The Smell Of Money!!

It's in the air ..... can you smell it??  It's that funny odor of the green stuff ... money, moola, big bucks ... as the big box stores vie to empty your wallet.  When Christmas comes around, THEY smell money a mile away!!  I should have looked at my new Superwatch, because I thought it was Sunday when I trotted off to Lowes for the whatchamacallits to finish hanging my drapes.  WOW is all I can say.  It was SATURDAY and the place was packed, as was Best Buy next door.  There was hardly a parking space to be found.  Once inside, I looked down the aisle to see four to five people standing in EVERY line.  That was enough for me ... I turned around and made a beeline for the door.  In reality, it's probably the smell of plastic, burning holes in everyone's pocket as they whip out those credit cards to pay for baskets full of stuff!!  I was lucky to escape with my life!!!

This image has nothing to do with anything.  I snatched it off the internet and it's just for the ladies.  Sam Elliott has always been at the top of my movie watching list ... he makes the best cowboy ever ... yup, right up there with John Wayne.

Anyway, the moon was outshining everything yesterday morning, lighting up the trees and clouds as I had my morning coffee on the patio.  I think I feel that cold front heading our direction.  

I loaded more important junk into the motorhome and remembered the cotter pin that is sticking out at the top of the awning.  THAT will be on today's fix-it list, along with a trip to a small Ace Hardware.  In the meantime, you can smell the money in MY house too ... since all the ingredients I purchased cost a small fortune.  This is a replica of Starbucks lemon loaf and let me tell you ... it's lemony to the max!!  I can still smell it this morning in my kitchen.  The two blue mason jars are for soup gifts.  You just place all the dry ingredients in the jar and tie the recipe on with a pretty bow ... instant hostess gift.  The other four jars that were in the package are my new drinking glasses!!

I'm sure you can't imagine what THIS will make!!  You can't go wrong with 36 snickers candies, marshmallow creme and peanut butter chips!!!!

If anyone would like this recipe, I'll send it along ... it was truly to die for!!  Sweet and salty ... kind of like fudge, all made in the microwave!!  And peanuts are good for you, right????  Cut into squares, I'll load it into tins for neighborhood gifts.

Okay, time to quit messing around.  I have year end bookkeeping to do for some clients, which will take most of the day, then drape hanging and cotter pin fixing.  I'm going to be busy!!