Vicki is having fun – and writing about it!
Valentines candies that say how us single-and-not-really-dating-anyone people feel about celebrating a holiday for people in love. And we are not. So this holiday is like, a waste of time. Except that tomorrow I can buy up a big stash of good candies on sale for less than half price! There’s always a silver lining!
Betty Crocker makes a great banana nut muffin mix. All you have to do is stir in a couple of eggs and then add some oil and water. Thirty minutes later you have baked deliciously moist warm muffins waiting for the little slab of butter and a cup of hot tea.
I like to add real bananas to the mix before baking, so I try to keep one or two ripe bananas on hand most of the week. It can be challenging to find bananas in varying stages of ripeness. At the Food Lion grocery store near my house, they get a shipment of bananas once a week and they are bright green. They ripen naturally in the store, but they all ripen on the same schedule, so the bananas you buy are either not ripe enough or too ripe all at the same time. So I only buy two bananas at a time at Food Lion.
But Kroger is a few miles further from my house and they seem to get banana shipment three times every week. So you can buy individual bananas in varying stages of ripeness. If I happen to be at Kroger, I’ll buy two very green bananas, two almost ripe bananas and then one that is ready to eat. That way they will continue to ripen after I get them home and not all spoil within just a couple of days.
The southern groundhog weather expert, General Beauregard Lee, did not see his shadow today. It’s a good thin he is in Atlanta, because at home the day was rainy and miserable, although warm. It’s almost like we are already having Spring, rather than waiting 6 weeks for the official first day of Spring.
We were fortunate to have a very mild Winter, with only a few days of snow flurries and it never really amounting to much. Everything wet has been rain, which is much better for me than snow and ice. Even so, I am tired of the short days, early darkness and needing a coat for even the shortest dash from the house. Bring on Spring! We are ready!