Author: lauramchugh

I had the whole weekend to do with what I wanted. I did a lot of work and stuff around the house. I intended to do some art, but didn’t get to it…though I did take a couple of walks, had a nap on my lawn in the sun (yes, the sun finally appeared after a 6-week absence), washed my sheets and dried them on the clothesline, visited with my friend Eva and had a nice healthy dinner last night, and took some photos. Here’s one I took yesterday and the one of the sheets.

Here are some photos of the Tibetan prayer flags, the kitty, and us doing our work.

I got a tickle fest at the doctor today during my annual physical. In the totality of all the poking and prodding, the thing that I couldn’t manage through was when he checked my lymph nodes in my legs. I couldn’t help laughing and just like when someone is tickling you unmercifully, I reflexively grabbed and pushed his hands away!  We were all laughing – the doctor, the nurse and me – what a sweet morning!

This is a photo of a rose in my front yard, just for kicks today. It makes me smile, but not laugh like I did this morning at the doctor’s office!

I made the test batch of wedding cupcakes: key lime and coconut. They are all a white cake base (yes, from a box because my family will attest that I can’t make these cake from scratch recipes). Then, for the key lime, I made a filling from sweetened condensed milk, key lime juice, some lime zest and cream cheese – just to stiffen it up a bit. The coconut filling was either plain coconut, sugar and milk – just like an Almond Joy candy bar, note to self for future – or the same plain coconut filling with some choco chips stirred in while warm. Note to self – also intriguing for some future use.

Then, I made white butter cream frosting which I used on all. I’m needing to up my skillage in the piping department. While still a bit moist, I topped the key lime with some candied lime peel and on a few, I put some graham cracker crumbs dusted over the top. For the coconut, it was flaked and toasted coconut on all.