Office Work.......

[Orchid]

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[dacjohns]

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Yes, they should. Sorry I wasn't more specific. The recipe I have that my mom gave me that came from her mom is even less detailed than what I typed on here...we tend to be "add a smidge of this and a dash of that until it's right" type cooks (and I guess bakers). Which is fine until things start to get lost in translation; for instance, the recipe I have does not tell you to cut the loaves into slices before baking!

That would make for a couple of really big cookies that are probably doughy in the middle. Yumm.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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That's my favorite kind. I make a Giant Ginger Cookie that comes out like that.

That you Dacs? How's the hangover goin'?

 

[dacjohns]

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That's my favorite kind. I make a Giant Ginger Cookie that comes out like that.

That you Dacs? How's the hangover goin'?

Got a really bad headache and a fuzzy mouth.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Maybe the dog sat on your head while you were sleeping...

 

[Orchid]

It was 1ºF here this morning.

I have a sinking tank heater in the horses' water tank, a heated dog bowl in the chicken run, and a heated dog bowl on the porch for the outside cats and the dogs if they're out there for some reason. The horses drink about 30 gallons a day and I have to haul the water by hand 10 gallons at a time from the frost-free faucet on the house to the water tank. I do all my morning chores in the dark and all my evening chores in the dark. By the time I get to collect my eggs, they are usually frozen. I've had frozen horse poo roll out from under my boot and land me on my keister more times than I can tell you.

I really hate winter.

Woe is me.

 

[Orchid]

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Yes, they should. Sorry I wasn't more specific. The recipe I have that my mom gave me that came from her mom is even less detailed than what I typed on here...we tend to be "add a smidge of this and a dash of that until it's right" type cooks (and I guess bakers). Which is fine until things start to get lost in translation; for instance, the recipe I have does not tell you to cut the loaves into slices before baking!

That would make for a couple of really big cookies that are probably doughy in the middle. Yumm.

You might have to cook 'em for 10 minutes if you did that.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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And it's only just starting... I predict we'll get a few more quality rants from Orchy throughout the next few months.

 

[debilorrah]

My lawn is white this morning and it didn't snow.

 

[Orchid]

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And it's only just starting... I predict we'll get a few more quality rants from Orchy throughout the next few months.

This winter has been unusually cold already. I predict it will only get worse.

I should really tell you the water bucket story.

My kids have those round plastic sleds, the kind that take you down a hill in crazy circles at a ridiculous speed. Did you know that when they are flipped upside down and left out to get a covering of snow that they become virtually invisible? Did you further know that they are also extraordinarily SLIPPERY if one has the misfortune to step upon one when it is covered with said snow? Add to that two full five gallon water buckets, one in each hand, and your equation will produce one soaking wet Orchid laying flat on her back in the snow. It was so cold that the water had frozen solid before I even made it into the house, which was all of 20 steps away.

Imagine my displeasure.

We have a rule at our house about leaving sleds outside, now.