My name is Suzie. I’m married and have a son in the Army. I enjoy cooking, country life, reading and my animals, hence the name of this blog. My two German Shepherds are underfoot anytime I’m cooking 😉 Oh, I’m also addicted to Food Network Channel.
My German Shepherds, Haley & Roxy
With my hubby & son
My son in Afghanistan, front right.
My Grandson!
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Hello Suzie! Come and have a look at my last post. I like your blog, so I have just nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award and the One Lovely Blog Award!
Hi Suzie, so happy to have found your blog and so glad you found mine. I have a nephew in the Army and one in the Navy, deployed in Afghanistan. Your dogs are beautiful as are your recipes. I have some catching up to do must check out all of them.
Thank you and your fur-babies are cute as well. My son is currently in Afghanistan. Hopefully coming home the end of July. I have some catching up to do as well 🙂
Hi Suzie my name is Megan Shanley and I’m the one you bought the finger limes from! I just saw your recipe come across my Google Alerts. We are trying to compile a bunch of recipes to update our website for this upcoming season. I would love to use the one you just posted…of course credit you as well. Please get in touch and let me know what you think, thanks!
Hi Megan, that’s funny that you came across my recipe in Google alerts. Though I would love to take credit for the recipe it is not an original of mine. I tried to find the original link for you and can’t find it. You can most certainly link to me though, I just wanted you to know the aforementioned 🙂
Happy Monday, Sunshine!
You’ve been given a Liebster Award for your blog 🙂
http://misbehavedwoman.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/liebster-awarding-kind-of-monday/
Off to check it out 🙂
What a beautiful family! I love it Suzie…it’s the American Dream ^.~
Awww…thank you Angie! xoxo
I really enjoy your blog and have nominated it for the Liebster award! 🙂
http://daisyandthefox.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/liebster-award/
congratulations – you deserve it!
Daisy and the Fox
I have nominated you for the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award! Congratulations – you deserve it! 🙂
http://daisyandthefox.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/wonderful-team-member-readership-award/
Daisy and the Fox
Hi there, I’ve nominated you for the Blogger of the Year 2012 Award. Here is the link for the info. http://ourgrowingpaynes.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/blogger-of-the-year-award-1st-star/
I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award – congratulations! 🙂
http://daisyandthefox.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/celebrating-the-new-year-with-blog-awards/
Happy New Year!
Daisy and the Fox
Hey! 🙂 I’ve nominated you for the Super Sweet Blogging Award!
http://daisyandthefox.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/the-super-sweet-blogging-award/
Congratulations! You most certainly deserve it 🙂
Daisy and the Fox
Discovered your blog through Gourmet Getaways and your matzo ball soup recipe – it’s great to be able to read about what’s happening across the globe through your blog – keep it coming 🙂
Thank you MsBrulee! If you have a blog of your own, please let me know so I can follow you too! 🙂
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Hi Suzie,
First off, thank you for posting your recipes, I think its the best gift you can give the world that cost you nothing to so. The world is full of many different people, different views on life, different hobbies. But I have found no matter what each person is like, we can all come together over good food. Its a great way to make friends and I can talk about food for hours at a time.
Second, I want you to tell your son that I said thank you for his service to our country, he is a hero!
Last, but not least, I found a chef from Russia that has the most amazing recipes I have ever seen, and Ive been cooking for almost 40 years. you can find him on cookinginrussia on you tube. Ive been a fan for almost a year now and he answers many questions you may have on cooking too.
Steven
Thank you Steven for the compliments and I will forward this message to my son 🙂 I believe food brings us together too. I will certainly look up the chef from Russia, he sounds interesting and if you’ve been a fan for a year I bet he’s great! Again, thank you!
Well. I recently moved back to the Big Island and needed to camp on my land while house being built. My friend told me a joke that was no joke to me! I grew up with toy poodles, Peaches was my hunter, and one grand champion German Shepherd, Josh. However, the funny story goes…..a nephew came to visit his uncle in the cabin in the woods. As he came upon the rickity porch, the huge black dog started growling. He called to his uncle, and his uncle said come on it, he doesn’t bite. They sat and talked and set the table for dinner. The nephew noticed the dishes didn’t seem very clean. He mentioned it but the uncle said, well, that’s as good as coldwater can get them. They enjoyed a wonderful afternoon, and soon it was supper time. Again, the nephew set the table and noticed that the dishes they took down from the cupboard were kinda not so clean. He mentioned it again to his uncle who repeated, well, that’s as good as coldwater can git them. Later, as the nephew was leaving, he encountered the huge black dog on the porch again. He said, can you call him, uncle? “Coldwater! Git on in here, now!” (Note well taken!!)