There are many insects that fly around in the backyard, some more pleasant than others. I could live without mosquitoes or black flies, but bees and dragonflies are nice to see. I caught this dragonfly hanging out by the flowers.
I experimented with two new recipes to create some amazing cupcakes.
The first recipe was for strawberry buttercream that I saw on yoyomax12's youtube channel. No food colouring was added to the buttercream, that colour is all strawberries. I had some fresh Ontario strawberries, so it was the perfect time to make it.
I piped the icing onto six cupcakes, and this recipe made the perfect amount.
Ingredients
1/8 cup finely chopped strawberries (about 2 medium strawberries)
3 tbs butter or margarine
1 1/4 cup icing sugar
Method
Beat butter, strawberries, and 1/2 cup of icing sugar until blended. Add remaining
icing sugar and mix. Add more icing sugar (if needed) to get to desired thickness.
Beat an additional 3-4 minutes.
The buttercream I made was a little on the soft side (it didn't run, but it was kinda runny), so if I made it again I would add less strawberries or more icing sugar to try to thicken it up.
The other new recipe I tried was for a small batch of chocolate cupcakes from Celebrating Sweets blog. These cupcakes were so easy to make and tasted really great! Check out the recipe here if you want to make just a few cupcakes. The only change I made to her recipe was to the baking time; my cupcakes baked for 20 minutes instead of 15. Definitely making these again!
One of the food-loving perks of living around here in the summer is the food trucks. We are a touristy area, so there are quite a few that are open in the summertime, hoping to entice people on their way to the beach. Or on their way home from the beach. Or just the regular inhabitants who love french fries. It isn't officially summer until I eat something deep fried off a truck, so I'm happy to report that when Mom and Dad visited last weekend we hit up Perky's Fish and Fries in Perkinsfield for some fabulous fish and chips. Just wonderful!
We have a small foot stool that doubles as a small storage container. It doesn't hold that much, but we usually find odds and ends to put in there.
Last week I decided to clean it out of any junk and organize what belonged in there. As my back was turned, Gary decided to make this storage space her bed, and stayed there for a few hours.
Last week I decided to clean it out of any junk and organize what belonged in there. As my back was turned, Gary decided to make this storage space her bed, and stayed there for a few hours.
I started playing Skyrim in early March, and four months later, it still has a hold on me. A major credit to this game is that there is so much to do in it. Every now and again I think maybe I've done everything I want (or need) to do, but I keep going back and find more things to accomplish. Video games really have a lot of value for money spent. Sure it's $60+ on the front end for a game, but with a game like Skyrim you can literally play for hundreds of hours. The more I play the better the deal!Current level at the time of this posting: 118
Number of in game days played: 517
Number of in game hours spent sleeping: 1718
Number of in game hours spent waiting: 309
Number of ingredients harvested: 2595
Number of dragon souls collected: 56
Books read: 356
Number of skills at 100: 13 (out of 18)
Number of skills in the 90s: 5 (the rest)
Number of barters (I'm a helluva merchant): 11,830
Stores invested in: 27
Amount of gold found (all time): 3,821,797
Most gold carried: 943,863
Number of locations found: 243
Number of quest lines completed: 3 (Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, and Civil War)
Number of houses owned: 5 (all that are available)
Number of hours spent playing in Skyrim: 300 (and counting)
Number of times I was going to quit for the evening after just doing "one more thing" and then played for another hour or so: daily
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