2 Million Birds and Fish Die, and it's 'nothing to worry about'?? Geez, I'm a little worried...

Two million dead fish in Maryland    So this is the link I just followed when I went to check my yahoo.ca email... it's from the Canadian News, and this is unbelievably shocking.  I read their little article, and, man, are they downplaying this horrific event like crazy, or what??  Why??  Here's a little quote from the article, so you can see why I find this so disturbing, on a zillion levels...

"It is not that unusual," said Kristen Schuler, scientist at the US Geological Survey's National Wildlife Center.


"There is nothing apocalyptic or anything that is necessarily out of the ordinary for what we would see in any given week."

Really???  Nothing out of the ordinary?  Just admit that it's insane and they're doing everything they can to find out what on earth is happening to MILLIONS of Birds and Fish around the world, since it isn't just happening in America...


Regarding the bird deaths in Arkansas, where the local custom is to set off fireworks to mark New Year's Eve, officials determined it was likely that the noise set off a deadly bird panic.


"It appears unusually loud noises, reported shortly before the birds began to fall, caused the birds to flush from a roost," the USGS National Wildlife Health Center said in a statement posted on the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission website.


"Additional fireworks in the area may have forced the birds to fly at a lower altitude than normal and hit houses, vehicles, trees and other objects. Blackbirds have poor night vision and typically do not fly at night."


Come on, who would  believe a crazy story like that??  Are these the same people who think it would be a fantastic idea to actually have Sarah Palin run for PRESIDENT??  Man, I know I'm an immigrant, here, but it is hard to stand on the sidelines, and see that people, an actual group of people, would advocate someone that incapable of leading them, in a major recession... or any other possible time.  Why?  Because she's a pretty, gun-totin' American??  Ugh.  Please, she would be the Leader of the Free World, at least offer up someone with the highest level of intelligence you can find... anything less is obscene to me. And I am a huge supporter of Obama -- the man is brilliant.  But I was also a supporter of John McCain, because he was brilliant, too.  Anyone truly brilliant gets to run -- you'd think that would be in the rule book, somewhere...

But I digress... let's get back to the birds and the bees... errrr, the birds and the fish.  So now there are all these conspiracy theories, religious people are having a field day (and stocking up on canned goods.. maybe not such a bad idea! Mostly, I have stored up a lot of chocolate chips, and I'm not sure how long they would last, but we do still have a lot of chocolate left from Christmas... maybe I'll get some tinned beans, or something, too! Think I might get my Bible out, too...! lol!)

So what do you think?  Will we get the truth, and why would that be hidden from the media??  Seems ridiculous.  All that information about celebrity break-ups, but virtually no information about 2 million birds and fish dying around the world??  Something's fishy.....

Here's the article so you can pop in to read it, too, and if you find a good link, post it to comments so we can all have a wee look, please! And I'm not so sure you'll want to stock up on tuna! lol!
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/mass-bird-fish-deaths-stoke-curiosity-20110106-095058-357.html

The Bachelor: Brad Womack, He's Baa-ack! (To Break Some More Hearts?? lol!)

Brad Womack, where you been?? haha! So the Bradster is back to meet some more Single Ladies, is he?  Looks like he was forgiven after the very first SLAP, and right on cue, too! lol!  That's the thinkg about desperate, single ladies, they're very fogiving!  And, really, Brad Womack is a very good looking guy, and I know that, fer sures, because I got a chance to see him bare-chested at least 9 times, then I forgot to keep counting... I think I went into a bare-chested trance... who knows.. I just know that I canny wait for the first Hot Tub Scene, and then there will be all the other Hot Tub Scenes to follow.. what's The Bachelor without the hot tub, right??  What we need to do is try to figure out how long it will take the Producers to maneuver everyone into da hot tub.. I say, 10 minutes into the Second Episode of The Bachelor... what do you think?? Maybe they're going for a proper sense of decorum, this time 'round, soooo... twenty minutes into the 2nd episode of The Bachelor?? hahaha!  I canny wait to see all the drama unfold!  And I can't wait to see who the crazy ladies will be.. I thought Vampira, the one with the fangs, would be a stand-out 'crazy', but looks like there might be quite a few options... oooh, will be fun to watch who loses it over Brad, first! lol!
So Brad Womack has had THREE years of therapy, intense therapy, and tonight he gets to meet THIRTY women.  No, I'm sorry.  TWENTY NINE, women, ONE maybe still a TEENAGER, Ashleigh.  Or, more likely, Ashley... whatever.  Definitely looked liked like the youngest girl they could book on the show.. was she old enough to have a drink??  That's my mission, now, to see if they only show her drinking water, or soda.... ugh.  All those beautiful, fullly accomplished women (Emily from South Carolina is my favourite.... she looks so nice.... and moderate, and a good mom... qualities I like in a good woman.... and rarely present in a little girl...), and Brad chooses the youngest girl, a nanny, to give his First Rose to...surprise!  Men, do they ever change?? haha!

So who does Therapy-Brad choose?  The Baby.  The youngest one.  Man, what kind of therapy was that??  And why didn't they put up the names of all the girls?  Did you notice a lot of the 30 girls were left nameless?  And they all seemed to be ageless??  Why can't we see how old they are??  I want to know!  And how old is Brad Womback?

Oh, wait, I just remembered a bit I really liked -- when Chris, the Host, brings out Deanna and 'Ginny'?  'Jenny'?  I couldn't figure out what name they were saying, and we didn't watch the ful season of that Bachelor, because Deanna was THE most boring girl I had ever seen, at that point (now we have Lisa Marie on Bridal Plasty to give Deanna a little boring run for her money! haha!).  But did you happen to notice that Deanna looked really, really good?  Was that a new nose?  And new teeth?  How much new stuff do people get when they're on TV, or AFTER they're on TV?? But then she opened her mouth to speak and I dozed off... no, I wish I could doze off.. I'm soo stressed out with my horrible work situation, I can't sleep at all -- is horrible. Hate my life, right now, dammit! Am dreading going back to work... must find way to make millions on blog! hahahaha!  Ugh, man.  No wonder I'd rather lose myself in a little Reality TV!! lol!

And I loooved that the camera kept panning to show Deanna and 'Ginny'(?!)'s Wedding Rings!  Hilarious!  We don't need you, anymore, Brad Womback, we're married!!  (But didn't Deanna look like she'd throw over her 'husband' for another shot at the old Bradster? hahaha!)

I loved that they had a Morticia, a Dirty Librarian (what was with the big kiss on the lips when she got out the limo?? You gotta kiss a lot of frogs before you meet your prince... ugh!  Dinny kiss frogs!! Nooo, they're icky! Kiss a bunch of princes, and eventually you'll find some normal guys -- they make waaay better husbands! haha!), and then out comes Vampira.  Fangs 'n all.  Fangs a lot, Bachelor, for giving us a little more comic relief... did she actually have custom made fangs?? hahaha!  Are the stick-on, or permanent?  Either way, hilarious, and very, vry mature.  The type of girl a man in his thirties (forties??  Fifties???? hahaha!) who'd been through some serious therapy could really go for, and he did, of course. And from the previews, looks like Vampira's gonna hang around for quite a while... can't wait!

8 Layer Cookies Recipe! Chocolate Ganache Topping, too! DIY Chocolates! Pour It On Cookie Bars! How to Make 7 Layer Cookie Bars - 7 Layers of #HEAVEN!! #EasyCookies #Yum! #OnlineGroceries! #5LayersOfHeaven #Bars #Biscuits

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I love to bake nice things for my little family and mah' friends!

If you can Pour it, you can Make it! 

Soo easy - and I use the Graham Crackers, now, so then it's down to 5 Layers - Get to Pourin'! lol! 

 8 Layer Chocolate Ganache Squares!

https://buildyourownhousebodylife.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-make-7-layer-cookie-bars-7.html

#Ingredients! Super easy to make!

Graham Cracker Crumbs: 1 1/2 to 2 Cups

Butter or Margarine, 4 oz, Melted

White Chocolate Chips

Chopped Walnuts

Shredded Coconut

Drizzle the whole thing with

1 Tin of Condensed Milk

Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes

#ChocolateGanache:

Rough-chop Chocolate

Melt Chocolate & Whipping Cream, pour over the base

Refrigerate

Cut into small squares #delicious

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(This is the closest I could make to See's #58, I think, the Walnut Chocolates - but, omg, get those, too! Yum!!)

Now I make the 5 Layers of Heaven Cookie Bars with only 4 Layers of Heaven - the list keeps getting smaller and smaller - lol! 

Try putting the Parchment Paper over your cookie tray (should have a rim, or it might just keep spreading, and could pour right over the edge of your cookie tray), and add a couple of extra pieces of Parchment Paper at the top and bottom, so it's super easy to lift the whole thing off the tray, after it's cooled down, about 20 minutes in the fridge, after it comes out the oven...

So, lift the whole thing off the tray, cut with a big knife, 15 across, 10 down, and you'll have 150 delicious pieces of candy - Heavenly Candy - at home! Chocolates, here we come! You're gonna love them...

Pop the whole tray into the fridge, you can take it out, again, in a bit, pick the whole thing up from the Parchment Paper, cut it along the same lines, you're done - and I always keep it in the fridge, and give it away - everyone loves it! : )

And now, for the more traditional 5 Layers of Heaven Cookie Bars : ) Please to enjoy - haha! : )

Yummm!!  7 Layers of Heaven Bars ARE heavenly!!  

I know because I've been eating them all day! lol!

They're the easiest cookies on the planet to make, because you are literally just pouring one ingredient on top of another, then pop it in the oven for 10 - 30 minutes, Voila!  Perfection!!  Delicious perfection!! 

You know what??  I just took these out the oven, and we're in this new place in Victoria, BC, Canada, right now - maybe not for long... we'll see, but the oven is soo stoopid and small, the heat was greater than it is in a normal oven, so my 7 Layer Cookies were ready waay faster than I thought they would be - and, here, I just checked them at the 10 minute mark, thought they'd be good 'til 20 minutes - 

Thank Goodness I checked them before that - aaargh!  Too many ingredients in these cookies for anything to go wrong, right??  

So check these as often as you need to, after the first 10 minutes : )

Oh, and I'm a little bit of a butter girl, so I actually use some butter, too, but you can decide that for yourself... I loooove it with butter! : )   

8 Layer Cookies, 7 Layer Cookies, 6 Layer Cookies, 5 Layer Cookies - you decide how many layers - lol! 

I just made the 7 Layer Cookie Squares with 4oz of margarine - 

Just melt one brick of margarine - worked like a charm!

(And I use about 3/4 of each package.. whatever it takes to sprinkle the bottom of the pan with each ingredient...depends on the size of the pan you use, and today I used closer to a 1/2 cup of butter, melted and mixed in with the graham crumbs)


Ingredients, in order: Enough of each ingredient to cover the bottom of the pan : )

Graham Cracker Crumbs - 1 1/2 to 2 Cups of Graham Crumbs

Butter or Margarine, 4 oz, Melted 

(pour on the Graham Crumbs)

Butterscotch Chips (optional)

White Chocolate Chips
                                                                
Chocolate Chips
                                                                
Chopped Walnuts... about a cup
                                                                
Shredded Coconut
                                                               
Drizzle the whole thing with 1 Tin of Condensed Milk

                                                                
Pop in the oven at 350 Degrees for about 20 to 30 minutes... just have a wee look and take them out when the coconut is lightly brown, and you can't wait another minute! lol!  Wait about 10 minutes for your fancy treats to cool down, then gently cut into 1 inch squares.. these are more like chocolates than a cookie, and although you will most likely eat these in two's or three's, make it look like you are more controlled by starting out with wee tiny squares! haha! 

Put them in the fridge to set, and cool completely. (I wait 'til they're really cold before I take them out of the pan, but it's waaay easier to lift them out of the pan if they have been cut in advance, when they're still warm...)

This is one of those dishes that the colder it gets, the better it tastes, so if you make them at night, they'll be ready for breakfast the following morning! (And lunch and dinner, too!) hahaha!

This recipe makes 52 squares. (Of Heaven!! hahaha!)

Check this out!  That is my ARM under the 7 Layer Cookie Bars - no kidding!  

I made them in my new turkey pan, because it has an amazing non-stick coating, just thought I'd try it, today, and tonight when I went to get the cookie squares out, I could barely get the knife in - these harden so quickly, it's critical that you cut them when they are still warm, or it'll be very tricky, later... so they're already scored from earlier, I slid the spatula under the cookie bars, expecting a couple of them to come up - you have to remove a couple (and maybe want to eat them! hahaha!) of the squares before you can get in with your spatula, but when I lifted them up, the entire thing came with it, so I felt I HAD to take a picture of that! lol!

I'm pretty sure I couldn't have planned that! And then I thought they might just all break apart, but they were still too cold from being in the fridge, where I keep these 7 Layer Cookie Squares, because they are soo good when they're really cold.  So I still had to use a giant knife to wedge between the rows, but the rows broke apart really easily, then I spun the giant cutting board around and cut each row into squares.  But that's so cool, right??

And I made the Shortbread today, as well, and will make the No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake (the one I call the 'marry me cheesecake', because whoever you make it for will want to marry you! hahahahaha!  I think it's the cheesecake! hahaha!  Can you tell I'm up waay too late, still getting this baking ready for Christmas, and now I'm too easily amused??), tomorrow - surely that's enough treats for Christmas, right?? hahaha!  

Okay, 'til next time!! Go haz you'self Lots of Delicious Treats! Ailsa : )

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Online Grocery Delivery - Yes, Please! Oooh... Order it here, they'll bring it to you, there.... yahoo! 

This is so cool - let's say you've now been binge watching your fave shows, and you STILL have 4 more seasons left of your brand new-to-you show, soo you don't want to get up off the couch, but, also, you know you should probably get you' some groceries?

Problem - Solution! lol! 

Check and see if your area is covered by either VONS or Safeway... they cover some of the same areas, and some different areas - does that make sense? lol!

I loove this Delivery Service for Groceries and whatever you might need, right to your door, just in general, but what a great idea in bad weather, no more stooopid traffic, or if you're not feeling up to going out to the store, or you just don't feeeel like going out to the store...or if you're like me, and get so caught up in whatever you're working on, and don't want to stop just 'for food' - haha! And no need for Taxis, if you need to take a cab to the grocery store...that's a huge savings, right there, right?

Wow, Grocery Delivery Service - that's fantastico!! Yippee!!  Hello, Future - you look great! : )

I think this is such an amazing new service for your groceries - and anything you ever need from the grocery store - if you've ever had a time when you had a tiny baby, or you're super-busy (same thing - hahaha! All the New Moms will be laughing, now - lol!)..but if you're busy at work, or busy at home, or traffic, or you're busy binge-watching your favorite shows - hahahahaha! This might be the new wave of the future, right? Ordering your groceries online?

And I would imagine you would save a lot of money, since you would just buy what you actually need... might really work for dieting, too, since, well, if we're in the store, and be 'we', I mean 'me'...anyway, let's say I've got my grocery list, then I'm at the store, and I think, you know what, I'll just nick down the Candy Aisle, see if Chocolate is on sale (see how much I like Sale Chocolate - hahaha! Is it tastier, or just less expensive?? 

We'll never know! It's all gone, now - hahaha!)

Not that you couldn't just 'browse' for that, anyway... right? Me thinkin', now, o' course, where is the Sale Chocolate, online?? hahaha! But let's say you're you, and not me, and you have a LOT more self control than maybe ME do... so you order all the things you really wanted, and not just a whole cart full o' Wunderbars, on sale... hahahaha! Wouldn't THAT be fun - just a cartful of Sale Chocolate?? haha! Okay, clearly, me needs a treat! lol! : ) #SaleChocolate! Ha!

Okay, this is MY kind o' Luxury Reward - me always 'reward' mah'self wit' da delicious chocolates! hahaha!  

I loove Sees Candies - soo deeelish! The Walnut Squares (#43 - is it bad for me to know the number?? hahahahaha!) (I've got your number..oooh, is it #43??  I hope so! lol!) 

Ooh, and I see that Sees has a sale, right now! Yahoo! Sale Chocolate - yes, please! haha! Yum! Don't mind if ah' do...lol! : )

5 Layers of Heaven Cookie Bars

Okay, so, last night, we decided to use up the Graham Crackers I had in the cupboard, along with a can of Condensed Milk that I didn't want to go to waste... and I had picked up a bag of Coconut Flakes (yum!), and already had bags of Chocolate Chips, because they were on sale, so I got 2 bags...

And I think these cookies should be called Sprinkle Cookies, since, if you can open a bag and sprinkle it on, you can make these cookies - lol! That's just how easy they are to make! Yay! : )

 

I love Parchment Paper - never any clean up - nothing sticks - I love it! 

Just lay out the Graham Crackers on the pan, or use the Parchment Paper - both are totally okay : )

 Sprinkle on the Chocolate Chips - the whole bag : )

 

Sprinkle on the Coconut - the whole bag of coconut, too : )

 Pour on the whole can of Condensed Milk - yum! 

You don't even have to make it perfect - the heat in the oven will distribute the Condensed Milk evenly, no worries : )

 

I totally forgot about the Walnuts... so I took it back out the oven, just sprinkled the Walnuts on top - usually, the Walnuts would go on top of the Chocolate Chips, but, I like them like this, on the top - do whatever way you like! 

the Walnuts break the sugar, so you definitely want that - walnuts make the 7 Layer Cookies AMAZING - just give them a good chop, sprinkle them all over the 7 Layer Cookies!

 

We baked it for 10 minutes, then kept checking every so often - ended up taking it out 28 minutes in, according to my son - I totally thought about timing it, then forgot... someone was a'Tweeting - lol! (You got me - it was me! lol!) 

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Score or cut the tiny squares as soon as it's cool enough, so it's not too hard to cut - this batch seems waaay easier to cut than the traditional, 7 or 8 Layers of Heaven Cookie Bars, though, soo... you might not have to race in to cut them, so quickly - but I did! lol! Jus' in case - plus, me wanted to try one - and now I've tried at least 5 - you know, just to make sure they're okay, and super delicious - haha! ; ) 

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