"Teach us delight in simple things."

~ Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1907

At this time of year, things can seem complicated, let us keep in mind Kipling's thought: "Teach us delight in simple things."

Snowballs ~ This cookie recipe has been around for a long time. It is easy, quick and unbaked ~ and good.

1 cup unhydrogenated peanut butter
1 cup icing sugar (confectioners)
1 Tablespoon soft butter
1 pinch of salt

Mix well, then add
1 cup Rice Krispies
1/2 cup walnuts

Roll into balls.

Icing ~ if desired.

1 1/2 cup icing sugar
2 Tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
A bit of milk to make thin icing.

Roll balls in icing. (Then in coconut. Optional.) *

Tips: A film of oil on fingers will save sticking.
*This is a lot of icing; you may want to use less.

Familiar Faces Back on Cayuga Street

Sylvia and Ode Back Behind the Bar

Nancy taking time out to sit on Santa's lap.

Welcome Back, Back 40!

New owner, Sylvia, welcomes old and new customers ~ traditional and contemporary.

Local hockey team ~

Even Santa came to town! Friends, neighbours, regulars. The Back 40 reopened today at 11:00 a.m. on Cayuga Street ~ in time for Wednesday-Wing Special ~ 49 Cents.

Bob Logan returned behind the scene. (Acting as consultant, out of habit and consideration for customers, the former owner salted the icy sidewalk. Thanks, Bob.) New owner, Sylvia, welcomed old and new patrons. Nancy, Megan, Ode and Zack served lunch.

Welcome back, Back 40! We join everyone in wishing you great success.

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Cheryl MacDonald has written extensively on the history of Haldimand and Norfolk, Ontario. One of her most recent books, Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes ~ Tales of Courage ~ and Cowardice, provides a tantalizing look at a few of the 6,000 ships that have gone to their watery graves on the Great Lakes, Canada.

2010, Amazing Stories, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., http://www.lorimer.ca/

Available at The Neat Little Bookshop $9.95

Also, click on Cheryl MacDonald's blog in The Neat Little Bookshop Followers. (See Colonel in red dress coat.)

Lore & Legends of Long Point, Lake Erie

A Perfect Gift: "An affectionate history by Harry Barrett, a life-long resident of Port Dover, a great grandson of a keeper of the Long Point Light, and an authority on the history of the area.

Even today, although modern ways are encroaching on the Long Point Country, this remains a place where the past is close and the stories of pioneering, murders, mysteries and comic escapades are kept alive in families that have had their roots here for more than a hundred years." *

* Cover excerpt, Lore & Legends of LONG POINT, 1977.

Available at The Neat Little Bookshop, Soft cover 2000, 240 pgs, 9" x 8 3/4" ~ $20

Early Post Card, B. B. London. Series No X72 Printed in Germany.