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Westward, sunset vs morning; warm colors contrasting cool.
You think colors/time of day can affect moods maybe?
On some Saturday evenings, Puzzles is busy warming up our guest’s jacket. She’d love to read a good book, if only her eyes would quit swirling around long enough to find one!
When it’s raining heavily outside, what else is there to do other than flatten out the cushions on the sofa tops?
Puzzles and Oliver are up on sunny days being entertained by the birds at their feeder.
Rascal is the third wheel. Good thing she has Goofy¹ to keep her company!
¹I’m goofy.
Puzzles is my curious cat.
She lives up to her name of being puzzled many times.
At our house, it kind of looks like this. ↓
What could be more entertaining than two rednecks socializing on Saturday nights?
It was an accident baking to happen…
Yesterday, I ‘accidentally’ left out one cup of flour when following a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. An alteration I normally engage in is to use half as much butter by replacing it with Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil. The end result to that batch of cookies looked something like this:
The second batch of chocolate chip cookies I baked turned out so yummy that there were none left over to photograph!¹ They differed from the above in that enough flour was included and the chips were chunks of chocolate rather than miniature kisses.
After having slept, an idea came to me in the morning on this first day of rifle deer hunting. It was to bake a basic yellow cake (with less sugar) and slice each half in half. The ’super-soft accident’ cookies would make ideal fillings for the layers! The perfect frosting to cover this surprising cake is chocolate cream cheese coffee liquor flavored frosting!² I made sure I grabbed the camera quickly enough to get a shot of the cake before it’s all gone:
In my freezer, there is Rocky Road ice cream. That would compliment this sweet chipper perfectly …marshmallow swirled chocolate ice cream filled with chocolate covered peanuts! Happy Holidays — here we come!
¹Half a dozen males and a couple of females started devouring them; the rest of that batch was left as a gift for the couple who hosted me and my husband for a mushroom soup/cheese quiche dinner.
²The frosting is kept mild on the chocolate flavor by using a minimal amount of cocoa powder, which then gets mixed in with confectioners sugar, whipped cream cheese, some butter and coconut oil that’s moistened with coffee liquor!
I can’t promise you much, but this ought to be enough tracks. ↓
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[The self-portrait was accomplished by wedging my camera in a tree.]
I only have four pictures of myself on a horse before the time I finally had my own horse at age fourteen. Unfortunately the photos are very poor quality.
Getting to borrow horses which belong to others is an exceptional treat, especially when you’re able to keep them for a summer and on up to over a year!
I wasn’t told who the other two girls are, but I know that’s me up front on the farm horse and my dad standing by.
I’d have to guess the man leading the horse was my uncle. Most likely the girl behind me is my cousin.
It wasn’t until I was seven when I could ride unsupervised wherever I wanted for however long I chose. All of the above shots were taken in Rorkton, Manitoba, Canada.
None of the horses I got to ride had saddles, but that’s the way I prefer it. Don’t be fooled by my lack of smiling in these photos. I’ve always disliked being in front of a camera and/or mirror, but love horseback riding.
That’s what happens when I groggily go outdoors, as daybreaks, with my camera… I get into fog.
The bird feeders are north. The second shot aims west.
The third is an eastern shot. The last shot is south.
I’ve refrained from using the pics as links to their enlarged views (some browsers like to put an ugly border around them when you do that).
Here are their enlargement links instead: North West East South
The south shot gives me a feeling like something spooky lurks within the woods (too many horror movies as a child, maybe?). All shots were taken within the same few minutes.
If the pics don’t impress you, that’s because they’re not meant to. Their purpose is to merely reflect the weather God created for my day to begin with, so I (we) can be reminded of how much each day begins with its own beauty. Its up to me (us) what we do with the rest of it.
Photos are the only things that can keep a time still. The more life goes by faster and faster, the more we need our peaceful moments to capture and hold.
Today is National Autism Awareness Day and this month is Autism awareness month. I think I may have reached a saturation point with that subject (maybe because it has become too political and debatable?).
You should see what happens when an Aspie takes a minute break from doing a gazzillion things! I break up by getting goofy. Don’t believe me? If you’re curious, you can take a look at what I’ve now done during my time out for a cup of coffee.
