Newsletter 35 – December 17, 2009

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,

and behold,

everything is softer and more beautiful.

~Norman Vincent Peale

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We Wish You a Merry Christmas

This Christmas greeting is coming your way to say we miss you and hope you are having a wonderful holiday season with your friends and family.  We also wish you a New Year filled with peace, joy, beauty and love. 

We look forward to seeing you at the Garden Expo in mid-February., and anxiously await the new gardening season and our April 1 reopening next year.  If there is anyway we can help, please let us know.  Call or write anytime, ed@americasbestflowers.com.  We are always glad to hear from you.

 “If old acquaintances be forgot, give them a call and remember.”

BONNIE’S KITCHEN

Bake up a batch of these with/for your family or friends.  They make colorful delicious gifts that everyone will love.

Holiday Oatmeal Chocolate Chop Cookies

1 c Butter Flavor Crisco

1 c firmly packed brown sugar

½ c granulated sugar

2 eggs

2 T milk

1 t vanilla

2 ½ c old fashioned oats, uncooked

1 ½ c all purpose flour

1 t baking soda

½ t salt

1 c semi-sweet chocolate pieces

1 c red and green M&M’s

1 c coarsely chopped nuts

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Beat first six ingredients until smooth. Add combined oats, flour, soda, and salt; mix well. Stir in remaining ingredients. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 3” apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes for chewy, or 10-12 for crisp cookies. Cool 2 minutes; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Makes about 4 dozen cookies

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,

for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away

like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.

The good you do for others is good you do yourself...

~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

SEE YOU SOON!!!