Sunday Outing...

Yesterday Concordia University held their final showing of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Seward band shell. I was able to go with three of my sisters. The good people of Concordia's Theater put on a great show. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera and have no proof for you that I was actually there. Isn't that just like me?
Now I can't wait till November when they're doing 'The Pirates of Penzance'.

Oh boy Saturday!

Saturday to do list...
1. Get up at 5:00 a.m. - check
2. Head to Lincoln Hay Market despite threatening lightening. - check
3. Get to Hay Market set up canopy. - check
4. Get wet while waiting for rain to stop. -check
5. Stand in the wind and rain for half and hour trying not to let the canopy blow away. - check
6. decide it's not worth it and and try to fold the wet canopy back up. - check
7. go home. - check
8. Get coffee. - check
9. Get home. - check
10. Make pumkin bread for breakfast. - check
11. Milk goats. - check
13. Go to Seward farmer's market to get tomatoes and stock up on jelly for the winter. - check
14. Spend a vast amount of time at thrift store. - check
15. spend a little money on lots of things you don't really mean. - check
16. Go home. - check
17. Eat lunch. - check
18. Go to bed. because Saturdays are supposed to be spent in bed.



That's what happens when it rains on my Saturday morning.

Fact: I made cookies...

Peanut butter cookies. And the I put chocolate chips in them. Why? Because I wanted to feel like a genius...

...It worked!


When was the last time you swiped you finger through the cookie dough, and then grinned really big because it made you feel like a little kid again. Go ahead, try it.



Oh, yeah, because there's not enough sugar in the babies already you have to roll them in more sugar before you can cook them.

Don't forget to spuish them with a fork, it's the peanut butter signature.


Yum! Apologies for the terrible pictures. I blame it on the lighting.

If you need a recipe this is the one I used 'here'

So many people!

This is what my Saturday mornings look like...



Can you believe all the people that come to the Lincoln Hay Market?





Yes I took a picture of a radish tower.


This is our booth...


Fun. :)

7,8,9,10

Yeah, that's right posting at 7:00 August 9th 2010, 7:00 8/9/10 that doesn't happen very often :D Just had to share that with you all. Happy Monday!

Cookies!

My sister make the best chocolate chip cookies. I know every body thinks they have found the best ones, or they're still looking. But, these are seriously the best.


The only thing you have to decide is, do you like yours krispy or gooey?

Slightly adapted from 'Betty Crocker's Best of Baking'

1\2 cup granulated sugar
1\2 cup packed brown sugar
1\3 cup butter, softened
1\3 cup shortening
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1\2 heaping cups all-purpose-flour
1\2 teaspoon baking soda
1\2 teaspoon salt
6 ounces chocolate chips

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix sugars, margarine, shortening, egg and vanilla. Stir in remaining ingredients. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 4 minutes turn and bake for f4 more minutes (we like ours gooey.) Cool slightly before removing from cookie sheet. Cool on flat clean surface.


Now if you'll excuse me I'm in need of some icy cold fresh milk. :D

Movie time...

I just finished watching Cinderella with my four year old sister. She brought it to me and asked me to watch it with her. You know the ooooolllldd Disney version. The "timeless classic" I guess it is. We have the old VHS too, no Blue Ray HD whatever. Good old fuzzy VHS that doesn't get scratched when you leave it sit on the shelf out of it's case.
I remember watching Cinderella when I was a little girl with my sister. It was never my favorite but I still remember watching it. And I didn't really want to watch it tonight either but it was totally worth it to see my little sister's reactions. Especially at the end when the glass slipper gets broken and Cinderella pulls the other one out of her pocket, my sister clapped her hands together and yelled "It is hers!" :) Timeless.