A whole year passed me by and I have not posted a blog post…Seriously? I do believe it is time for a Persnickety Cat face lift as well as some updates. I wish I could say I was busy having the best year of my life to have let my blog go DEAD. But, that would be a big fat fucking lie. It was not the worse year I have ever had but defiantly not the best either. Time to clean up the dust bunnies around this place and …

Holy cow, it has been 22 flipping days since my last blog post! I had so many wonderful blog post’s planned for you, sorry you missed them. Oh well, since I still have another 45 minutes lefts of Cinnamon roll baking to do I guess I will get caught up on the last few weeks of events. You know, it really is getting kinda late so I think I will use pictures to make life a little easier for myself They do say a picture is worth a …

When life hands you Lemons, add Lime and make dumplings…
I found this recipe in the the March-April 2009 Scouting magazine. It was the Grand Prize winner of the Great Tastes in Camp Cooking Contest.
Submitted by Martin A. Pessink this recipe is for a Dutch oven but can also be made in the oven.

Lemon-Lime Soda Apple Dumplings
2 large Granny Smith apples
1 12 ounce can of lemon-lime soda
2 8-ounce cans of refrigerated crescent rolls
1 stick of butter
1 cup of sugar
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
1. If you use a Dutch oven large enough to …

10 things I hope to accomplish this summer

Camp once a month in a state park
Take my grandson to play in the fountains in Kansas City
Go to a Royals baseball game
get my online store going
Start working on my altered guitar
Kill the moles in my yard even if it takes a shot gun
Visit a cave
Read “Wuthering Heights”
Redo the front garden
compile all the recipes I have collected over the years from friends and family and publish them in a book

What are your plans for the summer?