Gravatt Bars... YUM!

This week has been rather quiet at Casa Bevy. S was on a mission trip and came home Tuesday afternoon. (Pics to come later!) J is at camp all week. It's the Episcopal Diocesan camp, and guess what? It's only 30 minutes from our house! How's that for convenience?

Of course in this day and age, I have been hooked to the internet all week looking for posted photos on the camps website. What is wrong with us? Why can't we let our kids go for ONE WEEK without the need?


Anyway, you can see he is doing great...


Of course I do miss him. I asked S if he did, and you can guess what he said. Ah, brotherly love. So when J comes home on Sunday, I plan to have a taste of camp waiting for him: Gravatt Bars! Camp Gravatt has been making these ever since I was a camper in the late 70s and a Junior Counselor in the 80s. They are incredibly easy to make and melt in your mouth. I swear!

Here is the recipe. You won't be disappointed!

Gravatt Bars

Ingredients
2 sticks butter (softened)
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
4 cups confectioners sugar
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Directions
Mix first three ingredients.
Fold into a 9 x 13 glass pan.  (If you want them thicker, then go for a 9 x 9!)
Melt chocolate chips and pour over mixture.
Refrigerate for about three hours or until it "sets".
Take out and let it "thaw" for about thirty minutes so that it is easy to cut into squares.

Enjoy! I know J will... Oh who am I kidding?  I definitely will!

Total Eclipse of... Camp?

Two days ago, Mike and I dropped Jackson off at camp for a week.  The same Episcopal Diocesan camp where I was a Counselor-in-Training (CIT) back in 1983 at the age of fourteen.  Yes, I am dating myself tremendously!  Although I have been back for church picnics and the like, I have not been back for camp in twenty-seven years.

As we helped Jackson unpack and make his bed, hundreds of memories flooded back.  Some were of swimming in the lake, others were of working with the campers.  But remember, I was fourteen.  Quite a few were of my first real kiss, the friends that I said I would stay friend with 4+ever, the pig-latin type secret language the female staff members created much to the consternation of the males, and finally the Top 40 songs we listened to on portable radio when we were on Night Duty so that the real counselors could have some down time until 11:00.  I giggle at how those songs were so "meaningful" to us at the time:

• 1999 by Prince
• Sweet Dreams by The Eurythmics
• The ENTIRE Thriller album by Michael Jackson
• Human Touch by Rick Springfield (probably not his most memorable)

But the one I loved, loved, loved so much was Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.  So I came home to wax poetic and hopefully watch the video on YouTube. Imagine my delight to find this LITERAL interpretation instead!  I don't care if you don't think you have the time to watch it, you MUST!  You will thank me later!



Oh, and there are plenty of other literal videos out there... you really will laugh until your sides hurt and you spit out your cosmopolitan!