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- 4:22 PM
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Corrine's babysitter came over on TU and picked some rhubarb. A good thing really, the plant needed to be thinned out and the bad stalks pulled out. She took home a HUGE grocery bag full of rhubarb. I felt the need to make these yummy rhubarb muffins.
Mix together and set aside-
2 1/2 C flour
1/2 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder
Mix together-
1 1/4 C packed brown sugar
1/2 C oil
2 t vanilla
1 egg
1 1/2 rhubarb chunks
Then add 1 C buttermilk
Add dry mix. Fill muffin cups with liners and fill the line 2/3 full.
Topping- mix together
1 package vanilla instant pudding
1/3 C flour
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 C pecan pieces
1/2 C packed brown sugar
Then add 6 T melted butter
Put 1T (or more) of topping mix in each cup. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes.
I have two muffins tins that are silver and one muffin tin that is the dark non stick pan. I bake the muffins in the non stick pan 15 minutes and check for doneness. That pan cooks so much faster than the other two.
Dee-lish! Happy Friday. Enjoy.
- 1:33 PM
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* A month ago I noticed a charge on my bank statement that wasn't mine. I called the company to see what was purchased because the charge was a couple of days after surgery. I couldn't have bought something, I was pretty drugged up, but I didn't remember doing so. The credit union closed my debit card. I had no money for a week because I couldn't drive and my credit union is in Boulder and we aren't. I had to dust off my checkbook. That is when I realized how much we rely on our debit cards!
Fast forward a month. Yesterday I went to the ATM to take out some money. I remember taking out the money and my receipt, but I don't remember taking out my card. And it most definitely gone. Crap! Now I have to do that process all over again. Wait for my new card, then wait another week for my pin. Ugh. At least I can drive now and I did take out cash yesterday.
* The girls took a nap on me yesterday. It's a vicious cycle.... Nap during the day because I didn't sleep the night before, but then I can't go to sleep that night either, because I took a nap during the day. The girlies don't care. They had a body to sleep on that was covered in a fleece blanket. Doesn't get any better than that at least in a cat world.
* Friday is national donut day. Our local donut shop is giving away free donuts (with a hole) to anyone who comes into the shop. Sweet.
Have a great day!
- 6:34 AM
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Slowly. Back in April when we should have been turning the dirt (heavy clay soil) and getting ready to plant, it snowed once a week and was unseasonably cold. And that was when I was at home. When I was at work it would warm up and be reasonably nice, but not nice enough to dry out the garden so we could till it.
Along came May and I hadn't planted a thing. Then I had should surgery and was laid up in a sling for a week. I have been taking it slowly in the planting not wanting to overdue the stress on my shoulder (which I have done pretty much daily anyway), so some things are coming up faster than others. On the far left of the picture are my radishes. There are French Breakfast- favorites around here, some Easter Egg type of radish and White Icicle. What isn't coming up very well are the carrots, kale and red onions. The spinach is half heartedly coming up and so is the lettuce.
I have this sprinkler hose (the black one) that you can add sprinkler heads to it where ever it suits. I loved it the first year I had it. But despise it even more each year I've used it. The sprinkler heads get clogged very easily and don't spray in any fashion. In fact the majority of them just drip into a puddle under the stake. I do have one of those older green hoses with the holes in them that spray every which way. On my to do list this week is to bite the bullet and just buy a new soaker hose.
I must be patient. It's hard.
- 6:00 AM
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A portrait a week for a year.
This week: sitting with Grandma Joanne (who we don't see all that often) reading a story before nap time.
- 10:49 AM
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