SUNDAY 8th November, 2009

Tired to write....

Sorry I wasn't around to respond, Grace!
I'd have done as you did: left it in till it was done (using whatever method you use. I use the toothpick method: insert in the middle, as far down as possible, and pull it back out and if it comes out dry the cake is DONE! If it comes out with batter stuck to it, the cake stays in another 5-10 min. You might want to get your oven temp checked, just so you know how it heats. Mine is a little cool, so I know to turn it on around 25 degrees higher than the recipe calls for).
Glad it turned out!

Yes, Jnette, I made another trip to Target to return the lampshades and then got the ones that would fit.
And yes, I get a little irritated when I have to take back or exchange something!!
But it's all done now, and the old tattered lampshades are GONE.

I got dh some ginger ale, as his stomach has been 'off' today.
He said drinking it helped him.

Y'all have a good evening/noc/day!

Blackberry cake and a glass of cold milk would hit the spot just now! Tooth is a little better thanks to Advil. Hope to get up with dentist in the am.

Hope this coming week is good for all of us!

Oh I'm so glad your cake turned out Grace! I read "olive oil" and went "uh oh". Glad I was wrong!

Spent some time at the office this afternoon after a lovely lunch with friends from church. We talked for 2 hours - Danny did well for the most part but the last 1/2 kept whispering in my ear about going home. We just live across the street but he is too young to go home alone so . . poor kid had to stay and listen to 6 adults chat.

I ordered "Monsters Vs. Aliens" off Directv for us to watch when Daddy left for work. We had popcorn too.

Now I'm having a small bowl of granola. Then bed.

How was the wine Big K ? Oh . . . by the way we did talk about logging accidents at lunch.

steph

Well...... I'm no eonophile, but the wine is more of what I would classify as a dessert wine. It was fairly sweet, but it was good. I ended up getting the same Manischewitz wine as everyone else cooked with.

Speaking of logging accidents, yes, maybe I was trying to suggest a hardhat for safety. At least for the person falling the snag. It doesn't take a very big limb to hurt like the dickens when it falls on your bare head. I didn't tell the story about the next time I fell a snag. I did wear my hard hat and had the younger boy stay way back to be safe. I fell the snag away from another tree and was watching it carefully when it felt like someone hit me on the arm as hard as they could with a broom stick. I whipped around to see if the boy was being funny, but he was standing there totally oblivious to what had happened. A limb just a little bigger around than my thumb had broken out and fell on me. It raised a pretty good sized "monkey bump" on my forearm.

When it comes to falllng trees, I have no luck at all.

good night!

I bet that would be good.... Sprite or 7_Up, but not lemonade. LOL.

What language is that again you speak? Whatever it is, I'm slowly learning it. Lift, mob, torch, mop, sandpounder, bushie, afternoon tea, joey.......... they are all starting to make sense.

You have a g'day, Grace. (now I'm going to follow Steph around and see what she says before she goes to bed. You know how women are; they always have to have the last word.)

That reminds me!!!! Steph, what am I going to do with you??? I spend over an hour a 1/2 a page trying to explain to you that there is nothing wrong with a few lines, and then you make a comment like that on FB.

I wonder if your lovely MIL is as hard-headed as you are when it comes to that topic....... If I weren't so stubborn I'd just give up.