How do you begin?

If you have never written on a blog, it is easy, once you get started. Posting photos is sometimes not so easy. You have to make sure the template is vertical for a vertical photo etc. If you received my email, there should have been a place that you accept the terms of being on this blog. You then go up to the very top right corner, where it says "new post". You can sign your name if you are using an email with someone else ( Dada and Janet). Otherwise the blog signs your name under your post. You can also comment to someone else's post, by clicking on comment under the specific post. Have fun with it. You can "preview" what you have written first, or just go on and "publish the post"

Granny's Rolls

I have something we all thought we had lost...Granny's rolls (Margie's grandmother).  I found it in Nana's old recipe book.

I think the secret ingredient is the Crisco!

1 cake yeast

1/4 cup warm water to dissolve the yeast, let sit 10 min

1 cup milk, scalded

3 T. sugar

3 T. Crisco

1 tsp salt

Combine and cool until lukewarm

Add 1 cup flour, beat well

Add 1 egg and yeast mixture, beat well

Add 2 1/2 cups flour

Cover to rise for 2 hours.  Roll out and cut circles, brush with butter and fold.

Rise for 30-45 min 

Cook at 400 for 15-20 min.

All of us old enough to remember these famous rolls know what we almost lost.

Connectiong the Dots? The reason behind our blog.

I don't know if any of you played the "connect the dots" game as a child...but I know that I did, and it always fun to see what design would appear when the dots were connected. If you take a map of the U.S. and put a dot on every city that we all live in; we make quite an impressive pattern! Tennessee, South Carolina, Ohio, Alabama, New York and Oregon. Who knows what will be added to our pattern next!
So the idea of the blog came up as a way to stay connected with each other, through ideas, thoughts, photos, things we do now and past stories about our wonderful family. We have so much to share with each other and when there are long times apart; this will hopefully keep us in touch. Have fun with it!