My 1st ever wacky award goes to ....GRANDMA

In today's earlier written post , I encouraged you to have fun..be/do something wacky
Good clean fun, that is...

I realized someone earlier had sent me a prime example for wackiness...

I decided to give my 1st ever official wacky "award" to the gal who went the extra "mile" in being wacky..

Drum roll please....TaDa.....

and the winner is....GRANDMA....
check her out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of86xAq1DRg
If I ever find out who she is,I'll send her a gift certificate...she deserves it.

Think your wackiness youtube can beat her ?
Out of the 1st 100 youtube clips ,of good clean fun I receive,on Jan 1st, if yours is chosen by me for my 2010 wacky award, I will send you a $25 gift certificate.
Remember I not only like to smile, I love to laugh...at clean "stuff" ..
.. BECAUSE a merryheart doeth good as a medicine....
I am getting primed to laugh myself silly :-)

All entries must come with your e-mail and home street address , because
I'd like to at least send you thank you for your entry...
(all lewd/suggestive video's ,my values are conservative, real true blue ladylike ones,will be automatically disqualified and sent to my trash bin...)

GOOD "LUCK"....now go for it.....

win in 2010...and have some fun

Life's road..what kind of tracks will you make as you travel it?

Everyday that we draw breath is great...

REALLY....

I know what you're thinking, "you" don't KNOW "my" life...

Perhaps not, but believe me I've "been there and done that" in many ways...

Just a "few":

I chose to "cold turkey" withdrawl off Valium. It had been "given" to me by my Dr.

me not knowing it was addictive and would"demand" MORE to achieve the false "help" it "offered"...It did..I learned... I quit...

Nearly dying giving birth (Au natural..i.e. fully conscious and aware)

I was "kicked" out of my home when I was a young teenager,by drunken ,raging mad dad,

I did leave briefly, but miles from nowhere ,this city gal crept back home later...

My paternal grandfather,molested me when I was still a child.

I contemplated suicide numerous times during my earlier years of life.

I've made many mistakes,like we all do. Wouldn't a "do over" be helpful with gained wisdom?

I know what it is like to be without, to face angry debt collectors, to be rejected by or lied about by those who should love you and be there for you.

Homeless for a month , I lived in a camping trailer ,pregnant while my husband was in intensive care at the hospital with a serious heart condition,talk about scared.

Later my husband and I were "rejected" from receiving food assistance,when he was out of work shortly after the birth of our 1st child.

I've run a "gamut" of injuries and frightening experiences:

I've fallen into rapids, faced hungry bears, been bitten by dogs, thrown, scraped and bucked off by horses, fallen on by a horse, dragged 1/8 mile and run over by cows ,once nearly breaking my back.

I've broken bones, growth plates, torn tendon, cartilage, "enjoyed?" numerous surgeries,

survived several head injuries,fallen numerous times ,once a full story from a fire escape ladder.

I've lost precious loved ones ,as well as beloved pets.

I think you get the picture...I've really "been there ,done that",at least more than the average "joe"...

I share some of my life ... just to let you KNOW,while I may not have experienced exactly what you have or are currently facing or enduring, I've more than paid my dues to be able to say....

How we travel this road... the tracks we make on our life journey...is ultimately up to us...

Do we painfully,mournfully,self pitifully drag through ? ... OR...

Do we carpe de um ...or ,as I like to say pie a'la mode life?

Life is great...even when "bad" it is great...it depends on how you choose to view life.

Grab a mirror, take a good look at yourself,really look, deep inside.....then smile,even if you can't...( I have too)

Keep trying to smile...

I have numerous posts about smiling, rising above circumstances & events, and about getting inside yourself in order to have the courage to stand and grow ,

over at http://www.amerryheart4u.blogspot.com/

p.s. this post is better suited for my merryheart,but my blogs are not currently allowing me to cut and paste.

I started writing with another concept in mind but this post kind of wrote itself,

while the post is a bit heavy for farm funnies ,I didn't want to lose it...(sigh ...ok... re-write it!)

Hey, if I throw a pie at something will that "offset" the heavy subject matter? :-)

2010..It is nearly here..only you can decide what kind of a year it will be...

What do you really want it to be like?

Wouldn't it be great to enjoy the journey and have some good clean fun,as you travel ...

Here is a little challenge to get you started...

As I told one of my up line (a fellow dog and horse lover)...

Right now...stop what you are doing at your computer, kind of hang upside down like a monkey and hop around the room ,making monkey noises (to wake up the dogs,and or drive your spouse bonkers, if you are single and or alone..do this just for you!) then hop over to a window or door

and really LOOK outside , really notice the sky,the birds the ??? take a few deep breaths of fresh air if possible ( in with the good..out with the shallow stale "bad") and then go back to work...

And remember, you can have fun along the way...even the "little" stuff is good

YOUR choice...YOUR life...YOUR journey.

Christmas,making a list checkin' it twice...

Are you making a list,and checking it twice?

Do you have lots to do, and then LIFE happened,

Hurry over to read how I handle life "stuff" in my new post at

my merryheart blog

it may help and it sure couldn't hurt :-)

http://www.bettyscrazycritter.blogspot.com/

Ya'all come back now...

p.s. me ????

believe it or not I had to come here to my own blog

just to find my bath snowball and fizzies recipe

because: my "stuff" is a waiting to be "born"!

it's so fun to "squish" stuff with your hands.

I guess that's why I making my mud (clay) creations...

WOW do the simmering oranges for my mystery cake smell divine and so...

Christmas-y

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

the tree is still outside

stockings are hanging and waiting

donuts want to be deep fried

it's freezing so perhaps some slipping and skating

but not by this farmfunnies granny

hubby is my own sweet (w)rapper

hiding presents one has to be uncanny

(hubby's gift hidden ,the dogs best not tell with their yapper

'cause they followed me to the hidden site

watching as I lugged and shoved it there with all my might

I'd best stop punin'and funnin' and make those fizzies

or I'll wonder where the time went and be in a frizzie

yikes this rhyme just swithed it's "mode"

I sure hope the fizzies when packed don't explode...

Ok I'll stop, this is really getting silly

and yikes its freezing tonight ,so it will soon be chilly

whew, now I can check the bath "stuff" off my list...

what about you ?

Magic LOVE cake for Christmas

My magic love cake version for your special loved ones ,or "someone :-)

2 days before go outside and gather 6 farm fresh eggs
from your feathered friends,wash them and refrigerate.
Purchase several pounds of oranges (1 lb organic if possible)
about 1/4 cup of whole cloves.

1 or 2 days before you plan to serve your cake and eat it too :-)
cover 1 lb of oranges (well scrubbed, the organic ones) with water and simmer for 2 hours

while your oranges simmer "stick" the whole cloves
into your remaining oranges in random patterns
( even better watch your grand kids or neighbor's kids so the parents can have
a few minutes of alone time for a cup of coffee together and let the kids do the clove "stuffing" honors( I have fond memories of doing this as a child, it's now our turn to help a kid make warm pleasant memories... when finished attach a ribbon then hang up above your kitchen stove or on the tree)

to the mushy cooled orange mixture add 6 eggs
1 cup of sugar ( or 2/3 cup of honey)
2 and 1/3 cup of ground almonds
1 tsp of baking powder
with a wooden tooth pick "apply" to batter
a touch each of frankincense and myrrh essential oils
(your Christmas "magic" love ingredients)

pour your very wet batter into an oiled 8" pan ( a springform pan is best)
bake at 375 for 40 min cover cake with foil (to protect top from burning)
bake approx another 20 min (use clean tooth pick test for doneness)
wrap and fridge until you are nearly ready to serve it
frost cake with stabilized whip cream (opt)

you will now have a "gift" of gold frankincense and myrrh
to remind everyone of the gifts for earths one and only true KING
whose birth we celebrate on Christmas day JESUS...He IS the reason for the season.

(check back in Feb for my love "potion" magic love cake recipe for your special "valentine")

my bath snowball verzion for great Christmas gift

look for this recipe in previous post, along with bath fizzie corrections..

a major oops in today's earlier bath fizzie post,if that went out before I made corrections

I had "mixed together both recipes..
multi tasking can create interesting recipes,results or disasters sometimes
I've managed to do all three at one time or another.. :-)
so if that ever happens to you, whether multitasking or a newbie, just keep trying
the end results are worth it