Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. Apr. 22-23-24, 2005

4-22-05 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear, Billie

[JustAmy]

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[JustAmy]

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[JustAmy]

4-22-05

Graphic by Billie

Repose

“Gather ye rosebuds...” So they say,
And flowers ornamental.
Wear perfumed clothes in sweet repose,
With music sentimental.

The beautied bride prepares to stride,
In pomp and decoration,
Up to an altar with her Beau,
To make their declaration.

Thus we begin a special tale,
Of long and happy living,
Of tempests fought, and shelter sought,
And tempers found forgiving.

Through all the daily drudgings,
And all the meals they blest,
Each one at last seeks solace,
The peace of final rest.

How then to win a suitor,
And find a fine abode,
Except the way we learned before,
We set out on this road?

We place their friends around them,
And flowers ornamental.
In perfumed clothes and sweet repose,
With music sentimental.

In hopes a great all-seeing eye,
Will spot this decoration,
To take it up for its own sake,
And each will find salvation.

NicknamedBob . . . . April 18, 2005

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1st ! :)

[JustAmy]

Billie ..... thank you for the beautiful Welcome Graphic.

NnB ...... thank you for writing the lovely poem for our Welcome today.

We appreciate your contributions to Amy's Place.

[JustAmy]

Congratulations, Grzegorz. We've missed you.



Hope you are enjoying warm spring weather.

Happy Jelly Bean Day!

[DollyCali]

Hi there.. I just sweated bullets for a few hours trying to get my first "Finest" up.. one "LITTLE" glitch..but worked out. Billie my mentor has weekend company... you do such nice work on your thread. People take for granted the quality on the Finest & Amy's Place... not for the faint of heart is it?

[JustAmy]

Graphic by MamaBear

[JustAmy]

Thank you, Dolly.

My thread is so much easier than the Finest. My header stays the same every day. I just post a new Welcome Graphic and Poem. The most difficult for me is finding other items to get the thread started.



Today is jelly bean day; sooooo .... Happy Jelly Bean Day to you!!!

[JustAmy]

[DollyCali]

of course we know who liked

"The Gipper"

[JustAmy]

Jelly Bean Cake

3/4 cup miniature jelly beans, cut in half
2 cups flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
8 oz pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla 3 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Powdered sugar for decoration

Preheat oven to 325° F. Generously grease and flour 12-cup fluted tube pan.

In small bowl, toss candy with 2 tablespoons of the flour; set aside. In large bowl, beat sugar, butter, cream cheese and vanilla until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add remaining
flour, baking powder and salt; blend well.

Spoon 1 cup batter evenly over bottom of prepared pan. Stir jelly beans into remaining batter; spoon into prepared pan. Bake for 50-60 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool upright in pan 10 min.; invert onto serving plate.

Cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Happy Jelly Bean Day.

[DollyCali]

I'll bet Jim & John like Jelly Beans

(Note; okay to use this as long as author/web site listed)

[DollyCali]

Now, now Amy... no Jelly Bean Cake until one has their main course.. Jelly bean soup!

Jellybean Soup

We're camping out,
What a lucky group.
We're going to dine
On jelly bean soup.

We'll cook those beans
Till they're red hot.
Add M&Ms
To fill up the pot.

We'll eat that soup
And when we're through,
We'll have our tasty
Marshmallow stew.

We'll pick our teeth
With a Tootsie Roll.
Tomorrow it's
Chocolate casserole!

—Grandpa Tucker

[JustAmy]

That's wonderful, Dolly.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

[JustAmy]

LOL

That's the perfect soup for today and every day.

[DollyCali]

someone needs to find a recipe for jelly bean wine... of course I want the dry (merlot or cabernet) variety.. or maybe a shiraz?

[JustAmy]

Good night, All. See you tomorrow.

[DollyCali]

Neat Jelly Bean Site

[JustAmy]

Couldn't find a wine but maybe this will do. :)

JELLY BEAN II

1/2 oz. Grenadine
1/2 oz. Blackberry Liqueur
1/2 oz. Ouzo
1 oz. Crème de Cacao
Layer.

[JustAmy]

Jelly Beans

"I like white ones."
"Here are two."
"I like black."
"But there are so few."
"I want pink ones."
"Two for you."
"I like orange."
"WHAT shall we do-
there isn't an orange,
I've looked them through."

"Awwww."

"Wait! here's a red,
and a yellow too-
THAT'LL make orange
when you get through."

Aileen Fisher