My Mind's Eye

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Thoroughly Poetic Pictorial Thursday

Angel Sammy and Teddy for their poetic pictorial poem.

This was a very hilarious picture!!

What are you?
by Petey the Primate and Madi the Diva

You are not a banana of this I am certain.
I wandered into a room full of smells, sights and lots of lights
There you were all alone behind a curtain.
As I picked you up to give you a taste,
The humans all ran with haste
I thought to myself no time to waste
Over my shoulder you did rest, up the tree I scurried.
I held you with care as I studied you closely, after all there was no hurry.
The humans all stood below the tree looking up at me.
They offered me 'nanners, and fruit and even curry.
Climbing limb to limb, swinging vine to vine.
I became very merry.
I realized you were mine
til the end of time.

Also so this photo reminded mom of something Dad used to say to
my human sis when she was a wee lass. It always made her giggle too.
If you meet my sis, don't tell her I told you this, and she could not pronounce Monkey
she called the monkmees

He said monkey see, monkey do monkey named Marlu.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Wordless Wednesday

REMINDER

Friends, It is I, Madison D. Cat, with a grand announcement....

I would like to invite you to pawticipate in a ROAD TRIP hop to

celebrate my 16 birthday. I will be 16, on Sunday, March 11th.

Please feel free to snag this photo to use you can make it smaller or larger.

here is a slightly smaller photo

We thought it would be fun to have all my friends tell about learning to drive: if your parents taught you, if you went to driver's ed and the fun or not so fun things that might have happened. Another idea would be to

tell about a road trip that stands out in your mind as memorable, good or bad or funny.
Doesn't have to be long.

We would love to have you all join us to celebrate my 16th.

Mama of Mayor Arty, Jakey and Rosy SassyPants will set up a blog hop for us.

The hop will be set up and ready for you to pre-post on March 1, 2018. You may reach it by
clicking here and looking for Road Trip.
It is the 3rd hop on the hippty hop page

It will begin at 12 am on March 11 and run thru 12 am on March 12.

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Tuesday tasty tale

Waste not, want not*
is a proverb

if you use a commodity or resource carefully and without extravagance, you will never be in need.

G'day friends...OMCs do we have something yummy to share.

Last Wednesday you might recall I shared a health update which included

my Bud Dr. Szabo advising mom to try either plain or vanilla yogurt or canned

pumpkin to see it it would help my tummy.

Harris Teeter is just a hop, skip, and a jump from Manor Manor so off mom hopped skipped and jumped.

YAY the Activa Probiotic Yogurt 4 pack was 1/2 price and the Libby's canned pumpkin was on sale too. YES MOM IS always on the look out for a deal.

VERYYYYYYYYYYYYY long story short I gave mom my back of disrespect with yogurt and pumpkin. Nope this kitty wasn't having either. Mom really tries not to be wasteful*.

She loves Activa yogurt; however, NEVER buys plain or vanilla, always buys peach, blueberry or strawberry (12 at a time). She was pretty sure the vanilla would be too sweet but GLORY BE

she likes it. WooHoo Mom was thrilled it would not be wasted.

Now she has an entire can of pumpkin...of course she could make her famous pumpkin bread but she really didn't want to have to buy lots of extra stuff just to keep from wasting one the pumpkin

Thanks to GiGi Google mom found a 2 ingredient pumpkin muffin recipe.

All she needed to buy was 1 box of Spice Cake, it was on sale too.

Our goal is to always be helpful. If your humans find themselves with
an extra can of pumpkin, here is the recipe.

Two Ingredient Pumpkin Muffins
makes 12 muffins

1 box spice cake mix (mom bought Duncan Hines)
1- 15 oz can of pumpkin puree (NOT pie filling)
spray muffin pan well or you may use liners. We used PAM spray

1.Preheat oven to 325

2. Stir together spice cake and can of pumpkin. Only use 15 or 16 oz.

(I mixed in a bowl by hand then with an hand mixer to be sure all is well mixed)

3. Chocolate chips to taste optional (we didn't use any)

4. Bake 18-20 minutes until toothpick or cake tester comes out clean.

I was a tad skeptical about the recipe having no liquid. Pumpkin was all that was needed.

The muffins were very moist and delicious. Mix will be a tad lumpy as you can see by the picture.

Spice cake mix 1.42, can of pumpkin 1.29= 12 muffins for $2.71. One muffin at a bakery is usually $2.50 or more.