Nevadans?

[wolftracks]

WooHoo! What did you have to do?

The cake is really cute!

I must have clicked the "compatability" button on the page setting. What a dork!

The cake tasted great too. All of her cakes are great. She has a secret recipe for a cinnamon roll cake that's her trademark cake and everyone asks for it. Me?? Give me something with ganache and fondant and I'm a happy camper.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I must have clicked the "compatability" button on the page setting. What a dork!

The cake tasted great too. All of her cakes are great. She has a secret recipe for a cinnamon roll cake that's her trademark cake and everyone asks for it. Me?? Give me something with ganache and fondant and I'm a happy camper.

The cake looks great!

About a year and a half ago, I found an amazing recipe for chocolate cake. It had buttermilk, dark cocoa, and a little coffee in it, and a chocolate ganache. It was the best chocolate cake I had EVER tasted. So good that, halfway through it, I had to give the rest to the faculty room at Sahara's school so I wouldn't eat the rest.

 

[Peep_Show]

Yummmm. Caaaaaaaake.....

I love baking and was gifted with Grandma's cake plate when she passed. But two people and a cake... Well, to put it delicately, neither of us are getting any thinner. Too, the cake+plate take up a heckalot room in the fridge.

I took a cake decorating course, too. Great fun, but painful. I then discovered that the top three careers for carpal tunnel are court reporting, card dealing and cake decorating! (And, yes, I would LOVE to be a Black Jack dealer...I always thought that would be a fun "people" job). My hats off to those of you that can do a full-on cake in piped frosting without wincing.
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I think the Eighth Circle of Hell should be reserved for funeral crashers. The gall! I dunno..... (Unless y'all are practicing the ancient rite of sin eating, their behavior was inexcusably beyond the pail) That's, unfortunately, the hazard of posting obits, though. At least they were confined to the deck and weren't rummaging through the family silver.
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Sunny... That basket of eggs is gorgeous. What's the color number on your darkest egg? (if you know)
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Aubrey... Your broodies look like the poultry equivalent of Lucy & Ethel. Hope you can find some little chickies.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Actually they drew attention to different family members because they were in the refrigerator looking around and thought it was odd so kept an eye on them. Then someone else noticed they were in the bathroom (that leads to my parents room). Everyone was eying them. Once we all started asking if anyone knew them and sharing what we saw I decided they needed to leave. It wasn't until the next day that we all figured out they were crashes. Being that my brother was only 40, it was a large gathering and easy to just slip in.

 

[vegaschick]

Vegaschick, thanks so much for the pictures on the other thread! Before I moved to Reno, I lived in Cedar City for a few years and worked for the Forest Service. We went everywhere... Duck Creek, Strawberry, Mammoth Cave, Navajo Lake... there were pine beetles already back then, and we were trying to mark the trees for the loggers to come get, before the beetles spread. It sounds like the beetles won. A few years ago, there was a major landslide on the road going up Cedar Mountain. My grandmother sent me pictures... it was insane. Entire chunks of pavement slid down the mountain. It was sad to see, since I went up that road every day to go to work up in the trees. My mother's side of the family has been in Cedar and Paragonah since pioneer times. My great-grandmother, before she died, lived almost all of her life in a house in Paragonah that her husband had built for her. It was one of those pink brick houses that you can still find there, made from the pink clay there. Their parents had crossed the plains in covered wagons, I believe. My mom was born in Cedar, and my first daughter is buried there. I haven't been back in years, and I know it's grown a lot since then. I used to walk from the park on Main St., all the way to the Walmart that used to be the very top end of the city... about 2 or 3 miles.

The beetles definitely won. That's the thing with nature, change is inevitable. That is the road I travel and they just finished the road. Crazy, right? I remember them having trouble with that spot about 20+ years ago too. I have lot of family in Cedar but most of it is fairly recent. My brother's family (wife and 3 kids), and 3 sisters live there now, all of them (sisters and sister-in-law) are going to SUU, which I attended for about a year when it was still SUSC. I lived above a hardware store on Main St where the Lin's parking lot and Great Harvest is now...and there wasn't even a Walmart there then. Man! I feel old all the sudden! Anyways. My mom grew up in Hatch, just over the mountain on Highway 89 headed North, in the house her dad built for their family. My great grandma and my uncle lived next door (my aunt and uncle still live there, I think they're about 80 or so) and I'm related to nearly everyone in town (about a 100+ people) one way or the other. Grandma Great ran the town store and the post office for like forever. We moved there when she was in her late 80's and she was spry as could be. She got more done before noon than some do all day. You remind me of her like that. Maybe it's the pioneer spirit. She died at 97 and her daughter, my grandma died at 94. Good living. I love it there.

Thanks! They were excellent - they have a creamy flesh like the red potatoes you get in the store.

It's probably the brand of flytrap Elizabeth. I can't see how location could make that big a difference. BTW that cantaloupe tasted sooo good! I ate half for desert last night and the other half I brought into work where it was a big hit this AM!


Awesome pics vegaschick!

OK, by popular demand, here is how you make the "cool short links"

. First, copy your long URL to the clipboard (highlight and press Control-C). Then, when you are in the editor, just highlight the word or words you want to be a link, and click the icon on the toolbar that looks like the earth with chains around it (probably a subliminial for how we are all slaves

). On the Link Info tab, mouse into the box that says URL and paste in the long URL you copied earlier (Control-V). On the second tab, Target, click the dropdown and choose "New Window (_blank)" if you want the link to open in a new window instead of navigating away from the page they are on - very friendly for links in a blog like this!

If anyone needs me to clarify anything just let me know!

Thanks Ron!

You can see me in action by clicking here! I hope it works!

ETA: Yay! It did work! Thanks again, Ron!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

 

[horseshowmomnv]

I have been off the loop, I will take some time and read through what everyone has been up too! The past two months I have been preparing for the arrival of my new 6 mos old filly! We traveled 9 hours to Oregon to pick her up. She is now home safe and sound and I can get back to "normalcy" LOL! Like life is going to be normal with a 6 mos old filly that has very little human interaction...
Hoping to can some apples soon!
Hope everyone is well, and I will read back thru the posts in the next couple of days!

 

[Lacy Blues]

What's this? Monkey in the middle?

 

[aubreynoramarie]

What's this? Monkey in the middle?

Crickets

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I have been off the loop, I will take some time and read through what everyone has been up too! The past two months I have been preparing for the arrival of my new 6 mos old filly! We traveled 9 hours to Oregon to pick her up. She is now home safe and sound and I can get back to "normalcy" LOL! Like life is going to be normal with a 6 mos old filly that has very little human interaction...
Hoping to can some apples soon!
Hope everyone is well, and I will read back thru the posts in the next couple of days!

welcome back! congrats on the new baby, cant wait to see pics...