Mission Accomplished

Here it is, Monday afternoon.  After sleeping away most of yesterday, I think I'm finally capable of writing a coherent post.

Saturday was very successful in some ways, and not as successful as I would have liked in others.

I spent a lot of time Friday baking, baking, baking.  For the church bazaar, I made apple coffee cakes.

 

For the Improv. Group at the high school, I made brownies.
If you look closely, you can see my "secret" recipe!

In front- 2 coffee cakes, ready to go into the oven.
The batter and struesel are next, with the recipe back behind.

Here we have all of the finished projects.  The coffee cakes and one pan of brownies
are going to the church.  The box of brownies are going to the improv. group.

And finally, we have the boxes of stuff going to the white elephant sale.
The two boxes in the back- along with the monkey- are ours.
The rest of the boxes are all full of canning jars.  The craft group at the church swooped in
on them as soon as we brought them in and claimed them as their own, to turn into crafts for next year.

a word from the cat

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!  I have sneaked onto the keyboard this morning! 

Life has been good.  The wood stove has been fired up since the snowstorm last weekend, and we have been basking in it's warmth in the chairs closest to the stove. 

I've made friends with the new, invader cat to the household.  We now share the bed of youngest human.  We have been curling up at the end of her bed, but now we think that we can work together to push her out of the bed and take it over for ourselves!  Ha-ha-ha-ha!  (That's Luna, cackling in the background)

We have an interloper who has been trying to take over our back yard.  He's a ginger cat.  We tried to jump him yesterday when he came sneaking into our yard, looking at our birds as his afternoon snack.  We're not sure how it happened, but somehow, we both ended up cornered up in the apple tree.  Youngest human had to bring a ladder to come and get us down.

Mom has been painting a lot.  She applied for 10 jobs in the last month, but has heard nothing  - no, not even a "we hired someone else, now go away" from anyone.  So now, she's painting.  We think it is a way to manage stress, but we are staying out of her way!  Personally, we think she'd be better off chasing some mice down in the back yard, or maybe rolling around on the floor with a catnip mouse, but what do we know?  We're just cats......

I'm going now.  I need to go keep an eye on Luna.  You never know what she might decide to do on her own if I'm not there to tell her what to do. 

-tiger.

*This was originally posted on my now defunct "Mom's View" Blog.