How to spend a day . . .

Yesterday began as most every day begins . . .  with doggie cuddles, some prayer and scripture study and then my writing on here, answering e-mails etc.  and then I noticed that when I went into the kitchen that the area of carpet in the dining room which is in front of the kitchen door was literally squelching when I stepped on it.

Twice earlier in the week I had noticed a damp spot there in the morning, and thinking that Mitzie had been a naughty girl I had soaked it up, given her a tongue lashing and gone about my business . . .  but this was more than a damp spot.  Way more than a damp spot.



I got busy mopping and soaking up.  Five large towels later, Todd got up.  He hates being confronted with a problem like this first thing in the morning, but what could I do?    He had to know.  Pretty much the rest of his morning was spent in trying to sort the problem out.   By about noon and after umpteen trips back and forth to B&Q it was clear that he was not going to sort the problem out and he finally took my advice and called the Landlord who is a pretty handy guy.  Todd, he's not so handy.  He can barely hang a picture.  It's true.  He knows it.  But he likes to try and so I let him.

It was pretty clear  by then that I wasn't going to get any of the things I had planned to do yesterday done and so  . . .



If there is one thing that men really hate . . .  it's a woman standing around trying to instruct them on how to go about doing something.  I removed myself from the equation.  I took myself off up into my organized and tidy craft room, popped some inspirational music into my cd player and settled in to write.   I have been assigned a talk for next Sunday morning's Sacrament Meeting and I thought I might as well knuckle down and get it done.   An hour or so later and I was finished . . .

So was the plumbing job.  

I knew by then that the window of optimum light for food blog photography had passed and so I shelved my cooking plans for the day.



I got a new camera for Christmas this year and I hadn't really used it yet.  My old camera had developed cracks all around the casing  and wasn't really taking good photos anymore . . .  I don't know how or why this happened.  It hadn't been dropped or anything.  I can only think it is a fault in the plastic used to manufacture it.   In any case I had wanted a better camera for a long time and this year I got one.  It's a bridge camera, so somewhat of a learning curve.   I have been experimenting with it a lot over the past few days.   That photo at the top of this post was taken with it.   That's an old Birdhouse that I painted about 20 years ago now or maybe even longer and one half of a salt and pepper shaker set a good friend gave me just before we moved back up here to Chester.  It's a blue tit.



I  practiced taking pictures on the Macro setting.   An old piece of cake . . .



Some Mayan friendship dolls  . . .  a gift from Doreen . . .



I took some photos of the lounge in a variety of ways . . .



I even played a bit with the special effects.   This is the painting one.  Not sure what I think about that, but it's certainly different!!



The gulls were all inland and flying about the back of the house.  Must have been bad weather out on the coast.  I took a few pics of them flying about.



And played with them a bit.    I need to learn zooming now.  But these are not too bad considering they were taken through my dining room window.




I have waaaaaaaay more to learn.   Thank goodness for the internet.  There are lots of tutorials out there to play around with.   Whew!!



 I washed and hung up all the towels we had used to soak up all that water as well, and by then Todd was making "honey I'm hungry" noises and . . .  we really hadn't had much to eat all day and so  . . .



I dug one of these out of the freezer and threw some olives on it and banged it into the oven . . .



Started cooking a package of this while the pizza cooked.  (Yes, sometimes even I resort to drastic measures when it comes to cooking.) Seven minutes later it was done.  I did stir a tin of chopped tomatoes into it to my credit. 

I was in food heaven.   Todd was in food hell.   But I gave him a piece of cake (see above) and it was kind of all better, except for the meringues on top.   He hates Meringues.

Just pick them off.



I then made up for it all and served him up a Spaghetti Western.   All was well and before we knew it we were heading on up to bed.

And that's how you spend a day.



A thought to carry with you through today . . .

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“This is a wonderful day. 
And I have never seen this one ever before.”
 ~ Maya Angelou
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Baking in The English Kitchen today  . . .  Elizabeth's Date and Nut Loaf.  Can't be bad!!


 Enjoy your sabbath.  May it be blessed beyond measure.  Don't forget
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And I do too!