Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

My grandsons birthday was last week. He turned 13... Goodness! Its amazing to me how the grandchildren have grown. We celebrated with a trip to Baskin Robbins. We have been doing that with the boys ever since they were little bitty. Such Fun!
Could coffee be the secret to feeling young forever? Recent research has found a beneficial aspect to coffee that may help protect against age-related inflammation. The connection between advancing age, inflammation, and coffee consumption may seem like an odd one, but it may help to prevent a number of diseases related to the aging process.

Moscow Skyline

Some of us got overwhelmed at the beginning of the year with the pressure of making and struggling to keep New Year's Resolutions. If you find yourself feeling discouraged, don't despair! Instead, consider making one resolution that's easy to keep. Like making meals on the weekend. That way you can have dinner without having to prepare. Just pop it in the oven.

Micah On His Trike

For Christmas we bought a Red Flyer Tricycle for our grandson. He loves it! Yesterday he and mommy and daddy went to the park and took it for a trial run. Micah can't quite reach the peddles, but by summer he will be on his way to riding. 

The first known commercially produced pedal car has a patent date in the early 1890's. By the early 1900's pedal cars had taken a foothold with the American public. In the 1910's pedal car manufacturers were offering pedal cars that resembled the real cars of the era. Buick, Cadillac, Packard, Pierce Arrow, Pope and Winton were a few of the makes that were available to the public in child-size vehicles. During the 1920's pedal car manufactures offered many kinds of roadsters. Large fenders were in vogue, as were polished radiators and radiator ornaments. Pedal cars of the 1930's were larger and heavier than in any other period in history. Streamlining began to take hold with American, National, Gendron, and Steelcraft all offering new designs. Artillery wheels with large plated hubcaps were featured with hood ornaments resembling graceful works of art. In the 1940's pedal car manufacturers offered their versions of military vehicles. The 1950's found designers trying to create fantasy cars that had jet plane and spaceship themes. The hot rod also became popular during this era. Garton and Murray Ohio were popular pedal car manufacturers. Pedal cars during the 1960's emerged with decals and plastic trim and some could be ordered with a metallic finish. Garton, Murray and AMF all had a large array of products for consumers to choose from.  

The building itself was an empty shell.

David's studio is coming right along. All that is left to do is laying the floor. The Studio was purchased by the former owner. It is an Amish building with a loft. I know the kids are going to love it! David is going to use this space as a painting studio.

Took this image off of Pinterest..  I love this porch. Its about the same size as our front porch, as you can see. Do you think it will work? We will wait till Spring and see!

3 London Lane

Yoga is renowned for its positive effects on human health. It’s a great stress-reliever, and there are tons of options for how you want to do your yoga. It can be done at home on your own time, in your own space — or you take classes just about anywhere.

Yoga is more than just a trend, though. It provides real-life benefits to your body, and in a variety of ways that continue to be uncovered.

There are many other documented health benefits to be had, if you choose to practice yoga. For example, yoga can provide a number of cardiac benefits. In addition to reducing stress, it has also been found to help lower blood pressure in people with hypertension. Some studies have also found that just doing yoga can help to improve your blood lipid profiles, in both healthy people and people with known coronary artery disease. Yoga has also been shown to help lower high blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.

Practicing yoga can also help bolster weight loss and weight maintenance efforts. Besides the obvious benefits of exercise, some studies indicate that people who practice yoga tend to be more mindful eaters. Researchers found that practicing yoga just once a week for 30 minutes for at least four years gained less weight in middle-adulthood. They also found that people who were overweight actually lost weight. The research team attributed these benefits to mindfulness, which can help improve your relationship with your body, weight and food.

We are finally getting settled in. With Christmas and all, it kind of set us back some. I am definitely missing my flock. Understanding that it will take time for me. I love birds! All kind of birds. I will give it till the Spring and see what happens. I know David is hoping I will get over it! We have a cat that comes by every once and a while. I don't even care for cats, but I am longing for a pet. He or she isn't friendly, but I am still feeding Buddy which I have called the cat hoping she will get closer to me.

I have been checking out the vegetation on this 5 1/2 acre property. The previous owner said there  are plenty of variety's of plants and flowers  planted in the yard. I love flowers and plants. Looking forward to scoping out this yard. In the back of the yard just a few feet from the woods are yucca plants. Now who planted these? I need to talk to my neighbor across the road. Phyllis and Larry used to live in our home 20 years ago. Maybe they planted them. Or Steve, the guy we bought the house from. There are like 9 or 10 mature plants. They seem to be doing well in their environment.

The yucca plant is a tough perennial shrub. There are actually many species of yucca, but while they vary in size and color, they are all able to thrive in hot, dry climates and can be cared for the same way. The plants are easiest to start from cuttings, although growing from seeds is possible. They can be grown in pots or outdoors, either directly in the garden or in a specially prepared raised bed.

I am going walking with my neighbor this morning. Will find out details of the yucca plant. Have a good Monday and look forward to my next post.

Cottage on The Lane

 

President Barack Obama added roughly $7.917 to America’s national debt, which amounts to a 68 percent increase from the $11.657 trillion debt level President George W. Bush accrued by the end of his presidency,” reports Breitbart News.

Tragically, this sort of irresponsible debt spending is exactly what Obama ran in opposition to during his 2008 campaign:

While he was running for president, Obama criticized President Bush’s deficit spending, calling it “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic.” Obama said at a presidential campaign event on July 3, 2008:

“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — 43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome. So we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”

Obama, with what will be nearly $8 trillion tacked on to the national debt, has added by far more to the U.S. debt than any president in history.

You will not be the least bit surprised to learn that almost no one on the left has criticized Obama for his out-of-control debt spending. According to the left-wing media, debt spending is always good as long as it results in bigger government.