Blueberry Loaf Recipe

3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp finely shredded lemon peel
1 beaten egg
1/4 cup of cooking oil (I use grape seed oil)
1 2/3 cup milk
1 cup of blueberries, fresh or frozen

Preheat oven to 350 and grease up your loaf pan. Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl and form a well in the center, set aside. Mix beaten egg, milk and oil in a medium bowl and pour all at once into the dry ingredients. Mix until all is moist, batter will be lumpy. Fold in blueberries.

Pour into loaf pan and bake for an hour to an hour and 20 minutes or until toothpick test turns out clean. Let cool for about 10 minutes.

Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and drizzle a little bit of honey over it all for a good dose of happiness.

Oh Boy

 

I don't catch colds often, but when I do the symptoms are never mild enough to allow me to carry on with business as usual. As soon as I got home last night my nose started getting all stuffed up. Here I am now, middle of the day and still in bed snuggling with the cats.

The sun shines brightly, then it gets dark, and the room lighting changes again and again as I type this. Of course, I'd rather not be feeling this sick, but then again, I can't think of anything else I could be enjoying more right now if I wasn't. Here I can rest and exist with or without my senses, thoughts, dreams or reality.

Today there is no worry. My desire, thirst and hunger will move me forward. Just as everyday should be...

Another fun assignment

(three phrases in apposition)+(coordinating conjunction)+(subject/verb)+(participial phrase)+(participle)

Commuters crowding the roads, occupations molding the lives, commercials feeding the minds, and I smile at the sky, the money escaping from my hands, circling.

Pier extending from the sand, the marsh filling the foundation, the frog sitting in the corner, and I skip over the planks, big heads showing off their teeth, grinning.

Test 3

 

This was a nice tune to listen to on my way home tonight.

 

Test 2

This is my little cat named Fiti. She likes to sleep on my lap. Like most cats, Fiti hates going to the vet. One thing Fiti is really good at is sneaking out and coming back, pretending like she never left.

 

Test

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
-Lewis Carroll


'Twas bitter, and the rocky slopes
Did dance and tremble in the rain;
All sunken were the hopes,
And the dead leaves remain.
-Judith Rodriguez

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Tool Boxing

Right after I organized last Spring, I treated myself to a few new things. I got a new Janome DC4030 PR sewing machine! The 'DC' stands for Décor Computer. Sweet. This bad girl can sew through multiple layers of fabric like denim or canvas. So far I've made a dress, more seat belt cozies and other stuff I still have to photograph. I got it at Ray's Sewing Machine Center where I learned how various feet for your machine can help make sewing so much easier and closer to perfection... yeah I went foot shopping and needless to say, I'm looking forward to being able to sew whatever I want.



I also invested in some large spool threads to make use of the old overlock, which I discovered is CLOSE to impossible for me to thread at night! It was getting late and I kept thinking to myself, "THIS is why they've invented 'easy-thread' machines". It's ok though... I finally serged my way through the 'alterations' pile and I made a little black top, among other things. Since I've never actually threaded one of those newer easy to thread serger machines, I completely forget about what I might be missing once I start sewing with this robust bad boy.



Last, but not least, I finally got a set of Denise Interchangeables... a very large Denise in a Della Q Double, to be precise. I thought about purchasing the knitting set by itself and then getting the Tunisian crochet set at a later time, but you get a few extras with this big set that you can't get if you buy them separately. I have not been able to put down my needles since I got it!!! I tend to knit tightly in the round, so I really appreciate the smoothness when transitioning my stitches around these circular needles. I've already finished two things and am on my third project. A neat trick I discovered is that 'picking up stitches' is 1000X easier when you swap your knitting needle tip with a crochet hook tip of the same size, pull your new stitches through and then switch it back to a needle tip when you're ready to knit them... Take that, you stitches!