Just something interesting

that MyFella showed me today.

Civil War Discovery

and going through some old archives and libraries up here, we found an amazing discovery - that our grandfathers served together in the Civil War! We even found proof picture positive!

Wednesday on vacation

MyFella woke up early this morning sick to his stomach. I've run 'round and picked up a Sprite, saltines, and Dramamine and loperamide.

Jamie and I took a drive this morning and ended up with a delightful surprise luncheon with a sorta friend that I met through work. A doll of a young lady, just a pretty pretty brunette who works up here in the tourism business.

Came back to the hotel and MyFella is still out and groggy and still having bouts of it. So I gave him some more pills and Sprite. I think I'm gonna get Jamie up to go for another ride. So point sitting here.

But on the plus side, here's a pic or two.

"Did someone pee in the water?"

the little girl said when they evacuated everyone out of all the pools because of a threat of lightning from the clouds.

Jamie, MyFella's little brother, is having a super blast on his vacation. Today we spent all day at the water park. (Hint ~ take cheap flip flops. The hot concrete will bite your feet by the end of the day.) He especially enjoyed the simple inner tube float around the park, and then we found a children's area with some small small water slides that were great fun for him. And honestly great fun for a lot of people too grown to be on them.

Not sure about the evening meal tonight. Last night we went to our fave place, The Pottery Cafe. Maybe we'll find a second fave tonight.

Pigeon Forge

Vacation day one! And day 10 in a row with MyFella. All is good.

Week

It's going to be a whole week together. I spent the weekend at MyFella's house, and this week he has a seminar or something in town. So it will be 7 straight nights together.

Post Secret: Predictable and Becoming More Common

but funny just the same.

3 Day Cake

This cake recipe is taken from Noodle's mom. It's a 5 day coconut cake that is refridgerated and you continue to add the sour cream icing over a couple of days, absorbing the moisture and sugar. Phenom!

MyFella and I were going to make it together for a family reunion he has today, but our schedule didn't work out to be together this weekend. So he's made it. It's absorbed the icing on the side so it looks a little bare. Since you have to make the icing up a night in advance and leave in the fridge, there's not any more to cover it. But it's his first attempt to make the cake.

This cake is crazy good. Crazy. Good.


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Recipe below for those interested:

5 DAY COCONUT CAKE

ICING:

16 OZ SOUR CREAM

2 PKGS FROZEN COCONUT (THAWED)

2 CUPS SUGAR

DAY 1

MIX SOUR CREAM AND SUGAR. ADD THAWED COCONUT.

LET FROSTING SIT IN REFRIGERATOR OVERNIGHT BEFORE USING.

DAY 2

COOK 1 BOX OF DUNCAN HINES YELLOW CAKE MIX AS DIRECTED FOR

2 LAYERS. LET COOL COMPLETELY. SLICE THE 2 LAYERS IN HALF TO

CREATE 4 LAYERS. PUT CAKE TOGETHER, ICING TOP OF EACH LAYER,

PLACING CUT SIDE OF EACH LAYER UP TO ABSORB ICING. STORE IN AN

AIRTIGHT CONTAINER IN THE REFRIGERATOR. (NOTE: THE CAKE WILL NOT

LOOK VERY PRETTY RIGHT AFTER FROSTING.)

DAY 3

THE ICING WILL BE SUFFICENTLY ABSORBED TO ALLOW YOU TO DRESS

UP THE CAKE WITH A FROSTING KNIFE.SPREAD THE COCONUT EVENLY

OVER THE TOP AND SIDES OF THE CAKE.

SERVE ON DAY 5 OR 6

( I SAVE A LITTLE OF THE FROSTING TO DRESS UP BARE SPOTS )

Hard Working Eye Candy

First I had this blog posted and later realized that I had pictures of him with his face showing. That may be a bit rude. (Ya think?) I mean part of me says "You're working shirtless looking like that in Midtown? Surely you know some gay guy's going to drive by 3 times, right?" Then I decided to just redo the post with pictures of him from this angle, so his face isn't front-on shown. From every direction, it's pretty.
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This little piece of eye candy is working across the street in the lot this morning. I normally appreciate a much more beefy man. But from an aesthetic point of view, this is pleasant. And he is tanned, dirty and hard working.

P.S. Yes, it's just a little bit stalkerish of me to have taken a photo of him. Don't be so judgemental.

Cumberland Presbyterian

The building had set empty for a while, I didn't even realize it was empty. I thought it was a church, and after a while the huge "for sale" sign set in. Then it started in the papers that the offices of Cumberland Presbyterian had moved to the new "East" part of the city and the land had been sold to Chick Filet.

If I understand it correctly, the historical preservation society talked Chick Filet into leaving up the front most part of the building as a facade. It seemed a good idea at the time. Such a beautiful building. But now it's looking like the husk of a bug that you find on a tree. Just a pale, empty shell. No life. And what was once beautiful is ugly in empty comparison.