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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Recipes from Aunt Flora -- Pumpkin Cake

Pumpkin Bars
4 eggs
1 2/3 cups sugar [white]
1 cup oil [used olive oil]
1 16 oz. can pumpkin [was a15 oz. can]
2 cups flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
[Choc. Chips]

In mixing bowl, beat together eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin until light and fluffy.
Stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and soda.
Add to pumpkin mixture and mix thoroughly.

Spread batter in ungreased 15x10x1 baking pan. [have only a 13x9x2]
[sprinkled with chocolate chips and tapped so they’d sink into batter]
Bake in 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes. [because of pan size, was closer to 45-50 minutes]
Cool and frost with the optional Cream Cheese Frosting.

Cream Cheese Icing
1 3 oz. package cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cup shifted powder sugar
½ cup margarine, softened

Cream together cream cheese and butter.
Stir in vanilla.
Add powdered sugar, a little at a time, beating well, till mixture is smooth.


I like chocolate and pumpkin, so I added the chips to this cake recipe. After debating for a day or two, I didn't make the frosting, and just took the cake into the IT department for their devour-ment. Apparently, it was a hit -- as there were only crumbs when I went to retrieve the pan. No one seemed to mind that there was no frosting.

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