Photo-A-Day #255 12/19/05

Notice the painted glass window cow. My Dad raised cows when he was a boy. He even built his own barn when he was a teen and built it so well that it still stands today. My mother-in-law Marcia gave the painted window to my Dad. He has many assorted cow related stuff throughout the house. This is being displayed on the side of the house. Also pictured are the candle lights for Fire and Police. That’s a big thing around our town, you will notice alot of white lights around and then a single red (fire) or a single blue (police) or both.

Christmas Party ’05

The Annual Bennett Family Christmas Party was yesterday at Corrine and Jeff’s. Allison made two apple pies to bring for dessert, Dad made chicken wings and I made poor man truffles.

Poor Man Truffles

Ingredients: Rolos, Pretzel Snaps (great base) and salted almonds.
2. Put a sheet of aluminum foil on a baking pan, grease lightly with butter.
3. Heat oven to 350 while you lay out the pretzels with rolos on top.
3. Once all pretzels and rolos are laid out put in the oven for 3 1/5 minutes.
4. Squish almonds on the tops.
5. Let tray cool a bit on the oven top.
6. Put tray in the fridge for 10 minutes.
7. Remove from tray (should not stick.)
8. If you make a second tray only put that one in for 3 minutes. The oven is really hot by now.

Make your own variations with this, some we have done are M&M’s and Hershey Kisses (5 minutes in the oven for Hershey’s Kisses, they are solid and take longer to melt.).

The party was a great time. It is something that Allison and I look forward to each year. It was so great to see everyone. Here are the pictures.

Christmas Party ’05