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Friday, February 22, 2008

Thursday, February 21, 2008

It all started with a knock at the door. The police man asked if I Lived here and if knew anything about a van running off the road.
“Well,” I said, “there was one a while back.” Thinking back to the red SUV that crashed in the ditch.
He said, “it would have been about a week ago, right after the snowstorm”
“No, we were not here last week.” I was wondering about all this when the neighbor drove up. So I said “This is our landlord, he might know something”
The policeman agreed and said he was the one who called it in. so as I looked over the scene there were two police cars and at least three policemen on the road. This was about 4:30 pm.
Not much later the tow truck arrived. It took them FOREVER to get things hooked up and even had to have another truck come to help. Then as they started to haul it up. One of the guys yelled for them to stop and he ran up the hill along with one of the policemen. One of the other man yelled back “Male or Female?” that’s when I knew it would be a long evening with very sad news.
Shortly after this two suburbans and another cop car showed up with at least 7 more cops. 6 of them immediately went down into the “steep, slippery” ditch. One had ruined pants to prove this. I soon could hear the tow truck drivers discussing turning off their trucks, as it would be hours before they would use them.
The men combed the entire area and soon had to resort to the usage of flashlights. The road was completely blocked off so there were many people having to turn around in our driveway.
It’s 6:30pm and I have now wasted my whole evening watching all the excitement. I’m a little saddened that I won’t be a able to photograph the removal of the vehicle. I heard a strange honk out front and ran to see what was going on. The fire truck wanted to get through the police tape, which blocks the road completely off at our mailbox! I guess Chris will have to go through Aztec to get home.
Tanya, my neighbor stopped by to visit about the “excitement” She said that she has lived here 19 years and this is the 4^th crash. She also had just talked to the investigators and they think it happened about the same time that the last crash happened. There is a fatality; they asked her and the kids not to watch.
Can you imagine? Three weeks and not being missed? Should I have heard something? Could I have helped? Did they die instantly? Or should I have been there?
7:45pm “Body’s Up!”
9:00 pm I heard that sounds of scrapping branches. They pulled out a white mini van. If it had been any other color we might have seen it sooner. But white hides in the snow so well.
At 10:15 the last police car left. What an eventful evening! One I hope to never repeat.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Merry Christmas!

Hope ya'll All had a very merry Christmas!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Thanksgiving with the family

We are visiting my family for thanksgiving week. so far we have had an awesome time! Today we had the whole family over. that was great! we had a skeet shoot and thanksgiving dinner

Friday, November 02, 2007

Some fun recipes

These are a few recipes that I have made in the last few weeks. hope you enjoy them!

Pumpkin Muffin

box white cake mix

1 egg

2 cups pumpkin

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon ginger

mix all the ingredients and bake at 350 for 15 minutes

Pumpkin Pancakes

1 egg

1 1/3 Cups milk

1 ½ cups flour (optional substitute ½ cup of whole wheat flour)

¼ cup oil

2 Tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

¾ teaspoon salt

1 cup pumpkin

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon ginger

mix all the ingredients and grill on a griddle.

Fast (ha, ha, ha,) White Bread

From “Joy of Cooking”

One 9x5-inch loaf

Stir together in a large bowl

2 Cups Bread flower (for whole wheat bread use one cup whole wheat)

1 Tablespoon sugar

1 Package yeast (2 ¼ teaspoon)

1 ½ teaspoon salt

Add:

1 cup very warm (115° to 125° F) water

2 Tablespoons butter, softened

mix by hand or on low speed for 1 minute. Add ¼ cup at a time until dough is moist but not sticky:

1 to 1 ½ cups bread flour

Knead about 10 minutes by hand of with dough hook on low speed until dough is smooth and elastic. Transfer to oiled bowl. Cover loosely with plastic and let rise in a warm place until double in bulk, 40-45 minutes. Grease pan. Punch down dough, form into loaf let rise 20-45 minutes. Preheat oven to 450°F Bake for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350° and bake 20-30 minutes. Crust should be light brown and tapping on it, it sounds hollow.

I got this hint from your mom, while loaf is still hot, “paint” it with melted butter. Then wrap in a dishtowel to let it cool. The crust will not be as “crusty” when you do this. Sry I’m not sure what the terminology is.

Sourdough Starter

From “Joy of Cooking”

2 cups lukewarm water

1 Package yeast (2 ¼ teaspoon)

2 Cups All-purpose flour

Stir with a wooden spoon – never use metal let stand uncovered at 80° to 90° for 4-7 days (I’m glad I did this earlier this summer ) until it bubbles. Stir once a day. Then refrigerate till you are ready to use it. It grows tremendously so be sure you have a container that will allow it to more than double in size. J

To replenish starter add

1 cup starter

½ cup lukewarm water

½ cup flour

Let stand overnight or until bubbling then refrigerate.

Sourdough Bread

From Better Homes and Gardens “New Cook Book” (pink) Limited Edition

1 Cup sourdough starter (room temperature)

5 ½ to 6 cups flour

1 Package yeast (2 ¼ teaspoon)

1 ½ cups water

3 Tablespoons sugar

3 Tablespoons Butter

1 ½ teaspoons salt

½ teaspoon baking soda

Set out starter.

Combine 2 ½ cups flour and yeast in a bowl, set aside

Heat and stir together until warm:

1 ½ cups water

3 Tablespoons sugar

3 Tablespoons Butter

1 ½ teaspoons salt

Add to flour mixture

Add starter

Beat 3 minutes

Add remaining 2 ½ cups flour and backing soda

Stir in any remaining flour you can

Turn dough on slightly floured surface, kneading 6-8 minutes. Place in greased bowl and let rise 45-60 minutes until double in size.

(this is for round loafs but I just divide into loafs at this point and let rise in pans about 30 minutes. Either they will both be small loafs or I’ll make on normal size and one small.)

1 ½ cups water

3 Tablespoons sugar

3 Tablespoons Butter

1 ½ teaspoons salt

Bake in a 375° oven about 30-35 minutes. Cool.