By Sheri Hopkins
Lifestyle Contributor
Hello everyone! Just wanted to welcome my new Logan County readers. I have family in Booneville and close to Paris. Welcome to Resident Press. Hello to all my family and friends down that way.
This week’s story is about me again. I have done a lot of crazy things in my day, but this is at the top of the list. By the way, my birthday list of things I had planned for the year are not going too well. I have lost no weight, nor have I got one thing organized. But, on the upside, I have done a couple of good deeds.
Here we go, I drowned one time. I was telling Ella this story and she says ”you couldn’t have drowned Nana, you’re still here.” Ok, so I don’t like water at all. I can barely take a bath. I’m scared of water, I take showers. Swimming is out for me.
Ella does not know what she’s talking about. I drowned one time back around 2002 at the Muskogee Water Park. One summer my brother Larry, niece Kelly and girls, Jacob and Tanner, and maybe a few other boys all loaded up and headed to the Muskogee Water Park. Everyone is having a great time, lazy river, slides, all kinds of water fun. Everyone is going down these water slides. I still to this day don’t know how Larry and Kelly talked me into going down a water slide, but they did. I get to the top and I wanted to back out real bad. I’m under pressure, all the kids are doing it…how bad could it be? The water at the end is only around four feet deep. I finally get up the nerve. The poor lifeguard is helping me and down I go. I literally screamed from the minute I left the top till I plunged into the four-foot pool at the bottom. My mouth was wide open, I went under and I had a mouth and nose full of water. I was spitting and sputtering when I finally came up. I looked up and there was a lady video taping me. I’m sure I won her family $10,000 on America’s Funniest Home Videos. I just knew I had drowned. Scared me to death, and scarred me for life.
Jacob and Tanner were in another area of the park and Jacob says ”what’s that noise?” Tanner said ”it sounds like your mom!” They look up just in time to see me drown. You could hear me screaming for miles. They got a big hoot out of it. It was not funny to me. That, my friend, is the day Sheri Hopkins didn’t jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge, but the day I went down the water slide in Muskogee, OK. Never have I ever tried it again. I will just stick to my showers and foot soaks. That’s enough for me.
My husband’s favorite pie was peanut butter. He loved anything with peanut butter. This recipe is an easy peanut butter pie recipe.
PEANUT BUTTER PIE
8 oz. of cream cheese softened
1 1/4 cups creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
8 oz. of Cool Whip
19″ chocolate ready-made pie crust
1 cup mini peanut butter cups (chopped)
In a bowl combine the cream cheese, 1 cup of peanut butter and the powdered sugar. Beat with a mixer until smooth, fold in the Cool Whip. Pour this mixture into the chocolate crust and chill until firm. Decorate the top with chopped peanut butter cups. Use the peanut butter that’s left and melt it (I like to put a little powdered sugar and milk in it). Mix it good and drizzle over the pie. Keep in the refrigerator.
