Saturday night is usually pizza night and I often make two big pizzas so we'll have leftovers during the week. Vince can eat cold pizza any time! I use King Arthur's Sourdough Crust recipe, even though I also love Peter Reinhart's pizza dough recipes. I almost always am looking for ways to use up extra sourdough starter and King Arthur's recipe is about as easy and forgiving as it gets. We ...
Rock Painting
One of the things I had bought for Addie to do while here was a rock painting kit. It even has glow in the dark paint pens. There were 10 rocks provided so Vine and I each painted three and Addie painted four. Addie painted the top four, I painted the middle three and Vince painted the bottom four. It was about dusk yesterday when we finished them so they didn't absorb much light so ...
Peaches
The peaches on this tree still aren't ripe but it's getting close. This is the most peaches we've ever had on one tree. Even after having pruned the tree, and then thinning the peaches, there are way too many still on the tree. It's time for me to return Addie to her parents and I was debating if I was going to drive there one day, spend the night and return home. That's 20 hours in the ...
Locust Shedding its Shell
Wednesday Addie saw the praying mantis for the first time and she was so intrigued by how it used its arms. She stood outside and watched it for probably half an hour. Yesterday evening, she was walking back up to the house and I heard her yell "GRANNY! Come see this weird bug!" You might remember this picture from last year when she found the skins, brought them inside and had them all ...
Shepherd’s Pie
I've never been a fan of Shepherd's Pie, probably because most of my life I didn't like mashed potatoes but now I love them. Addie has not stopped talking about Shepherd's Pie since she brought it up yesterday, which I talked about in yesterday's blog post. Lucky for us, I had everything I needed to make it. I'm not even sure how everyone else makes Shepherd's Pie and I shared my rough notes on ...
Doll Clothes
Yesterday I finally finished the doll dress that I had been planning to finish every day since Monday. I still can't get over how little I get done with Addie here. It makes me wonder how I ever finished a quilt when Chad was this age and I did finish a few quilts during those times. I also wonder how on earth my grandma got all her chores done when I'd spend almost the entire summer with them. ...