sometimes, things just do not go as planned-need i say more? this week, i had a big basket of blueberries and i decided to make a blueberry cake to take to the garden. simple enough, just blueberries and an easy recipe that i have used many times before. well, if something is supposed to be simple, it should go well-no? NO!!! not this time...we finally purchased a table to add to our patio at home and after eating dinner at the new table on our newly finished patio, we decided to sit outside and enjoy the lovely evening-it really was nice out; not hot and humid with a slight breeze and lots of wildlife. i went into the house, quickly mixed up the cake, popped it into the oven and programmed the timer for 55 minutes. darry and i returned to the patio and watched bats fly over head, listened to a screech owl in the trees behind us and saw a little fox wander through the yard. then i checked the timer and realized that i hadn't started it-it was still set at 55 minutes...@#$* was my response. this was the beginning of the end for the cake.
although i made my best guestimations at how much time had elapsed and even checked it several times with a skewer, it just didn't work. after taking a shower and allowing the cake to cool on the counter in the pan for at least 20 minutes, it collapsed when i turned it out and it ended up looking like this. (insert loud sigh here). looks like i would have to make something new in the morning...
so i made muffins, a small mountain of blueberry muffins and they were perfect!
as i photographed the two, the cake disaster and the muffins, my new friend gave a running commentary. meow, meow, meow!!! this is the captain, he is a beautiful cat and one of the most lovey cats around. he is also in need of a home. we can't take him in because we have 3 in the house already and a dog too. let me know if you can take him, we will even help with the cost of neutering him.it was an extremely productive morning. we completed work on several things in the herb garden!
after a run to the rock yard on friday, darry and i had lots of rocks and bricks to work with. here he is with sam, they are packing in the dirt around the brick/block wall they just assembled.
fellow dcmg doris, dropped off two boxes of bottles and with them, darry and sam completed the bottle wall. we had used some beer bottles but they were too small for this bed and the guys replaced them and used the others to finish the wall. darry actually pounded them in with a rubber mallet.
after a run to the rock yard on friday, darry and i had lots of rocks and bricks to work with. here he is with sam, they are packing in the dirt around the brick/block wall they just assembled.
sam thought they looked like trains trudging down a track
many thanks to doris weakley for the bottles!
fellow dcmg doris, dropped off two boxes of bottles and with them, darry and sam completed the bottle wall. we had used some beer bottles but they were too small for this bed and the guys replaced them and used the others to finish the wall. darry actually pounded them in with a rubber mallet.
the completed bottle wall
while the guys were digging and pounding, anne and i were crawling around the ground by the compost bins-the weeds had completely taken over the area. it was a dense mat of unwanted residents with a few volunteers popping up. we carefully sorted through the plants and rescued some of the volunteers which anne will relocate to the garden at sam's school.
and this is what it now looks like by the compost bins
pretty garden phlox
on the coneflowers, a carpenter bee and a skipper
pretty little eastern tailed blue butterfly
metallic green bees, they move fast and it is hard to get a good photo with my camera.
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