It was a Friday afternoon and evening at the wee cottage in the woods...

The weather was blustery and cold outside...

Meanwhile inside it was warm and cozy...with a fire burning in the fireplace...

It seemed to me, then, the be a perfect afternoon and evening to be cooking & baking...so I made a batch of chicken noodle soup as well as baked "Symphony Brownies"....

And along the way I had a cocktail or two or three or....(you get the picture)

All in all, it was a most perfect winter Friday night at home...for which I am most thankful.  Wish you could have been here.  ;-)

A good friends passed on to me this idea/recipe for a brownie...or bar.  It is excellent.  The basic ingredients are your favorite packaged brownie mix (8x8 pan size) and two Symphony bars...plus oil, eggs and milk per brownie mix instructions.

Mix together the brownie batter per the directions on the package.  Pour 1/2 of the batter into a greased 8x8 baking pan.  Top this with two Symphony bars.  Pour the remaining batter over the top of the bars...smooth to edge of pan.

Bake per directions on brownie mix package.  In my case it was 30 minutes and 350 degrees.

Enjoy.  Really, enjoy!

It is my conviction that thoughts are powerful tools.  Our thoughts create our reality on a daily basis.  When these thoughts are put into the spoken word, they become even more powerful.  And lastly, when these thoughts are written down they gain a strength and a permanence.

I've been thinking about the direction in which I want to take my blog.  This thing...this blog...is the reason I get up in the morning.  Consequently because it is so important to me, I want to add to it...to make it perhaps even more interesting those of you that come upon it.

As Mark Twain said:  "Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."

So this area of my blog..."Residual Thoughts" is going to become an area of comment about life whether is be a story about the day...or a commentary on the interesting world in which we live.

I hope you will enjoy this as much as I do...