Rantings & Ravings

Day 1 of 3 via YouTube. Truly awesome!

Memorial Day Meal
Hot dogs, macaroni salad, heirloom tomatoes, and fresh strawberries. Yum!

We were treated to a Memorial Day Flyover…

Low, Slow and smoke trail filled fleet of 18 military planes, including a WWII-era Douglas C-53D at the front as well as C-47 transports, P-40 Warhawks and P-51 Mustangs.

Right before the pandemic, Laura’s craft group started a group project making knitted/crocheted Twiddlemuffs for donation to a memory care/Alzheimer’s facility. Apparently some patients can have restless hands, so these are meant to be fiddled with. They’re embellished with buttons, beads, and ribbons (inside and out) and are made of variously textured yarn - […]

We celebrated with a scaled down version of a Pioneer Woman recipe - Caramel Apple Pie - and had individual pies. We added a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg to the apples because, cinnamon and nutmeg! We didn’t have caramel sauce, but the pies were still delicious without it.

Here’s the recipe: Caramel Apple […]

It was scary to take those first snips, but the herbs have settled in nicely and we needed a little something to go with our lunch. Parsley and chives are the first harvest of our garden

We all live on a ball orbiting a ball
Another ball orbits us after all
It’s patently clear
Whether far or near
We’re all just balls orbiting balls orbiting balls

It never ceases to amaze us how crafty folks can be… We enjoy tea and have some of these little tea canisters that seem too nice and sturdy to just throw into the recycle bin. We challenged Cindy to come up with a re-purpose for them, and look what she did!

Our friend Cindy has been busy crafting, and we were gifted this amazing cork wreath - thank you Cindy! She does beautiful work, and this will be a cheerful and festive addition at Christmas-time.

Our Christmas cactus got into the spirit of things too

We enjoyed Enchilada Casserole for Cinco de Mayo. Laura grew up with this recipe, and it’s a good one to customize… add corn, jalapeños for heat, add or swap beans in for the meat, etc… We’ve always used corn tortillas, as that’s the “classic” taste of enchiladas. Adding toppings is part of the fun!