Let's have Cake !

Now, this is a cake.  My Granddaughter made it and I swear we had  it gone in one hour.  It was so delicious !  With a good cup of coffee, good conversation and company it was a big hit.
     Inside ?  You want to  know what kind inside, Lemon cake and Lemon Frosting. 
Need I say more !     Tootles

sushi !

What a picture.  My Granddaughter's Ashlley and Vanesa and Manny took the challenge and made all of the dishes you see.  I am not kidding.  Let me tell you they did a fantastic job and dinner was delicious !  It was there first time of making it and let me tell you as far as I am concerned they are all experts.  They have decided to do this once a month.  How lucky are we to get in on this.  Never would I have thought I would love Sushi like I do.  Jim too !  You just have to have an open mind and think about what you love to eat in the fish department and go from there.  Not all Sushi is raw fish.  Some are, of course but believe me there are many different choices.  For an example....  I love crab, lobster, shrimp and most any kind of fish along with avocado, cucumber, cream cheese just to name a few things.  Well all of that is in Sushi and to watch them adding all the ingredients then roll it up, well, it's amazing.  The sauces they put on top are so delicious.  There is this one sauce which Jim and I love.  I would describe it like soy sauce but thicker and sweeter.  We love it.  Then we found out what it's called.....Eel Sauce !  I would have never guessed that.  Now I don't know if there is Eel in the sauce or what, all I know is It's delicious.  I'll be honest I don't really like the raw fish but give me shrimp, avocado, rice, ginger rolled up with seaweed and eel sauce on top and you had me at shrimp.  I love it.  You saute the shrimp and some even has deep fried shrimp at each end of the roll.  You see ? You just need an open mind and someone to guide you through the process of trying new and different cultures.  I'm so glad my Granddaughter introduced Jim and I.  Hey, you are never too old to try new things.  Tootles

Porches and Yards

 Well, Good Morning !  We have been having fun changing things around, cleaning up and fixing this and that.  I really do love my porches or decks or what ever you want to call them.  It's a place to gather your thoughts and  my, you would be surprised at the ideas that pop out then.  I do have some sweet birds that sing in my trees but we do not encourage this as we have 9, count them,  9 cats and I do not want anything to happen to those sweet birds in my yard.  I don't put bird seed out or put water in the bird bath.  My goodness, before we realized it our kitties were terrorizing them.  Here they were trying to take a bath and get a drink and along pops up a kitty.  Not a good thing.  We live next door to two peach orchards and between the   fruit and them watering, it's okay.  Now getting back to my porches.  I would love to have a porch swing.  I do however have a  couple swings on our old swing set.  It has a slide and other things to climb on.  Which are not for me.  We have talked about using chairs for the swings.  Now I need to find the chairs.      How do you like my front door.  I had my Jim put the gates up.  I've been hanging chains on it.  They open  up  and the right side lays flat and the left side opens to the fireplace.  I do love them.

I do love to go and sit on my porches.  Especially now that I have them cleaned up. 

Tootles