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there is! i just am running out of time now to worry about it again until this winter perhaps. i also don't really like vodka so will choose some other alcohol to do extraction and steeping. we'll see then how it goes. i'll be happy enough with what i have. a quart of vanilla extract is...

we did! or at least it has been mentioned here several times. :)

three nice days in the works, cool at nights (we had to turn the heat on this morning for Mom as she felt too cold) and then chances of rains Saturday night. some nights now in the forecast down to near 40F.

yes, a lot of things have become JIT (just in time), which doesn't work so well when things get disrupted...

i'm pretty sure i can't find the exact beans being used to make the vanilla that i like, plus as i am researching this more it may be possible that the bottle we have is old enough that it may be the wrong kind that we should never have had to begin with. haha, oops. i really don't know now...

this absolutely never happens here. we always have baking supplies - i can do a lot of damage to my diet by simply getting into the butter, brown sugar, oatmeal, chocolate or chocolate chips, vanilla, etc. plus it is common for Mom to have a tub of homemade chocolate frosting in the fridge -...

today at last. i've taken most of the day to do very little other than some reading and writing and i spent about a half hour spider hunting since i'd not done that for a while and Mom said she had two of them in her room. one was a hunting/running type of spider so i wasn't worried about that...

i had a mug of hot water this morning, with a teaspoon of brown sugar and some vanilla. that's it. Mom said, "Barf!" she thinks vanilla tastes acidic. nope. not at all. i picked up a bottle of cheap vanilla by accident and i'm not about to return it because i can use it in place of the...

that is a very nice display. :)

i'm pretty sure those containers are plugged in to keep them cool otherwise they'd be rotten after just a day sitting in those southern hotter ports.

stomp them grapes pronto!

i did not put them in the weed pile after all since i had some other veggie scraps i buried them in a garden to keep the wormies happy. :) worms love melon rinds. and if i have patooties growing in there next spring i may just leave them alone and see what happens and put the onions someplace...

Dukes of Hazzard reunion?

i put on music this morning and grabbed a few extra winks after taking out the trash. then i had a watermelon to cut up. it wasn't very good so most of it is ending up going out to the weed pile. the center was mushy/spongy, not rotting but not right either. so all i could rescue for eating...

sounds like a perfect day. :)

i'm very convinced Mom is a Gremlin. when that movie came out at the theatres i didn't see it for many years but then they showed it on campus and for that price (movies were $1) i decided to give it a try. [spoiler alert if you've not seen it - skip this next part] . . . . . . . ...

i did take most of this evening to unwind and to not do much else. feel a lot better. :) *whew!* long weekend. both dinners went well and we're glad to see the people who were here. after getting the next round of dishes mostly done i left a few things for Mom and knew that she was going to...

do you have chocolate biscuits for us?

they never knock these days...

recent good things... :) i saw a nice sized toad in the bean patch as i was finishing up picking Thursday. we've not seen too many toads around so i'm glad that there was at least one. i've also seen several frogs which also we don't see too many around. and then also the Blue Jays have...