{april – monday – morning}
√ I told you something hinky was going on. If you follow me on Twitter you might remember that last Thursday I tweeted: “There’s a sheriff’s helicopter circling the ravine behind our house & 2 police cars racing up/down the street. This is not normal.” Over the weekend I found out what had happened right here… in the ravine behind our house… in the middle of the day.
A police officer noticed a car without license plates driving through town. It was a stolen car. So, the police chased the four men in the stolen car into a cul-de-sac in our subdivision where the driver of the car crashed the car into a tree. The police immediately apprehended one man, but the other three men escaped on foot and headed into the ravine that runs throughout this subdivision.
That’s when the helicopter started circling our house. Eventually, [about 10 minutes I’d estimate] thanks to the helicopter overhead the police caught the other three miscreants without any shots fired or destruction of personal property. Good job, eh?
√ We planted the pots by our front door with coleus this year. We chose Mosaic, Jazz Rose + Black Dragon with a spike in the middle for height. The colors should coordinate nicely with the green pot itself and the surrounding red barberry bushes. [For an abstract rendering of the colors we’re working with go here to this cool blog called Field Trips in Fiber.]
√ I tried a new recipe. On Friday I found this recipe, Homemade Chocolate Pudding with Baileys, in a blog called My Baking Addiction. I realized that I had almost the correct ingredients in our pantry, so I decided to make the pudding with what I had on hand.
Because I used fat-free half & half (instead of heavy cream) + 10 bite-size pieces of dark chocolate candy (instead of semi-sweet chocolate) what I made was more of a sauce than a pudding. Which does not matter because this was the most delicious tasting almost-pudding I’ve ever had. I’ll make this recipe again with [or without] the correct ingredients to eat as pudding– or to put on toasted pound cake + vanilla ice cream.
√ As some of you know, I collect Le Creuset coffee mugs. I have one of each color. This weekend I got a mug in the newest color, Marseille. I’d describe it as robin egg blue-ish [peacock blue-ish?]. Alone it is a lovely shade, but in our house it truly goes with nothing. Zilch.
All of our blues are cobalt, or denim, or rather grayed– and this new color with a touch of green in it looks very out-of-place. Still, it makes my collection complete, so it can stay. But nothing else of this color will be entering my house if I can help it.
THE SPECTACLED BEAN 