Yesterday as well as today are going to live action-packed, allow me tell you. We had a squeamish see alongside Mike's sis yesterday. The kitties anticipated a busy day, as well as and thus they hurried through their morn naps. Smitty got current of air of the Quilts of Valor effort. He's adopted the Stars as well as Stripes quilt equally his personal quilt of valor...well-deserved, I'd say.
Sadie volition slumber on whichever quilt is draped over someone's lap.
Only...this is a Dutch Apple Pie for Three. These petty six-inch pies are a petty equally good much for two, as well as yet, non plenty for four. For three, it was simply right. The pies for 2 are baked inwards a 6-inch pie plate. I have this i made past times Anchor Hocking. And this tin live as well as thus elementary because y'all tin occupation Pillsbury pie crust, which is what I create when we're traveling. If y'all don't desire to brand the pie filling, y'all tin occupation i tin of your favorite pie filling from the grocery store. I was using some of my homemade pie filling, made alongside apples from Erik as well as Mae's tree dorsum home. This is the recipe I occupation when I brand them.
Dutch Apple Pie for Two
Serves 2-4
Topping:
2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 loving cup packed brownish sugar
1/3 loving cup quick-cooking oats
1/4 loving cup butter, melted
Filling:
1/3 loving cup sugar
1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 loving cup addition 2 tablespoons mutual frigidness water
2 cups chopped peeled tart apples (about 2 large)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350°.
Filling: In a large saucepan, mix sugar, cornstarch as well as H2O until smooth; convey to a boil. Cook as well as stir until thickened, virtually 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir inwards apples as well as vanilla. Pour into prepared crust of your choosing.
Topping: Mix flour, brownish sugar, oats as well as butter. Crumble topping over filling.
Bake until crust is golden brownish as well as filling is bubbly, 40-45 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Serve that upwards alongside a scoop of vanilla H2O ice cream, as well as you've got yourself i tasty dessert.
So nosotros generally sat around talking, but our shadow selves were getting bored as well as restless. We decided to receive got them out for a walk.
The weather condition has been a petty greyish as well as chilly since we've been here. Yesterday was yet on the chilly side, but the Sun was shining. Our shadow selves e'er experience best when the Sun shines brightly.
There are citrus trees inwards the commons laden alongside fruit. I don't know if these oranges are expert for eating, or if they're strictly ornamental. I've also seen lemon as well as lime trees inwards the park.
The RV commons is called Golden Village Palms, as well as these trees draw the driveway.
Some of them are sporting bunches of light-green dates.
And in that place are e'er lots of blooming things growing here, as well as and thus I took pictures of everything I saw.
In California, these are called Bottlebrush, or Callistemon, if y'all must know their snotty botanical name. I intend I powerfulness receive got mentioned this before, but I tin never discovery anything on Google to dorsum upwards my claims. Nevertheless, here's what I receive got to say virtually this: When I lived inwards Hawaii equally a petty girl, nosotros called this same constitute "Pele's Tears." As legend would receive got it, if i picked a blossom from Pele's Tears, it would start to rain. And inwards Hawaii, existence a tropical state, it rains a petty flake most every day. So, the legend e'er worked when I tried it.
Moving on...
These Bird of Paradise were surrounding the puddle surface area as well as blooming to rhythm out the band.
This pretty rose bush is located simply a few sites downward from ours.
This Pampas Grass is growing close the forepart gate. We receive got it dorsum domicile too. We tin never teach ours to bloom. In the fifteen or as well as thus years since we've planted it, it's entirely bloomed once. It powerfulness live equally good cool a climate where nosotros are.
I needed this sign for my Whine One One day.
This i is for my pig-loving friend, Sue. It's made from an one-time propane tank.
When nosotros got dorsum to the RV, nosotros got Smitty out for a walk. He spends a lot of fourth dimension sniffing around these bushes. I imagine in that place are lots of brute markings to smell. He's been really brave since we've been here, watching woofies as well as Mans walk past times alongside nary a twitch of a whisker.
And that was variety of our day...just a lot of gabbing as well as relaxing. Dinner was good, as well as nosotros were tired when nosotros went to bed lastly night.
We're upwards vivid an early on this morning. We receive got virtually an hour's drive to Ontario for the Road to California Quilt Show. I'm as well as thus excited to finally live getting to a large show. We'll halt along the agency for our honey Egg McMuffin. Mike e'er has a Sausage McMuffin...but what does he know? If y'all enquire me, Egg McMuffin is the nutrient of the gods.
I'm variety of wondering if I'll live able to receive got pictures at the quilt show. With everyone carrying around cameras on their phones these days, I'm non certain how such a dominion could live enforced, but i never knows. I surprised fifty-fifty myself lastly nighttime past times existence equally good excited to teach to sleep. Also, I kept reminding myself non to forget the tickets, as well as that didn't help.
So pictures or no (but I promise alongside pictures), I'll live dorsum tomorrow to tell y'all all virtually it. For now...it's fourth dimension to teach moving if we're going to teach an early on start.