Hello everyone!!! Winter is back in the beautiful state of Arkansas. In WAG fashion, we loaded up and 14 of us went to eat at the Catfish Barn. I made sure to text everyone and tell them cash or check. We reserved a table, and we had such a good time. We are loud, and everyone is trying to talk over each other. Guess who, after messing up his last check, only brought one check with him? Yes, you guessed it—my nephew, Michael. We enjoyed our meal and we all headed out to pay, and guess who leaves his phone on the table? Yes, Michael. “Sir, sir, is this your phone?” We all just laughed and laughed. We get up to pay, and I am right behind Michael. He’s taking his time to fill this check out so he can do it right, and the lady checking us out says, “Looks like he’s doing a good job this time.” Bless him.
I told y’all, we are always doing crazy things. My husband was a Hopkins, but let me tell you—he fit right in. Crazy stuff was always happening to him. Jacob can vouch for all the stuff, and if it wasn’t happening to him, he was causing it. Remember, he bought me the Confederate soldier statue as a Christmas gift. He loved the History Channel. He went from the History Channel to the Weather Channel when he was home to watch TV. He was working in Greenbrier, Arkansas once and had a day off, so he decided he would go to Little Rock to the Clinton Library. He heads down to Little Rock and can’t find it, which shocked me because he was very good with directions and all his north, south, east, and west—you know, like Lewis and Clark trying to give directions. He stops in Little Rock and rolls down the passenger window to ask a guy on the street how to get to it. The guy opens the passenger door and hops in and says, “I will take you to it.” They drove around forever, and the guy had no clue how to get to the Clinton Library. Come to find out, he was a homeless man, and my husband had to pay him to get him to get out of his truck. “Only you,” I said when he told me that story. He finally found the Clinton Library on his own. I said, “Why would you drive around Little Rock with your doors unlocked???” He learned a valuable lesson that day. Bless him—he thought you could trust everyone, and he never met a stranger. You wives love your husband and never take a day for granted.
This week’s recipe is one I have ran before, but I made it on New Year’s, and it is soooo easy and good. My great-nephew, Jake Melton, loved it. Ingredients: 1 box of angel food cake mix 1 (15-ounce) can of peaches (I take my potato masher and chop them up smaller) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine the cake mix and the peaches with the juice until combined. Pour batter into an ungreased 9×13 baking dish. Bake until cake is golden brown. I baked for 30 minutes. This cake is delicious. You can also use pie filling and a dry angel food cake mix. Use any flavor—1 (21-ounce) pie filling and 1 angel food cake mix. Mix together by hand, put in a 9×13 baking dish, and bake at 350 for 28–30 minutes. I have made the blueberry, and it is very good and easy.
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