Sunlit Sorrels
I made a carrot pineapple cake today.Another slow and quiet day. I opted out of going to the Wednesday painting group, mostly because I wasn't even ready to leave until after 10 and what's the point of going then when its half over. Called Debbie, she was getting ready to go to lunch with a friend, so just talked for a minute. So have kept myself busy around the house. Joe wanted to go down to the brew pub for lunch. Guess he was hungry. He had fish and chips, and I had really good chicken noodle soup.
When we got home I got in the mood to cook and baked some chocolate chip cookies. Also needed to do something with the leftover ham. So made a new recipe for potatoes, ham and cheese baked with bread crumbs on top. It was a nice change from my usual scalloped potatoes and ham. And also fixed the breaded eggplant that I make once in a while. Then also made a carrot pineapple cake from a recipe I got off the internet and used more of that fresh pineapple. I changed a few things to make it a little healthier - half whole wheat and only half the amount of oil by adding applesauce for the remainder and left out 1/3 the sugar. Joe liked it. It turned out pretty good, although a slight bit dry. At least it wasn't heavy and oily. Kept telling myself it would be a good time to invite someone over to eat with us, but I don't like to wait til just a few hours before dinner to ask anyone, so in the end waited so long that it really was too late and didn't.
Ruth called me and we got a plan for this weekend - going over to Cody for the Wyoming Artists Assn. Convention. Will see how I'm feeling by then. Jody is coming up tomorrow and going with us too. She invited us to stay with her at her friend’s house there. I think I’ll be comfortable in the friends home – better than a motel. I’m going very light with suitcase and supplies if any. Won’t do the quick draw, because I don’t think I can work fast enough with anything but oils and I just don’t want to carry that much heavy stuff. I’m not even sure if I’ll take paintings to enter in the shows. I plan to take the sculpture class from Vic Payne since he’s so well known, and all the supplies are furnished. I like to do sculpture. We’re going to leave from here on Friday morning if South Pass is o.k. and later if its not. We can look at the South Pass web cams on the internet. Sounds like the weekend should be good. Kay and maybe Wanda are going in Kay’s car and staying in Powell (nearby town) with Kay's dtr. Charm is going to their relative’s wedding down in Colorado. I’m kind of looking forward to it, but told Ruth I might back out if I’m not doing good that day. The weekend has a good weather forecast. We'll be back Sunday. So I may miss some blogs.
This morning I was surprised to pull up the window shade and see it dry and sunny after that ominous forecast for a storm. Nothing has happened during the day either except awful wind and clouding up about noon. It was terrible in Salt Lake pouring rain there.
I heard this on a news show on TV - maybe you did too - that one of the popular new styles is faux ho. I think it's disgusting and if anything goes broke I hope that's one enterprise that does. Are we supposed to rush out and buy this stuff? And what about the young kids thinking this is an o.k. thing.
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