Look at this peculiar object discovered in an Egyptian tomb in 200 B.C. Sure does look like an airplane doesn’t it? Is it the scale model for an aircraft?

And check out these carvings from a temple in Egypt from about the same time…sure does look like planes to me!

And finally have a gander at this “trinket” which is over a thousand years old and was found in the coastal regions of South America….sure does bear an uncanny resemblance to the space shuttle doesn’t it?!

One Word… YUM! Ok.. maybe a second word…GONE! Cuz this cake will be gone quicker than you can cool it!
Hands down. Possibly my FAVORITE BUTTERY holiday recipe of all time.

Btw… Don’t forget to ENTER your BUTTERY recipe in the BUTTER Up the Holidays contest! With a chance to win part of $1,250 in Fred Meyer gift cards. Good luck!

Ingredients
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 package yellow cake mix
1 package instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup dark rum
1 cup BUTTER
1/4 cup water
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup dark rum

Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan. Sprinkle chopped nuts evenly over the bottom of the pan.
In a large bowl, combine cake mix and pudding mix. Mix in the eggs, 1/2 cup water, oil and 1/2 cup rum. Blend. Pour batter over chopped nuts in the pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for 1-hour, (or do the toothpick no-stick trick). Let sit for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto serving plate. Brush glaze over top and sides. Allow cake to absorb glaze and repeat until all glaze is used.
Glaze recipe: In a saucepan, combine butter, 1/4 cup water and 1 cup sugar. Bring to a boil over medium heat and continue to boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 cup rum.

Show your kids how cool Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster is by taking them to the web site!

Lol. Below are a couple of screenshots, showing the Monster Grrhoof, that I was talking about in my latest radio commercial. When your kids play Sesame Street, Once Upon a Monster, they get to teach Grrhoof how to not scare the cute little Puffalopes. Grrhoof is cute, isn’t he?

So in this frame, Elmo and Cookie are teaching Grrhoof how to be more “sociable” lol. Your kids control the action (with the Kinect motion sensor) and help teach Grrhoof how to dance, wave, and just be silly. Fun!

Here, you see Elmo and Cookie about to take the NEW improved Grrhoof to meet the Puffalopes!

My kids LOVE the cute, cuddly, fluffy Puffalopes. Especially my 7 year old!

Like I said in the radio commercial, I can’t tell you how this chapter ends – lol. Guess you’ll hafta have fun yourself and find out

Click here to visit the official Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster site for more info!

Read the article HERE

South Korea is employing an army of robotic prison guards to keep prisons in that country safe! Sure…they look sweet enough, but make ‘em made and they’ll tase you!

A four-inch long LEECH!! Skip ahead to about :55 to see this nasty little bugger!
This thing had been living inside this poor 16 year old’s windpipe for eight weeks!! Doctors say it is not very common for a leech to survive inside the body for this extended period of time. The boy apparently drank water from a stream infected with leech larvae. Ugggh!

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Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup BUTTER, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
1/4 cup molasses
2 tablespoons white sugar

Preheat oven to 350. Sift together the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Slowly stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. Shape dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place the cookies 2 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet, and flatten slightly.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet.

Woodley’s owner had just parked the RV outside of a grocery store and ran inside to pick up a few items. But Woodley apparently grew tired of waiting, so he released the handbrake and headed down the hill where he was parked. And observers said he did a great job driving and he avoided hitting any pedestrians or cars in his mile long journey! Fortunately a passerby saw what was happening and he was able to run and catch up with the vehicle and hop on the side and engage the handbrake from the driver’s window.

We already knew that octopi in captivity are able to escape from their enclosures with remarkable frequency.   And now finally someone captured video of an octopus leaving his familiar watery dwelling and heading out on dry land in search of a meal! How would you like to run into this guy in a dark hallway?

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Cruze’s Candied Yams Recipe: Not just for Thanksgiving

6 medium-sized sweet potatoes
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 to 3 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 cup melted BUTTER
1-1/2 cups mini marshmallows
1/2 cup pecan chips
Slice sweet potatoes into 1/4 inch round slices. Arrange potatoes in a lightly greased baking dish.
Mix brown sugar, cinnamon, and pecans in a bowl. Sprinkle each layer of potatoes with the mixture. Pour 3/4 cup melted butter over potatoes evenly. Cover and bake at 375°F for 30 minutes
Remove and baste with remaining 1/4 cup butter. Cover and continue baking for 30 minutes.
Remove, sprinkle marshmallows evenly on top and continue baking without cover for 5 minutes.