Royal names...

I heard this on the radio and thought it would be fun. I think it might actually be going around on face book but being out of the internet world loop I don't know for sure.

Any way in honor of the royal wedding. To get you royal name you first take one of you grandparents names, then the name of your first pet, and the name of the street you grew up on, add Lord or Lady to that and Tada! Your very own royal name.

Sincerely,
Lady Mildred Mandy Weber

Doughnuts...

I made doughnuts! And they were so yummy!


The first of many I hope...so do all my siblings...

Yes, at my sisters request for her birthday breakfast I made doughnuts. They weren't as hard as I thought they would be to make. I did have some trouble getting my oil to stay at the temperature I needed it to stay at. And some of them I should have cooked a little longer than I did. But I suspect that will all improve with practice...and a deep fryer. :D I'm hoping to maybe sell them at the farmers market this summer, that would be awesome!

Hungry yet? Come over to my house, we'll make doughnuts.

Happybirthday party...

Oh well, in our house we never celebrate birthdays on the actual birthday anyway. So today we celebrated Sarah's birthday. So getting up reeeeeaaallly early (about eight) I started my first ever batch of doughnuts, which I will tell all about later.
Then I made cake, then I made crab cakes, and crab rangoon, then comes the icing on the cake. No I literally mean the icing on the cake...






Happy birthday Sarah. My feet hurt. Goodnight.

Poor me, Happy Birthday you...

I have the habit of picking up and remembering completely useless facts. My brain is full of these literally useless facts. Like the word soup comes from a Germanic word "sop" which is a piece of bread used to soak up broths, stews and wine, or, the word restaurant was first used to describe a kind of soup, and, ice cream was probably invented by the Italians, not the chineese as some may believe, or the word 'nerd' came from the Dr. Suess book 'If I Ran the Zoo', Mickey Rooney (who's real name is Joseph Yule Jr.) was married eight times; divorced seven, 7up was originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", and today is Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday. To list a few anyway... Like I said useless, right? When will I ever use any of that info?
Now that might not be all that bad, but tell me, how terrible is it that I remembered today was Charlie Chaplin 122nd birthday before I remembered it was my sister 14th? Now THAT would have been something useful to remember! I'm hopeless!

...So sorry...all that just to say Happy Birthday Sarah! I hope you have a wonderful day. :)

Snow!

Yeah so I'm sitting here trying to find a spring picture for my profile when I look out the window and it's snowing! Snow! In April! A week before Easter! And it aint no light spring time snow either, it's really coming down!
We're starting a fire! And just the other day we were all sitting outside getting sunburns. Ha! Well you know what they say in Nebraska, "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes."
We don't really expect any of the snow to stick, although it is supposed to get down to 30 tonight. But we just had a whole lot of rain, and tomorrow it's supposed to be 60. And we're all looking forward to a sunny weekend. We shall see...
And my profile picture will have to wait as my computer apparently doesn't like loading pictures in snow storms.

I collect...

bottles! Yes! And I decided this morning (which was a beautiful morning) to take a million picture of my bottles for my blog!


So I packed them all into a basket...


...actually they didn't all fit. so after several trips I got the all lined up outside....


Unfortunately I got them all lined up only to realize they wouldn't all fit here either. So I snapped a few pics and then moved them again...




These are my favorites...

And this is where they live...




I'm going to have to find some more windows soon.