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2023 Key Limes From Our Backyard Tree The Salty Siren Bones Coffee Company, a Favorite of Ours ———————————————————————– Our 1890 Pennsylvania Barn Wood Table Top Ready To Grab My Things As I Leave For The Day ——————————————————————————– Yummy Goodies I’ve Brought Home …
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Christmas, 2023 Christmas, 2023 Me, Wrapping Gifts Above Christmas Cards, and Pretty Baubles I Love My Table! All Lit up with Vintage! I just happen to love wrapping gifts! Some, I may wrap in beautiful vintage wrap, and others I may wrap …
Welcome to Wednesday’s CLUE Don’t Blink! It’s Wednesday! ——————————————————- If you know me, or have read me, then you know how much I love CLUE. Any version, every version. It’s my game! This year, 2024, was no different. This CLUE isn’t as elaborate …
UNDER CONSTRUCTION Morning Mortals ———————————————————————————- —————————————————————————————- ————————————————————————– September 1, 2024 Our Son-In-Law Brian’s 40th. Birthday! Brian loves The Haunted Mansion Ride at Disney’s Magic Kingdom, and he …
Our Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights R.I.P. TOUR 2019 Gordon and Julie WELCOME UNIVERSAL ORLANDO For Gordon’s homecoming I wanted to do something special for all of us. Veronica is always going on and on about all the great haunted houses at Universal …
Autumn: The third season of the year, when crops and fruits are gathered and leaves fall in the northern hemisphere from September to November and in the southern hemisphere from March to May. The Countryside is Ablaze in Autumn —————————————————————— In Florida, the …
Felici Giorni Dell’Indipendenza (Happy Independence Day, in Italian) Benvenuta! Grazie Per Essere Qui! So Happy You Are Here! Mozzarella, Fresh Basil, and Roma Tomatoes…. ————————————————————————— Introducing, My La Sciatta Giulia Anna’s… A.K.A.: My Italian Sloppy Julie Ann’s ——————————————————————————————- My Italian …
Creating Easter…. Creating Easter is just that. No matter how big, or small. Some Easter’s we have gone all out with an abundance of food and decor. And other’s were quite small and humble. It all seems to rely on how …
Hello Kitty (Although I have written about Girl’s Day on some other Asian website posts of ours, I wanted to create one specifically dedicated to the celebration.) Happy Hinamatsuri! Hinamatsuri originated from a Chinese doll festival where people would send …
Cing, Cing… (Cheers) Buon Natale! Benvenuti A Casa Nostra Lettere A Babbo Natale Palline Di Natale Rosa, Rosa, and Rosa ————————————————————————————————- Merry Christmas It was in 2018 when I went to our daughter Veronica’s Bridal Shower, and I met …
Easter, April 9, 2023 ——————————————————————— Experimenting With Our Easter Table ———————————————————————————– Our Easy Easter Table Vegetarian Normally our Easter’s are a bit more elaborate, however we had just hosted a big Baby Shower for our daughter and son-in-law two days prior, so this …
One HOT Jezebel For Breakfast Good Morning, Sleep Well? Have I ever got something special for you this morning. No, don’t get up. Just lay right where you are. Grapes, Pomegranate juice, Mini Pancakes, Cream Cheese, Bacon, and Pomegranate …
Good Morning, Having My Kahlua Coffee in My Julie Mug ————————————————————————————- The Beginning of My Kahlua Christmas (2023) I Found The Recipe I Was Looking For! This is For: Aunt Susy Whann RIP, We Miss You I believe it was in the …
Feliz Accion De Gracias (Happy Thanksgiving) 2023 Thanksgiving Day, After the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, I have Miracle on 34th. Street on a Loop All Day Long This movie is the sounds of the day, blending with the smells of the …
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Labor Day, 2023 Taking it Easy Until Next Labor Day…. 🙂 My Longaberger Pottery Pitcher with Flowers A Gift of Labor Day to our Daughter, and Son-In-Law It was back in the summer of 2014 that Veronica and I visited my old homestead …
The Haunted Mansion Enter if you dare, foolish mortals. ——————————————————————————————— We Love Halloween, We Love The Haunted Mansion On this Page are Haunted Mansion Halloween’s From 2022, and 2023 We Hope That You Will Enjoy What We Created We …
(The men in the photo top left, are Gordon and our son-in-law Brian.) Disney Springs, Orlando, Florida (Gordon, Julie, Mackenzie, and Brodie) Cheers to the Day! ————————————————————– (Veronica and Brian) They walked right by us without even noticing us sitting there! 🙂 …
When you are looking for … Something for the 4th. Our Dueling BBQ Sandwiches Waldorf For The 4th. Brunswick Stew with Dried Okra See Recipe For Our Brunswick Stew and Our Barbeque Here: Brunswick Stew and Barbeque We Used This Barbeque Recipe on …
Mother’s Day, 2023 Our Pretty Mother’s Day Table (The mini wine bottles are leftover from our Baby Shower that was a few days before.) Brussels Sprouts Beignets… ..with a Bacon Aioli Sauce This was a perfect Mother’s Day Meal The Mini-Wine …
Hello and Welcome to My Personal Blogs I started this website in July, 2011, along with my very first blog post. I tend to write about whatever I may be going through. When I started the website I was …
Aloha, Hawaii The Haku Lei I Bought For Veronica From Hawaii (Haku Means Head Lei) The Beautiful Blossoms of Plumeria and Hibiscus I Purchased Online The Reed Like Thing You See Above, I Found on Our Ewa Beach and Painted it, …
The Lucky Shamrock on Top of our Guinness Reduction —————————————————————————- Our Guinness Reduction with Irish Soda Bread Our Pot ‘O Gold Broccoli Dip Our Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites Dipped in Our Guinness Reduction (Recipe Down Below) I Thought …
“May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold—and at the end of your rainbows ay you find a pot of gold.” Old Irish Blessing Here is our Delicious ‘Pot of Gold’ Dinner We Hope You …
Kung Hei Fat Choy January 22, 2023 is the Lunar New Year, The Year of the Rabbit We lived in Hawaii for 13 years. Both of our children were born there. They grew up celebrating and appreciating all the holidays …
Merry Christmas From Florida We’ve Had Many a Beachy Christmas Here Whether we are actually on the beach, or just enjoying our life in Florida not too far from the beach. There is just something very special about life on, or near …
COMING THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT (2023) The Asian cultures have always inspired us. Each one brings such creativity, intelligence, and inspiration, and not to mention, great food! One of our favorite things to do is to visit our local …
(Coal and Cards) Coming December, 2024 It Wouldn’t Be The Grinch Without His Dog Max Sparky Objecting, Sparky Accepting His Role as Max, and Sparky With Spooky Lou Who ————————————————————————————————- —————————————————————————- Merry Grinchmas Cake …
2022 Adopt-A-Manatee (In Search of Moo-Shoo) For Mother’s Day 2022, my daughter Veronica gave me the gift of a Manatee Adoption She chose the Manatee, Moo-Shoo She knew I would love her name. And, I do! I am still Moo-Shoo’s Sponsor, …
Merry Christmas Canning Stewed Tomatoes An Original by Susy Whann (Gordon’s Aunt Susy made the quilted Christmas Tree Banner. It just seemed appropriate to feature it here. She passed a few years ago. But her caring and craftswomanship, still exists.) —————————————————————————– This …
Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving! (2022) Just in Time to Watch The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Oh Look! It’s The Tarpon Springs High School Marching Band From Tarpon Springs, Florida They closed the parade! Actually, they performed right …
Salve! Benvenutu Al Nostro Halloween Da Vinci ———————————————————————– Leonardo Da Vinci, The Mona Lisa (That is Tom Hanks hand above, from the movie The Da Vinci Code.) I fell in love with the movie when it first came out, and it …
To me, it’s just not Halloween without a Hitchcock marathon of all of his movies. Currently Watching The Killer, Lars Thorwald from Rear Window I was Thrilled to Find this Game Online For those of you that know my love of …
Happy Halloween Hungry? This is a favorite meal of mine to make, due to its creativity and simplicity. Like a one pot meal, this is mostly a one roasting pan meal with the exception of boiling the …
WILLKOMMEN! (Welcome) (Hardly fancy, but Cheese, Turkey Sausage, on Crackers with a good German Mustard is a nice little snack.) ———————————————————– Oktoberfest: German Festival Held over a two week period ending the first Sunday in October. The festival originated on October 12, …
Autumn Me, Rome, Georgia, mid 1960’s playing in the leaves. (Love the cars.) 🙂 When I think of Autumn I always first think of leaves. The Fall colors of the trees as the leaves fall off of them, and crunch …
Labor Day Weekend (Friday – Monday) The Parrish Condo Our Destination On Our Way (Julie, Sparky, Spooky and Gordon) It’s The Florida Hillbillies! Headed Toward Indian Shores, Florida (In the rain.) 🙁 —————————————————————– ABBA, Of Course 🙂 Not till …
And The Oscar Goes To…. Albert R. Broccoli He did win an Irving G. Thalberg Oscar posthumously at the Academy Awards in 1982. The award was presented to him by the current James Bond at the time, Sir Roger Moore. …
Wouldn’t it be nice to take a stroll into that painting? That era above is from my Great-Grandmother Honnie’s time. Her name was Lillian Miller Haskin Lone, but I called her Honnie. People would refer to her as Ms. …
Happy 4th. of July! Brunswick Stew… ——————————————————————— Soup Spoons On! ————————————————————————– Seasoned Crackers Our Seasoned Crackers with store bought Dried Tomatoes, etc. —————————————————————————– And, BBQ… ——————————————————————————- With, Pickled Red Onions… —————————————————————— Along with a few of our other homemade condiments. Our Corn …
EASTER 2022 The green cup in the photo above is a handmade ceramic cup, probably made by a child. It was found in a box in the attic of my son’s girlfriends house. I spotted it and saw a treasure! She …
Meet Valentine Guinness, Heir to the Guinness Brewery and Suspected Money Launderer for Russia 00Whann’s One True Love (That he just met last night at the party.) ——————————————————– Valentine Guinness’s Purse, Compact and Lipstick (The thumbdrive is not here. Where can …
Fortune Cookies Dare To Dream The Year of the Tiger (Rice Noodles) The Year of the Tiger, February 1, 2022 – January 21, 2023 The Tiger is known for Courage, and Strength. The Tiger ranks 3rd. of all the animals in …
GREENS SOUTHERN SOUL FOOD A New Year’s Day Tradition in the South We eat Collard Greens every new year in the hopes that it will give us money all year long. 🙂 Black Eyed Peas are for LUCK! And …
(I swear to you that I am not flipping anyone off in the photo above. I didn’t know my fingers looked like that. Sorry. I would like to state that we have been using our fingers for centuries before someone decided to deem one …
Merry Christmas AND, Happy Christmas, United Kingdom Mele Kalikimaka, Hawaii Feliz Navidad, Mexico Kung Hsi Hsin Nien Bing Chu Shen Tan, China Boze Narodzenie, Poland Chestita Koleda, Bulgaria Vesele Vanoce, Czech Republic Vrolyk Kerstfeest en Gelukkig Nieuu Jaar, Dutch Nollaig …
Welcome To Our Big Bang Theory Saturnalia CLUE (Just doing some decorating for the holidays.) CLUE How It All Started (We don’t recommend The Big Bang Theory Cookbook seen above, as there are many recipes that are not correct. Even …
Happy Thanksgiving! Welcome To Our Home Pull Up a Chair and Have a Seat Won’t You Join Us In Partaking Of Our Grilled Spatchcock Turkey? Gordon’s Carving Looks Delicious, Doesn’t It? We Hope You Like an Italian Ornamental Squash Casserole? …
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Trick-or-Treat Salty But Sweet! Mermaid Kisses and Starfish Wishes Welcome to our Under Sea Halloween! Can I Offer You a Mermaid Treat from the Reef? How About a Chocolate Seashell? You Wish, Jellyfish! The Mermaid Riches, and Mermaid …
Happy Halloween For My Spooky ..and My Sparky. For Our Grand-Dog Chewie….. And Our Grand-Dog Hank We adore the animals in our lives. These are for you guys! Julie and Gordon Happy Halloween From Spooky and Sparky (We …
Space: The Final Frontier These are the voyages of the “Pretend” Star Ship Enterprise. It’s one Halloween Night mission: To explore strange new backyards in the state of Florida, (hopefully without being shot.) To seek out Alien Ingredients and …
Autumn Once Labor Day is over with….. There is just something special about the end of Summer and the beginning of Autumn. To most of us it’s having the kids go back to school. Always a special time for me …
Premiering at a Theater Near You! Starring Julie’s Jezebel Sauce, and a Cast of Supporting Foods For those of you outside The Bible Belt of America, you probably have never heard of Jezebel Sauce. It’s exact Southern origins are a bit …
Happy Independence Day! On this particular July 4th. we wanted to do something a bit different. We always seemed to eat the same foods each year, over and over again. Those classic and traditional foods are …
Happy 4th. of July Meet Sparky Whann And His Sparky Doodle Dandies When I adopted Spooky and Sparky I would always refer to Sparky as “Sparky Doodle Dandie.” Therefore, it made sense that we would make some Sparky Doodle Dandie Dog …
Acapulco, Mexico 2001 This hand painted plate was recently given to Gordon from his parents on one of their many trips down to Mexico. —————————————————— Tomatillos ————————————————————— 2021 Happy Father’s Day Gordon! Feliz Dia del Padre! For this Father’s …
My Sloppy Jules Remember Sloppy Joe night when you were growing up? I sure do! I loved them! It was the closest thing to a hamburger on a bun without the patty. I would usually drench mine in yellow mustard as …
(I took the photo above when we first moved to Hawaii in 1986. This is Diamond Head side of the island.) We sure do miss riding around the island playing tourists. ————————————————————– ALOHA! May Day is Lei Day When I was a …
Happy Easter Everyone! Welcome to our Artsy Easter (We shot this in 2021) This Easter is actually based on cleaning out the attic and going through many storage containers in our attic, in an attempt to get rid of some of …
Merry X-Mas I had no where to put these little X-Mas X-Tras, so I created this page to place them on. Nothing grand, just something cute and simple. Sometimes, that’s all you need. Have a Safe and X-Tra Special, …
Merry Christmas Welcome This 2020 year we have gone through renovations in our kitchen and living room. It was something of a holiday inconvenience but we got through it pretty good. One thing that we wanted to make, and …
Mele Kalikimaka, 2020 me ka Hou’oli Makahiki Hou! ———————————————– Our Tropical Hawaiian Cranberry Sauce Canning and Christmas While Undergoing Home Renovations We Still Managed to Have a Nice Kalikimaka All of my Poi Balls (I made them myself 23 years ago …
Spicy Hot Mexican Cranberries Regalos Comestibles (Edible Gifts) We made a similar Cranberry Sauce last year for our Feliz Navidad. Click Here For: Feliz Navidad a Casa Whann You can find the recipe for our 2019 Cranberries on that …
THANKSGRILLIN’ 2020 Welcome to our Home Renovations Thanksgiving A.K.A. Our Thanksgiving During our Home Renovations With our kitchen under construction, it fell to the outside grill to deliver us our turkey from evil. (Or something to that affect.) Check …
Julie’s Blackberry Pies ——————————————————————– Served with Kool-Whip mixed with Blackberry Jam and Topped with Blackberries Perhaps Eaten with The Cranky Bastard Blackberry Wine ———————————————————— When I think of a pie, Mother Goose always comes to mind: Sing a Song of …
(I want to dedicate this page to my daughter Veronica. Veronica Whann, Maryland She adored the Charmed T.V. show and she even created a website dedicated to the show when she was just a young teen, when we were living in Maryland. I don’t …
The Griffin Residence 31 Spooner Street Quahog, Rhode Island —————————————————— —————————————————————- Meet The Griffin’s L to R: Chris, Meg, Peter, Lois, Stewie, and Brian ——————————————————- Meet The Whann’s L to R Sparky, Gordon, Spooky Lou, and Julie ——————————————————— Happy Halloween Are …
Happy Thanksgiving or Feliz dia de Accion de Gracias My Corn Husk Dolls Our Mexican Inspired Roasted Chicken and Vegetables Because it was just going to be the two of us, Gordon and Myself for Thanksgiving this …
‘Tis The Season…. …For Making Delicious Edible Gifts Julie with Red Pearl Onions How About Pickling Some Purple Pearls? Actually, they are known as Red Pearl Onions, they just look Purple to me. I think they are beautiful. Who wouldn’t be …
Amity Island Welcomes You We are Gordon and Julie 1975 ———————————————————- Enjoying my Shark Tea and a good book. —————————————————— Salt Water Taffy I have had a love affair with Salt Water Taffy at the shore my entire life. It’s tradition. …
The Death Star (That’s no moon, that’s a space station. Obi Wan Kenobi) ———————————————————— Welcome to a Whann Christmas in the Galactic Empire ——————————————————– Christmas Morning (Brodie Whann and Mackenzie) Captain Tarkin Crunch Hurry! I’ve poured the blue milk! Darth Vader Prize …
Gordon and Julie Happy Mother’s Day A Carved Rose in a Turnip and a Small Radish Mouse that sits a Top Julie’s Flowers Welcome to our Backyard Lanai Welcome to My Mother’s Day My Name is Julie This is My Mother’s …
Welcome to Pork, Sausage and Mustard From the Kitchen of……. Gordon and Julie Today, we will be making MUSTARD, and lots of it! At this writing we are in the middle of a pandemic, the Coronavirus/Covid 19. Gordon and I decided …
The Smith House History Cookbook (Only in the south do you find teaspoons. Especially in silverware sets.) —————————————————– Easter, 1970 Me, my little brother Johnny and my mother, Mary Keith in our front yard in Dahlonega, Georgia. (Although my mother does …
Merry Christmas Hello My name is Julie and I am 59 years old. I first met Santa when I was 2 year’s old at Riches Department Store in Atlanta, Georgia and I’ve been a big fan ever since. Gordon and I have …
Do Not Disturb (A wooden door knob sign I decoupaged many years ago with cupid graphics.) ——————————————————————– Happy Valentine’s Day I have always loved Valentine’s Day. Probably because my birthday is the day before and I’ve always had these two great days …
Black and White Pearls Our Very Elegant Pickled Pearl Onions and Balsamic Pearls How About An Elegant Edible Gift? Welcome to The Recipe, Gordon and Julie ——————————————————————- Be Sure To Also Check Out Our: Pickled Purple Pearls Also Check Out Our: …
From The Kitchen Of……. UNDER CONSTRUCTION ———————————————————- ———————————————————– ———————————————————— ——————————————————————- ———————————————————- Be Sure To Also Check Out Our: Pickled Purple Pearls —————————————————— AND, Black and White Pearls ————————————————————– ————————————————————— Roasting Pearls on the Grill ——————————————————— UNDER CONSTRUCTION Clutching My …
The Bulletin Board pictured above is hanging in our Hallway. I put it there when we bought our house, and moved in. Nothing ever seems to get taken off of it although for some reason we keep cramming things into it through these …
Merry Kitchy Kristmas My name is Julie, and our dogs are Spooky, (the Chihuahua) and Sparky, the Chug. I am standing in our Kitchy Kristmas Nook. I Want to Welcome You to our Kitchy Kristmas! You will not find beautiful magazine photographs of …
It’s December, 2019, a beautiful weekend for the two of us to get away and immerse ourselves in all things Weeki Wachee Springs, and Mermaid’s. 🙂 Weeki Wachee is a State Park in Florida located in Spring Hill. It …
————————————— SHOPPING, DAY OF…….Feliz Navidad O.K. I’ve got my lists. Right Here! ——————————————————— We have our Feliz Navidad on Saturday. I think Joseph is coming so we need to include him. Veronica is in Tennessee now but she will …
Happy Halloween! Welcome to The Pumpkin Patch Ready to Pick Out Your Pumpkin? ———————————————————— Halloween, 2019 Hoarding Pumpkins Throughout the House ———————————————————— To kick off our Halloween celebrations we all went to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights for the …
Welcome to our Halloween Home We are Gordon and Julie and we LOVE Halloween, and Alfred Hitchcock! ———————————————– Psycho! I’ll be out of the shower in a minute!! COMING SOON FOR HALLOWEEN!!!!! Lock your doors and windows. You awake …
(The photo above is of a few pieces of the China Set that belonged to my Great-Grandmother Keith, then passed to my Grandmother, and then given to me. It’s Blue Willow.) My Grandparents My Grandmother’s Blue Vase and Her Blue …
