I get an e-mail that looks like this every night. Is it Spam? (How many Nigerian millionaires ARE there who want to share their inheritances with me????”) No no no…not spam at all. These are cool! This is my friend Maryann’s daily photo album and daily message. In fact, if you linked all these together…you’d … Read more
The crisis seems to be averted for now. “Which crisis? A sick son or a sick computer?” Oh yeah — both! Jake had a late lunch which seemed to have the same effect as watering a wilted houseplant. He perked right up and enjoyed an afternoon playdate and then even went to his soccer game … Read more
…it took till nearly midnight to convince my laptop that YES I wanted the hard drive formatted! It isn’t as easy as you might think, and I don’t have the wherewithal to go into it here, so I won’t! I’ll just refer you here, which is one of the many geeky sites I had to … Read more
As I’m writing this on my upstairs desktop, that kitchen laptop so proudly pictured here is in the middle of a re-format/re-installation. Sniff sniff…like I have time for this. Of course, here I am blogging to all of you.
Yeah. The ones I BAKE. You don’t know how badly I want to try the cinnamon roll recipe featured here: http://www.thepioneerwomancooks.com/2007/06/cinammon_rolls_.html But that is NOT what the kids mean. THIS is what they mean: I was at Target today and was looking for the Pillsbury ones, but alas, they were ALL sold out. Even the … Read more
I came downstairs this morning to my kitchen laptop having all these red icons in the lower right corner. You know, down there with the clock. There’s this Windows Security Alert that’s red, McAfee antivirus in red, an AOL Active Security Monitor that’s blinking red……so I guess there’s a problem, huh? Upon further investigation, I … Read more
So…who should be our victim this year? A better question probably is: Which of these diet programs have the Vollmer already attempted??? You’d be surprised! Since we’re not in a financial position to pay for those “We supply the food” programs, I guess LA Weight Loss, Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig are out. Did anyone else … Read more
So how were they? With LOTS of butter, they were barely tolerable. But this batch is certainly NOT worth keeping. I guess unless we needed something to keep Howie (our dog) from soiling our lawn. The good news is that the pork loin with diced apples, brown sugar and sauerkraut came out PERFECTLY! Yum! Dave … Read more
POTATO DUMPLINGS: (courtesy of Food Network, click link for full recipe) Mix instant potatoes for 6 servings2 eggs2 to 3 cups flour, plus more for kneading1 teaspoon baking powder Combine dumpling ingredients well. Put out on floured bread board and knead more flour in until stiff-like bread dough and it isn’t sticky to your hands. … Read more
(The label Dave came up with for his first batch of Homebrew! — Howie’s our dog…) Dave got a Mr. Beer for Christmas. It was “given” to him by his two sons. (Am I mother-of-the-year or what — convincing her sons to give Daddy a Home Brewery for Christmas!). On Christmas afternoon, he took over … Read more