Ugh - my Christmas Pepper Jelly did not set. After crying (not really) - I brainstormed a way to use up all that sweet pepper soup. I'm chopping up cantaloupe, onions, cabbage, and getting ready to make Cantaloupe Relish (wish me luck). This wasn't how I intended to spend my Sunday morning - guess today will be one of those "go with the flow" days. :-)
Dec. 13th, 2009

Velveteen Rabbit:
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you..."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.
"When you are Real, you don't mind being hurt...It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."