Halloween Drinks..

Halloween Drinks for 2016~
Hello my dears and Happy Halloween! Its only a few days away Whoooooooooo!
And for today I thought I would put a few Halloween treats for you all. I do have another post that
has some famous haunted houses too. I am truly sorry that I haven't been on line as much these past few months but life has had hit my family with a few personal things but I will always keep in touch an will always write a story or two for you all I love you all so very much. I have a few Halloween drinks for you all and if you don't drink like myself being on medication you don't have to put the alcohol in the drinks...That's what I am going to do 😄
The first drink is called:
Sweet Poison Cocktail:

Its a very pretty in color but beware the color can be deadly!!!
Ingredients-
1oz. light rum
2oz. coconut rum
1oz Blue Curacao
Pineapple juice - Pineapple wedge for garnish
Directions-
1-First combine both the light rum & coconut rum + Blue Curacao in
a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake, then pour into a cocktail glass.
2-Fill the rest of the glass with chilled pineapple juice. Then garnish with a
pineapple wedge.



Zombie Cocktail:

This drink is deceptively potent, because of its shot of Bacardi 151 rum floating on the top.
so beware my Halloween friends when you have a Zombie cocktail. Make sure you have someone drive you home or just don't go anywhere after you have one of these! Also this one there is no way of going non alcohol...Just thought I would let you know...
Ingredients:
1 oz. light rum
1oz. dark rum
1 oz. apricot liquor
2oz. orange juice
1dash. lime Bitters
1oz. Bacardi 151 Rum
orange slice and cherry for garnish
Directions-
1. First light rum, dark rum, apricot liquor, orange juice and
bitters using a cocktail shaker.
2. Finally pour into a large glass filled with ice. Top the glass with the shot of Bacardi 151 rum, then garnish with the orange slice and cherry...


Risen from the Grave-

Here's another rather strong drink for the Halloween season...Have you ever thought of
swilling vodka and St. Germain together? Well, it might seem intense for your first sip, but give the drink a couple more swirls with the straw and mix in the strawberry puree in and you just might like it...
Ingredients-
3oz. Absolut Citron Vodk
2oz. St. Germain
1/4 oz. Strawberry puree
Strawberry and fresh mint leaf for garnish
Directions-
1-First combine the vodka and St. Germain in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake.
2-Pour strawberry puree into the bottom of a martini glass. Top the glass with the vodka-St. Germain combination.
3-Garnish the drink with a Fresh strawberry and mint leaf.

Transformation Cocktail-

This drink is commonly called the Jekyll and Hyde drink-because once you have drank more than have the sweet drink you won't remember much after so be very careful with all of these Halloween treats or tricks?

Ingredients-

2oz. light rum

1oz. orange juice

2oz. blackberry Brandy

2oz strawberry puree

ice

Directions-

1-first pour all ingredients into a strong blender and blend until

the drink has reached a very smoothie like consistency.

2-After that pour into a large glass and serve.

Good & Evil Cocktail-

I haven't figured out why its called Good/Evil Cocktail but I can guess why. In my youth of party days, I can remember how those drinks would taste so good going down that night with all your friends however the next morning, it would feel like your head was going to exposed. So I am guessing that is what this drink is all about so drink with care...Remember the Midori, pineapple juice and Sierra Mist make this drink taste like a liquid Jolly Rancher. And the drink is about half-full of pure alcohol....
Ingredients-
1oz. vodka
1oz Apple Pucker
1oz. Midori
1oz. triple sec
pineapple juice
Sierra Mist
lemon slice for garnish
Directions-
1- Combine vodka, apple Pucker, Midori and Triple sec in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. shake well.
2- Pour the mixture into a cocktail glass, then top with pineapple juice and Sierra Mist. Garnish with a slice of lemon and cherry.

Blood Orange Margaritas-

For Halloween you just can't make regular margaritas, so lets make something a little different!
And with a twist...By using BLOOD ORANGES HEHEHHHE...yOU CaN Get A Bit gimmicky without GOing all fang like and candy blood ON people.. and just HAVE ....BLOOD ORANGE MARGARITAS...IN FACT THIS FRUIT ADDS A DRAMATIC RUBY RED COLOR TO ANY DRINK OR SAVORY FOOD...
Ingredients-
kosher salt
Crushed ice
1/2 cup. fresh blood orange juice
2 oz. tequila
1oz. triple sec or Cointreau
Blood orange wedges for garnish
Directions-
1-Moisten rims of two margarita glasses and dip them into the kosher salt. Fill the cocktail shaker with crushed ice, orange juice, tequila and the triple sec. Shake very well. then strain into the glasses.
Garnish with the orange wedges...


Mulled Red Wine-

Well, my dears this one I have had a bit of experience with.. in my days of College days. It can be fun but it can sneak up on you ... I will give you what I put in my recipe ...This can be done with just with mugs or with fancy heat resistant glasses as shown in the image, it really depends on your personality. I used mugs myself.
This is what I did with my college gals Remember we used everything we had in our apt. and made our own version of Mulled Wine warm:
Ingredients-
Two bottles of Merlot wine [good one]
1-cup Tequila
1-cup Bacardi rum light
1-cup vodka
Cheese cloth/string
Lots of spices- 3-5 real cinnamon sticks
Zest strips from two-three oranges, lemon zest strips, nutmeg whole, allspice whole, pumpkin spice whole, fresh bay leaves if you can get them, fennel seeds. You can add anything you might want to add to your Mull wine.. that is what makes it fun...
Directions-
First get the spices and orange and lemon zest together. Lay the cheesecloth on a board and put all your spices inside including the zest from the oranges and lemon. Plus any other spices you wanted to add. Then secure them with a kitchen string. Then in a large pasta pan that will hold the two bottles of wine and the 3cups of different kinda alcohol, slowly pour all of them in the pot and stir them all together slowly. put on low heat and add the cheese cloth of spices and the bay leaves. Cover and simmer over the lower heat for 10min -watching it too.
Remove from heat and let stand, covered for 30min. remove the aromatics and oranges zest and bay leaves stir and taste to see if you like.. during the 3omins it may not need the 30mins its up to you!Serve warm if you need sugar add. But you shouldn't. Serve in mugs or fancy glasses'

Vampire Kiss Martini-

So now for the last Halloween drink for you Halloween treat.. my dears....This one might be fun for any Halloween party...Enjoy...
Ingredients-
1 part raspberry liqueur Chambord@
1 part vodka Absolut@
1part Champagne Korbel@
Licorice,wax teeth, candy corn and or blood orange slice
Directions-
 1-In a chilled martini glass, layer raspberry liqueur, vodka, and Champagne, Garnish with licorice
wax teeth, candy corn and or blood orange slice.

True Story about B-Mary

True Story about B-Mary!

Good afternoon my dears, welcome to another scary story for Halloween. This is yet another of the famous B-Mary story in which some have had no bad experiences and others have had the most horrible nightmares kind. This is the experience of a girl named Nicole, that didn’t believe but then it turned out very, very terrifying and a true experience for her as bloody Mary goes. In her mind, she is very real!! This is her story:

This is a true story by Nicole. It’s about –B-Mary! One night when her parents were away, her older brother had dared her to do the ritual and summon B-Mary spirit you could say. She didn’t believe in all that superstition so she decided to do it thinking it would be a good laugh afterwards. And boy did she have a big surprise, afterward. She went into the bathroom alone, turned off all the lights and started the ritual. Which is if you don’t know is as follows; You turn around seven times while saying B-Mary on each turn. Then you stop, you face the mirror and wait in silence-in the dark for something to happen. Well, in Nicole case she was just about to leave when she heard a woman singing. So, she slowly started to turn back at the mirror and she saw her. She had long, dark brown hair that was soaked in blood. Her neck looked like someone had just slit her throat. I screamed. When her brother started banging on the bathroom door and turning the lock, the woman in the mirror became angry. She was smiling before but now she was frowning and reached out through the bathroom mirror with one of her bloody arms. As she did this her arm slapped & scratched her on the right side of her face. She felt her nails strike so hard that she was knocked to the floor, at a force that her head slammed against the side of the bathtub and was knocked unconscious. When Nicole woke-up she was in the hospital with bandages across the right side of her face. Her brother was whispering apologies in her ear that she could barely understand. Her parents were also there too. As soon as he had opened her eyes her family rushed to her side. She later discovered that her brother had told a story to cover the true story; that one of my many cats had scratched me and I had fallen. I’ve been scratched by my own cats before so their parents believe the story…On that same night, her brother had gotten a call from their Aunty. It would seem that their Uncle had died in the same hour that Nicole was attacked! In Nicole’s mind, she believes in her heart that even though it could have been a horrible coincidence, however she truly believes that B-Mary killed her Uncle that she loved very much. She has read many stories about the myth and also people who had personal experiences with B-Mary. She found in all those stories, that she [B-Mary] will attack only you and not your loved ones. It’s not true, she truly believes she killed her uncle! The attack was a year ago and to this day and she still cannot see out of her right eye and that side of her face is stuck in a permanent scream. No one should every try to summon B-Mary who had ruined her life. As Nicole, would say! Please read this and take it seriously …DO NOT SUMMON THE EVIL ENITY! I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE! BELIEVE THAT I AM NOT TELLING A LIE. BY NICOLE….

 

 

Spirit within the Computer-

Spirit within the Computer-

Fatal frame Ghost Game for halloween

In the spirit of Halloween my dears I thought I would find a few creepy & scary stories
for Halloween. Its only a few days away... Hehehe.. In this story Its about how a young boy who loves his games on his laptop computer and how they turn on him is a ghostly manner...Its a true story by
Saman.
The story goes like this:
Downstairs in the basement of my new house in Mississauga, Ontario. I was on the computer playing some games when suddenly, I heard some footsteps and the door opening. I went upstairs to see who it was, however there was no one there. So, I went back downstairs, shut the games website and shut off the computer. Suddenly, the computer turned back on! I thought that was weird...I closed the computer down once again, but this time I got a message on the computer's screen - saying - "I'm looking at you". I was very freaked out. I didn't shut down the computer this time, I just ran upstairs. When I got upstairs, I thought it might have been someone playing a joke, but I was very very wrong. I ran upstairs to my room where my sister was and I told her what happened. She obviously didn't believe me. But it truly did happen to me... Saman.

I hope you enjoy a little scary tale by Saman for the October month of Halloween.

Your Wendy...

LAVENDER~

Lavender~

Well, its October already! So I thought I would do a post on one of my favorite Flowers of the summer...Lavender!
Did you know that there are thirty-nine species of Lavender! I myself had no idea...I have only two different kinds of lavender. Spanish lavender and Munstead lavender. The two are very different mind you and I really find the Munstead lavender much more useful than the Spanish as far as an use for making your own lavender oil. However the Spanish lavender is quite beautiful and lovely scent for the summer. I learned that lavender is use very much as a herb in cooking and in health too! I got to the flower over the summer vacation at my mother house because she has these huge and beautiful bushes of lavender that smell so lovely that when we got home I use had to have lavender in my garden too...Lavender has spikes of bluish purple & blue which are very fragrant tiny flowers a top tall thin stems. Which are surround by mounds of either grayish blue or light or darker green leaves. They are primarily cultivated in Provence France. They say that these flowers prefer an sandy, coarse soil, with very good drainage plus lots of sun. however, I have lavender [Munstead lavender & Spanish lavender] with just the good coarse potting soil and they are doing fine. You just have to be careful not to over water or underwater. Its a delicate balance you might say...I am concern however what to do during the winter months here in WA. state so I will include a website link for you all if you happen to be in a area of very cold or very raining and wet like myself. Hints;
Hardy Zones 4-9
Mature Height: 12-16

Begin in the fall by inspecting your plantings and prune off any dead, limp or unsightly growth. This is not the best time to give your plant a hard pruning for those of you with cold harsh freezing winters. If you are blessed with healthy plants you may not need to do any pruning until spring.
You also will want to make sure that there are no winter debris such as autumn leaves or plant
Material from nearby plants smothering your Lavender. A pile of leaves will get dampened
by winter precipitation and hold moisture in which will cause disease, die back or even kill your lavender plant. Even though it is winter you will need to see that good air circulation is maintained.
Try to avoid leaving your plants under a pile of damp snow fro a very long time. Some of you that live in areas where there is frequent freezing and thawing with creates dampness. If you had planted your Lavender in fast draining soil then applying a layer of mulch will help regulate soil temperatures.
It also ok for the ground to be frozen for the cold hardy types. Its the freezing thawing , freezing thawing that sometimes causes problems due to all the moisture accumulation and water runoff around the roots. Container plantings may need to be moved inside or to a more sheltered location.
taking the time to plant your lavender correctly from the start with good draining gritty soil is often times the best winter preparation of all to assure you see those purple flowers bloom again come spring. There are different varieties of lavender and some are better suited than others for different
geographical regions so don't be sad if you have lost your plant the first time around 

You can always grow your favorite Lavender in a pot and then overwinter it inside or in a sheltered garden shed as long as you provide an adequate light source. Learn more about growing Lavender indoors. Taking care to follow a few simple preparations allows you to return the favor and provide winter stress relief for your Lavender.

everything-lavender.com/munstead-lavender.html

This link is where I got the info above...enjoy....

They say that Lavender is considered to be a powerful herb that attracts energy of a high vibrational nature. Also it is said to be good for-a nervine relaxant muscle relaxant and antidepressant among other things... But I would ask your doctor about anything before using something like that before for these more serious ailments.

Lavender is also used for many uses in meditation too...Some ancient traditional uses were; Burns,
In the birthing rooms, To bless homes; Wreaths for newly married couples and finally hung in bunches throughout homes to dispel flies and mosquitoes.
Today-Lavender is used in so many ways; Like that of bath soaps, linen closet, perfumes, tea, flower extract, eye pillows, bath oils, essential oils for relaxation or folks that have migraine's like myself and finally cooking dishes.
Over the many years I have found lavender, mint and spearmint to be very useful in the essential oil form for my migraines that I have had since I was 13years old.
What I have done over the years is just put a couple of drops of the lavender oil on my finger then, massage into my temples being very careful not to get into my eyes. This can bring great relief to folks who gets them quite often.
History of Lavender~

According to Ancient Lore it is believed that King Solomon Ruler of Jerusalem from 971-931BC chose lavender to be included in his holy water because of its reputation to cleanse and purify.
So my dears I thought I would go once again to my King James Version of the Holy Bible and look for Songs of Solomon to see if there is anything about essential oils or maybe written in a different way...
Song of Solomon 4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is they love
than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Song of Solomon 1:3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured
forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

These were two scripture from my own bible that I could find that had to do with essential oils back in biblical times...
Well, now I thought I would share my own recipe to making Lavender oil...I used my own lavender flowers and Jasmine flowers.
1-First pick as many dry lavender flowers from your garden. If you happen to have a jasmine tree you can add them too. Which I did. Just slowly add the dry flowers in a clean glass jar. till full or when you have no more flowers left at the end of the fall.
2- Once you have gathered as many dried flowers as you want or as you have-make sure that you have cut them from the long stems of the lavender flowers. If you are doing the jasmine flowers they are very easy just drop them in. Then get a Jar that you want to use for making yur essential oil and make sure it is clean and very dry. Add all the flowers and pack the lavender & jasmine into the clean jar.
3-Then its time to go to the herbal store. There is where you will find a good essential oil to pour over all the dry flowers cover and screw tie.
I found a rose oil but you can use any kind of oil you want. The one hint I would give you is don't get an essential oil that is to strong because you want to be able to smell your flowers after the 2-4months it is been sitting in the oil.. So you might as your local herbal store person for a little help.. So after you get home with your essential oil carefully pour all the oil on the flowers till they are all cover or even an inch above them. close tied and leave it on your counter top where it will be safe for that 2-4 month time. I would also write on the top what you have done on the top.. and the dates too. That way you know when you can open it. After the time you strain the flowers and get another clean jar for the new oil you have made and there you go..
4-Now if you don't have a garden or flowers you still can do this fun activity - At your local herbal stores they should have the flowers too.
If you want you can even put some of your oil in the tiny essential oil jars too.
I hope you all have fun with this... I now I did and my jar is still sitting😄💖
lavender chocolate truffles-
Well, lastly how one cooks with lavender. I thought you all might like this one that I found,
the Lavender Chocolate Truffles. The darkness of the chocolate and the fragrance of the lavender
just goes together in my book...
Ingredients-
12 ounces bittersweet chocolate
1cup heavy cream
1teaspoon dried lavender
1cup unsweetened cocoa
Make the Truffles-
Grate the chocolate in a bowl
Bring the cream and lavender to a simmer in a small
sauce pan for 1min, then strain out the lavender pieces.
Add the lavender cream mixture to the chocolate (which you should put in metal bowl)
stir to melt stir slowly.
Mix it well. Chill for at least 3 hours
Then roll into 1inch balls(I would use a 1inch ice cream scoop).
I would also put them on wax paper so they don't stick. later roll the
truffles into cocoa or anything else you would like.
Makes 24 Truffles.... Enjoy..

Well, my dears I hope you all enjoyed my

second post and I am truly try to get back on track.

I love you all so very much

Your Friend always Wendy

LARGEST PUMPKINS OF 2016~

LARGEST PUMPKINS
OF 2016~

Good afternoon my dears friends & Followers. I am truly sorry for not being around
these last couple of months...But with all my personal problems and the crazy stuff that has
been going on with Goggle I have had to take a break. There for a bit  I was wondering if
I was going to stay with a the #*$#@ that Goggle was doing with their G+page & my Blogger/Blog
Too! Yes there was a couple of days that I thought I would lose everything that I have worked over
the almost 4years coming this Jan 2017, however nothing happened. I am grateful that everything
worked out because I would have missed all of you my dearest friends, followers and so many people that view my G+page and blog too! So I have decided to stick it out and see what happens.
I have protected myself however... I have copied every post I have done since Jan of 2013 and all my links, widgets, and gadgets too. Bookmarks all on my word 2016 too... Which I implore any of you my dears who have a blog with Goggle to do... You never know what may happen.. For the last two years this has been going on...
Now as I promised a wonderful viewer and dear follower that I would start up with my blog again...😄❤
With the spirit of October, I thought I would start with a Pumpkin post...
This one is about the Largest Pumpkins of 2016, which I found in South Africa's Great Giant Pumpkin of Feb 29 of this year... I thought it would be fun to show a different country this time. In how they celebrate Enormous Pumpkins too!
It happens to be in a small town of Heidelberg in the Western Cape. In the last couple of years the tiny town has delivered record breakers in the LARGEST PUMPIN - in South Africa.
It would seem in that weekend of Feb 27 2016, at their Giant Pumpkin Festival there were 28 pumpkins that competed for the crowned champion in the town of Heidelberg.

At the end of the completion it was Louwrens van Deventer with the wining pumpkin weighing in
at 373kg[822.324pounds] with his wife, Theresa in second place pumpkin weighing in at 354.5kg
[781.581pounds]...It was said by both the two years winners that the conditions weren't as good as some years, for growing the Giant pumpkins as in the past years, yet they were very happy with their result and the one-two finish with his wife said Louwrens van Deventer after being announced the winner of their small town. However, in this year entries there were a few reports of weights that could of beat Louwrens record. This was by the announcement that Pinkie Swart had said who was the current winner of their small town of the last two years in South African with weight pumpkins of 497.5kg [1096,7998]. Sadly in this years
competition, he discovered his pumpkin was rotten, in the week leading up to the weekend of Feb 27 2016, at their Giant Pumpkin Festival. So he had to not compete. However, his wife, Ronel Swart, kept with the winning tradition in the family by finishing in third place with a weight of 342.5kg.
The current world record is 1054kg [2,323.672pounds] set in October of 2014 by Beni Meier Switzerland...
Year Winners in the Giant Pumpkin Festival of Heidelberg South Africa.
2012 - Henry du Plessis - 390kg
2013 - Johan du Plessis - 417.5kg
2014 - Pinkie Swart - 497.5kg [Previous SA record]
2015 - Pinkie Swart - 483.6kg
2016 - Louwrens van Deventer 373kg
Additional prizes were also awarded in other categories such as the smallest, pretties and the
Ugliest Pumpkin too!

Growers of the town can enter the competition with pumpkins grown from any seeds, however the seed Growers that do enter the competition are required to be very careful in planting the pumpkin seeds when preparing the soil they plant them in...The soil that is provided for them is by
Freshmark which is very special soil. It is not genetically modified in any way at all! And it originate from the Giant pumpkins from the North American Dill's Atlantic Giant variety too. Each pumpkin grower has his/her own secret to growing methods which spark speculation and anticipation leading up to the event every year... Around the world. The result is an exciting and tightly contested competition between pumpkin growers.

At the Heidelberg Pumpkin Festival, they have many other kinds of events other than the main event of the Giant Pumpkin contest...Like that of variety of different kinda stalls and activities for the young and old.. For this year of 2016 there was a MTB XC Race, Golf Day and bowls Competition...

There is another event that is strong in their community spirit of the town. This is the most possible pumpkins that are donated by their growers all over the small town for a most charitable cause... It is for a 400kg Pumpkin Pie which is baked in the most large portion like that of the spirit of the largest pumpkin too.  Giant Pumpkin Festival encourages the public to enter next year’s competition, for more information visit the official website. 
Well, I hope that you all enjoyed my post on the largest pumpkins in South Africa my dears I will  try to do more post this coming month as I have put lots more new images on my G+...
I truly am grateful for all your support over the last year and coming 4years I couldn't have done this without you all ... I love you all so very much
Your Wendy your friend...hugs❤❤❤🎶🎶🎶😄😄😄😍😍😍🎶🎈✨✨❤💜💜☀🌞🌟🌟