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Think Outside the Box!!!

Sylvia — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:17:42 +0000

I don’t know about you, but we in Cherokee County Georgia, which is part of Metro Atlanta, are getting a little stir crazy. Cherokee County Schools start on August 6. Can it come any faster?????

We’ve been having rain for several days and toys are getting boring…..boxes are looking good!

Send me your favorite kid pictures. We’ll post them on Augie’s Alley!!!!

QD – Princess of Mud Puddles

Sylvia — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:56:32 +0000

Yes, that’s me. Augie named me when he was 5. He didn’t know how to spell Cutie, so that’s how I got my unique name.

I’ve been told that I have the personality of Miss Piggy and Angelica from the Rugrats. My hobbies are eating and collecting things and also eating the things I collect. I collect things from all over the house. I hide them under my mom’s bed. No one is allowed under there except me and my mom. Right now, I have Augie’s entire bag of valentines that he got at school. Lots of them used to have candy taped to them. I ate all of that for him. He can have them back now. That stuff would rot his teeth.

I am a Springer Spaniel with perfect markings, of course. I’m four years old and I didn’t come from the animal shelter, like the boys. No one would ever want to get rid of me. I’m pretty, smart and puuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrfect! The key to understanding me is that I live up to my name…..I SPRING. If my mom tries out recipes at home, I often try the first one….right off the counter top. My mom says the only safe place is on top of the refrigerator. At night, I lay awake thinking of ways to create a ladder to get up there.

Another one of my hobbies is barking at the new cats we have. My mom doesn’t like it. She often tells me to stop. But I just enjoy talking very loudly to the cats. I think that’s the only way they’ll learn to speak “dog”.

I love to get in the dryer when my mom is taking out the warm towels. I often growl to get her to leave me alone and leave the towels in there.

I also help my mom with the dishes at night. I consider myself the pot scrubber cycle, licking all the dishes before she puts the soap in. I like to save energy. Think green!

Jerry – Friend to Everyone

Sylvia — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:56:10 +0000

I’m Jerry, the baby. I’m three. I’m the youngest dog in the house.

My dad rescued me from the animal shelter in Murphreesboro, Tennessee. He read about me in Petfinders.com.

I am a red Golden Retriever. I ended up at the shelter because I was the product of a divorce. My first dad spoke Spanish and my first mom spoke English. So I am bilingual. I love it here in Hickory Flat, Georgia.

I love toys. I carry a “baby” nearly everywhere I go. I help my mom with the laundry by picking up dirty clothes. I often try to wash them with my tongue, but they smell and taste so darn good that next thing you know, WHOOP, they’re in my tummy. It surprises me too.

I also like to eat the fringe off my mom’s oriental rug in the foyer…(don’t tell her). Oh yeah, I also like to swim in the pool….even in the winter. My mom thinks I’ll catch a cold.

My best friend is QD. We play tug of war with pantyhose, dirty clothes and rope. I especially love to decorate the house with the stuffing from my mom’s oven mitts when they have a little bit of muffin-cake batter or sugar on them. She now buys those dumb rubber kind. They’re no fun.

The Bear

Sylvia — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:55:43 +0000

Hi, my name’s Bear. I’m six years old. I’m part Chow and part “I don’t know”. I’ve got two stainless steel knees. I say that makes me a bionic dog. I run really FFFFFAAAssssssssssssssstttt!!
I love to escape when anyone opens the front door. My hobby is barking at school buses. Three of them stop in front of our house five days a week. When it gets hot outside, they quit coming.
My teeth are very brown because I was very sick when my mom and dad rescued me from the Cherokee County Humane Society. The doctor gave me Tetracycline while I still had baby teeth. When my big choppers came in, they were brown. I think it gives me character and makes me look very mean…..even though my sister, QD, says I have a sissy bark.
I am nocturnal and roam the house at night on patrol. The cats are very scarey.

Hey, c’mon in!

Sylvia — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:37:10 +0000

This is the intro page for Augie’s Alley. I’ll upload a picture or two of Augie and friends.

Seminole Oranges

Sylvia — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:53:23 +0000

About 200 hundred years ago, oranges in North America were sour. The Indians used to put honey and lemon juice on them before they ate them. I love these.

Stuff you’ll need for this recipe:

Oranges with the peel still on (Enough for everyone)

Honey

Lemon juice (I like those plastic lemons with juice inside best. They’re fun.)

Small knife

Spoon

Cereal bowl

Plate or napkin (paper is fine for both)

How to make it:

Cut off the top 1/3 of the orange.

This part is a little tricky so be careful not to poke a hole in the orange peel.

Put your knife inside the orange just inside the skin and cut around the juicy orange part that you eat. Then take your spoon and scoop out the orange. It’s OK. The pieces will break as you get them out. Put the pieces in the bowl.

Put the empty orange peel on the plate or napkin. We’ll use it as a bowl in a minute.

To the oranges in the bowl, add one spoonful of honey for each orange and one spoonful of lemon juice.

Stir it all up.

Spoon the orange pieces back into the empty orange peels.

Use the same spoon to eat it.

Indian Corn

Sylvia — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:52:43 +0000

I’m part Seminole Indian, so was my dad. I like to eat some of the food that American Indians eat.

Stuff you’ll need for this recipe:

Hot Campfire or BBQ pit or gas grill

Corn on the cob with its leaves still on

Water

Bucket or Big Cooking Pot

How to make it:

Fill a bucket or cooking pot with water

Gently open the leaves of the corn without pulling them off. Pull out the corn silk (that’s the little what hairs on the corn)

Straighten the leaves back so no one can tell you pulled out the corn silk.

Drop the corn in the bucket or water and soak for 15 minutes.

Get the corn out of the buck and shake it off a little.

Put the corn on the outside edge of your campfire or right on the grill of a BBQ grill or on the grill of a gas grill.

Cook for 10 minutes.

Turn the corn over.

Cook for 5 more minutes.

Silver Turtles

Sylvia — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:49:59 +0000

I made these at a Boy Scout campout. They are GREAT!

Stuff you’ll need for this recipe:

Hot Campfire or BBQ pit or gas grill

Aluminum foil (my mom says Reynolds Quick Release is best)

Uncooked Meat like chicken or hamburger or steak or fish

Vegetables like onions, potatoes, carrots, celery, peas or whatever you like

Salt and pepper

Shredded cheese

Sharp knife

How to make it:

Tear off a piece of aluminum foil about 18 inches long (that is the length of two of my shoes)

Cut up your meat into bite sized pieces. Remember to curl your fingers in away from the knife when holding the meat and vegetables.

Cut up your vegetables into bite sized pieces.

Put a handful of meat on the foil. You can even mix the kinds of meat, if you like.

Then put as many different vegetables on there as you like.

Sprinkle it with salt and pepper.

If you like cheese, put a handful of cheese on it too.

Fold up the package. Mae sure all ends are sealed the best you can.

Then tear off a new piece of aluminum foil the same size as the first. Put the package that you just folded up on this one and mold the new foil around it to form an animal of your choice. I just made an egg. My mom made some kind of bird. She really likes birds. Some of my friends made sharks, scorpions, ducks and crabs.

Put your animal on the outside edge of your campfire or right on the red hot coals of a BBQ grill or on the grill of a gas grill. Cook for 20 minutes. Have a grown up be sure your meat if cooked all the way before you eat it.

You’ll love these.