Sunday, May 6, 2012

Hot Weather Treat

If you take one of these:

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Which comes with this Vanilla Ice Cream recipe (click for link).

Hand it over to two eager kids who are skilled with using this:

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To find milk shake recipes as yummy as this one (click for link): 

Then, throw that ice cream and other ingredients into one of these:

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This is what the results are:

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Just thought I ought to share the recipe the kids found recently. It was very good! And also thought I ought to share that we LOVE our Cuisinart ice cream maker and Breville Blender!! No, this is NOT any sort of paid advertisement or promotion! Just a sharing. With all of our moving and use of ‘alternative power supplies’ with varying levels of reliability, I thought it worth noting that both this ice cream maker (ours is about 7yrs old) and the blender (about 5yrs old) have really held up well for this expat family.

I’m also tickled that my kids are starting to use these things, and other items, in the kitchen, as well as becoming more interested in looking up recipes online through Google, so they can come help me make treats and meals that they are interested in… or, better yet, as in this case… they are learning to do these things by themselves. (I had to help only a tiny amount, as the blender is quite heavy, and pouring the ice cream mixture into the machine is easier for me to reach – I also do the cleaning of the appliances for them, for now…).

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Blowing Widespread Dust plus Drizzle Equals…

The forecast was for a 40% chance of rain today. Instead we had widespread dust and blowing sand… plus just a bit of spitting wet stuff. The truck, which was washed yesterday, is a mess!

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Me, trying to look in at Honor…

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Looking out through the windshield!

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We still have rain forecast for tonight and/or tomorrow… I hope so… We need to rinse off the air!

Quilt Progress

Some people may count squares completed. Some might count how many motifs are left to stitch. I have no idea where I’m at. I seem to count progress by how often I can sit down and work on this quilt when not distracted by other projects. Being distracted is not a bad thing :)

When not being worked on, my quit is a fort for Ninja.

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Pumpkin thinks it’s cozy!

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DSC02296  And Pixie thinks she knows how to help me do the stitching..

“Right here mom… you missed a spot…”

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“What do you mean by “Move your fuzzy butt?” My fuzzy butt is exactly where it is supposed to be.”

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“I know how to do this… I’m the cat…”

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