Diary Quilt Delivered at Around the Block with the BamaSteelMagnolia

If you’d like to see the delivery of my friend Shari’s diary quilt I’ve been writing about, click over to Around the Block to see Shari and her Dad with the finished quilt.

Easy, Peasy, Yummy Brownies on the menu at The BamaSteelMagnolia(TM) Bistro, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Today over at the Bistro is a recipe for brownies that is so yummy and so good it ought to be against the law. I made a pan this weekend and they’re already gone…thanks in a large part to Tall & Handsome. They were his Turkish Delight for a couple of days…

Hope you enjoy Easy, Peasy, Yummy Brownies…

Mission Completed at Around the Block with the BamaSteelMagnolia(TM)

Today I just blogged about a great new quilt project a friend of mine just completed. It’s her second ever quilt. She was inspired to create her own diary quilt when she saw me working on my own, The BamaSteelMagnolia(TM) Diaries that I have been writing about here and at Around the Block…

Be sure and click over and see her finished project, Quilted Memories of Daddy’s Life for a great little quilt and some inspiration.

© 2009 Beverly Hicks Burch All Rights Reserved.

Around the Block with the BamaSteelmagnolia(TM) – Momma’s Closet

If you’d like to see a good old fashion quilt trunk show, click on over to Around the Block to see Momma’s Closet. I spent some time lately documenting my Mom’s quilts and the quilt of my great-grandmother…the quilt that inspired my to start quilting. Hope you enjoy!

Insurer Changes Mind: Fat Baby to Get Health Coverage – Children’s Health – FOXNews.com

Insurer Changes Mind: Fat Baby to Get Health Coverage – Children’s Health – FOXNews.com

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In a time when healthcare and healthcare reform is a hot topic I can’t believe such a Dilbert insurance company would do something as stupid as deny a four month old baby healthcare because of baby fat!!

Maybe this is the norm for Colorado where political correctness can run amok. This is what is expected by today’s “food Nazis”…that everyone is so pencil thin they’re waifish looking. Just imagine…in Colorado the Columbine killers were off the radar because they were thin “normal” kids…but some were chubby little kids…and babies were being denied healthcare. Some how, some way our priorities got way screwed up.

Give me a break!

On the Menu at The BamaSteelMagnolia’s(TM) Bistro – Quesadillia Casserole, by Beverly Hicks Burch

I made a new dish yesterday evening for the family called Quesadillia Casserole. I made it using a recipe I adapted from a recipe I saw in the Oct. 2009 issue of Everyday with Rachael Ray. As usual I “Bev-ized” the recipe…this time to help it appeal a little more to the Tall & Handsome, green chili eating native New Mexican I married. It was a big hit at supper…even with by baby sister who can be a picky eater. It will be made again in the Burch household…give it a try in yours.

Bon appétit!

What if…? by Beverly Hicks Burch

What if…?

By Beverly Hicks Burch

…I told you I used to crawl up in my Daddy’s lap when I was 20 years old, snuggle in and have a grand old time watching TV in his lap? I’m sure you reaction would be something like mine if I heard a grown woman say something similar…"Ewww…that’s way too much TMI going on and there’s some kind of funky Mackenzie Phillips/ John Phillips stuff going on there that just isn’t right! Where was the mother?!”

Why would any grown, supposedly intelligent and educated woman say something like that…out of school? No good reason…

Unless…there was some hidden calculated manipulative Machiavellian purpose for such misrepresentation…and for the use of smoke and mirrors. The world witnessed a stellar example just last week…compliments of the woman calling herself the First Lady of the United States…Michelle Obama.

This Amazon woman with biceps even many men seem to envy (and look like could deliver a swift upper cut to the punier looking Anointed One, President BO should he stray from her Michelleness) went to Copenhagen last week as part of the Chicago Trinity (that would be Michelle, Barak Hussein Obama, and Queen of Everything Oprah Winfrey) to bring home the trophy of the 2016 Olympics to lay at the feet of the hardball politicians they owe so much to.

Never mind the fact that half the population of Chicago was against the idea based on the logistics, never mind the fact that the financial price tag would have been staggering in an economy teetering towards depression (who could afford to attend?), never mind the fact that for the first time in the history of the country a sitting President used Air Force One and tax payers dollars and time out of his schedule during wartime to lobby a special interest group for a sports event for his hometown (wonder what the reaction would have been had Bush used such resources to personally lobby for a new baseball team in one of the cities in Texas?) Never mind the fact that that President BO didn’t have time to speak to his Gen. McChrystal…he still had time for that scandal plagued IOC and never mind the fact that President BO has done nothing for 10 months but tell the world what a crappy, sorry place America is and the American people are (but narcissist that he is…he can make it all better). Who would want to come to such a crappy place and mingle with such horrid people?

Well, guess what President BO? Everything you’ve been telling the world about us for the past 10 months worked…you’ve scared them off and nobody wants to come play with us any more…you took away the Shining City on the Hill and turn it into a dump on the corner…

But the Chicago Trinity knows manipulation can be powerful. Just use a bunch of sentimental sappy words and you’ll have people eating out of your hands. Coach Winfrey’s been doing it for decades.

So for her presentation at the IOC Michelle Obama gets up and her basic sales pitch is this:

“Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and others for their brilliance and perfection.”

At first glance this may seem like a harmless, cutesy statement, but upon closer inspection a couple of things become alarming and show the manipulation and bent of this group.

Olga Korbut was a gymnast that competed for the USSR between 1972 and 1976. Ok, we can see an 8 years old Michelle in her Daddy’s lap, but a 12 year old? Hum, ok maybe, but borderline at best?

Nadia Comaneci was a Romanian gymnast who performed at the Olympics in 1976 and 1980 so, her again Michelle was 12 in 1976 and a whopping 16 in 1980. Sitting in my Daddy’s lap watching TV was the last thing on my mind at 16.

But there’s even something else here…the cheering is for Communist, socialist athletes. Guess the plain old white bread USA team was just too lame to cheer for, or even mention in the IOC presentation. Guess Michelle really did mean it when she said she was proud of her country for the first time when President. BO was campaigning for Presidency…proud because a man that is 50% black and 50% white can be President. The question should be…"Why not and why does it have to be racial?”

Michelle did mention cheering on Carl Lewis an outstanding track star if there ever was one (and someone people in Alabama have great pride in I might add). Only problem here is Lewis’ first Olympics game was in LA in 1984 when Michelle was a very big girl of 20 sitting in Daddy’s lap. And of course, cheering on Lewis was racially politically correct.

You can hear Michelle’s speech here. It’s long and very narcissistic…full of me, me, me, mine, mine, mine, I, I, I etc. There was nothing in the speech about the greatness of Chicago or the US and what the town and the country could offer the Games and the visitors from other countries. No selling points to sell this county and it greatness, it technology, the warmness of the people and the love of sports. It was about the Chicago Trinity pure and simple…

This whole ball of wax doesn’t boil down to some of us are so “Un-American” as to not root for the USA to get to the Olympics in 2016 just because Barak Hussein Obama desires it. It has to do with what kind of damage and harm is being done in insidious ways to this great country. So folks, it really gets down to the nasty in two areas here:

1. These people will tell you and the world anything…even what they think sounds good but may not be true…just to woe you and get you to believe them. In some circles people like that are called liars. They will manipulate you to no end and expect you to enjoy having it done and maybe even ask for more. How can you trust what they say about health care reform, taxes, Social Security, job loss or creation, the economy or anything else that will dramatically alter your life?

2. If President BO can’t be convincing and powerful enough to bring home a sporting event…how can we have confidence in him to have to strength and power to deal with despots like Iran’s “I’m-a-nut-job” or Korea’s Kim Jong-Il? How can he have the strength to run this country period? The man has never had a position even running a lemonade stand…he is a political egghead. He is a very wealthy politician who has no idea how the real world works.

People we are in a world of hurt right now and I don’t even think Alice is in Wonderland…

© 2009 Beverly Hicks Burch All Rights Reserved.

Indoctrination, by Beverly Hicks Burch

For those of you that don’t read Uncommon Sensibilities…

 

Folks, if you don’t believe this video is indoctrination…then read the quotes from history from below and give it a second thought…

With youth I can create a new world

“I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world”

Adolf Hitler – Nuremberg 1933

By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children were members of the Hitler Youth.

“We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists…. We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children’s nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists.”

Communist Party Education Workers Congress – 1918

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin – 1st Leader of the Soviet Union

© 2009 Beverly Hicks Burch All Rights Reserved.

Liberty and Freedom US 411 Style, by Beverly Hicks Burch

This little scene captured my eye the other day when Tall & Handsome and I were passing by on US 411. It just leaves me with one thing to say…Who says we don’t take Freedom and Liberty seriously around here in these parts? It decorates some of our lawns…

Yard of the Free…

Liberty Welcomes you Home…

© 2009 Beverly Hicks Burch All Rights Reserved.

Mountain Top Stroll, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Mountain Top Stroll

By Beverly Hicks Burch

This afternoon Mom asked me to take a stroll down her little “road” that runs along the ridge of her and Daddy’s mountain top lot in northeast Alabama where their home sits. I should mention this “lot” covers several acres and is a little piece of heaven.

A few weeks ago Momma had this little path cleared of so she could take strolls down it and enjoy little nature walks. At any given time you just might be surprised (or maybe not) at what you might find back in those woods…including deer. Just this morning we saw a fawn disappear over the side of the ledge.

Last night it rained…no, I mean it really, really RAINED. We’re talking Noah’s flood kind of rain…like five inches where we were at. In some areas cars were floating off into ditches. Lightening was flashing everywhere and it sounded like giants were bowling on top of our heads. And, wouldn’t you know it…Tall & Handsome just happened to pick last night to grill boneless Chipotle chicken breast, sweet potatoes and grilled corn with Chili-Lime Butter. It was yummy but he looked like he’d been pulled off a life raft somewhere. Even a big golf umbrella didn’t save him from the drenching downpour, but trooper that he is…he served us up a gourmet dinner…the man can cook!

The rain left the woods with a decided “musty” odor and a lot of little…and big creations that looked just right for hobbits, toads and fairy tales. The woodlands are also beginning to take on a distinct harbinger of autumn.

So, welcome to my folks mountain top backyard, yall…

Tickseed

The Sumac is starting to turn red…a sure sign of fall

Purple Rain…

Looking over the Ridge…

…more ridge…

…and even more ridge…

Little Umbrella

Toad Stool

Mountain Top Portabella

 

No, Virginia, the aliens did NOT land…

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