All About My Sunflowers

I love September

Welcome everyone,

Hope you are having a wonderful holiday weekend.
Sweetheart and I had a fun weekend.
We bought a cute BOAT. To see our boat go to my face book page.
This year my sunflowers are a smaller size and two different varieties.
Hopefully this group will last a few weeks.

Wonderful centerpiece for late Summer picnic on the patio.

This sunflower is the variety I grew last year. 

I love this big brown center and the short golden petals.  

The sunflower reaching for the sun. 

I love my sunflowers.

I enjoyed playing with my photos today and already thinking about what kind of sunflowers to plant next year.
Thank you for visiting and have a great week.
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Sweetheart and I are planning a little get away soon.
Photos with the colors of a rainbow! Can you guess?
Betty

Tea Time in Romantic England-Tablescape # 65

Hello Everyone, 

Good Monday to y'all. If you are a new visitor or a follower, you know I love to pretend. My favorite pretending is with tea parties and my love for the United Kingdom and France. This weekend was so beautiful in the garden I decided to have tea in (my) Downton Abbey garden.

The beautiful pink roses with a splash of naked lady lilies are so romantic in my vintage vase. 

When I arrived I had my hat and gloves and in my purse I brought my calling card.

The small white table was set with a pink and white flowered tea pot and two dainty pink and white tea cups and saucers. A vintage tea spoon was on hand to use for sugar and cream.  

The garden was trimmed ready for late summer blooms.  

The angel  watching over 'My Cozy Corner's ' garden

With the assistance of Bliss Victoria I was able to pretend for just a little while I was in Romantic England.
I was Inspired by the wonderful series of Downton Abbey and a peek inside the beautiful Highclere Castle and see the fabulous Gardens.  

A Return to Loveliness for sure. 

Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoyed your journey.

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Betty 

Easy Lunch Box Favorite~Wacky Cake

Wacky Cake

Hello everyone, 

I love this simple cake. The kids are going back to school this week and I was thinking about when my kids would go back to school in the fall. 

In the 'Old Days' I would pack lunches for the kids every morning while they ate their breakfast. I was blessed to stay home for 20 years before I went to work outside the home. Working at home is a different kind of work.

I baked, cooked, cleaned, sewed,washed everything, ironed and gardened everyday.  My favorite thing to do was bake. I LOVE TO BAKE

My mother-in-law gave me this recipe when I was first married. I didn't know this fact until recently, but the 'Wacky Cake; is also called the 'Depression Cake" and during the Great Depression there was a shortage of eggs, milk and butter. And this cake became a favorite with people because it had the same moist and delicious flavor. Also a favorite with people who are vegan or allergic to dairy.

GREAT FOR LUNCH

Big or little people

The ingredients are simple

Flour, Sugar, Cocoa, Vinegar, soda, vanilla, shortening and water

PRINTABLE RECIPE GO HERE

Grandma's Chocolate Wacky Cake

Easy

Serves 6 to 8

Sift into an 8" square ungreased pan.

1 1/2 cups sifted flour

1 cup sugar

3 rounded teaspoon cocoa

1 teaspoon soda~male a dent in one corner and add 1 tablespoon apple cider  vinegar.

Make a dent in the opposite corner add 1 teaspoon vanilla. 

Draw a line through the middle of the ingredients add 5 tablespoons melted shortening. 

Over all pour 1 cup warm water and mix all together in pan. 

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. Leave in pan and frost.

Sprinkle with Powdered Sugar

Note:

My Mother-in-law gave this recipe to me 53 years ago. 

This was one of our children's favorite desserts

GREAT WITH TRIPLE VANILLA ICE CREAM

Delicious anytime.

 Great warm out of the oven with a cold glass of milk.

Wonderful with a cup of hot tea.

This cake carries well in a brown bag or picnic basket.

Fabulous with any flavor of ice cream. 

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Betty 

~I Won a Raffle~

Thanks ladies!

Hello Everyone, 

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I was so busy. Sometimes think I work(play)harder in retirement than I did while I was working full time. Oh, don't tell my old bosses. Being active is very healthy for my age group. LOL.

Well, I will get off my soap box now and tell you about this beautiful gift. 

I attended a wonderful women's conference this past Saturday and I bought 10 raffle tickets for $5.00 dollars.  I think they had about 50 giveaways. I put my little tickets in my favorite things bags and thought to myself.

 'I love the tea basket best of all' 

Oh My Gosh, they called my number and I won a raffle. 

I wanted to savor the moment and decided to share my experience with y'all,

After I removed the white bow I saw the darling vintage wool hat sitting on top of a vintage necklace and an old book of 'Little Women'  How sweet is this?

I was so excited to spread it out on the table I put the back of tea pot facing outward. (Oh, I'm left handed) Everything I do I must first remember to be right handed. I finally got it Right. LOL

Wow! I'm sure revealing many things about myself today.

I got it Right.

A Tea pot facing the front. Always has more beautiful decoration on the front.

The brown wool vintage hat has a dark brown net and a ruby colored trim around the crown of the hat. 

I love English tea.

It's amazing what can come out of one basket. 

I love my basket.

Thanks for visiting me today at My Cozy Corner.
What a great way to start a new week.
 I see a tea time tablescape in the future, don't you?
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Enjoy!
Betty 

Happy Days

Hi Everyone,

I'm so happy you've come over for a visit.  If you've been following along this week I've been sharing my staycation with you. Each year my son brings his beautiful daughters to visit Grandpa and I. To see our weekend's activities. (Saturday) Granddaughters Tea Here and (Sunday) Our Family Photo Morph. Here.

Okay, Now that we're all caught up with the weekend activities,
lets get ready for our camping trip.

The truck is packed and it looks like the 'Grapes of Wrath'-I didn't go to the lake until the campsite was all set up.
 (Good move)
The lake was beautiful with the evening sun setting over the mountains.
Whiskeytown Lake is only 22 minutes from my house. I am truly blessed.

Just in time for some campfire dessert.

I spent the night sleeping over in a tent with the top of tent open to the stars. The weather was wonderful and in the morning I woke up to the smell of delicious bacon being cooked by my son. We needed a fabulous breakfast before our day of activities got started.

And the beautiful lake. The ducks swimming calmly across the inlet.

Off to a great start! Tubing behind the patio boat. 

The girls are having a great time.

Four tired girls resting on the back of the patio boat after a long day playing on the lake. 

On Wednesday everyone packed up camp and came home for a nice hot shower.
After dinner they headed down to the river for an outdoor concert.
Did I go? Nope, Grandpa and I stayed home in the cool air-conditioned house...and I needed a rest.

The next day they were ready to go again. 

Waterworks Park ~ here we come~

Down the raging river we go.

Up the stairs to another exciting ride.

On our staycations or vacations we always have ice cream at THREE in the afternoon. 

It's very refreshing and it's a great stabilizer until dinner.

Very Cute

After the day at Waterworks we went to Turtle Bay Exploration Park to see our granddaughter receive a pin for her hours of volunteer work this summer. 

She will always remember the summer of 2013. 

Good Job!

And now it's time to say goodbye to a beautiful summer week with the most amazing wonderful girls.

Thank you ladies! I love you

Thank you friends and followers for giving me time and a place to express my love for my growing granddaughters. I hope they will enjoy this post as much as I do.
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Thanks for your comments and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Betty