That is how I feel about my purchase in a Publix grocery store soon after moving from Salem Ohio  to Sarasota Florida,

Seemed a big price to pay for a 9X13 inch cake baking pan so let’s take a look see at what I got for $20.

Now note the bumps in the bottom of this cake pan

This baking pan is two layered with air between the layers of metal then sealed around the edges to make it one baking pan. So I decided to see if it baked a cake with better texture and flavor.

I used a Duncan Hines decadent Chocolate cake mix that has an extra little package in the cake box with directions to mix in a small bowl with I/3 cup of water that stirs up a thick paste and direction say to swirl that through the cake batter after putting the batter in the pan.

Sometimes it is better not to follow directions. When I took that pan from the oven every where I had swirled the extra chocolate paste it sank lower by about I/2 inch than the rest of the cake; weird looking!!

So I decided to smart up and add that extra chocolate paste right in the large mixing bowl with the full cake batter. I beat it up with the electric mixer then put it in the cake pan that I lined with olive oil using a tiny scrap of paper towel.

AHA! This turned out to be perfect after iced with Duncan Hines Classic chocolate icing from a can.

The miracle of baking in this $20 cake pan is that the edges bake exactly like the center and the whole cake holds moisture that gives the best flavor to that cake, Each bite you take just simply melts with flavor in your mouth.

And it is truly THE BEST $20 I EVER SPENT !!

FRF❤️

He absolutely adored his Grandpa Floyd Carpenter. And……..I believe his Grandpa Floyd truly loved him!!!!!

It was such a sad day for my great grandson Levi Carpenter when his beloved Grandpa Floyd went to live with the angels.

Such a happy inquisitive and exploring wonders of the world little boy he was.

While on vacation with his other Grandpa Joey (they call Pappy) and Gramma Meredythe Wedding at a lake in Canada, he proudly shows you a fish he caught with his own fishing pole.

Here he is in an oil painting on canvas done by his great gramma Flo (me).

This little boy is loaded with grandparents and as all children do, he expected them all to live forever.

So after spending endless interesting times with his special Grandpa Floyd until Levi grew into a young man it seemed so wrong when his beloved Grandpa was no longer with us

Time helps to heal wounds but something happened that works better than time for this young man.

Grandpa Floyd Carpenter left his grandson Levi his antique Oliver tractor.

Above you see Levi sitting on Grandpa Floyd’s tractor ready to proudly drive it in the West Mansfield Ohio Fourth of July parade.

With a little heavenly imagination, you and I can see Grandpa Floyd Carpenter happily riding along with Levi right HERE ON EARTH !!

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It’s the lucky people who are given admittance to The Gables Nursing Home In Marysville Ohio which is owned by the Marysville hospital. My granddaughter Jodi Wedding who has multiple sclerosis is one of the lucky people as is my niece Betty Eastman Rae and my niece Virginia Rockhold Davis.

This story is about Virginia, daughter of my brother Carl Rockhold and his wife Gladys Sandusky Rockhold. Virginia’s younger sister Janice lives at St Arbors in North Lewisburg Ohio where she has her own apartment and her sister Irene sadly is no longer with us. Their mother Gladys died soon after Baby Janice was born.

Their father married Leslie Bowen giving his little girls a new mother.

My brother Carl Rockhold holding baby Janice, Leslie Rockhold the girls new mother and in front is Virginia and Irene. My three little nieces.

Above Ilene Oates Cook daughter of Janice, Janice, Virginia and Irene picture taken at the Levi and Mary Etta Rockhold Family Reunion.

Now back to the drawing board, my niece Virginia is one of the lucky people accepted by this very special Nursing Home with really delicious meals, clean day and clean night clothes and clean bedding every day, many activities as I will show you from their bulletin.

Above front of bulletin

Above back of bulletin, second picture down on far right side is my granddaughter Jodi Wedding in the wheelchair, my son-in-law Joey Wedding with the white beard, Jodi’s daughter Holli Carpenter and my daughter Meredythe Wedding on the right side of Jodi. a very happy family!!!

Above my niece Virginia seated , to her left daughter Marcie Patton and behind Virginia her granddaughter Sara Barton and Virginia’s great grand children Sara’s three adorable little girls left Aubrey, baby Brooke and Shelby. This shows you four generations. BEAUTIFUL !!!!

And now for a close up of Virginia with her three adorable granbabies Aubrey, Brooke and Shelby

Marcie Patton with her son Tyler. Daughter Lori and lori’s little boys Cole and Eli

Above seated in a wheel chair Virginia’s loving husband Lowell Davis who two years ago fell and broke his neck. When it was repaired his head became stationary. He can no longer move his head. He lives alone in the family home with their children living near by who do much for him. Behind him standing are their four children left Marcie, Marge, Mike and Butch.

Above Lowell Davis riding in combine with son Carl William Davis (Butch), you can see they are each enjoying this. Since this picture was taken October 2016 I would guess they are combining soy beans.

So……you can see how the family of my niece Virginia Davis manages to go on with Virginia being at Gables Nursing Home where they know she is being taken care of in a wonderful home like fashion.

With the many amenities that I have shown you here there are more I haven’t mentioned perhaps you can understand why I call The Gables Nursing Home A HOME AWAY FROM HOME.

FRF❤️