Daughter Lise took her lunch break to walk to the creek with me. After she finished work for the day, she drove us on the Blue Ridge Parkway. She loves to drive, and I love to have her drive. The day was overcast, bordering on rain. At one of the first overlooks, I took her photo as the mountains posed silently.
We stopped again for a small stream that had a lovely sound. This little stream becomes a roaring waterfall, visible further down the parkway.
Lise was short of sleep and wanted to rest her eyes for a while. I was in favor of that for her comfort and our safety. It was peaceful for me to look at the mountains from an overlook and play a card game on my phone. She woke, refreshed by a nap, and we headed to the supermarket on the way home. She had a list of things to take back to Denmark. An American she works with wanted grits, something easy to find in any Southern grocery store. She bought peanut butter powder, which she gets every year, as well as dark chocolate peanut butter. A new find was honey powder. ??? Maybe we’ll have a report about that in a few weeks. Chocolate graham crackers were hard to find, because they were in a different section. Lise also bought several packages of marshmallows with unusual flavors, colors, and shapes for a Danish friend. We bought chocolate mallows filled with chocolate for ourselves. I delighted in looking at all sorts of things I never see when doing the weekly shopping.
While relaxing at home, I got a shot of Lise and John $ with Sadie. The dog is reveling in being surrounded by people who love to pet her. She gives as much love as she gets.
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Nice pics. Good move napping far from noisy grandpa clock!
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I love the silence high on the mountains.
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New to me….peanut butter and honey powder…mu goodness ….but it would be easier to travel with.
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I’ve heard Lise say how she uses peanut butter powder, but I wasn’t a very good student. I think she bought the honey powder for a friend who drinks tea.
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Lovely!
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Dark chocolate peanut butter?! I must try some of this.
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I’ve never tried dark chocolate peanut butter. Actually, I’m afraid to. What if I became addicted?
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What a nice visit. I commend you for not buying all the chocolate stuff. Never heard of some of those powders but I don’t need to either.
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Lise buys things for friends, so she may not know how everything is used. 40 years ago, I would have asked for Cheerios and baking powder to be brought to England.
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We had to take Starbucks, Community Coffee, and tortillas to South Africa. 🙂
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We all have essentials, don’t we? Thanks for your list of items going from the US to South Africa. I wonder what I would want to take to myself in England now. I might still want baking powder.
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They don’t use baking powder? Hmmmm…
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No, English baking power was single acting. Our standard was double acting. They do not behave the same way. I haven’t looked at a label recently, but I’ll bet the words “double acting” will still be there.
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Do their baked goods rise enough or are they “heavier?”
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Their recipes are geared for their baking powder, and I was baking Brownies.
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I would like Lise driving me through the mountains too. I’m a white-knuckle driver when you take me out of my comfort zone. We left behind our favorite Canadian brands so when we visited my grandmother we’d stock up on Red Rose pickles, Shirriff lemon pudding mix, Aero and Coffee Crisp chocolate bars among other things.
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Thanks for that list. I’ve never seen those things. A friend and I used to drink Red Rose tea from Canada. I haven’t looked for it here, since someone brought us tea from Wales.
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My mom liked the Red Rose sweet pickle mix as it had pickled cauliflower and onions in with the pickles. I remember Red Rose tea … I guess I thought it was here and must’ve been in Canada. My mom used to drink coffee but switched to tea many years ago. I can’t remember the tea bags she used with the tea bag hang tag with sayings (some like fortune cookies).
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Red Rose tea had sayings on the tags, as I remember.
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I thought it was Red Rose teabags. I did a “Thought for Today” for years when we were still at the law firm and I often got my sayings from those those tea tags. My mom would save them for me from her tea. I’d then called the feature “Teabag Tea Tag Wisdom.”
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So delightful to read of her visit. Interesting things that your daughter chose to take back. Food from a particular area is often sought after when visiting overseas. I know I make the most of certain foods when I have traveled to Denmark and always come home with Norwegian chocolate.
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I like knowing what you prize from Denmark. I wonder what I would bring home if I went to England now.
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What WOULD that be?
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I’ll have to think about it. I haven’t been back to England since we left 40 years ago. Whatever I wanted might no longer be relevant.
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Food in powder form sounds interesting. I’m not sure about tasty, but interesting.
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I must ask Lise what she uses powdered peanut butter for.
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It’s definitely interesting. I hear dogs love peanut butter.
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Sadie doesn’t mind being washed if John $ smears peanut butter on the shower wall. I wouldn’t like that, but she does. She not only likes it, she licks it.
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Ew..
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Someone should test you with tuna. I’m sure we never gave our cats a bath, so I take back my suggestion.
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It looked like a beautiful day out, Anne. And the food shopping was cool. I love spending time in the supermarket and just being surrounded by food so I was entertained to learn what you got and why.
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I think Lise bought most of the items she intends to take back to Denmark.
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Next time I should take notes about her purchases. I’ve told Lise about y’all, knowing you are probably the ones she would most love to meet. She loves to travel. She lived in Germany for a year or so, but I’m sure she hasn’t been to the Philippines yet. She can’t wait for travel restrictions to be lifted.
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Oh, how sweet. Yes, looking forward for the world to open again and meeting new people. You must be so happy to have her there for now, Anne.
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I always have a wonderful time with Lise.
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Beautiful photos. Good post
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Chocolate mallows filled with chocolate – oh my that sounds delicious. My husband recently found mallow cups in the store and stocked us up. 🙂 Great photos!
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I’ve not seen mallow cups. They sound great.
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Lovely photos of Lise. Nice to stock up on things when you return home. I always bring Tim Horton’s coffee back for hubby when I go back to Canada. Looks like you are having a good visit. (I think they have baking powder in England now)
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They had baking powder 40 years ago, but it was single acting. Standard American baking power is/was double acting.
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I brought a lot of chocolate back from my trip to Germany. While there, I learned that they are fascinated with American chocolate and various types of Nutella. So, if I return I will bring them our chocolate and some Nutella. I like finding practical and useful gifts to bring people instead of silly souvenirs that are made in China and not even from the country of origin.
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I like your philosophy. Nutella would be an excellent gift.
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It’s so fun to hear with people from other places want from other countries. When our company gets together, my friend in Sri Lanka bring me amazing curry, and I supply him with strawberry fruit roll-ups 🙂
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That’s a marvelous exchange. How much more different could those things be?
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What a great post— even your commenters made fascinating contributions. Makes me think of my “adopted” English daughter, who once sent Nutella to her Norwegian-born granddaughter, living in Germany with her military British parents. I also enjoy your photos, its interesting to see other peoples’ family members.
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I like seeing family members when I look at other people’s posts, too. I like your Nutella story.
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I am a notoriously picky eater, but paradoxical in that I will try anything…unless nobody poisons my mind about a certain food. The other part of my Nutella story is that my friend asked me if I liked it, and I said I hadn’t tried it yet. She said “people either love it or hate it.” Of course I refused to even consider it after that.
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Your approach to food is different. Lots of people won’t try new things. I love the taste of Nutella, but I hate that I could get addicted to it.
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I have yet to try it.
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Seeing a picture of someone gives color to them when mentioned. I have yet to put a photo of myself on my blog, although my photo that I use with Facebook, etc., is of me sitting on a chair in a corner with Pearl, my little black cat, standing at my shoulder peering into my face.
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I should look at your Facebook page, but not for a month. I’d love to see a photo of you. Every spare minute is spent catering to Lise, her brother, and her nephew. I’m having a hard time keeping up.
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I haven’t spent a lot of time actually working on the blog lately because I have had BIG trouble with my photos program. I very rarely post on Facebook.
My friend in Virginia and I used to write (email) every day for something like 12 years. We met on one of the old chat rooms. We met in person once, and got to know each other pretty well. We still comment now and then and chat on the phone sometimes, but she went on Facebook when it started…and I didn’t.
I have been experimenting with getting a photo of myself to post on my blog. I’ll post one one of these days. My Facebook ID photo is a picture of me sitting in a chair with my little black cat Pearl standing on my shoulder.
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I’m sorry you’ve had such trouble with your photo program. Computer problems can be very stressful. I hope you conquer it soon.
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very so…. the problem is my own rush to “fix” things without knowing what I’m doing. I bought a portable hard drive for the express purpose of having it host most of my photos and photo paraphernalia. In my lack of wisdom, though, I managed to transfer my entire working hard-drive onto the duplicate files. Flooded the poor thing with photos.
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Golly! What a problem!
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I found some “work arounds” but I’m afraid to get too rambunctious with it…I’d hate to lose all of those photos. Actually I do have them all (or mostly) on their original versions on Cs and snapshots before that. I really need to put those old photos of the farm, and the children…who are now at least 55…on more permanent records.
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Backups are a pain, but they are worth it.
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I always back up anything, its easier now with computer files, I save everything, too. (Now having said that, I will find myself searching in vain for something. lol
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At least it doesn’t take much energy to look for computer files!
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True, except for the wear and tear of my heart strings. 🙂
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I have never heard of peanut butter powder or honey powder. That sounds like an easy way to transport them on an airplane. I once had peanut butter confiscated. I didn’t realize they consider it a liquid.
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Peanut butter a liquid??? No way!
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what a sweet post! Awwhhh-sleeping on a mountain.
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I may have dozed while stopped at an overlook, but I’d want to spend every moment looking at God’s handiwork there.
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Delightful photos and story Anne! Honey powder?? My goodness. I received a what’s app today from a friend who’s selling honey – litchi, sunflower and creamed. Litchi and sunflower honey is new to me … as is peanut butter powder …
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I wonder what the names mean. Here you can label honey for the flower the bees fed on. Clover honey would come from bees that mainly landed on clover.
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Enjoy having your girl home!
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What a nice place to have a nap! But, I am wondering who would like to have a nap at such a beautiful location!
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I agree with you, but when your eyelids close, it’s better if you aren’t driving on mountain roads.
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