Fall Newsletter - 2019
Welcome to Gay’s Days!
I’ve updated my blog,
and I hope you’ll pop over to see it. You’ll find all sorts of
topics: Dementia, Faith and Humor, Recipes, Podcast, and I even have one with
Odds and Ends. I started my blog in 2012, and it’s grown to a large number of
posts on all sorts of subjects. I decided they needed organized. And now they
are.
You know how some
bloggers write only about food? Others talk about DIY crafts? Certain authors
pen daily devotionals? Not me—I just mix them altogether and write whatever is
on my mind that day.
My blog is sort of like
my mind—always roving from one subject to another. With the new organization,
one can choose an issue of interest and eliminate the rest of the hodgepodge.
Wouldn’t it be great if
we could organize our minds like that? Stay focused on one matter and remove
the clutter. If I could do that, maybe I would sleep at night.
I have a search button.
If you want to see what I’ve written about sleep or the lack of it, type it
into the search bar.
Remember that loved
Wadsworth poem? The Arrow and the Song? “I shot an arrow in the air. It fell to
earth, I knew not where.” (see link to poem below) My blogs are like that. I’ve
been shooting all kinds of things into the air, and I know they’ve touched
hearts, but I don’t know whose or where.
Be sure
to check the book section on my blog. My books are listed in order of
publication. Would you like to purchase a special autographed copy of a print
book? Send me a message with your request! You’ll find the info under the
Autograph Books button, and I hope you’ll subscribe to my newsletter. It’s
under the Newsletter section. I have a chat section too! Stop by and say hello.
You’ll find new recipes, an inspiration, or maybe a chuckle for the day.
You can
also see my books and bio on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2hwc6nB
Healthy
and Unhealthy Recipes
Orange/Lemon Chicken for Two
Ingredients
1 large boneless chicken
breast
3 TB Flour
2 TB Olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Sauce
½ cup Lemon juice
½ Jar Orange marmalade, sugar free
½ cup Ketchup
¼ Mustard
½ cup White wine
(optional)
Dash of tobacco to taste.
Preparation:
Cut chicken into bite
sized pieces. Salt, pepper, and coat with flour.
Heat oil in a 12-inch
nonstick skillet. Places pieces into skillet and cook thoroughly. Turning them
as needed. Remove chicken to a plate. Remove most of the oil. Leave about a
tablespoon.
In a separate bowl,
combine sauce. Taste it. You may want to
add a bit more salt and pepper.
Add sauce to skillet, heat
and reduce slightly. Add chicken back into Sauce. Stir until thoroughly until heated.
Serve over rice.
Hubby likes the sauce
sweeter than I do, and I often add a teaspoon of sugar. I sometimes add a
sliced Granny Smith apple. I sauté it after removing the chicken and mix chicken
and apple together with the sauce. Apple juice can be used in place of wine.
I’m not a good cook, but this dish turns out well. Like me, Sarah, my chaotic
angel, also needs cooking lessons. She’s a hoot and makes a mess in Sarah
and the Angelic, Magical Makeover. https://amzn.to/2tRVY1H
Odds and Ends
Have you ever wished Thanksgiving
and Christmas didn’t fall near each other? And how about Halloween? It’s
right there, too. The proximity makes it difficult to decorate for each
one.
Why not put up a fall tree? You
can make or buy a few Halloween decorations, then after that trick-or-treat
night, put in the Thanksgiving mementos. After the turkey exits the
house, convert the tree to Christmas.
My tree above was simple to
do. Garlands of colorful leaves don’t require much time and placing
scarecrows among the branches add to the charm. Anything
works. Brown paper sacks with drawings from kiddos make interesting
features to hang from branches.
Before I became a published author,
I worked as an interior designer. A client decided her home needed a bit of
tweaking, so she hired me.
She kept two huge trees up all year
long and changed decorations with seasons. In January, her tree became a
miniature winter wonderland. February—it was hearts everywhere. From
the reds and pinks of February, came the greens of March and Saint Patrick’s
Day. In April, she decorated with spring time flowers. May and
June—Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. She had all kinds of babies and
children ornaments and included pictures of her own family among the branches. July
brought flags and anything red, white, and blue. August and September, her
trees possessed all things summer—picnic tables, watermelons, boats. October,
the trees took on Halloween. In November, fall and Thanksgiving appeared, and
December, she brought out the reds and greens of Christmas.
My book, Sarah: Laney’s Angel,
has Sarah helping a decorator. Guess where the ideas came from? http://amzn.to/2n9iZuq
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