October 2025 – Mary's Musings

Day Trip to Wellsboro, PA

Yesterday was a lovely day to take a drive north! My brother and his wife live in Wellsboro, PA and we usually meet somewhere between Boalsburg and Wellsboro to have lunch. This time, we decided we’d go all the way to Wellsboro to have lunch with them. While we still don’t see a lot of color change on the mountains around us, I was hoping to see more as we drove north. Of course, I completely forgot to take pictures until we were about 10-15 miles from Wellsboro. When I remembered, I grabbed my phone to quickly take pictures of the mountains thru the car windshield. Not the greatest pictures, but if you’re familiar with Rt. 287 you might recognize some of the pictures near Morris, PA.

Mark’s house was still standing but when drove down the driveway to the back I was amazed how big the trees were! I guess it had been a long time since we’d been there. I couldn’t see the woodshed until I peeked around the trees!

We had time to visit a bit before we drove down to Main Street and the restaurant, Beck’s Bistro Restaurant. Of course, I forgot to take pictures of the restaurant…but the food was great!

Always nice to visit with my big brother and his wife Lita! They even stood still long enough so I could take some pictures of all of us! Love to all!

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Making Sausage Cheese Muffins

In my search for low-carb foods, I came across a recipe for Sausage Cheese Pie. It sounded interesting. The picture even looked interesting, but before I had even begun, I was suggesting changes.

There are only two of us and leftover pie would be hard to keep in the fridge. I also didn’t want to mess with a pie crust, so we thought a casserole dish might work. That still made a messy leftover. Finally, we adapted the recipe to work in my silicone muffin pan.

Our adapted recipe looks like this:

The original pie recipe suggested we cook the sausage and onion together, mix in the shredded cheese and put it in the pie crust. Then the eggs and milk were beat together and poured on top. It would bake like a custard on top.

We ended up cooking the sausage and onions first and just mixing everything together. The sausage was in the freezer so we thawed it in the refrigerator overnight.

Bert doesn’t mind doing the chopping and cooking of meat and onion. Thank goodness!

Of course, we didn’t have Monterey Jack cheese, so again, we improvised. I chopped up some slices of American Cheese and added the shredded Cheddar cheese to make 1 1/2 cup of cheese.

Then we added the eggs and milk (in this case we used my Coconut milk) and mixed it all up.

Finally, we scooped the mixture into the muffin pan. Each cup held about 1/4 cup of the mixture.

Muffins ready for the oven:

You can see they bubbled up and left a mess. However, the silicone pan is so easy to clean and the bits of cheese mixture that bubbled out was pretty tasty too!

When they cooled a little I could lift them out of the pan with a tablespoon. They actually tasted GREAT! I think two would make a meal for me…Bert could handle three!

The carb count for the whole recipe was about 25g…mostly for the onion and milk. Divided by 12 muffins, each muffin was about 2g! Not bad!

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Making New Socks More Comfortable

It’s the little things that can be annoying! I have yet to buy a new pair of socks that are comfortable right out of the package! I have a whole drawer full of socks that are almost OK. Since I don’t like tight socks…at my toes or my ankle…I try to buy a bigger size. However, then my feet slide around in my shoes. If I buy the correct size, the top of the sock usually has a ‘hem’ or several strings of tight elastic that drives me nuts. Here are two socks that show the tight hem at the top. I have yet to fix these so I can wear them.

I just ordered new socks that did have mostly cotton with added stretchy fibers. They looked (online) like the top might lay flat.

Amazingly, the socks fit well but, of course, the band at the top was too snug for me. So, I did what I usually do to make them more comfortable…I cut off the band and zigzagged the edges. When flat, the top looks ruffled, but when I put them on, they lay flat on my lower calf. The sock has enough stretch to stay up and top doesn’t drive me nuts! I ended up cutting the top band off all 9 pairs of socks and zigzagged the edges. Here are the pictures…pretty simple and worked great! Time to clean out my sock drawer and fix all the ones driving me nuts!