Recital and Smoothies

I attended my friend's faculty recital this weekend.  My friend, Katie, is an amazing musician and instructor.  She's a soprano singer and definitely jolted me out of my sleepy haze when she took the stage and let her voice take over!  Amazing performance AND dress - the girl brought down the house in style!

Katie, lovely in red:

Smoothies: my latest craze.  I've been having fun concocting delicious combinations for refreshing, fruit and protein dense smoothies.  With two of my latest concoctions below.

Oatmeal banana almond smoothie:

Strawberry blueberry banana smoothie:

My Lock&Key Diary from the 90's Never Saw this Coming

My blog came in the mail today.  In print format.  I've been getting my blog printed every year since I've started documenting autobiographical events four years ago.  I think the hybrid being within me - the one that lived without the Internet and a cell phone and the one that can't live without the Internet or a cell phone - needs/wants both mediums.  You know, something to show the grandchildren, right?  And, in a small way, to hold onto the memory and practice of the pre-Internet world.

A few months ago I filled in for an absent coworker and gave a small and very young group of boy scouts a tour of the library, full of instruction and information literacy!  When we ended at the microfilm machines and their final assignment, one young boy exclaimed, "Look!  These are the machines they used 100 years ago!"

Yikes!

  

February Birthdays Celebration

I have a few family members with birthdays in February.  Mum's was the most recent, so we gathered with fam today to celebrate by enjoying homemade soups, fresh bread, and desserts.  Yum!

I made fun-looking and awesome-tasting cream puffs, which I found the recipe for on Pinterest.  The recipe was super simple and a lot of fun to make.  I was a little concerned when the dough the recipe called for looked more like batter, but all was well in the end.  The best part was pipping the cream into the cooled puffs.  I opted to skip the chocolate ganache topping and decided to go with a simple dusting of powdered sugar instead.  Pinterest came through for once... there have been many FAILS before this success.

Trick candles!  

Daisy Turns 3!

Daisy girl is growing up!  She's now 3 years old and is doing better than ever.  She brings us and others  she visits in nursing homes as a therapy dog so much joy.  Slowly but surely her hyper disposition is giving way to a more relaxed, enthusiastic demeanor.  

No birthday wouldn't be complete without a treat.  In celebration we treated her to a bowl of doggie ice cream with a dollop of peanut butter.  And she licked the bowl clean!!