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Mix together dry ingredients: 2   cups   all-purpose flour   plus 1 tablespoon more ½   teaspoon   salt 2   teaspoons   baking powder In a separate bowl, beat together: 2   eggs ¼   cup   salted butter   melted and cooled ½   cup   granulated sugar 1   teaspoon   vanilla extract ½   cup   milk 2   tablespoons   peach juice   from the can of peaches Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients Then add: 1 cup  peaches in juice, chopped or semi pureed         Fill normal size  Pam-ed muffin tins or papers til about 3/4 full.        Bake 425 degrees for 6 minutes.  Then, lower temperature to 350                     degrees & bake for 15-18 minutes more. Let set in pay for 5 minutes &          then remove to baking wire sheet to cool.  ...

  Ok, where to start. Jack Reacher is a character created by a writer named Lee Child, whose real name is James Grant.   He wrote 23 books.  I didn't count them, I just Googled.   I've written before about Reacher although I've changed blogs so I'm not sure if it's here.  Reacher is basically a homeless ex-military policeman who travels place to place in the US getting into trouble, much of it of his own making.  He has a sense of justice, I guess but not much conscience.  I think he normally sets out to right wrongs but sometimes the line is a little fuzzy. Reacher is described as mid 30s (hasn't aged in 25 books...wait for it), 6'4", 250.  He's obsessed with guns & jazz music & the fact that he has no home, just an expired passport for ID, no cell phone, no ties to anyone. We introduced to his mom in one book but she immediately died & his brother Joe was around for a couple I think.  But that's it.  And his books...

My favorite picture of mom   I'm not sure why my mom is all over my mind today.  It's not her birthday or the anniversary of her death but for some reason I'm missing her terribly.  Odd & random things keep popping into my mind: My mom was 15 years younger than my dad.  I always knew that it would be up to me to take care of one or both of them when they were old.  I figured I'd move at least one of them into my house when they didn't need to be alone anymore.  Because of the age difference I truly always figured it would be mom.  But it was daddy.  Mom passed away in 2003, daddy in 2009.  I was blessed to have daddy in my home from 2007 til 2 weeks before he left this world.  I miss them both horribly.   This post is a mom thing because I can't stop thinking about her today. On Monday I bought 2 donuts at the grocery store.  My mom loved donuts & she loved the grocery store.  I have one of the donuts on the c...

This is book 4 of the Cormoran Strike Series by Robert Galbraith.  Strike is a London PI who ends up with big & pretty interesting characters.  Since book one, he has an assistant turned partner, Robin & a finally a couple of other part time employees & is actually making a little money. He still lives in a hovel above his hovel office but he's not there much so we don't worry too much about him.  The other co-star of the book is his war injured, prosthetic leg, which every time he refers to it, & it's every other page, uses both words.  Like when his leg hurts, we 4 book by now readers, don't know it's a PROSTHETIC LEG.   Our story starts one way with a mentally ill man coming in to talk about a murder he saw as a child & then turns into a fairly interesting story of blackmail, class conflicts, politics & eventually murder.  It ends up with a messy, unsatisfying ending that makes little sense but at 767 pages, someone decided i...

My old laptop, which is only about 4 years old, is in the process of dying.  It's been slow for awhile.  Every time I close the lid it goes to sleep & I have to restart it to get it going again.  Then it started getting weird where I had to push enter several times before it would do anything.  Then the sound was going.  And yesterday I got a black screen with strange computer writing & it took awhile to restart.  And today at 230 pm the computer said it was 1207pm.  So being the bright girl that I am, I figured there was a problem.   I have a monitoring service that an old employer had provided because her son owned a computer repair & monitoring company.  I actually didn't realize I still had it.  I could take the laptop to the son but it would cost me & we've had it repaired before.  Basically, I think the computer was a little bit of a lemon. So I decided to look around today to see about a new computer....

  I was thinking earlier as I cleaned up my kitchen about Sunday nights back when I was working.  I officially & finally retired in 2015.  I've done a couple of things but certainly no 8-5, M-F since.  Or ever again.   First thing I remember is a long bath & jammies pretty early.  There was usually something good to watch on TV then.  Now, not so much.  I'm a Chiefs fan & for some reason they get stuck on Sunday nights more than anyone (or seems to me anyway. 😀) so now I watch a lot of football.   But I also make sure my kitchen is cleaned, dishwasher loaded, hand washies done & cabinets washed down.  Not that it ever gets too bad but I've been known to leave glasses in the sink a couple of days.   And I still, for some odd reason, I try to focus on getting to bed early even though there is normally no alarm the next morning.  And that's good because I oddly even now don't sleep well on Sunday ni...

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There was a time I'd say I like even years more than odd years even though on my birthday I go from even to odd.  I had great hopes for 2020, not only an even number but a symetrical but to quote the song from 'Les Miserables' "God almighty, have you see what's happened since?".   But, at least at beginning of a new year, we all need a little hope for better things.   So here we are...the first day of 2022. So here I am...safe & sound, in my warm house.   Thankful the mouse is gone (see previous post), thankful I have my own home.  We had rain yesterday & during the night & today we had snow!!  For the record, it was 78 degrees earlier in the week so it's our first smidge of winter.  And I like winter, even more now that I'm retired & don't have to go anywhere I don't want to go.  I should add that to my becoming my parents post.   I guess I should have resolutions & goals for the new year although I'm ...