"Brown Family Pumpkin Bread"
3 1/2 cups of flour
2 1/2 cups of sugar
2 tsp of baking soda
2 tsp of cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp of salt
1 tsp of nutmeg
1 cup of vegetable oil
4 eggs
2/3 cup of water
2 cups of canned pumpkin
Nuts (optional)
Sift the dry ingredients together. Mix the
pumpkin,water, oil, and eggs together. Pour into dry mixture and mix
well. Pour into 2 greased, medium loaf pans. Bake in 350 degree oven
(preheated) for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool completely before
removing from pans. It's great for the holidays!
The Undertaker – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds Dessert
TALBOTT, PETER EMERSON, AGE 33, OF Columbus, died
Sunday at Varner Clinic following a tragic automobile accident.
President and founder of Center Financial Advisors of Columbus.
Formerly of Los Angeles, a 1999 graduate of UCLA and a lieutenant, US
Army Transportation Corps. By authority of Ralph Tinkerton, Executor
(See also TALBOTT, THERESA JUNE, wife, accompanying). Funeral services
for both at 2:00 PM tomorrow, Greene Funeral Home, 255 E. Larkin,
Peterborough, Ohio. Internment, Oak Hill Cemetery, following.
‘That was me. I was Talbott, Peterson Emerson, 33
years old, and formerly from Los Angeles. I had graduated from UCLA and
I had been a lieutenant in the Army. Coincidence? I didn’t think so.
There was only one of me and I didn’t die in the Varner Clinic or
anywhere else last Sunday. I was an aeronautical software engineer and I
had never been to Columbus or heard of Center Financial Advisors much
less been its President. Still, when you’re looking into a set of hard,
dark eyes and a .45 automatic, it’s hard to argue the fine points.’
According to the papers, Pete Talbott was dead. He
and his wife had both died in a car accident. But…Pete was very much
alive and living in Boston. His death wouldn’t have bothered him that
much if whoever was responsible for this notice hadn’t brought his wife
Terri into the picture. Terri had died of cancer and this funeral
notice was nothing but a lack of respect to her making him determined to
get to the bottom of both notices. He would also have never learned of
his own death had it not been for the big, burly man named Gino sitting
next to him with a gun pointed at his head. He would also have never
met Sandy whose husband had died a year before but apparently had just
died again. Confusing? Imagine what they felt as they uncovered
several deaths that had taken place at least twice.
Racing around the states, being chased by the very
people who are supposed to protect them, Pete and Sandy find themselves
being blamed for not only murders of innocent people but also those
committed by the mob. As the puzzle starts to become clear, Pete and
Sandy begin to understand why people are ‘dying’ twice. They also begin
to understand who is behind this and why as they discover how high up
the ladder the arm of ‘un’justice really reaches.
Have you ever read a book that keeps going and
going and you see yourself running out of pages with no possibility of a
‘happy ever after’ ending? That is what I was facing with The Undertaker.
As the pages ran out I could see no possible way for Pete and Sandy to
escape cliff-hanger after cliffhanger. Could this be one of those books
that simply don’t end with a smile. You'll have to read The Undertaker and find out for yourself. I truly enjoyed sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the ending.
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