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I am an artist, writer, jeweler, and a Spoonie. Before becoming a Spoonie I was a very busy high achieving attorney and advocate bent on saving the world. Now I'm struggle to redefine my life to fit within my reduced energy level. Some days are better than others. I have fibromyalgia, trigeminal neuralgia, and chronic daily migraine.
Monkey

Montage Monday

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I apologize for the odd technical difficulties earlier, the montage is back online.

montage |mänˈtä zh; mōn-; mō n-|
noun

• the technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of pictures, text, or music.

ORIGIN early 20th cent.: French, from monter ‘to mount.’

I am a picture junkie, and I love to capture images of everything, I thought it would be fun to put some of my random images into a montage, add some yummy song lyrics, and show it all to you! Aren’t you lucky?

You are about to be luckier, you get to answer a poll! (Look over there ——})

Food

Hmmm… Homemade apple pie…

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for lunch.

Well, can you sit in a house filled with steamy apple pie fresh-from-the-oven fumes and not give in to temptation? Especially knowing how warm and gooey the pie is fresh from the oven? We certainly couldn’t.

I popped a pie into the oven for dessert, and it was finished less than 30 minutes after it had cooled. Why?

Cause it was yummy!!

First I found a recipe online, and then I took to making my personal changes to it. (I seem to have an aversion to following recipes in their entirety.)

First I chose 6 nice Macintosh apples purchased at our Farmer’s Market fresh this morning!

Then I peeled them!


Then I cut them into slices.


Then I placed the slices into the crust. (I used a pre-made crust, because I simply wasn’t in the mood to make my own. I always keep one in the freezer for when I lack the motivation to make one from scratch. Wegman’s has a particularly good and crispy one, so we used that.)


Next I added the sugar, cinnamon, cloves, butter, and flour.

I used a half cup of vanilla sugar (which is sugar with several vanilla beans, opened of course, sitting in it. After a week or so, you get quite a yummy sugar.) I sprinkled the half cup evenly over the surface of the pie.

I did that same with 3-4 tbsp. of flour, cinnamon to taste, and clove to taste.


Then I splashed about a tsp of vanilla extract over the pie.

Finally I cut up two tbsp. of butter and spread it evenly over the pie.

Then I put the top crust on, sprinkled it with about a tbsp of vanilla sugar, sliced a few slits into it, and added a few apple peels to the top for decoration.


Into a 375 degree oven for 50 minutes, and then…. Voila!



Can you smell the appley wafts?

We were pushed past the point of self control after the pie had wafted it’s fragrance for about fifteen minutes. We gobbled it up. Monkey and Otter even ate some! There is no pie left for dinner. 😦

Guess I’ll have to make another one. 😉

Otter

He can do it!!

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After months of scooting on his bottom, look who’s crawling!!
(Please forgive the high squeaky voices, Monkey’s gets that way when she is excited, and Otter really seems to like it when my voice closely resembles Minnie Mouse’s. I don’t know why, but he does.)

My little man is now mobile, and any thoughts of rest still clinging desperately to the dark corners of my mind have been obliterated. For example, I am here, in my office, blogging to you at 1 a.m. because there is no chance to sit down during the sane parts of the day.

However, I love watching him move around. He is so deliberate in where he places his hands and knees. It seems almost as though he has studied crawling, and has engineered the ideal manner in which to crawl, and is sticking to that!! I get to hear this little pat pat pat pat of his hands as he places them down. It is quickly becoming one of the soft background sounds of my day.

I love it!!

Otter was inspired to crawl at Susan’s the other day. We were there watching her make a Striped Bavarian Cream dessert (which she lovingly brought to me today!) and having a little coze. She has these little gears on her fridge that move, and we turned them on. All of a sudden Oliver went from playing with a toy in the middle of the kitchen floor to crawling across the room to the gears. It was amazing to watch!!

I guess all he needed was the right motivation.