My plans for the day took a turn in a different direction. Kelly planned to come up and do cookies, but she couldn’t get here today. So I made 3 batches of Russian Tea Cakes and froze them for her. I made a total mess with the powdered sugar – but that didn’t make any difference to the taste. They were yummy – of course I did a taste test!
After lunch I finally made a new batch of Flax Balls – I think we ate the last of what I had back at the end of February. Every time I make them I do something stupid. Last time I had a little too much honey – I adjusted the ingredients and they were yummy. Today I mis-calculated the chocolate chips. But I don’t think anyone ever complained about too much chocolate!
While I was baking, I walked into the living room to turn the stereo on and saw this little cutie on my deck railing. He sat there for a long time. Beautiful.
My little red bird
I managed to balance my checkbook to the penny – but it did take a few tries. One of my auto-payments got posted twice (my fault!) But at least it was to the good!
Checkbook
Just looked out the door and saw a rainbow – surprising with so little sunshine today!
Rainbow
Rainbow
Rainbow
So – back to vacation. Tuesday we spent the day doing a driving tour of the battlefields. Kelly downloaded the GPS driven tour app on her phone, and it was 100% accurate. We went to each location exactly on target and learned a lot about the regiments and the battles. My favorite Tuesday morning was the Eternal Light Peace Monument. Very impressive. We left there and drove over to the Oak Ridge Observation Tower that looked out over the city and the farms where the first day of fighting was on July 1st. We also learned about Sallie, the battle dog! So much interesting and intense information. What dreadful battles.
Peace light.
inscription.
View from tower
Peace light from the tower
View
view
Sallie the battle dog.
Stone wall
Wall
General Robert E Lee
General Lee
QUOTE of the DAY:
PEANUTS?
TOMORROW May 14th is:
Ascension Day; Bond with your Dog Day; International chihuahua Appreciation Day; National Brioche Day; National Buttermilk Biscuit Day; National Dance Like a Chicken Day; National Decency Day; National Travel Insurance Claims Day; National Underground America Day; Stars and Stripes Forever Day.
Rate – no dog! I won’t be dancing – like a chicken or anything else! Stars and Strips ARE forever – sort of! God bless…..
Wonderful picture:
Biltmore Azalea Garden – from Kathy’s calendar.
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