Gravel Road Musings

Its been a while since I posted so I thought maybe it is time for an update. However, I am on my phone and not sure it will be worth the effort to do an in depth post. First of all, let me say that it is 6:30 in the morning. We have been driving since 9:06 last night and so any attempt at philosophizing may be sadly lacking. So I will try to spare you the trial. We are enroute to New York to go camping with the in-laws. We have our last puppy riding along in the back seat. Not sure what went wrong but since stopping the cage is sitting back there rattling away!!! But the good news is the puppy is tucked away for another nap. So far he makes a fair traveler. Does traveler really only have one L? I consider myself a fairly good speller and I just don't know if that's how I would have spelled it. Sometime I need to talk about my garden. Well, maybe ill just do it now. Since I started keeping track about 2 or so weeks ago, we have taken off 93 buckets of weeds. These are 5 gallo...

Mocha and a litle puppy all snuggled up together. That doesn't happen very often-Mocha tends not to want them too close to her for fear they will try to eat. Jax is our other puppy. He is terribly selfish. He can't handle it when the puppies are playing with something that he wants. He drug this poor little girl all over. She wouldn't let go and he was determined to get it. She was by far our most aggressive little puppy. She now goes by the name of a Star Trek character. Padman? Not quite sure. My Flag cake. Don't look too closely, but I was relatively pleased with how it turned out.

Happy July 4th. This post will really have nothing to do with Independence Day or will it? I don't know yet, I guess. The biggest challenge will be to see if I will still have internet service by the time I finish this post, so it can even be posted. I made this "cute" cake for July 4th: little flag cake with blueberries and raspberries. Didn't turn out too bad for a first-time try at anything real creatively decorative. But I learned one cardinal rule. Don't try to make stars or any design with frosting when the room temp is about 85 degrees. It's more like pudding at that point, so instead of nice star lines, I just tried to smooth them out. However, my cake is now just sitting in the fridge, with one small sliver taken out of it. We were going to have a small party last evening, but then D got sick and the party was cancelled and there has been no one to eat my cake. I took a small piece out this morning so I could taste it, but now I am afraid t...