BEAUTY IS A LIFESTYLE THING

I am always looking for new recipes and tasty appetizers for the next party/party hosting I will do. I look for quick,easy,crowd pleasing and I detest turning on the oven if I don't have to. *Summer Tip* I feel the key to feeling great especially in the summer,is to stay hydrated all while eating your way into healthy vitamins and minerals. Make sure you eat your summer vegetable harvest that contain foods like cucumbers because they are usually in abundance and the water content is high in cucumbers!* I reccently came across a recipe in the Costco magazine that is a version of a recipe that my own mother used to make for summer parties and for a simple dish that replaced a salad, they called them "Stuffed CuteCumber Boats". I'll link this recipe later at the end, but here is the version that my mom used and that I now use that we just called Stuffed Cucumbers. *Recipe Tip* I depise waste, especially food waste,and if I can I will use something I have on-hand

I put my cushions on my patio chairs after we had a string of temperatures above our normal temps. of course I became Spring feverish! I know you did too. I even heard a motorcycle in the background and knew the warmth of Spring was near! I really did enjoy this cup of tea outside and it was 70 degrees, But the great Midwest and Mother nature has other ideas. While all the while my little bulbs are starting to burst all over. Spring Flowers! When the flowers begin filling in, it's just a gorgeous show. This winter however, we have found diggings, bulbs pulled out and mulch strewn about! We have found we have many furry friends like the voracious vole,the sneaky squirrels, and the big bellied bunnies who all have had a meal or two in our fine outdoor restaurant. Anyway, this Fall I have to replant the majority of my Tulips, the Tulips must be the preferred feast. So now that it's back in the 20's and the 30's, I've ditched the outdoor grill for making and baking in

photo credit: johnnyseeds.com As you may know, I love Sunflowers and of course life. This post today is to remind you that when you dream and you have hope and when you have hope you might just have it all! Don't ever give up on your dreams or tangible goals.  Dreaming when asleep is a succession of images and emotions along with ideas that occur involuntarily and having Hope is an optimistic state of mind based on an expectation of positivity. You can have both hopes and dreams if you have that optimistic attitude; they will naturally "manifest" toward you. Even if you think you may never reach those goals or dreams, you may be closer to achieving them than you know, because sometimes the goals /dreams show up slightly different than we dream them.  We may have to recognize the parts of the goals and work hard to achieve the "dream" part.  Unfortunately, sometimes the dreams only come after much hard work. But having great opt