This year of course there is an Easter basket for Z and decorating eggs. A pretty nice day.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Easter!!
Easter in our house has always been about food. Mike's family always does a Ukrainian breakfast. A sweet bread you decorate; paska. Kilbasa sausage. Eggs.
This year of course there is an Easter basket for Z and decorating eggs. A pretty nice day.
This year of course there is an Easter basket for Z and decorating eggs. A pretty nice day.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Ice
If you happen to water the grass and not pay attention to the fact that it is 32 degrees out - this is what happens!
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Watch Wednesday
A friend of mine loves this guy. I find him very very irritating - but now this song is stuck in my head (so I must share).
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
At Home - A Short History of Private Life
I've been reading At Home by Bill Bryson. It is really interesting. He goes through a short history of home life and how modern life has evolved. Something interesting from yesterday was the list of what people ate in 1851 compared with now. I didn't note the comparison amounts (although it was a lot lower than what they ate in 1851) but here was the list for that year (so annually):
8 lbs of pears
9 lbs of grapes and other soft fruit
18 lbs of dried fruit
32 lbs of onions
40 lbs of turnips/rutabagas
70 lbs of cabbage
30 lbs of sugar
I've decided that starting April 1 2013 I will keep track of my vegetable and fruit intake. Sugar as well. I will see next April what my annual intake is. Care to join me on this? Are we better or worse than the 1851 British?
8 lbs of pears
9 lbs of grapes and other soft fruit
18 lbs of dried fruit
32 lbs of onions
40 lbs of turnips/rutabagas
70 lbs of cabbage
30 lbs of sugar
I've decided that starting April 1 2013 I will keep track of my vegetable and fruit intake. Sugar as well. I will see next April what my annual intake is. Care to join me on this? Are we better or worse than the 1851 British?
Monday, March 18, 2013
One Year Old.
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| The cake finally came out! |
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| One balloon since she turned one! |
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| The cake hat wasn't her favorite - but she wore it. |
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| Who doesn't like to open presents? |
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| Zooey's friend Kai. |
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Cakes ...
I have found my problem. Cake 1, flopped into a brownie (recipe called for 2 large eggs and I used 2 small eggs). Cake 2, over flowed like lava (recipe called 2 large eggs and I egg yolk and I used 3 small eggs and one yolk). Cake 3, separated into liquid fudge and cake (recipe called for 2 Xxl eggs and I used 4 small ones). Tonight - cake 4 was made. It called for 2 large eggs. I used 2 large eggs and the cakes came out perfect.
How frustrating!! The eggs from our chickens are small :(
How frustrating!! The eggs from our chickens are small :(
Watch Wednesday
Stick figures are just the best! They tell a story like no other .... Well I guess if your actor is crap a stick figure might just be a lot better!
Monday, March 11, 2013
Unconcious Mutterings
Why don't you try this too. Once a week - random words and what is the first thing your mind thinks of?
Week 526
1. Align ::Straight
2. Collar :: POP
3. Orphan ::Alone
4. Program ::C++
5. Waves ::Ocean
6. Accident :: Car
7. Offices ::Email
8. Corrupt ::Congress
9. Tears :: Kisses
10. Family ::Snuggles
Week 526
1. Align ::Straight
2. Collar :: POP
3. Orphan ::Alone
4. Program ::C++
5. Waves ::Ocean
6. Accident :: Car
7. Offices ::Email
8. Corrupt ::Congress
9. Tears :: Kisses
10. Family ::Snuggles
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Weekend Baking
Zooey is turning one this coming Friday. We did sugar cookies for her to take to daycare and then I did a tester cake. I want to do a chocolate cake with strawberry icing. The icing came out amazing and the cake sucks. I'll try some more recipes this week.
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Weekend Exploring
We spent the weekend in Utah and Colorado exploring biking and hiking trails. We got to see dinosaur bones, meet great people and thrift store shopping. It was a great trip!
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Dinner!
My new favorite sour dough bread recipe. From King Arthur baking of course. The soup is a vegetarian green chile. Care for the recipes?
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Hawaii Vacation ... Bust!
This here is a sick girl. We are suppose to be in Hawaii today. Zooey has an ear infection and RSV. We decided to cancel yesterday. 
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Happy Valentines Day
As many of you know I love Frank Deford's sports articles. Yesterday he had this one:
Gentlemen of a certain age might make a nostalgic note that today, Valentine's eve, is the 80th birthday of Kim Novak.
One of Miss Novak's most famous movie roles was in Picnic, where she played the gorgeous ingenue who could've married the son of the richest man in town but instead fell for a hunk of a bum who was an old football star.
Picnic is being revived on Broadway, as is Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, where — guess what? — Maggie, played by the beautiful Scarlett Johansson, is married to a hunk of a bum who is a former football star.
I bring this up especially because last month, Brent Musburger, doing play-by-play for ESPN, was pilloried for allegedly being sexist because he gushed about how Miss Alabama was going out with the Alabama quarterback.
Of course she is.
If Mr. Musburger was guilty of anything it was failing to note what a cliche he was dealing in. As Tennessee Williams and William Inge and scores of lesser writers have written, it is all so true: Beautiful women fall for football stars — especially quarterbacks.
If football had been around in Shakespeare's time, the Bard would've had Juliet ditch Romeo for Flacco. "Flacco, Flacco, wherefore art thou Flacco?"
Where have you been, critics of Brent Musburger? Going back before Jane Russell fell for Bob Waterfield, through Joe Namath and on past Tom Brady, pretty ladies have thrown themselves at field generals.
But, we seem to have a new trend this Valentine's. More and more, athletes are falling in love with athletes.
Why, Danica Patrick is actually going out with a competitor race driver, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.; the No. 1 golfer in the world, Rory McIlroy, is canoodling with Caroline Wozniacki, who used to be the No. 1 tennis player.
Love seems to have worked better for the golfer. He went to the top of the rankings after the romance started, while Ms. Wozniacki nosedived.
Give her a ring, Rory. After all, another top tennis player, Maria Kirilenko, recently became engaged to Alex Ovechkin, one of the best hockey players in the world, and Maria's been on a tear ever since Alex proposed.
And now comes the news that Tiger Woods, who rather famously — or infamously — prefers blondes, is at least "good friends" with Lindsey Vonn, the great skier.
When Vonn had a terrible accident on the Austrian slopes last week, the gallant Mr. Woods sent his private plane to fetch her — sort of the modern equivalent of Sir Walter Raleigh spreading his cape in the puddle for her majesty.
There've been a few all-athletic romances in the past — Ralph Kiner and Nancy Chaffee, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, Florence Griffin and Al Joyner, Nomar Garciaparra and Mia Hamm — but perhaps especially now that there are so many more female athletes, sports stars are connecting in the workplace just like everybody else.
However, even at Valentine's, quarterbacks still seem to prefer beauty queens, and vice versa.
Of course - I'd like to point out that if you have ever watched Flash Gordon you know that the QB always gets the girl!
Gentlemen of a certain age might make a nostalgic note that today, Valentine's eve, is the 80th birthday of Kim Novak.
One of Miss Novak's most famous movie roles was in Picnic, where she played the gorgeous ingenue who could've married the son of the richest man in town but instead fell for a hunk of a bum who was an old football star.
Picnic is being revived on Broadway, as is Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, where — guess what? — Maggie, played by the beautiful Scarlett Johansson, is married to a hunk of a bum who is a former football star.
I bring this up especially because last month, Brent Musburger, doing play-by-play for ESPN, was pilloried for allegedly being sexist because he gushed about how Miss Alabama was going out with the Alabama quarterback.
Of course she is.
If Mr. Musburger was guilty of anything it was failing to note what a cliche he was dealing in. As Tennessee Williams and William Inge and scores of lesser writers have written, it is all so true: Beautiful women fall for football stars — especially quarterbacks.
If football had been around in Shakespeare's time, the Bard would've had Juliet ditch Romeo for Flacco. "Flacco, Flacco, wherefore art thou Flacco?"
Where have you been, critics of Brent Musburger? Going back before Jane Russell fell for Bob Waterfield, through Joe Namath and on past Tom Brady, pretty ladies have thrown themselves at field generals.
But, we seem to have a new trend this Valentine's. More and more, athletes are falling in love with athletes.
Why, Danica Patrick is actually going out with a competitor race driver, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.; the No. 1 golfer in the world, Rory McIlroy, is canoodling with Caroline Wozniacki, who used to be the No. 1 tennis player.
Love seems to have worked better for the golfer. He went to the top of the rankings after the romance started, while Ms. Wozniacki nosedived.
Give her a ring, Rory. After all, another top tennis player, Maria Kirilenko, recently became engaged to Alex Ovechkin, one of the best hockey players in the world, and Maria's been on a tear ever since Alex proposed.
And now comes the news that Tiger Woods, who rather famously — or infamously — prefers blondes, is at least "good friends" with Lindsey Vonn, the great skier.
When Vonn had a terrible accident on the Austrian slopes last week, the gallant Mr. Woods sent his private plane to fetch her — sort of the modern equivalent of Sir Walter Raleigh spreading his cape in the puddle for her majesty.
There've been a few all-athletic romances in the past — Ralph Kiner and Nancy Chaffee, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, Florence Griffin and Al Joyner, Nomar Garciaparra and Mia Hamm — but perhaps especially now that there are so many more female athletes, sports stars are connecting in the workplace just like everybody else.
However, even at Valentine's, quarterbacks still seem to prefer beauty queens, and vice versa.
Of course - I'd like to point out that if you have ever watched Flash Gordon you know that the QB always gets the girl!
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