♥ FINALLY!!! (I baked something...)

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I actually got going Monday morning, and made a couple of things!  That above is my version of G/F Sugar Cookie Bar "Pie".  ,-)    It's a good mix of G/F Ch. Chip Cookie mix, with the ch. chips removed.  And some walnuts added.  That *white* top looks WEIRD, I know.  But it's just some granular sugar sprinkled on top, before baking.  I know!   It looks more like cement.  -chuckle-

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Let's see if this shot, looks any better....

Nope...    ,-)

Anyway, I hate to bake in summer, even with the A/C.  I just can't get-in-the-mood.  (All you real bakers out there,  stop shaking your heads.  I admit, I'm not a real baker!)  Used to have one grocery store, which carried GOOOOD G/F Sugar Cookies.  I loved them.   But all of a sudden, I can't find them anywhere.   Her Cinnamon Sugar cookies and her Ch. Chip cookies are available.  Cinnamon doesn't sit well with me.  I can't eat Chocolate Chips.  I loved the plain Sugar cookies.

Gone.............

I had no choice but to make my own.  I get really sick-and-tired of not having a sweet treat.  -pout-  Like Sun. evening...  Family had Ice Cream Birthday Cake for one of the "Grands."  I had my plain water bottle, by my side.  

I'm not really *bitching* that much.  It's my choice.  Don't eat ice cream, because of Lactose Intolerance.  Don't eat any normal desserts, because they are full of Sat/Fats.  3 years ago, I avoided a massive heart attack, by having 3 stents put in.  I am determined to TRY, to not clog 'em up again.  Even though I know, it won't work forever.

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 OK, my poor regular Dear Readers, you so wish I'd stop telling that (stenting) story, don't you?  I know.  I know.  But who knows?  There might be a new Dear Reader here, who has never heard it before.  :-)

I also made "Uncle A." a Banana Bread, but it's still in oven, as I type this, ahead of time.  :-)

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I get tired of listening to the lawn mower/grass blower/etc., etc., etc., constantly taking care of the large yard at the big summer house, adjacent to here.  (We call it 'Secretariat's House, because years ago, it was owned by "Penny" Chenery Tweedy, the owner of 'Secretariat'.)  It's owned by some other horse trainer now, and The Lawn Care Co. takes care of that place "like little children."  ,-)   I'm tired of machine noise.  So I put ambiance music on CD player.  Sometimes it's Forest Sounds, which is mainly bird song.  Sometimes it's waves, waves, waves.  Sometimes it's this kind above, a combo of gentle music and waves.  Mmmmmm...  Blots out the ding-dang machine noise. 

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Last evening we watched "Midnight in Paris" dvd, which I found in my library.  Charming...  So very, very charming...  Have you seen it, Dear Reader?  So different from the usual Woody Allen films.  ~~~   Don't get me wrong.  I have enjoyed Woody Allen films.  I'm just saying that this is a Woody Allen film, for those people, who don't even like Woody Allen films.  :-))))

It was especially interesting to watch rain-fall-in-Paris, being sentimentalized.   We spent 8 lovely days in Paris, way back in 1999, and didn't encounter rain.  On a Sun. morning, there was a tremendous t-storm, but we weren't out in it.  It had stopped, by the time we went out to church.  (-grin-  Yes, way-back-then, I was still going to mass on Sun.)  Other than that, the weather was sunny and almost too warm for Spring.

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