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Category: Daily Happenings | Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:38 pm

It is very cloudy outside and the forecast is for rain today and tonight rain and rain mixed with snow. Tomorrow it is to be snow showers or rain mixed with snow showers.
So, so far we have had rain, rain mixed with snow, a bit of sun and now just clouds. Nothing has made the ground even a little bit wet. There was some snow on the sidewalk but it's about 45 so even that is gone now. I think we must be on the edge of the storm system because the news says it's raining in Phoenix.
We went up to breakfast at Blondie's. It's about 8 miles up the highway. We have to pass through Poland Junction which is just a collection of houses but in the old days it was a place a train stopped. No tracks there now. It sets between two mountain ridges and every thing that even looks like a storm in the area comes roaring down through that pass. When we went past there this morning it was raining.When we came back, it was snowing. They even had snow sticking on the ground. None on the highway, just on the ground. They get rain when we just get clouds. Not much mind you but it is wet. I wouldn't mind some rain but snow, no thanks.
I decided it was a baking day. DR has a fire going but it is so dreary. I made some bread dough. At Christmas it was called stollen, but today it is called Cardamon Fruit Bread. I needed to use the fruit mix that was left over from the stollen before it was all dried out. I'll just bake it in rounds, not stollen shaped. I'll maybe just brush it with egg and sugar the top instead of glazing it. I made oatmeal raisen cookies. Only a single batch, six dozen. Then I made chocolate chip cookies for dr. He said I was making chunky drop cookies and he liked flat ones, so I took a fork and flattened them. I will add less flour next time and they will flatten themselves. The bread was just sitting there so when the cookies were done I shut off the oven and opened the door and moved the dough to the top of the stove. Now it is coming up. It was just a bit chilly in the house for it to rise properly. The cookies will be divided three ways and I think maybe the bread will be divided three ways, too. We just don't need that much sweet stuff this soon after Christmas. DR has been hauling wood up from the shed and cutting pallets into kindling wood. The school gave us the pallets just to get rid of them. I saw some more there the other day so when we go buy when the janitor is out we will stop and get them, too. DR is saving the boards off of the good ones to make a fence behind the storage trailer behind the big shed. Pallets can be used for a lot of different things. When we lived in Black Canyon City we made a deck at ground level with them. We filled in the spaces between the boards with boards from other pallets. We burn all the extra bits for kindling. We might be making a gazebo in the back this summer and will use some of the pallets for a floor. Chance likes being up off the ground, too, but she has her own covered deck. DR made it for her the first year. Chance is black and in summer her fur gets so hot so dr made her a covered deck. She uses it too. Guess I will go and type some more of those stories. I bought new ink for the printer on Wednesday. Oh, we stopped at the Dollar Store this morning and dr bought me two small turtles. They aren't anything special but they are currently residing on the top of the computer. When he checked out the clerk told him, "oh, my second turtle customer this morning." Guess I'm not the only turtle person around. Dooley


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Comments

pondlady wrote on Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:52 pm:


Dooley, when you don't work, you work. But the cookies sound good. I have a dozen or so.




 

reggaefan wrote on Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:12 pm:


I can almost smell the cookies




 

wannabe wrote on Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:38 am:


Dooley those all sound so good. I know I can't have them but I'd nibble on just a few. Wannabe




 

dooley wrote on Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:00 am:


Yeah, I nibble too. I do make them with sugar free stuff though, Dooley




 

cajunbelle wrote on Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:14 am:


Sounds yummy Dooley, I have 2 bags of chocolate chips left from the holidays, but really dont need cookies.




 

dooley wrote on Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:38 am:


I have been trying to use them up making chocolate muffins with chocolate chips in them. I don't need those either. The neighbor gave me the chocolate chips. Hint, Hint! I gave cookies to them and to another neighbor and also a loaf of the bread to each neighbor. Dooley




 

glendann wrote on Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:14 am:


I sure wish I was your neighbor Dooley .It must be great.The Bread sounds very tempting but I don't need that either.I hate have a second middle age spread one is enough.:)I bet I could learn so much from all of you.





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