Baked S'mores

 Make a graham cracker cookie crust and squish half of it in the bottom of an 8x8 pan.

Top with chocolate 

 And marshmallow fluff (Tip: smooth the fluff out with a spoon you've heated in hot water).

The other half of the cookie crust and sprinkle with graham cracker crumbs

I regret that I forgot to take pictures of it after it was baked (the marshmallow poofs up) and before I gave it away.  I didn't try one but they looked great and smelled heavenly!

A shout out to Kasee over at The Apron Gal blog .  I found this recipe on Pinterest linked to her blog. Click here the complete recipe. 

Happy Baking!

Mini Update

I'm getting the mid winter blahs even though we haven't had a winter to speak of. I really need a change of pace around here. Still working on my last Fiddlehead mitten. Still working on my cable sweater. Still reading my brains out. Sigh.

I did find a neat outlet for my doodling habit. I got a half size sketchbook and wrote an uplifting or inspirational quote on each page. Now I'm tangling around them. There are fifty pages so it ought to take me a while. I've only done 4 so far....and as per paragraph one, it's not working to lift my spirits yet, but it's fun. Kind of like my own personal coloring book.

The one really bright spot of the week is going out to the farm. This last Sunday there was a little box of fresh raspberries in the produce bin. Esme-the-turkey LOVES her fruit, so I sat down in the middle of the barn floor and opened the little hinged plastic box and held it out to her. I thought she would gobble them down, but she was such a little lady.  She cocked her head and eyed each berry carefully and then chose the one that looked best to her and swallowed it.  Then she eyed them all and carefully chose another. It's like she knew that it was a rare treat to get fresh raspberries in February. She looked like someone with a box of See's chocolates!  I also found an itchy spot on Toby's cheek that when scritched, makes his eyes roll back in his head with pure bliss. So it was a good day all around.

Not much else to report but I got a few comments about the fact that I posted every day for a week and then stopped, so I thought I'd better put something out here. I'll be baking later in the week so that'll be good for another post and then maybe I'll go on spring break for a while.  Someplace tropical with cabana boys please!

All Things Bright And Beautiful

I didn't have any more animal pictures for today...so I had to make my own.

Finorkin Fiddlehead Mittens: Part Deux

The mitten on the right was from the first pair I made. The grey was the background and the colors were the 'fiddleheads'. If you saw my previous post on the matter, you say that I only had a tweensy little smidge of the gray left over, but I had scads of the other five colors left over. So I changed things up a bit and started a second pair. Now the 'fiddleheads' are a cream color and the other five colors are the background colors.  I did have to switch the colors to the opposite order because in the first mitten I had to do the icord cast on in dark blue and it ate a lot of yarn, but the green tip of the mitten was losts of decreases so it didn't use hardly any yarn.  Reversing them prevented a yarn shortage panic like I had last time.  I hope. I've only got the first few rows done on the second mitten of the second pair, so we'll see.

Which version do you like best?

Spring At Last! Spring At Last!

It was so nice during my last farm shift that I spent a half and hour after the chores were done, and just sat out in the back pasture with the goats and sucked up the nice weather. Anna and Cherish were on the other side of the fence....

 The goats were loving the sun and the company.

 And Bert was happy to get his big old head skritched.

I spent a lot of time out with the goats last summer and fall. They are really social and come to visit you when you sit out there with them. I spent a little time with them in their inside pen this winter, but it was so cold that we didn't get any quality time in. I think they were as happy about the social time as I was on Sunday. I spent entire 15 minutes talking to Bert and scratching his head, up and down his nose and around his horn buds. He just stood still, rocking slightly with the motion of the scratches, closing his eyes off and on. Such a sweetie.

I wish I could begin to explain, the feeling of well-being I had, sitting in the sun and solitude, with my friends from the peaceable kingdom! I've told folks before that Sundays on the farm is like my 'church'. I think the world's problems could be solved on a sunny bench in a pen surrounded by farm animals!

Diva's Challenge: Mardi Gras

I haven't done a Diva Challenge for a while now, but couldn't resist this week. The only instructions were to make a tangle that was reminiscent of Mardi Gras. Here is my attempt:

Happy Shrove Tuesday Everyone!

Lazy Llama

It was so gorgeous at the farm the other morning; sun, warm, no wind. The animals were all just sucking up the nice weather and lazing around in the sun beams. When it came to lazing though, Thor took it to the extreme. He decided to lay down and eat his breakfast.

 Breakfast in bed.

 The funniest part was when he finished the hay in his little area, he'd scoot on his belly, commando style, until his face met up with some more serious eatin'.

 Breakfast makes him smile. He was one happy llama.

Sunny-the-rooster watched him for a while and then dug himself a hole in straw in the goat stall, stretched out and tried the breakfast in bed thing himself. What a goof.

Sonny is Mr. Personality. He is such a character and so social. He runs 40 miles a shift following us around from chore to chore,  'supervising' and 'talking' the whole way. He had surgery on Friday to remove an infected area of his waddle and comb. We have to rub some healing ointment on his stitches. When I did it on Sunday, he closed his eyes like it was a spa treatment. He was right back in the swing on things though. What a little trooper!

Toby The Taster

It's not difficult to take an adorable picture of Toby when he's across the stall and doesn't realize you're there. But the minute he sees you, he heads in your direction out of curiosity and an intense desire to kiss you and be snuggled.

Here he comes.

"Hi Whatchoogutder?  Camera?  Come close! I geeve you good close up".
(Seriously! That's how he talks! With a cheesy French accent!)

" Ha! Fool you! I keese you camera! Smooch! Smooch!"

" I also keese you hand, you face...whatever you got...Give it here!'

In the end, a good picture is not the best part of the Toby experience. You'll walk away a little soggy, but you'll feel like a rock star!