I liked seeing my favorite donkeys and horse again thisb week
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| Hello Beautiful! |
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| this is some unusual horse chestnut tree with inedible nuts that look like lychee's |
fine dining
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| the base layer cake waiting for icing and whipped cream |
Conversation starter this week: do you have a good gingerbread type recipe to share? or what is your favorite gingerbread style food to eat?
https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/gingerbread-cake/
I use fresh ginger (grated) and as always used just egg whites (I'm allergic to the yolks) but stayed to the recipe otherwise
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| with vanilla sauce plus whipped cream |
my favorite gingerbread was found in Historic Williamsburg. We used to go fairly often when we lived on the East coast. Our first stop was the bakery where they made fresh gingerbread cookie/cakes. We'd buy a dozen for the long weekend, sit on the cobblestone patio bench, the three of us, DH, Cole the poodle, and I.
We would savor the first cookie of the weekend, warm from the oven, each of us with their own.
It was usually late afternoon by then, time for a tea and cookie, breeze rustling leaves overhead, peaceful, people in period clothes calling to each other, the three of us content and anticipating good times to come. Cole just watched the squirrels coming ever closer for a crumb, people watching Cole.
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| cole enjoyed shopping too |
Watching on Videos
still chuckling at this, making friends (short)
https://youtube.com/shorts/cMMKH6xkk8Y?si=90J_icaiof9RTRjDa girl's thoughts on love
https://youtube.com/shorts/bYvQyiiAxd4?si=LdV9bJZGNTHZkda3I've had a migraine pretty much daily since last we met.... hope that stops soon, sorry this is short today
for now, please visit these fine folk to read about their gingerbread stories
I love your pumpkin mug and your pumpkin plate with gingerbread. I love gingerbread in any form!
ReplyDeleteThose pink flower things are kind of fabulous.
ReplyDeleteThose coneflower statues are quite amazing and such a fun looking spot. I saw some great Halloween yard decor yesterday but I was driving to a friend's house across town and didn't get any photos. I took a different route to her house and saw some fun things including a huge spiderweb across a big part of the front of one house. I like my 1 cup of coffee in the morning hot and plain. I used to make a good ginger/molasses cookie - soft and chewy - but haven't made them in a few years. I do love gingerbread of all kinds.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great mug, and also love the pumpkin plate with your yummy gingerbread on it! Those metal coneflower sculptures are awesome - they bring some whimsy to the park. The cookies at Williamsburg look tasty, too. Happy Thursday - hope that migraine goes away for you.
ReplyDeleteThose flower statues at the playground are awesome! Plus I like that quote about our aging personalities -- so true!
ReplyDeleteLove the mug! I drink my coffee black because I once worked at a company with a community spoon. Being a germaphobe, I didn't use the spoon. :) I've never made gingerbread, but I love it. When we lived in Raleigh, we went to Colonial Williamsburg at least twice during the summer. I should have tried the gingerbread. Happy Thursday!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting about the personality and I think it's true. It is so nice visiting you in your beautiful area! Thank you for giving us moments of peace and respite Aloha
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That's a super cool coffee mug! I sure like coffee too. The food all looks so good and those were sweet flashbacks. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteThe pinks leap out of this post - flowers and leaf. What a leaf! Enviable cookies and cake. I have no oven so such things exist in dream only these days.
ReplyDeleteI like your coffee mug! I drink two cups each morning. Can't do without it! lol Thank you for linking up and have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteI love those huge flowers! I must have been born old - that's what I've always wanted! (except maybe not that much rest) That quesadilla looks great! Williamsburg is fun! omg, those animals the dogs brought home! LOL. Feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteThe RC doesn't care for gingerbread so sadly I don't have a recipe to share. I love those whimsical pink flowers in the playground.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry about your migraines and hope the atmosphere changes so you feel better. Our #1 daughter-in-love never doesn't have a migraine to varying degrees - an inherited trait from both her mother and grandmother.
What adorable donkeys...and you found some lovely leaves!
ReplyDeleteThe pumpkin mug made me smile, and the pictures of Cole are just fabulous. I now want some fresh gingerbread!
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