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Originally Posted by BroosterSpringsteen 

Where do you find these hilarious emoticons! We are actually under a tornado watch.

 

Lemon Shortbread recipe:

1 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

2 egg yolks

3 tbsp lemon peel

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1/4 tsp salt

2 1/2 cups flour

 

Beat together butter and sugar. Mix in egg, lemon peel, lemon juice, and salt. Mix in 1/2 off the flour, then the other half. Squish dough together into a big ball. Roll into 1 inch balls, flatten with palm, place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

 

I also like to make an indention in each cookie with my thumb, and fill it with a drop of fresh preserves before baking. I filled this batch with grapefruit marmalade.

Thanks alot, now I'm starving!!!!  I am going to make these immedietly!  Thank you so for the recipe.  These silly emoticons make me a 10 year old girl again.  My daughter and her friends talked me into subrscribing to a website that makes them for 6 months..  They use them on their middle school website, as they keep a running blog up and make daily entries.  I'm just as bad as them giggling away at looking for certain emotions.  lol...

, and kiss those little chickadees for me!

MB

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Originally Posted by USVIyardbird 

Melabella, I would freeze!!! I can't take that cold weather, our lowest is usually 70 degrees in the "winter" time. We all wear sweaters when it gets that "low". LOL

   Sure, go ahead rub it in.  You better hide, I'm going to find you, and me and the chickens are all going to come down for a little visit

"Company"....lol

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Originally Posted by BroosterSpringsteen 

USVIyardbird, where are you? Based on your avatar picture it is definitely somewhere I want to be!

  I think if I can remember back when he first posted, he said he was from the US Virgin Islands, ,,, hence his name!  Or is he a she?  Sorry USVIyardbird, I can't remember.  I've got swiss cheese for a brain!

MB

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Originally Posted by BroosterSpringsteen 

 

As yes! I remember now. And the name makes total sense. 

 

Oh yes, Please continue to rub in your beautiful tropical weather. Who wants to be warm anyway? MB and I are perfectly content with our snow-wind-ice, right? Our chickens love it too. 

 

Is it April yet? I already feel like it's been winter forever. On a plus note, I figured out a pretty cool trick last night...preheated pajamas! I tuck my PJs into my electric blanket an hour before bedtime! No more huddling in bed waiting for it to get warm. Now I can fall asleep instantly! Our house is heated with a wood stove, and our bedroom isn't heated at all. I'm too stingy to turn on a space heater.

Excellent Idea!  I have been miserly myself lately, heating oil bills K I L L I N G   M E.   If it was just me, I would live with it way low, but hubby and children act like I am abusing them if it goes lower than 63.  Today here in Upstate NY, it is actually warm.  My highlight of the day is I was able to clear up all the frozen manure from the dumpster I am using at the moment that was hindering me from dumping it easily.  Boy did I wreak of Manure when I came in the house afterward.  Up to a  egg day all ready.  I think 8 are finally laying.  My last hold out is one of my Black Australorp who even though she is a hatchery bird, I think she showing some very nice lines along being a solid Utility pullet, and favors more Heritage lines.  She is stunning.  Makes sense she would be the latest to develop as well.  Who knows what Meyer uses for breeding stock.  Maybe she gets some nice breeding stock to improve lines some times.  I'd love to ask and find out.

MB

Oh Brooster, question about the recipe.  If I leave out  the lemon peel, would they just be regular shortbread cookies?   And also, if I too chose to do the thumbprint, do I add the preserves before or after cooking? I never bake, but would love to start.  Thanks...