peppermint patty party

Sister, mom and I made the peppermint patty recipe from "A Field Guide to Candy." It is amazing what a little--okay-- A LOT of powdered sugar and chocolate can turn into. I don't know what was more fun: tempering the chocolate in my sister's striking copper bowl or eating them.

these are a few of my favorite things

My dog and "Law and Order."

summer recap: moving

Goodbye old town, old house. Pirate and I packed a 16' truck in 102 degree heat and drove 1,000 miles to our new destination.

summer recap: new craft

I wanted to learn to whittle this summer





but it got even better when grandpa taught me relief carving. Who knew goudging, slicing and cutting could be so much fun.

summer recap: fiesta

Mom wanted me to make tortillas and I jokingly said I would not do it without a tortilla press. We had to buy one. The next day it appeared, only we never ended up ordering one. No, dad had gone down to his shop and made one out of marvelous maple, perfectly polished. We made corn and flour tortilla over and over again with one slight Midwestern-Scandinavian adaptation: we cooked them on a lefse griddle.