More Kitchen Disasters

At this rate, we are of the opinion that Janet should sell her fancy pants stove and get a bunson burner.  She set out to make some Date Bran Muffins from a recipe book.  All completed and now busy baking away in the oven.  For some stupid reason, while putting away the package of bran, she checks out the recipe on the package to see how it compared to hers.  It has sugar!  Janet rips out her cookbook and guess what!  It has sugar, too!  Sugar is NOT an ingredient in the ones that are baking in the oven.  After many, many bad words, she threw them out and had Phil stop and get her some more buttermilk.  Should it actually take a couple of hours to make 10 muffins?  We doggies don't know anything about baking, (except for the bad language part) but we are thinking not.

They went to Lolo and Steve's house for dinner on Saturday.  Super yummy.  Janet said they had Chinese Chicken, Spring Rolls and Stir Fry Veggies.

Look at how pretty this tree is.  It's in our neighbours yards and Phil says it almost glows when the sun is on it.

We also had some really beautiful sunsets the other evening.

After "our" stock and muffin disaster, Janet did manage to pull of a couple of dinners that were palatable.

Beef Enchiladas, Mexican Rice and Guacamole that actually isn't grey in the photo!

Beef Short Rib Stew.  Janet just loves short ribs.

Last night was Halloween.  Janet was pretty sure we could be good doggies when the children started to come to our house.  Noodles, however, proved her to be more than wrong by running onto the step and barking at everyone.  So much for greeting the kiddies.  Now we are trapped behind the "bad doggies" gate.  I wish Noodles could go into solitaire on her own.  I wanted to see all the children.  There were some firecrackers or fireworks later in the evening and we were both really scared.  We sat beside Janet so she could pet us.  Janet was very disappointed at how few children we had this year.  Normally, as we are so close to the Bonfire, we have tons.  This year, not so many.

This is Natalie and Gillian from down our street.  Janet hasn't seen them for awhile and was shocked that Gillian could walk - seems like only a couple of weeks ago that she was born.

We are bookends!