Coffee

[flowerbug]

... And since controlling my blood sugar require keeping chocolate consumption to a minimum anyway, I might as well use the few "credits" I have on good quality stuff.

yes, that's about how i see it, why waste my limited calorie budget on bad chocolate?

as for the white chocolate i think of it as milk chocolate without the cocoa powder. i used to make chocolates and some of them were based upon white chocolate (maple walnut), even the filling was white chocolate, but i did use the real stuff and not the coating chips as those i find disgusting (waxy, slimy is how they sit on my tongue and going down, bleh)... i've read a lot of labels of various chocolates and the biggest culprit seems to be the palm oils. which is no big problem for me to avoid them because they shouldn't be in chocolate anyways as far as i'm concerned...

today's breakfast was peanut butter and a banana. i've not had one of these in ages. so i guess my main fat there is going to be the peanut oil.

 

[digitS']

Cream of Rice and your choice of sweetener with raisins or dried cranberries, cream cheese or butter or almond milk. Oolong in the cup, herbal steeping in the kettle.

The air quality right now is 493 on the 500 scale. Yes, the smoke is butter knife needed thick. Yesterday, I should have mowed the backyard, I didn't. Tomorrow, I should drive to run sprinklers in the distant garden. I won't.

The high temperatures have dropped out of the high 90's and triple digits to low 80's with little sunlight reaching the ground. Rain is forecast for tomorrow evening. It may not be much but the chance should continue right into Tuesday night. Right now, it's a cool 56°. Thankfully.

I'm not sure how much of a handle they have on these wildfires.

 

[Country Homesteader]

Morning all! Yup, I'm already up was first up at 3:45 but after taking Savage potty and fixing my 1st cup of coffee I decided I was going to lay down again and didn't get back up till 8:30 which then Savage had to go potty again then I put 2 dogs in the pen outside, reheated 1st cup in micro then made entry at SS then did a couple of getting things organized and some laundry started. I'm still exhausted and on my 2nd cup!!!!! FH is still in bed but he didn't come to bed until around 11 after having to tell guests He was exhausted and wanted to go to bed too. I was already in bed because I was exhausted had been up since 3AM yesterday but I wasn't asleep seeing how the dogs didn't want to settle down. We have to go over to a friends house this afternoon seeing how her brother is going to be the photographer/ videographer at the wedding next year and he lives outta state so he's here visiting for only couple more days and those are days that FH is working. I'm attaching pics of the set up and apologize for not getting food pics but as soon as we were laying it out guests was lining up to fill plates. Also attaching pics of during the BBQ. Every one was enjoying themselves and had a good time.

 

[Country Homesteader]

I'm still trying to recover from Sat plus get my house back in order. I NEED MORE COFFEE!!!!!! I just can't get going this AM. We're going to do another BBQ on Sept 3rd but it will hopefully be the last for the year.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Drinking coffee and deciding if the smoke outside has been stressing me and making my heart skip beats. I think my office has a stronger smell of smoke than the rest of the house. I do not live in Washington, so I can't complain, but this is sure getting old. We should get some rain today, but I am not sure Washington is going to get as much as we are or if any of us do. I have beans to to pick today, but I might just skip it. I took a lot of beans and other things to DD's freezer to make more room here. The beans are really producing right now. Eating a lot of squash and tomatoes and giving a lot away too.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Cream of Rice and your choice of sweetener with raisins or dried cranberries, cream cheese or butter or almond milk. Oolong in the cup, herbal steeping in the kettle.

The air quality right now is 493 on the 500 scale. Yes, the smoke is butter knife needed thick. Yesterday, I should have mowed the backyard, I didn't. Tomorrow, I should drive to run sprinklers in the distant garden. I won't.

The high temperatures have dropped out of the high 90's and triple digits to low 80's with little sunlight reaching the ground. Rain is forecast for tomorrow evening. It may not be much but the chance should continue right into Tuesday night. Right now, it's a cool 56°. Thankfully.

I'm not sure how much of a handle they have on these wildfires.

I really don't know if I could hand air quality 493. I hope it is better there today for you there.

 

[ducks4you]

@baymule , WOW!!! You make perfect brownies!!

 

[flowerbug]

@ducks4you this is all your fault!

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look perfect to me. yum yum!

 

[Country Homesteader]

Everything is next to the coffee pot already so fix a cup then go sit on patio and enjoy the crisp 68 AM. By 3pm suppose to get to 85. I know I'm looking forward to the crisp Autumn days where I don't have to have the AC going all the time. Almost done with my 1st cup of coffee seeing how I've been awake since 1:45 and I was in bed by 9pm. I startled myself awake though at that time thinking I hadn't set my alarm and it was later in the AM then it really was. We're going to have to be really quiet though seeing how FH is still in bed, he's not going to be getting up until between 4-4:30 to leave by NO LATER than 5:15.
I know I am going to have to get things done today seeing how I really didn't do anything yesterday because I was really exhausted.

 

[baymule]

@baymule , WOW!!! You make perfect brownies!!

My great aunt worked for Hershey, retired from there. She had some old Hershey cook books, reprints from even older cookbooks. I got them, I use a brownie recipe from a small paperback cookbook. I’ll take a picture and post it.