"Adopt" Animals at the Fort Worth Zoo

I've blogged about this before, but I'm doing it again because I think this concept is really cool.

Can't come up with the perfect gift for your sweetheart? Get your sweetsie something really neat this Valentine's Day - "adopt" a pair of penguins for $40 from the Fort Worth Zoo and this is what you get:

"Your sweetheart will adore a creative gift package filled with a photo, a plush penguin, a personalized adoption certificate and more, packaged in a festive animal carrier box."

• Choice of penguin – African or rockhopper (one plush penguin)

• Adoption certificate

• Animal fact sheet and photo

• One Zoo newsletter

Or you can adopt a couple of love birds for $70 and you get this:

• African and rockhopper penguins (two plush penguins)

• Adoption certificate

• Animal fact sheets and photos

• One Zoo newsletter

• Two Zoo tickets

Orders must be received by noon on February 10 to ensure mail delivery by February 14. Otherwise, packages may be picked up in person at the Fort Worth Zoo’s Administration Building.

The Fort Worth Zoo is also hosting a couple of dinners - one for couples February 11th and one for singles February 10th.

All this information can be found at the zoo's website. Just follow this link.

You can "adopt" animals all year long at the zoo. Here's a link to that information.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over to the Fort Worth Zoo's website and give the gift of adoption this Valentine's Day!

Cheesy Dilly Grean Beans with Bacon

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How could you possibly go wrong with cheese, dill weed, green beans and bacon? Is that even possible? I don't think so.

Per requests, I make this every year for Thanksgiving.

6 14.5 ounce cans green beans, drained
1 lb. Velveeta, cubed
1 tsp. dill weed
1 lb. (or less) bacon cooked and crumbled (I bake mine in the oven)
salt and pepper to taste

Mix everything in a casserole dish and bake at 350 until cheese is melted. I take it out and stir it after it's baked a little while. You could easily halve this recipe - in fact, the recipe above is doubled.

Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody!!

Burlap Wreath

I got the basic idea of how to do this off of guess what? Pinterest of course! I took a wire hanger, opened it up. Got two different colors of burlap that I've had for probably close to 15 years and started cutting that into strips. That stuff is messy and leaves little strands everywhere so be ready for that before you start cutting. I'd say that I had about a yard of each color of burlap - so about two yards of burlap total.

I cut strips that were about 3 inches wide (more or less) and about 12 inches long or maybe a little longer. It really doesn't matter.

Take a strip of the burlap and start kind of threading it by placing the wire hanger through it.

It's almost like you were skewering meat to put on the grill.

I poked the clothes hanger through about every inch and a half or so.

Alternate the colors of burlap if you like.

Squish it all together then twist the coat hanger closed.

Then tie a pretty bow. I think my mother bought the ribbon I used from a flea market in Mena, Arkansas - beautiful place that Mena, Arkansas - Mena will always have a special place in my heart.

Hang that gorgeous wreath on your front door and call it good!!

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