This and That

Well we've had a busy past week, so this post will end up being a smorgasbord of different things. It's been so HOT outside recently that the dogs and myself have been confined inside for most of the time. I mean, I try to coerce the dogs into going outside, but even they aren't fooled. Instead, they all pick an air vent and stay there.

Since I'm limited on what I can do during the day in the house (don't want to make too much noise while Dan is sleeping), I usually just end up reading. Our library is very small, so I'm often frustrated by it, but I have managed to find a few of the books I was looking for. I just finished Emma last week, so that was the last Jane Austen book I needed to read. I'm also almost done with the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella. It's hit and miss with our library, so if I'm working on a series I better be prepared to wait, because they often don't have the next book available. I'm also reading a few other books right now, but I'm not going to mention them in case they are duds.

We had a wedding to go to on Saturday. A couple from church was getting married. It was very elegant and well done. It was actually the first wedding I've been too since we lived in Phoenix.

Monday I baked some Amish friendship bread. This was the first batch I've made in awhile. It was getting a bit overwhelming, so I had put it away for a few months. I made two different batches; one as the regular recipe and the other with banana pudding. The banana flavor wasn't as strong as I anticipated, but it still tastes great. Here's all the loaves after they were baked.

I needed to take Onyx to the vet for her rabies shot, so I packaged up one of the loaves and took it over to the girls at work. Doc loves bananas so I took him a few of those as well.

In the evenings I've been working in my front flower garden a little bit. The heat has really zapped most of the flowers in my other beds, but the one right in front is looking good. Here are the Black-eyed Susan and some of the Marigolds that are growing there:

The Brazillian Verbena that grandpa gave me has gotten huge. And the butterflies love it!It took me two days to get a picture of this fellow. He was very camera-shy. Every time I'd take the camera out to snap his picture, he'd fly away. But I finally got one that isn't blurry. HA!- take that butterfly! You're getting your picture on the Internet whether you like it or not!