Mar 17, 2008

First of many......



Lloyd made the first of MANY chickadee boxes today.......we headed to Home Depot for wood and supplies....and he had a nail gun for his birthday...so he got started this evening.

He is making as many as possible.....as we want to fill the acreage with them.....chickadee boxes, bat boxes, owl boxes......but right now he is focusing on the chickadee boxes.

Yummy


They might not look like the ones in the book but they taste very yummy....Lloyd seems to keep nibbling away at them anyway :) Which is always a good sign!

Bear convicted for theft of honey!

The taste of honey was just too tempting for a bear in Macedonia, which repeatedly raided a beekeeper's hives.

Now it has a criminal record after a court found it guilty of theft and criminal damage.

But there was an empty dock in the court in the city of Bitola and no handcuffed bear, which was convicted in its absence.

The case was brought by the exasperated beekeeper after a year of trying vainly to protect his beehives.

For a while, he kept the animal away by buying a generator, lighting up the area, and playing thumping Serbian turbo-folk music.

But when the generator ran out of power and the music fell silent, the bear was back and the honey was gone once more.

"It attacked the beehives again," said beekeeper Zoran Kiseloski.

Because the animal had no owner and belonged to a protected species, the court ordered the state to pay for the damage to the hives - around $3,500 (£1,750; 2,238 euros).

The bear, meanwhile, remains at large - somewhere in Macedonia.

why?

Why do I have absolutely no bloody patience???? lol! Why can I NOT listen to Martha? She says WAIT until the cookies are cold before turning them out of the tray and cutting into exact squares. Sigh.....I don't listen....I think I know best....I am impatient so I try and turn them out hot and they crumble....

Susie shouts from the dining room "Mom...you're not Martha you know!'......thanks Susie!!!! Grrrrr

BUT OMG they are delicious! They may be odd shapes and a crumbly mess but they taste DAMN GOOD!!!!!

Hhhmmmmm what to bake next?????

Anyone else got this book? What have you baked???

Marthas new book......



Many people know that I LOVE Martha!!!! I was excited to get to Costco today and get her new Cookie recipebook - I enjoyed seeing the recipes from it each day last week and knew that the next time we went to Costco grocery shopping I would snap up a copy! Today we did just that! And this afternoon I baked my first recipe from it :)

Right now I have a tray of Brown-Butter Toffee Blondies baking in the oven :)

I will take a picture of the finished cookies later :) They were lovely and easy to make so I hope they are as yummy as they sound!

I love recipe books generally - can't wait to have a book shelf in the end of the new island JUST for my recipe books!

My little Easter Tree..


This is how my little tree looks right now - all decorated up for Easter :) At the weekend I will hang some chocolates from it.....

Birthday cake time!


The children when they sang Happy Birthday to Lloyd last night :) Sam helped blow out the candle :)

Prepping dinner...


Laurie peeling the potatoes for dinner last night - everyone helped make Lloyds favourite dinner - cottage pie - for his birthday :)
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