Good news and….

Thanks to the reader who commented on my post yesterday correctly identifying my vine.  It is the cardinal vine.  http://awaytogarden.com/cardinal-climber-and-its-cousins-annual-vines-that-are-hummingbird-favorites/  I am going to see if I can be allowed to plant it around the light pole at the end of the driveway.

I got wonderful news yesterday after a visit to the Cancer Clinic headed by my oncologist and the ENT surgeon.  I am officially in remission.  I will have to visit the cancer clinic ever 2 months.  No pet or ct scans unless they find something in my examination.   Thank you God!!!  And thanks for all of the well wishes and prayers from my blogging friends.

It is now 11 days on the countdown till Spring.  Not very spring like here today.  In the low 30s with some kind of precipitation going on out there.  I am not sure what kind.  To be in the mid to upper 50s on Monday.  Sounds heavenly!

Daylight savings time starts tomorrow.  Time to set the clocks ahead 1 hour.  It takes time for me to get used to this.  I don’t like it.

I am all set to make the banana bread today using my tried and true recipe that I have used for the last 40 years or more.

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Banana Bread

This is the recipe I have used for banana bread for all of my married life. Jim loved it. I will never forget him sitting in by the front window in July 2006 eating banana bread and drinking a glass of milk while he was watching the city finally put a new curb in front of our house.

•1 cup margarine
•2 cups sugar
•4 eggs
•1/4 teaspoon salt
•2 teaspoons soda
•4 cups of flour
•6 large ripe bananas mashed
•1 cup chopped pecans (may use walnuts) optional

Have oven preheated to 350 degrees. Sift the dry ingredients together and set aside. Cream the margarine, sugar and eggs together. Add the flour mixture together alternately with the mashed bananas to the creamed mixture. Fold in the pecans. Pour into two loaf pans (or several small loaf pans) that have been sprayed with cooking spray. Bake for approximately 1 hour for lg loaf pans. Watch smaller pans. Bread is done when the top is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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Have a peaceful weekend.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth