liquor characters too if you ever want me to post it. Let me know.


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It was a classic Republican idea. It employed market discipline to control prices. And it is yet another indication of how far off the deep end the GOP has gone that Republicans are now opposing its implementation in Minnesota and other states.
Why, you might well ask? Because President Obama supports exchanges. It's an integral part of Obamacare, which was based–remember?–on the Heritage Foundation plan (with some important differences–Obama dumps most low-income people into Medicaid rather than into the exchanges, and he doesn't make employer-based health benefits taxable on a progressive scale, as Butler did.)
The Republicans argue that the products offered in these health insurance superstores will only be the products approved by liberal bureaucrats. This is nonsense. If the Republicans had deigned to negotiate, if they had fought for a more Republican version of this Republican idea, I'm sure they could have added in all sorts of products, including health-savings accounts. They still could. But then, if Republicans had deigned to negotiate, they could have won their beloved–and commendable–malpractice reform. Obama has said publicly he would be willing to include it, if Republicans stopped trying to kill his Republican plan.
This is a case of extremism and cynicism. The cynicism dates back to Bill Kristol's 1993 memo to Republicans in the Senate, advising them to oppose any sort of health care plan because Bill Clinton would get the political credit. Kristol, a noted patriot, thus helped create the rot and gridlock that has paralyzed this country for the past 20 years: Democrats could play that game, too–and they did on Social Security reform, where they might have made a few concessions, like raising the retirement age for upper-income recipients and raising the tax cap on upper income workers, while denying George W. Bush his privatization scheme.
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He tells Sammy to be sure to lose the race.
He figures Tortoises always win so everyone will bet on the tortoise, so Billy bets on Wally. The odds against Wally are 136 to one so Billy figures he'll clean up.
Sammy Tortoise cheats to lose.
Wally is so stupid though that he loses the race anyway and the ugly mob of animals that Billy bet against chase him at the end of the cartoon.
Wally is left dumbfounded.
Billy Chicken discovers a fleshy protuberance sticking out of the ground and rubs it, thinking that he will summon a magic genie to grant his chicken wishes.
No genie appears but the lump does get shiny which seems promising. He tries wishing upon a shine, but still nothing happens so he gets mad and hits the lump.
A bump appears on the lump and this time he knows he's on to something.
He rubs the lump and sure enough out pops the enchanted Genie of the Lump.
In the end it turns out that the shiny fleshy lump is the top of Wally's bald head. He has been buried in dirt for a week.
Everyone laughs as Wally chases Billy and the genie, sputtering dirt out of his impedimented lips.
They are stealing sap from Maple trees, and striking terror throughout the animal kingdom.
Officer Wally Man of the undercover squad tracks them to bring them to justice.
A hard-boiled thriller.
He loves to watch nature shows about animals in the wild.
All of a sudden his reception goes haywire.
He goes outside to see what happened and finds wild animals chewing his cable lines and he goes crazy!
Wally tries to rid himself of his pests so he can go back to watching the wonders of nature safe inside his man-made environment.


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Father's Day is coming once again, the time of year when we celebrate the most underappreciated (by his count) member of our family. We love to give 'em hell, but dads really don't get spoiled as much as they deserve for putting up with us through all the shenanigans we pull during the rest of the year.
With that in mind, your own dad is probably past due for an awesome Father's Day tech gift to reward him for the infinite restraint he demonstrated when you borrowed his new car without telling him. And then wrecked it. Along with part of the garage. And a good chunk of the laundry room….
Check out these Father's day tech gift ideas that span from the traditional to the mischievous.
Yes, it's a splurge, but think of it as a down payment on interest owed from that time he bailed you out of the drunk tank. Let's see: The hottest tablet on the market, complete with a high-resolution 10-inch screen and quad-core graphics engine, gifted from the person most directly responsible for his early-onset pattern baldness? Yeah, he's earned this Father's day tech gift, for sure.
If the iPad's a splurge, this tablet is a steal! If you go this route, Dad gets a fast, powerful tablet with access to millions of movies, shows, books and apps on a vivid touchscreen, and you get to save a little cash for next year's gift.
Give yourself the gift of no longer having to hear your father say, "Just what the hell is this Internet TV you kids keep talking about?" This starter set from Roku will make your father a believer, with 500+ channels, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO GO and MLB.TV.
This skinny little speaker doesn't look like much, but it packs quite a sonic punch. It clips right to the back of a laptop and can fill a room with a 360-degree sound that will make Dad redefine his laptop as a mobile entertainment center. It's perfect for fathers who travel a lot, or for those who sneak off to watch "A-Team" episodes on Netflix while the rest of the family is keeping up with the Kardashians.
This handy fitness accessory is perfect for runner dads. The watch's GPS pinpoints locations and tracks distance and time for outdoor runs, while a built-in sensor with accelerometer provides the same data for indoor workouts. These features allow Dad to work out wherever he pleases, and you know he's going to love that.
If your dad loves golf (they all do, right?), then the SensoGlove can help him love it even more by using built-in sensors to measure the pressure of his grip and get a better swing from his clubs. You'll hear a lot of "I don't need a damn glove to tell me how to hold my club" grumblings, but he'll use it on the course religiously.
If you're feeling particularly mischievous (or malevolent) this Father's Day, then this is the gift for you. This alarm clock comes equipped with wheels, and after screaming to life with a series of beeps and flashes reminiscent of R2D2 on a meth-binge, Clocky will roll itself off the night stand and zoom around the room, beeping like a banshee, until your dad finally catches it (and presumably smashes it). Sartre said, "Hell is other people," but hell may in fact be Clocky. Face it: This is the best gift on the list, hands down.
And while you're shopping, don't forget that one of the best gifts you can give Dad is security. A new tablet is a great gift, but it will only be as good as the mobile security protecting it from harmful malware and viruses.
Now, where in the heck did Clocky run off to?
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Blogger Randy Seaver at http://www.geneamusings.com/ has challenged us again on his "It's Saturday Night, so it's time for some genealogy fun".
The challenge is this:
Provide a list of your paternal grandmother's patrilineal line. Answer these questions:
* What was your father's mother's maiden name? – Cheyney
* What was your father's mother's father's name? – Wilmer (1848 – 1937)
* What is your father's mother's father's patrilineal line? That is, his father's father's father's … back to the most distant male ancestor in that line?
Joseph R. Cheyney (1808 – 1878)
Curtis Cheyney (1778 – <unknown>)
* Can you identify male sibling(s) of your father's mother, and any living male descendants from those male sibling(s)?
From my research, to date, Wilmer Cheyney had three male siblings.
- Jesse Sharpless Cheyney
- Edwin Cheyney 1841 – 1955
- Kersey Cheyney 1844 – 1856
It is obvious from this challenge that I have some work to do.
Thank you, Randy !!