Dragon Moon Fire

Dragon Moon Fire "Dundee" was born June 20,1981 and died with her friends Blue & Tucomsa on December 26,2008. Dundee was born to Moon Fire Bar, a running quarter horse mare and Dragon Spotchief, a blanket appaloosa stud in Eureka South Dakota.
Dundee was a beautiful leopard appaloosa mare who loved to run with the wind, glide like a cadillac and rule the roost. Dundee enjoyed a cattle round-up and a good mouthful of alfalfa out on the trail. She was a good friend to all but really only liked 2 of the good riders she carried on her back.
She spent her life 2 miles out of Wishek North Dakota, and is survived by 2 offspring, a black stud son and "Buck" a brown gelding from Braddock. Dundee will be joining her lifelong friends Mickey and The Grey in horsey heaven, they’ve been waiting along time for her.
She will be dearly missed by her owners Deb & Ron Brandner.

Pfeffernuesse cookies

I’m talking Christmas cookies today. Today I am going to eat a Pfeffernuesse (peffer -noose-a) cookie.
I got some Christmas cookies from a few of my senior friends. I am grateful, really I am. I love cookies. But, gee these are not Christmas cookies. What are they thinking? I got sugar cookies, honey cookies, date cookies, peanut butter-chocolate somethings, some sprinkled with red and green thingys. You know, I really like these Germans here and their traditions, I like the food -knoephla soup, chicken & dumplings, but, they don’t have Christmas cookies.
Now the Norwegians they have Christmas cookies. They have krumkaka, sundbakkles, fudiman, rosettes wow! Now those are what I call Christmas cookies! I have wonderful memories of a beautiful glass plate filled with Christmas cookies with colorful pink & green & white divinity and nutty fudge stuffed here and there. It seemed no matter how many you ate the plate still looked full -the magic of Christmas I suspect.
Now the only try these Germans seem to make at having a Christmas cookie is these Pfeffernuesse cookies. They are sorta small, you can see the cookie part is sorta brown, so that’s different. They are not a sugar cookie. They are in a bit of a ball sorta pushed down and they resemble a snow ball. They are covered with powdered sugar so they are sure to be sweet. Well here goes –let me pause for the big taste. Hang on I will be right back
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Ok Ok I took a bite. It was rather chewy the inside is not so sweet but I really like the powdered sugar on the outside. It has some funny flavor inside -maybe licorice? I’m not sure, but I think I could like these. They are different, & pretty -maybe I could say these are German Christmas cookies? Yeah, I take back all that mumbling I wrote about Germans not have a Christmas cookie. In my eyes they now have a Christmas cookie, and along with Curty’s (grandma Esther’s) carmels I bet they would make a fine plate for passing around. Merry Christmas everyone and I hope you have or will make wonderful Christmas memories this year!

I'm movin' on up

Well I've decided to move on up to "Face Book" 1. I've listed my profile 2. uploaded a pic 3. and visited the kids page. ofta, what a girl doesn't do to try and keep up with the kids. So, if you like to be one of my FRIENDS on Face Book just search for me (if you really are one of my friends you'll know my name -tee hee)and do what ever it says to be added to my friend list. Gosh there is a lot to this,BUT a good thing was I got to see Shay Paige Benson's 1st picture. And boy is she a cute dolly.

Christmas memories

I’ve had good Christmas’ -really -I just don’t remember them as much as the bad Christmas’
I’ll tell you about one of my bad Christmas' I remember. We were invited to the old man’s brothers house for Christmas Eve. I was sick, really sick. I had earlier in the day realized that I had short changed one of the kids, I had always tried to spend an equal amount of money on each. Even if it meant buying a small gift to make up the difference. Well this particular year I missed the boat and had realized it to late to make up the difference. Well I sent the old man off to his brothers house, but I went to bed -sick, I had a headache and a stomach ach. I cried, and prayed I would be forgiven.
Every Christmas since that one I have remembered & tried to do better.
I’m working on this year and I’ll be hoping for perfection. I never want to see disappointment on anyone’s face at Christmas and for sure not on my families.