Are you wondering what to cook for the holidays?  Working on a tighter budget this year than usual?  Looking for innovative ideas, or trying to apply your values of sustainability and health to your menus?

Food & Water Watch can help. Just in time for the holidays, we're excited to release our new collection of affordable, sustainable seafood recipes, Fish & Tips on a Budget: The Frugal Fish Edition.  The recipes, which from our Frugal Fish contest winners across the country and our partner chef Rocky Barnette, all include seafood we recommend in our Smart Seafood Guide and come in under a budget of $25. Come check out these great recipes, and let us know how you like them!

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/fish/seafood/fish-tips-on-a-budget

Let's celebrate the holidays together. Submit your favorite holiday cookie recipe with a photo, and I will post it on my blog with a bio and a link back to you! If you do not have a blog or a business to link to, please join in anyway! This is a great way to see how others celebrate the holidays, as well as share new recipes.

One lucky random person will win "1 Dough, 100 Cookies" by Linda Doesser (Parragon Books, 2008).

Please submit your recipes to me (jenniferawickes @ gmail . com) by December 23rd, 2009, and put Holiday Cookie Extravaganza in the subject line! And...pass it on!

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©2009 Jennifer A. Wickes

Gawd I wanna go!

This is a nice clip of today's launch.

Deer-11-09 Marianna, Florida

Coming home yesterday after a very successful Community sale in Marianna I stopped by the local Wal-Mart.
The store is very near Interstate 10 but I never go home that way.

I love the country lanes, the old roads, the quiet little burgs that are almost forgotten except for those that live there, and I find it restful to tool along at about 50 miles per hour, usually in a far more direct route than taking the interstate. Yes, I "drive like a senior citizen".

Yesterday I was trying a new return route, simply turning in the compass direction that I wanted to go onto what was a marked county road.
In an area just beginning be built up, or more likely rebuilt since this was a once a very well settled area, I saw something moving head of me.

At first I thought it to be a dog, then as more and more of the little ones emerged from the wood I could tell it was a doe deer and about SIX fawns,...

It is unusual for a doe to have more than a couple fawns, for this lady have about six trailing along with her all about the same size was amazing.

She could have inherited another group of fawn from a doe either killed by hunters or struck by a vehicle or some other mischance or she may have dropped them all in a rare high birth count instance.

I'll never know.

I grabbed the little 7.2 megapixel Panasonic I keep in the truck and tried to get a picture. They were WAY out there by then and long past even the reach of the Leica lenses on that Panasonic. I did get a few

grainy shots though none show all the fawn at once.

Enjoy.

Wondering what I was and what I was doing....

getting the kids together!

one or two have already moved into the woods beyond...

Mom holding the rear guard...

and THAT quickly they were gone...