Saturday, June 29, 2013

Quite Saturday Night

 Kara and I whipped up these blueberry muffins today using Cindy's recipe for Blueberry Crunch Muffins. I have NEVER been able to make a muffin that is eatable from scratch!! Boxed mixes are all I could do for some reason, That is until today!! Cindy the muffins turned out perfect. Thank you so much for the recipe!!! Check out my sorry looking muffin pan. I have not one, but three of these seen better days muffin tins. Ha! Did you notice the festive pot holder? Yep it's Christmas in June at our place.
 I have been working a little each day to catch up on stocking the pantry and freezers with snacks. I found this recipe on FB not long ago for Pecan Coconut Pralines. Next time around I am going to put less coconut and more pecans. Also seemed to be more of a fall/winter snack, but what the heck we will eat them anyway.
 More Lemon Krinkle cookies along with a double batch of chocolate chip cookies are tucked in the freezer as well. See why I have been reduced to using holiday pot holders, there has been a whole lot of baking going on each night once the temperatures cool off.
Check out this backing I found today on the 70% off sale table at the big box store. Perfect for the Boo Boo quilt I want to finish up.

Hubby and I have an evening to ourselves that we have decided to enjoy putting our feet up and relaxing with one of the many new DVDs he received for Fathers day. It's not like there isn't plenty for both of us to do around here, it's just time to have some us time. Sure hope the power will stay on during the EVERY darn night storms we are having.

Last nights storm was a whopper, dumping 4 3/4 inches of rain in 3 hours. The thunder and lightning was intense enough to even have hubby a bit on edge. Lots and lots of flooding around our area and homes hit by lightning. Needless to say our garden (weeds) took a beating. We lost half of our corn and who knows what else. Until things dry out we can't even get in to do more weeding. This year has been a BUST for gardening. Thank goodness we don't depend on the garden to put food on the table but it sure as heck saves us a whole lot of money :(

I hate to even complain about all the storms we are getting when I hear of the dangerous heat the west is dealing with. Holy Hannah how in the world can you do any work with temperatures in the 115 range? The project hubby was on in AZ has set new work hours of 4:00AM -12:00noon but still the folks are battling the heat at those crazy hours.

Off to the free to us movie, some popcorn, and maybe a muffin or two
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11 comments:

  1. NanaDianaJune 29, 2013 at 10:15 PM

    Boy, Debbie- Those look really good- the muffins and the cookies. I can't believe the amount of rain you got! That is flood weather there- xo Diana

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    1. DebbyJuly 1, 2013 at 7:19 AM

      Thanks Diana, you are rtight about the flooding, DD#1 road to her house flooded out. It now takes an extra 30 minuites to visit her :(

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  2. AnneJune 30, 2013 at 4:03 AM

    Debby those cookies and muffins look wonderful, total torment for me of course on the weightwatcher plan!!

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    1. DebbyJuly 1, 2013 at 7:18 AM

      Thanks Anne, we sure don't need the extra calories but I have no will power

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  3. PamJune 30, 2013 at 4:56 AM

    These look enticing, must be bake day today.

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    1. DebbyJuly 1, 2013 at 7:10 AM

      Thanks Pam, the pantry/frezzer was bare of snacks. Time to restock

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  4. mmpaintsJune 30, 2013 at 11:13 AM

    LOL Deb, dollar store had xmas potholders on sale in january, I got a bunch myself! Everything looks awesome, thanks for sharing the muffin recipe!

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    1. DebbyJuly 1, 2013 at 7:09 AM

      Wish I could say the potholder was a nice new one but it's 30 years old or older! Ha I will have to check out the dollar store soon, what a deal

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  5. AnonymousJune 30, 2013 at 1:49 PM

    Hi! I hopped over from another blog, as we share some common blogs on our list. First of all, you have beautiful grandchildren. And your quilting is so nice! Also, we have a beagle too...ha...
    I enjoyed reading your food stamp challenge, as I don't know anything about food stamps, but was wondering how it works as I have several neighbors whose adult children have lost jobs. (And of course it could happen to any of us these days!) If it ever stops raining, my youngest daughter and I are going to drive down to our beach here in DE!

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  6. DebbyJuly 1, 2013 at 7:07 AM

    Welcome Andrea, glad to have you. How funny is that we have so many things in common.We lived in DE many years ago with hubby's job, our DD#2 was born in Wilmington. Beautiful part of our great country!!

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  7. AnonymousJuly 1, 2013 at 11:22 AM

    Oh! It is a small world (and of course DE is very small). I think I would like your present state much better!

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