I want to assure every citizen of Mossy Creek that my relationship
with Mossy Creek Chief of Police Amos Royden continues to be
entirely professional. Please respect my privacy and Chief
Royden's dignity. I remain your honorable mayor, with the
emphasis on "honorable."
Thank you.
Ida Hamilton Walker |
Mossy Creek Books
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Reunion at Mossy Creek
Summer in Mossy Creek
Blessings of Mossy Creek
A Day in Mossy Creek
At Home in Mossy Creek
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| My mama always said... "In
the winter, especially when it was cold, and seemed to be
raining all the time (or even snowing a little bit--in South
Carolina we had an occasional snow storm) for seemed like days
on end, I would ask my mama when was it going to stop raining
and clear up so we could go outside and play. Her answer
was, 'When you see enough blue sky to make a Dutchman a pair of
britches.' So now when it's rainy and cloudy, and after
awhile when I get tried of it, I'll start searching the sky to
see if there is enough blue to make a Dutchman a pair of
britches."
--Honorary Creekite Barbara Lyle |
Strange News and Weird Advice
Submitted by Harry Rutherford, PhD,
aka "Dr. Bigfoot" A law firm in
Tallahassee, Florida got in trouble for putting pit bulls in the firm's
ads. The Florida Supreme Court ruled the ads insult the legal
profession. No word yet on pit bulls suing lawyers for defamation.
|
Dear Readers and Honorary
Creekites –
It’s Valentine’s
Day weekend in Mossy Creek, and the circus has come to town. That is,
“Cirque du Europa,” a small, quirky, touring group on its way to its
next show date after performing in Atlanta. When the troop’s main bus
breaks down in Mossy Creek, every Creekite with a spare bedroom is
enlisted to host the stranded entertainers. What better way to solve all
the local romantic dilemmas than by adding a group of professionally
extroverted strangers to the mix? Cupid is running for cover.
Look for the full story in the next Mossy Creek novel,
At Home in
Mossy Creek, published in February 2007. We'll also be
unveiling a beautiful, brand-new look for the series' covers, and you
don't want to miss it! In the meantime, get a preview of the
shenanigans of At Home in
Mossy Creek by reading this free short story,
Be Mime.
Farmer's Wisdom:
If you hear thunder in December or February, you'll
see frost in May.
Walking the Creek Beat
Amos Royden, Chief of Police
Mossy Creek
Regarding Mayor Walker's comments?
"No comment." |
Old-Fashioned Soda Biscuits
2 cups flour (not self-rising)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 tablespoons lard
1 cup milk
Sift the dry items together, add the lard, then add the milk
while you slowly stir (a fork is good for stirring dough).
Roll the dough out on a floured board to about 1/2 inch thick,
cut into biscuits. Bake at 425 degrees for about 15
minutes.
Old-Fashioned Beaten Biscuits
4 cups all-purpose flour (as always, this means not self-rising)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup lard
1/3 cup milk mixed with 1/3 cup water
Mix the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Add the lard
and knead until you have a coarse, mealy consistency. Add
just enough milk/water to make a stiff dough. Knead the
dough then place it on a floured board.
Beat the dough for about 30 minutes. Turn it several
times. The end result should be dough that "pops," and
feels both smooth and elastic.
Pull off small chunks and shape into smooth balls by hand.
Place on a cookie sheet; then be sure to prick each biscuit with
a fork, making 3 rows of holes. Bake in a preheated oven
at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes. The biscuits should
be a light, golden brown.
Read more for
other recipes |
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Mossy Creek Gossip
Courtesy of Katie Bell at The Mossy
Creek Gazette
Here's some "dirt" on our rivals down in Bigelow: The Mossy Creek
Garden Club bested the Bigelow Garden Club in the annual gardening awards
competition despite nefarious attacks by Bigelowans Ardaleen Bigelow,
Geraldine Matthews, and Helen Overbury. They CHEATED by infecting
Creekite Eleanor Abercrombie's roses with root gall and by setting a pig
loose in Mimsy Allen's herb garden. But our revenge was sweet when
judges disqualified Ardaleen, the governor's mother (and older sister of our
mayor), after discovering that her poppy garden (planted by sly inmates from
the state prison), included illegal opium poppies. |
