Keith from CA

Dear Keith: Thank you very much for the wonderful Christmas tree - please do not turn it around as that's where I stood for a while and it might look a bit 'naked' - I will come back after my Weight Watchers meeting.

Thanks Angry Ant!!!!

Re: Keith's edible Christmas tree ... snarf ... chomp ... slurp ... gulp ... crunch ... munch ... gulp ... bite ... chew ... GONE!!!!

Oh No! Missed out. Gee thanks, Judy, for sharing!!! Hmph, I'll be back later to see if Keith has whipped up another.

Um ... it may look identical, but, would you believe ... it's a second one? No, really ...

Hello Keith, I thought I'd better sneak back in and have some more before Rola eats the lot. She's a greedy one, that girl. She wants her cake and everyone else's too.
Oh, good, there is a wee morsel left for me. Yum!

Keith, dont believe Anne, it wasn't ME that finished off the cake!!
it was JUDY, just check out the chocolate smudges on her face!!!

Ooh! A second tree! Lemme at it!! Outa my way!!

Judy...you're just plain greedy!!! leave some for other's!!!!
yum managed to get a crumb or two, stop shoving JUDY, I want some!!!!

Girls ... girls! ... let me get out of the way first.

Quite the spread of pictures you have there Keith! I see your grandson is a 'swinger' too. Nice photo of you and Lynne. You should post it. Drop in and vist my page sometime and I'll buy you a beer!

Just popped into see the 'tree'!! Wonderful (did you make that Keith?), is there a small piece left or has it all been gobbled up? Oh well.. sigh...

andré, knowing your love for chocolate, no way I'd let you go begging. Shhhh, over here, see...

CG, nice gingerbread house. Well done.

Sigh. Wonder if Angry Ant will ever see it.

Think I missed out again, Keith. How about you just keep making the trees daily until Christmas. I do have plans to make one myself after I start leave next week.

hey Keith saved some for me too??

ap, there should be enough ... that is, if andré ... well, on second thought, guess I'll have to make another one.

My that cake was good, I left some honest!! Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year x

Hi Keith,wishing you a Merry and a

A very Merry Christmas Keith
and a Happy & Healthy New Year

Merry Christmas Keith.

Not Stottish Scrawberries this time.. I've been bottling in my kitchen today so have just cooked up a few cyber bottles as well.

Just thought I’d drop you in a bottle of home made LEMON CORDIAL. It’s fantastic with water and with soda water the day after you have been on the Scrawberries. Cheers.
Ingredients:
Juice of 7 large lemons
Grated rind of 5 large lemons
1 kg sugar
1.5 litres of water
25g citric acid
Method:
1.In a large pan, boil up sugar, water, grated peel and citric acid.
2.Take off the heat and add juice, If preferred, this may be strained.
3.Bottle whilst still hot into clean, sterilised (in oven ) bottles

& to all. fi, what a recipe. The only thing I'm not sure about is the citric acid. I don't remember ever seeing that in our stores.

Here I am!!! Keith - it looks absolutely wonderful, and if there were any left (thanks Judy & Rola!), I would tell you that it was delicious. I'll have to wait until you make another. You can always try the fruity alternative and mix in dried apricots and raisins!

Angry Ant, so glad you got to see it. Have a great holiday. My family is looking forward to the tree munch. It might become a new family tradition.

Hi Keith
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cheers
dont forget the party friday

Keith, so glad you finally caught up with angry ant long enough for her to know that you had tried to save something for her, but alast....what can you do when some people just don't know how to act!!! This is to invite you to drop in and pick up your gift under the tree on my page...don't wait too long as you know what happens here in sudoku land. Hope you get something that you like. May the holidays be bright and your stocking contain something other than coal... Merry and Ha...

Joyeux Noël et
Bonne Année

Thank you for the kind welcome you left on my page, and the redwood burl. Excuse my ignorance - what IS a redwood burl? Can you eat it, or is it for putting on my log fire?? I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a very Look forward to seeing you at my housewarming in January!

Keith, you've got to watch that Judy, she is a greedy girl!!!! lucky she left some rocky road this time!!!
20 Dec 06

This tree looks pretty pathetic, Keith! This is definitely NOT my work! I wouldn't leave any evidence to incriminate me ... Is this ALL that your whole family could eat? Pretty short hitters ...

Rosemary, lovely card. Thanks.

Mamacita, I'll be over shortly to pick out a present, if there're any left.

Liz, after the holiday season, I'm going to post some pics about Redwoods. They are native to the coastal region in the northwestern US. They live to over 1000 years old, can be over 300 feet tall, with a trunk 15-20 feet in diameter. Sadly, most of the redwood giants have been logged, there are few left. The burl is a tourist purchase to take home and grow.

Sorry, Keith, but this abortive tree looks a little like what my dogs do in the backyard! :)

Cheers Kieth, but I really think that looks like the gopher that Anne ate in Peru! Merry Christmas!

Would you believe bar-b-qued Ostrich foot?

OMG, Keith ... you've killed Big Bird!

Keith, there is always something under my tree for you, but come on.......get busy and bake some more cake. I could inhale this little bit in a minute. This will never do! Happy holidays to you and yours.

I see I'm a bit late for my share of the tree. Serves me right, I guess, for being so slow to call by and wish you a merry and a

No, Judy. He just walks with a limp now.

Liz, I wanted to expand on what I was telling about redwood trees. I've put some pictures of the redwood tree in my back yard on my flickr site. I don't know how old it is, but it is still a baby, probably less than 100 years old. The trunk has a circumfrence of ll feet 6 inches 4 feet above ground level. At that height, the trunk looks to be about 4 feet diameter. I found a site where you could buy one of the burls I've been handing out to people on their home pages. It is:

http://www.treesofmystery.net/cgi-bin/online/storepro .php?product=10000:0930030-3

I love the new Christmas photos on your Flickr site! Even one dedicated to little ole me! :)

Keith,

I got here sort of late - missed most of the mad rush to devour your Christmas goodies. But they had left me a little bit, and it was great.
Enjoyed your comments on the Redwood burls - fabulous trees - that was one of my favorite parts of my one visit to California.
Have a very Merry Christmas, and a fabulous start to 2007.
and a

When I was a littl'un in school, we were taught that the biggest trees in the world were Redwoods. I knew that they were being cut down out of all proportion, but have never heard of a burl. Would love to have one in my big garden, thank you!
Sorry I missed out on the edible arbres!!
Have a super and a Talk to you soon;