Gluten Free Yumminess and Redecorating

I made some wonderful, peanut butter filled chocolate cupcakes

by using Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Choc cake mix then found a

recipe from Taste of Home website

PB filled Chocolate Cupcakes

and they turned out so good, the only thing I would do differently

is add more PB in the cupcakes, the recipe says a "scant"

whatever that means, but I'll add more,

either way they turned out moist and yummy.

DH is a peanut butter freak, and I say that in a very loving way,

so when he came home I surprised him with these.

They need to be refrigerated, so before you eat one, let it sit

out for a half hour and they're perfect.

Very tempted to have one right now for breakfast, hmmm!

I also made salmon, one of our favorite meals,

salmon has been so expensive lately so when it

FINALLY went on sale, I bought some and made

Salmon Dill

You salt and pepper your salmon, then add chopped garlic

and chopped dill and sprinkle over it.

Next you slice lemons and place over the chopped herbs

and sprinkle with chopped green onions.

Cover it like a gift

Lay it on a sheet of aluminum foil before seasoning,

after seasoning then lay another sheet over it

and close in the edges tightly.

Bake it at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes, or till it flakes

easily

Then you have this wonderful, fresh goodness.

We had it with a BLT salad that I got from Allrecipes

website.

We were very happy!

I also decided to do a little furniture arranging.

Since I was a kid I was

ALWAYS

rearranging my bedroom, I get bored easily with the same

look,

so I rearranged our sitting area off the kitchen, one of my

favorite spots in the house.

So it went from this

To this

I feel by moving the folded table over closer to the fridge it

allowed more light to come in.

I like angling furniture, not sure what it is but I like the look

of it and I feel that sometimes, not always, it opens

up the room a bit.

So I'll live with this for a while, or if the house sells,

we have two more months from today before the contract is up

then we'll decide what to do.

Hope you enjoyed my recipe ideas and decorating ideas.



Never thought I'd say this!

But I am SO ready for

Fall!

(picture courtesy of Photo Bucket)

Every winter, by February I was ready for

summer.

Ready to get my hands dirty, planting new

veggies and plants.

Sitting on our swing underneath our huge

oak tree.

Grilling and sitting with friends outside.

But it's been to darn hot to sit out there,

too hot to stand by a grill,

afraid of passing out

and falling into it.

I'm getting tired of watering my plants almost

every evening because this sun is drying them and

crisping up the leaves.

Need to go out and water the flowers now, sigh!

Cute but MEAN!

So how does something that is this cute

be so destructive and mean?

For weeks now we have had SOME THING

come around our back porch and just destroy it.

I keep cat food out for our one outdoor cat

and we woke up one morning to find her feeder

tossed off the porch into the cornfield.

And not just right at the edge of the field,

DEEP INTO THE FIELD!

What the heck! What could have flung that feeder

so far in there?

So DH was not happy to go in there and retrieve it.

HMMM!

So I put it away during the night and we'd see paw prints

all over our back table.

Looks like raccoon prints.

We went away one weekend and our neighbor kept

an eye on things,

fed my outdoor cat and put the food away

then one morning she came back

there to find the waterer gone!

We looked, and looked in the  corn field and it has

DISAPPEARED!

How could a Raccoon have that

much strength?

At this point we thought maybe it was Bigfoot's child!

So, I was lazy one evening and decided to put the cat food

on top of our propane tank when I came out the

next morning, there were paw prints all over

that tank and my planter was laying against it with dirt

everywhere.

It used the planter as a ladder since you could see he

kept slipping down the tank.

Now I'm FRUSTRATED!

Our neighbor offered his shotgun but we didn't want

to do that, no need, so we got a trap yesterday

put in grapes, marshmallow's and honey.

Hoping to trap whatever this thing was

and move it to another location.

Sure enough!

Hubby said the thing scared him half

to death.

He snarled, growled, tried to get at him through

the cage.

He drove him to an area in a woodsy

"neighborhood"

and the poor, scared thing was so angry, but of course

probably more scared than anything

was not happy.

I asked my hubby when he let him out, did he try to get

at him?

He said

if it had we'd be talking in a hospital because he

would of been recovering from a

heart attack!