Saturday, May 14, 2022

Cats - There is nothing like coming home to a loved one and hearing the meow.

 












Friday, May 13, 2022

Give the ones you love wings to fly,





 

Beautiful Embroidery











Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Gerry’s Homemade Rusks


  • 1.25kg self-raising flour
  • 5 cups bran flakes
  • 100g raisins or dates
  • 1 dssp. baking powder
  • 500g butter
  • 500ml buttermilk
  • Salt
  • 1.5 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
  • 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
  • Sesame seed and flaxseed (optional)

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
  2. Melt the butter and sugar together
  3. Beat in the eggs
  4. Stir in the buttermilk
  5. Mix in all the remaining dry ingredients, except for the sesame/flaxseeds
  6. On a lined baking tray, shape dough into a rough rectangle
  7. If using, sprinkle the dough with the sesame/flaxseeds
  8. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour
  9. Reduce the oven to 100 degrees Celsius
  10. Once cool, cut/break the cooked rusk dough into pieces
  11. Dry in the oven for 8 hours

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It is not the critic who counts - Theodore Roosevelt


 

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THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR