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ICE CANDLE HOLDER
you will need;
1--5 gal. plastic bucket
Pam
green or blue food coloring
water
candle--2 1/2 to 3 in. diameter
FREEZING WEATHER

Spray bucket with Pam. Fill 3/4 full with water; add 1 tbsp. green food color. Set outside overnite, till frozen.
Remove iceblock from bucket.On bottom drain out the liquid and slush area and turn it over.Freeze for 4 more hours. This will form a pocket for the candle.Insert candle , place outside in your yard and light.

PRAYER FOR PEACE

Lord, make me an instrument of Your Peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may seek
not so much to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to
Eternal Life. Amen.
Prayer of St. Francis

SNOW STORM by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and , driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

Come see the north wind's masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof
Round every windware stake, or tree, or door.
Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he
For number or proportion. Mockingly,
On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreats;
A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn;
Fills up the farmer's lane from wall to wall,
Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate
A tapering turret overtops the work.
And when his hours are numbered, and the world
Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,
Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work,
The frolic architecture of the snow.

Christmas Ribbon Salad (my Grandma's recipe)
2 pkgs lime jello                              1--8 oz. cream cheese
1 pkg lemon jello                             1 cup mayonaise
1 cup hot water                               1 cup heavy cream, whipped
1/2 cup marshmallows, cut               2 pkgs cherry jello
1--#2 can crushed pineapple,
drain and reserve juice
Prep lime jello according to directions. Pour into a 15 x 10 x 2 pan. Chill until almost set. Dissolve lemon jello in hot water in double boiler, add marshmallows, melt. Remove from heat and add 1 cup pineapple juice and cream cheese. Beat with beater till well blended. Stir in
drained pineapple. Cool slightly, fold in mayonaise and whipped cream. Chill until almost set.
Pour over lime jello. Prepare cherry jello according to directions. Chill until like egg white.
Pour over pineapple layer. Refrigerate till all set.

CHRISTMAS GRASSHOPPER MOLD
1--1 lb, 4 1/2 oz. can pineapple chunks
2 1/2 cup miniature marshmallows
1/3 cup creme de menthe
green food coloring
2 egg whites
2 tbsp sugar
2 cup whipping cream
red and green candied cherries
To syrup drained from pineapple add marshmallows. Place over low heat until completely melted. remove and blend in creme de menthe and 5 drops green food coloring. Chill until mixture begins to thicken. Beat egg whites until they hold peaks. Add sugar and beat until stiff. Beat cream until stiff. Fold egg whites and cream into mixture, blending well. Fold in drained pineapple chunks. Turn into 2 1/2 qt. mold. Freeze until firm. Unmold and garnish with red and green candied cherries.

CHERRY PARFAITS
1 cup sour cream
1 cup milk
1 pkg. (3 1/2 oz) instant vanilla pudding
1 can (21 oz) cherry pie filling
Beat sour cream and milk with rotary beater until smooth. Add instant pudding,beat until smooth and slightly thickened, about 2 mins. Alternate layers of pudding and cherry filling in parfait glasses. Refrigerate.