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  • Laughing hysterically at hubby playing Wii Fit Plus

    My husband & I got the Wii Fit Plus game today. That’s him flapping his arms like a bird to play Bird’s-eye Bull’s-eye, and me laughing hysterically in the background. I don’t know how much exercise we got out of our Wii Fit Plus tonight, but the laughs were priceless!

  • Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    I’m making three dozen of these tonight with this recipe:

    Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    • Servings: 3 dozen
    • Difficulty: moderate
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    Ingredients
    • 1 cup butter, softened
    • 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
    • ½ cup granulated sugar
    • 2 large eggs
    • 2 tsp vanilla extract
    • 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 tsp baking soda
    • ½ tsp salt
    • 2 cups uncooked regular oats (I used cracked, toasted Coach’s Oats)
    • 1 12-oz package Nestle’s Toll House semisweet chocolate morsels
    • 1 cup pecan pieces
    Directions
    1. Preheat oven to 350º
    2. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars with an electric mixer at medium speed until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla, beating well.
    3. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl, stirring well. Add oats; stir well.
    4. Add dry mixture to butter mixture and stir until well blended. Gently stir in chocolate morsels and pecan pieces.
    5. Drop by rounded tablespoons 2″ apart onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper (I used wax paper on two of the baking sheets and nothing on a non-stick baking sheet, and it worked fine.)
    6. Bake for 15 minutes or until peaks of golden brown appear on top.
    7. Cool on pan 5 minutes or until firm
    8. Cool further to desired temperature on wire racks.

    (I took this photo in April, but I’m making more of them tonight!)

  • Gift from Andy on our Fifth Anniversary

    Andy got me these new shelves as a “wood” present for our fifth wedding anniversary (the gift of the fifth wedding anniversary is wood). We put them up last night even though our anniversary’s not until Saturday. I really like the way they look with the photos on them!

  • Nature tints the morning sepia

    As I lay in bed early this morning, I heard thunder, saw the occasional flash of lightning, and then saw the color of the sky change into a natural sepia tone. It was such a phenonmenon that I got out of bed early, turned off the house alarm, got my camera, and went outside to capture the moment.