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08/07/2024

💜🍰 Purple Velvet Cake Recipe 🍰💜
Embark on a culinary journey with this stunning Purple Velvet Cake, topped with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting!
Ingredients:
For the Cake:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2 tbsp red food coloring
1 tsp white distilled vinegar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp (or more) purple food coloring
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
1 pound cream cheese, softened
2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
Instructions:
1. Preheat and Prepare Pans: Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
2. Mix Dry Ingredients: In a medium bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder.
3. Mix Wet Ingredients: In a large bowl, whisk together vegetable oil, buttermilk, eggs, red and purple food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla until smooth.
4. Combine Ingredients: Gradually mix dry ingredients into the wet mixture until the batter is smooth.
5. Bake: Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans and bake for 25-30 minutes. Let cakes cool in pans for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
6. Prepare Frosting: Beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla until smooth. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy.
7. Assemble Cake: Frost the cake layers and assemble the cake.
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Kcal: Approximately 400 per slice
Servings: 12 slices
Enjoy this vibrant and whimsical Purple Velvet Cake, perfect for special occasions! 🎉💜🍰

05/20/2024

Okay this is just the best

05/19/2024

05/04/2024

"This kind woman walked into our shelter and asked who the oldest, hardest to adopt dog was. So we introduced her to Jake.

All I can say is God Bless this woman. Jake has been with us for a long time, is a senior, and has cancer in addition to skin problems. He was getting passed up time and time again.

But Melani came to the shelter not just to find a great dog, but to save a life and give unconditional love to a dog in need. As you can see, it's a match made in heaven. Please help us thank Melani. People like her are our heroes."

03/24/2024

What a good pupper!

03/07/2024

Pay them more. Respect them more. Appreciate them more. All of it.

01/08/2024

I feel these words to the depths of me. In the past, I lived what Sara Rian Books has written.

Seven years later I still visit the place in time where he is still alive. I’ve “bookmarked” this space. I know it by heart.

~Beautiful Ramblings

01/08/2024

How come Clint Eastwood’s movies as a director are always done under-budget and under-scheduled?

Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood on “Invictus”.

Because he’s been in the movie business for 232 years. Because he’s been directing feature films for 50 years (the second number is actually true.)

So he knows what he’s doing. The best example of why his movies come in on-time and under budget? His reputation for doing scenes in a single take (two at most) precedes him.

Actors know the rep, and prepare accordingly, as Matt Damon attests:

I was playing a South African [in Invictus] and that’s a really hard accent to do. … It’s something that just required a lot of practice and I treated it like a job. I tested that [Eastwood one-take] theory on Day 1 of shooting.

We did the first take. It went pretty well. Clint says, ‘cut, print, check the gate,’ which means we’re gonna move on. And I said, ‘Hey boss, maybe you think we could get one more?’ He just turned and goes, ‘Why? Do you want to waste everybody’s time?’

Eastwood is not casual about directing, but he knows what he wants. He uses the same crew over and over, and they know each other’s rhythms. He’s a director who lets the members of his team do their job. For instance, he doesn’t stay in the room while his editor is working. Clint watches the footage, he and the editor discuss the best ways to put it together, then Mr. Eastwood goes off to play golf, coming back toward the end of the day to see how sequences are shaping up.

Other directors might hover at their editor’s shoulder, but that’s not Clint Eastwood’s style. Which explains why his features are completed without muss or fuss. His seasoned professionals are allowed to do their work without endless second-guessing from their director.

Addendum: Clint was in a round table discussion a few years ago with other A-list directors. The other participants described how they spent long, grueling days in post, working shoulder-to-shoulder with their editor(s). Twelve, fourteen hour days.

Clint gets asked the same question, and says “Well, we sit down in the morning and go over shots, talk about the sequence. Then I go play a round of golf, grab something to eat, come back in the late afternoon to see how it’s shaping up, look at the new footage that’s been cut. We talk some more and I give him some notes.”

The others were dumbfounded that he didn’t sit there micro-managing for twelve hours straight.
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12/30/2023

This is my old man, Chester, I adopted him when he was 17 years old.
My vet gave him one, maybe 2 weeks to live. He had a mouth infection, was heartworm positive, strong heart murmur, etc.. Chester was a fighter though, and so was I, we didn’t give up.
He underwent surgeries and treatments. He is now 22 years old (his birthday was Oct 17) and very healthy and happy. And he always has a smile on his face. He is such a handsome, happy boy! ❤️🐾
Credit: The Rainbow Bridge

11/23/2023

Living with a very old dog means feeling your heart speeding up every time you see them a little more still than usual and approaching with the fear that they have stopped breathing.

Living with a very old dog means being aware that some of the things you'll do together may be the last.

Living with a very old dog means thinking ′′ this is their last Autumn", ′′ this is their last November", ′′ This could be their last morning".

Living with a very old dog means they bark at any noise at any time, not because they know what they are barking at, its they feel they need to bark and let us know.

Living with a very old dog means, you have to lift them up into the truck, the bed, the couch, the stairs.

Living with a very old dog means putting off commitments because it's important to be close to them.

Living with an old dog means we trip over them because they are so sound asleep they don't hear us approaching them.

Living with an old dog means accidents in the house, its ok they don't mean to do it.

Living with a very old dog means feeling guilty because you know you could have done more, giving them more runs, more travel, more hugs, more caresses, more everything.

I would like to say that living with a very old dog also puts us in the face of our own death, fragility, vulnerability.

Living with a very old dog means we got to experience life with a very old dog, which is one of the best joys on earth!

09/13/2023

😂😂😂

05/27/2023

Tofu looks so happy 🥰

05/14/2023

”I saw a post the other day by a lady who said she always grabs vintage casserole dishes when she sees them at thrift stores or yard sales and uses them when she brings a meal to someone! She said often they are cheaper than disposable ones and the family can either keep for themselves or pass on to someone else who needs a meal in the future! So in the spirit of reduce, reuse, renew & recycle... I thought this was a neat idea worth sharing!”
Credit: Cortney Hawk