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I have it in my mind to be a great baker. Unfortunately, my skills leave a bit to be desired. I haven’t mastered pie crust, as you know, and now we can add biscuit making to the list of things I’m not great at doing.

My mom always wanted to make some southern lady’s biscuits (I can’t remember the lady’s name right now), but we never got the chance. The lady had a giant bowl of self-risin’ flour and she’d just throw in a knob of Crisco and some buttermilk and mix it until it was right and then put them on a skillet to bake.

Well, I wanted to try layered biscuits, so I halved a recipe and did it all wrong. They were in the oven for a good long time, but they were doughy and gummy and not right.

I know that the only way to get better is to try again, but the problem is – I don’t really like biscuits unless gravy is involved, and I only have that when there are leftovers from school. I guess I’ll try again in a month?

In the meantime, I had torn-up toast and gravy. Mmmmm….

In the past two weeks, we have had four disastrous drink spills. I think this house might be cursed. The first was when Brad was here. I got a pop from the entry, opened it, then set it on the table to go get a glass of ice. As it turned out, the can had […]

A while back, Lloyd was heating up some chili that had been in the freezer with some plastic wrap on it. I started to unload the dishwasher and smelled burning plastic. “Did you forget to take the wrap off?” “No.” I scoffed inwardly because I knew he had….. then I saw this in the bottom […]

I have a weird obsession with lights. There are not many flashlights that I don’t love, although I am currently drawn to lights that you just plug in to recharge. Let me tell you about some lights around here. There is a nightlight at the very top of the stairs. It’s plugged into an extension […]

Nebraska is in a bit of a drought now. Everything is so dry – the grass is sharp and crispy and the dust on the playground is so dehydrated it’s like walking on talcum powder. The children are so, so dirty at the end of the day. They run around and it’s like watching Pig […]

This is the day that Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall. Deborah’s daughter, Macy, moved to Florida this year to begin her teaching career. The school is closed the next few days and Macy has evacuated to the home of a friend’s grandparents. I am freaking out about the whole situation, and from my […]