Redbird,  I use a cast iron pan for my biscuits.  I put the biscuits in the pan with the sides touching since I like the crispy outside edge with a soft center. You can also cook them on a cookie sheet without them touching.  You just have to find your favorite way...so try both! Yes, grease the pan with something....non-stick spray, solid shortening, or my favorite...real butter.

You will get about 6 biscuits from this recipe f you use a biscuit cutter.  If you want the cat's head biscuits (BIG ONES) formed by hand, then you will get about 3.

You can do it!  Go for it! Just don't handle the dough any more than is absolutely necessary.

some of that important stuff you NEED TO KNOW!!!

4 tablespoons of ketchup have nutritional valve of a tomato
and
most American cars beep in the key of F

redbird

....I am very concerned about the safety of our nation...we read each day that someone is wanting to do something to us...we talk about raising the "alert" codes and I for one know that it needs to be at the highest level...

we are wondering if there are things/people who wish to do us great harm..and where are they...I can tell you they are here and all around us... right next door..they are not hiding....we need to be very aware..we need to take preventive measures...

I HAVE SEEN IT.....IT HAS A NAME

DUST
it is creeping in our homes...it comes silently no matter how you try to shut it out..it comes in like a giant cloud just lurking there waiting for you...you cannot ignore it...
it comes no matter the weather...rain or sunshine or snow...it is powerful..it lands on tables...walls...lamps and everything else you have in your house..it seems to come in thru the glass panes in your windows..even double pane..maybe those triple pane ones as well...it is here...

I often wonder why our government has not developed it for some kind of use ...it is cheap...like in free and it can go anywhere..even places where it is not welcome...

my own DUST became apparent to me this week...daughter was coming to visit and son mopped and cleaned the floors...he even ran the vacuum..and dang it...there it was in plain sight..no getting around it...I had to dust...in case you are not familiar with those words...it means taking a cloth and wiping and wiping and wiping knowing that tomorrow it will come back...but for today you can enjoy...the gone..

I am not sure if getting a petition going would help..don't know who it should go to....so for now...just watch and be careful know that it is there...

redbird
the word writer  

"getting old is not for wimps"

not to much rolling around in the head this morning but a couple of things I did want to comment on................

now since I am old ...like in old...when I was a kid I do not remember that we had a tooth fairy...when a tooth was pulled it was just a pulled tooth ...

I am not sure when the tooth fairy came along...but I do remember when my kids pulled a tooth that  a coin had to be under the pillow..after they went to sleep...you very carefully put it there because that would be the first thing they looked for on waking up...we scrambled around being sure that we had some change available..usually it was a quarter..

now recently I read that the average amount left under the pillow had gone up to $3.70.....guess the tooth fairy got a raise at work....now this causes one to wonder...who decides the amount and how does one have the exact amount..to put under the pillow..and how does one get it under the pillow...
well that is about all the I have to say about that...because I am not sure what one can buy with 3.70 wonder if that is before tax or after...

now this part of my morning head wandering...is about animals...especially my daughters dogs..you see she has three...like in 3....
she has Mia who is a rescue dog and will let you know right away that she is the QUEEN...she is also the BOSS and you need to listen to her..
then there is Emma..she is the middle child..so she is kinda mellow..she watches after Gracie who is the youngest and....and...and...well Gracie gets in trouble a lot..so when she is somewhere she should not be...Emma will come for daughter or sit on her foot if daughter is sitting letting her know...Gracie is misbehaving...or in trouble or has climbed on top of the TV area...or has launched herself from the ledge or whatever else she might find interesting to explore..

Gracie does a lot of yard work..she digs holes faster than you can fill them up...and usually has to have a bath after a few minutes of work..lucky she is a little thing..sometimes she has to soak..

now since we have had so much rain here lots of us have mushrooms growing in our yards..and lucky for Gracie daughter had been on the net reading to see what was poison or not..and daughter had even started walking the yard and gathering them all up before letting the dogs out for a romp or bathroom etc..but a couple of days ago...Gracie found one..you see she has an excellent nose and even though daughter had made her search..or maybe the lawn man had run over one...Gracie found it...and ate it...and became very sick..and lucky for Gracie daughter knew from what she had read...what had happened..and rushed her to the vet who took her immediately in...and she is doing good...
now daughter goes out for romp time ......SO if you are one of those who has them growing...be sure that you check to see what kind you have and what you should do...

I had invited Gracie down to explore .....The Farm....but I have since taken the invite back..it is now for house time only

redbird
the word writer  

"getting  old is not for wimps"

I have had lots of jobs in my lifetime but I am currently  working the hardest job of my long life ...getting old...I know I talk about it a lot but darn...it's tough.  I would give you youngsters a bit of advice...and most of you will not do it...but that BIG comfortable house that you are raising your kids in....well after they are gone...DOWN SIZE....oh how you will wish you did when you no longer are able to keep things nice and clean and all those other things that you feel are important...remember you will be thinking...she told me so....

now one of the biggest things for me is ....WHERE DID I PUT THAT....I have a slight plan for these events..first-if it is something super super important I mail it to daughter who is a good keeper of stuff...bless her heart she did not get that from me..and if it is some words or name...she puts it in her phone...sometimes I wonder how heavy that phone is because she has so much in it...what was that doctor's name or med...look in the phone..

now the next plan is...post it on the fridge...yeah that is a good place...but after losing my gas bill...and trying to talk to that gas company who does not answer their phone and does not have a walk in office in my state and required a phone call to someone important who called someone important..I get a phone call...so now I have one of those large brown envelopes standing on the bar area and soon as bills come in the mail..into it they go..

however sometimes all of the above just does not work...and that is my fault..becoming old means that there is a lot of stuff in your brain and it get pretty crowded..I have told you that I am a Folgers's classic coffee girl..and looking into my big coffee container I noticed that I am getting pretty lowwwwwww....now I remember that the nice Folgers's Co had sent me some coupons and I was going to use them...see I am not a big coupon clipper but do for things I use...so I am fumbling thru my coupon pile to make a trip to the store....hummm not here...I am just sure I put them somewhere...so I drag out the brown envelope of bills...not there..hummm ....asking son..no mom don't know...so I am becoming stressed...please brain spit out that info...
and
I could not close this without another weather/storm report...we have had another couple of run ins with tornados..just a few miles up the road...like in seven miles...they are trying really hard to make the road into town..and rain is the word of the day...we have been so dry in my state...you say under your breathe...shhhhh could we have a day of drying out...I now have a outdoor pool in my yard..

redbird
the word writer  

"getting old is not for wimps"

well I am guessing that most of you think that I have passed...like in over...like in the great beyond...like in something worst...BUT I am still here BUT my old old computer is not....

you see it had this terrible disease call blue screen for which there is not cure...I sat in front of it and held it's hand singing soft songs of praise and weeping and saying how sorry that I must have done something wrong...that I knew it was old...like 10 yrs old  don't know what that is in computer years...but I loved you and you had XP and Outlook Express that they don't even make anymore...please come back....but it didn't....


THEN...and I must tell all of you that I am a "cry baby"....like in really.....so I went into the bathroom so that son could not hear me and cried....and I called my daughter...now daughter is my hero...and my best friend...and she evens loves me regardless of my winning the "bad mother of the year award" FIVE TIMES...and you see each of my children(5) expressing little terms of non-endearment at times of their growing up...you see having five children means lots of hearing...everybody else Is going...everybody else mothers lets them......boy am I glad that I GREW...out of that part of life...



now daughter says in her stern voice....mom you did nothing wrong...it was not your fault...you know more about computers than most people your age!!  BUT I have no computer...I wailed...BY NOW...I am really feeling sorry for myself.....Mom I am coming down to your house....and she gets in her BIG FORD something...the very next day and she is here...so we gather up the old faithful computer and off to the computer shop where the man says I have one just for you...and he does...daughter  makes arrangements for him to transfer all old computer to newer one....and bring it to the house and hook it up etc etc...so that I don't have to do anything...daughter is my HERO......I gently pat the old one...and daughter says would you like for me to take a picture of you and it...no but I am sad....



a few days later the computer arrives...now it is sitting in the old ones place...well Ok I mutter under my breathe....maybe it will be all right...you see it has windows 7 because I have heard it is the closest to XP...well it isn't...don't believe that nasty rumor..the only good thing is that people tell me that windows 8 is worst...couldn't be I mutter....under my breathe..



but OK I sit in my chair...and see several things that man will have to come back for...and he tells me that I will have to have a new key board...it is like a baby key board...I do a lot of back spacing to fix stuff...maybe it will be OK...I am struggling to find my emails...thank you Lord that recently I printed out my address book so all of you are on the paper but not the computer...maybe soon I will figure out how to move all of you...





well new computer and I are trying to learn to tolerate each other...this baby keyboard has to go and will check that out in another trip to big town up the road.





another things I want to talk about is......


I was sitting in my watching chair...you know the one that looks out into the yard of THE FARM...and into the TOWN OF BIRDVILLE....and just thinking and you know that since I have arrived into the old group...we think a lot because sometimes that is all the body will allow


but you know we the people of USA spent a lot of time with the letters of the alphabet ...like in C...first thing that comes to mind is CANCER...wow most of us just don't want to go there....and then there is the BIG A...like in ALZHEIMERS....this is especially troubling for us old folks...and I sit there and watch outside...it suddenly occurs to me...the researchers have it all wrong ...I am watching a squirrel dig up a pecan that he hid LAST YEAR...in the yard...so how does he know where to dig...does he have a map that he uses...don't see one...no notebook to tell him...he just remembers...so that is telling me that if we want to help find a cure for the BIG A....we need to talk to the squirrels





I am hoping that we get to talk again soon...will talk to the computer and see what it thinks...





redbird


the word writer





"getting old is not for wimps"

So, I am a bit behind in reading here! Wow, your old computer died, huh? I do hope that you are getting used to the old one. Windows 10 is just making the rounds now, although I haven't installed it yet so that others can work out the kinks first.

I just love your way with words! I still maintain that all of your journaling here would make a delightful book!!