October 5, 2009

• Fallicious!

   

  I am loving Fall! 

  

  It is just absolutely gorgeous up here at this time of the year. It has been rainy & cool & dreary here the last several days . There was a neat thing that they had here this weekend. It was called Falling Leaves Art Studio Tour. We did it on Saturday since daughter was off that day too. You had a map & got to travel some backroads & scenic drives through central Wisconsin to visit artists & their studios. There were 17 studios on the tour & we did all of them & it took pretty much the full day to do. It was fun & we got to see some country that we haven't seen yet.
  I didn't take any pictures inside the places of their art. I did take some on the drive & of some of their interesting studios that they had. Some were in just regular homes, some very rustic homes, a few barns....check out what all we saw on our trip....

  

  This was at the first stop. Some of the proceeds of their art sales went towards this animal refuge which was on their property.

  
  
  Daughter & I fell in love with the horses here...

  

  

  Then these guys came running up to us! lol.. I guess they thought we had something that they didn't want to miss out on.
  There were several llamas & Alpacas.

  

  haha....she smiled & posed for me!

  

  The horses were all so pretty & so sweet

  

  

  

  

  Beautiful isn't it!

  

  Elk on some game ranch that we passed

  

  

  

  Tree farm. There are tons of these around here.

  

  pretty rolling hills

  

  I just loved this rustic shack!

  

  Corny Lori! lol...
  

  
  This was one of my favorite places. She made things from antlers & feathers.
  She also had just a lot of neat stuff around her place.

  
  

  
  haha...I loved him!

   

  

  I just really liked this shot. I actually took it as we were driving. You can see the stormy clouds we had this day.
  

  
  
  and more from our stormy drive...like this one despite the raindrops on the windshield!

   

  

   

  Hubby just called & ruined my day....he said there are snow showers in the forecast for Sunday & Monday! WHAT! Of course, that is still a ways ahead ...hopefully the meteorologists are wrong.  I have a feeling that this is going to be a bad winter...especially since it was such a cool summer. I don't know if I am actually ready for it. But not much that I can do about it now is there?
  
  

   

  Today is my dad's birthday!   I talked to him this morning.  I wish that we could celebrate with him.

     Have a great day dad. I love you. I'm with you in spirit
  
  
  Also happy birthday to a very dear friend here on Xanga, Lee aka Priorities. I hope you have a wonderful day Lee.

   

  

  I have another very easy & tasty recipe to share with you all.

  Bacon Wrapped Chicken

  6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
  1 8 oz. carton spreadable chive & onion cream cheese
  1 tablespoon butter
  salt to taste
  6 bacon strips
  
  Flatten chicken breast halves to 1/2" thickness.
  Spread 3 tablespoons cream cheese over each.  Dot with butter and sprinkle with salt; roll up. Wrap each chicken breast with bacon strip.
  Place seam side down in a greased 13 x 9" baking pan.  Bake  uncovered at 400 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 170.
  Broil 6" from the heat for 5 minutes or until bacon is crisp.
  
  Yummylicious!

   

  Xanga shut down to do maintenance right when I submitted this earlier today....it ate some of my post too....grrrrr

  I don't even remember what else I had on here, so I will just wish you all a good day & I hope you have a wonderful new week.
  

  

  xoxo ~ Zany

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