This has been a crazy week. All sorts of unexpected things to disrupt my days. I won’t go into details, but let me just say that I am very glad this week is over. I welcome the weekend and after my household chores and shopping are done, I intend to soak in a hot bubble bath and read a good book. That’s my idea of a nice respite. Bubbles, candlelight and a book.
My good friend, Walter served our Country and so did my Daddy, although Daddy served a very long time ago in World War II and he’s been gone a long time now. But Walter is one of the few men I know that served in the military and came home with no injuries and no PTSS. He is a good man and I’m proud to call him my friend - even if he didn’t read my blog!
So today we all honor our Country’s veterans and if you know someone who has served, you should give them a hug or a handshake and tell them to their face that we all appreciate their service.
The urge to bake has hit me hard these past couple of weeks. I have been making banana bread every weekend and other treats during the week.
Last week I made a delicious carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I took a box mix and added a lot of my own stuff to it - like 2 extra ripe bananas, chopped walnuts and extra golden raisins. I made it in jelly roll pans so that it had extra layers - wonderful!
This week I made 4 dozen oatmeal cookies and they were gone by the next morning!
We had a lot of kids come to the house this year for trick or treating. I was surprised to see how many little kids were out. They started knocking on the door around 5:00 and then by 9:00 the streets were deserted and they all were heading home.
The weather was lovely - warm enough that you didn’t need a jacket and no chance of rain. A perfect night to go out and gather up candies from the neighbors!
Today we picked up Mother and went Krogering to take advantage of senior citizens day discounts. We decided we might as well each buy a couple of pumpkins for Halloween. Kroger had huge boxes of the biggest pumpkins in town and they were only charging $5.99 - no matter how big or small the pumpkin. I thought that was a very good price and have seen other stores chargin much more for inferior produce. We bought two pumpkins - one is smalled and fully round and the other is taller with a narrow “face.” so I can get busy carving two very different characters into the pumpkins this weekend. When I’m finished I’ll have Mother choose which one she likes best and she can have that one for her porch. And the other will have a place of honor on our front porch.