No End to Food!

Just more food! A couple of quick glimpses. Peach Cobbler above.



More cookies- gingersnaps.


And, I got to sleep in my new tent that was a gift from Marie's brother, Larry! Yeah! See you tomorrow... gotta scoot. Way TOO rushed.

Focused on Food

Up at 5 am... but I'm not on that schedule, so of course I lay in bed awake till 2:30. Bummer. But I got to the campsite in time to put out breakfast and cook scrambled eggs to go with the bacon and biscuits.

See today's projects below:


Enough spaghetti for an army... this is not all of it. We may have that twice!


Morning Glory Muffins, with Zucchini Walnut hiding underneath


A powdered cereal mix for morning. I'm off to the trenches very soon! Of course my desktop computer decided that this was a perfect time to crash, Crash, CRASH! So that has to go to the shop first. I played with it Saturday till I had done all I know how to do.

Sunday Photo Essay

The day ended up yielding several unrelated images, so I think I'll just call them another photo essay!



The BIG project of the day was to get out to the work site with the evening's food. I was planning have breakfast with me too, and to stay all night. However, the spaghetti sauce for tomorrow night was still cooking and I didn't have some computer stuff done, so I decided to come home for the night. I have to be out there at 6:30 in the morning! This is just the beginning of the food line. People actually wandered in for about an hour, and then I packed up and came home.



This is Cedar and Teak. You've met them before (see link to Four Dogs and a Friend). Can you tell them apart? It's really hard. Cedar has a redder nose. Their people are part of the work crew that I'm feeding.



This is a surprise! I found a sedum growing on the edge of the cemetery. The grounds keepers throw all kinds of things toward and in the gully. So a couple of years ago I dug it up and plopped it in my flower bed. I really like the tones in it... hope it is happy and continues to thrive.



Finally, at the end of it all, what a nice reward! I did not touch this up at all.

For the rest of the week I'll probably be posting mid-day. See you after breakfast!

See Four Dogs and a Friend

Butter & Eggs, & Cookies

 



Well, I'm really talking about two different things, not all food! One of the things I love about Carol's blog, Duxbury Ramblers, is to compare the plants they have in England with the ones we have here in Michigan. The one above, commonly called Butter and Eggs here, is a toadflax, Linaria vulgaris. It's alien, but has been around for centuries. It's so pretty I can't be too sad, and it doesn't seem to be invasive.


Now, for the cookies I promised you. The dark ones are Mocha Walnut (with chocolate chips), and the others are Oatmeal Raisin. Now for a tall glass of iced coffee! It's too hot here to think. I don't know how some of you who are farther south can handle this!

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Writing, August 13

Well, this isn't going to be a very interesting post, but I had to spend the evening writing articles. I got on Helium this morning and there was an article in the "Marketplace" that pays $120 if yours is accepted. It was a topic on which I think I have some good perspective: "Loving Under Difficult Circumstances." And they wanted it from a Christian, Biblical perspective. So I spent all morning writing a good, careful article- 1800 words.

When I went to submit it, I learned that I don't have enough ranking stars to do that. Ouch! So I tried to figure out if I could earn that star yet today, since the deadline for the first article is tomorrow. I could write enough articles, but I have no control over their ratings.

Had to go shopping this afternoon and begin cooking for the work week that starts Sunday. So much for that time slot. This evening I decided to give it a try on the ratings. I wrote three more articles, but I don't even understand the rating system. To earn a star they require that "writers have written a total of 4 to 29 Helium articles, which rank on average in the top quarter." I now have 5 articles, and 4 of them are in the top quarter, but the 5th is dead last in its group, so... I don't know.

Michy says that they update at 5 am EDT, so I'll know in the morning if I can submit my good article!

Now, believe it or not, I'm going to go bake cookies because it is just a tiny, tiny bit cooler in the kitchen at night. How about if I bring you some tomorrow?