Cancel the Moving Van

I met with a Listing Agent regarding my house this afternoon.  There are currently 19 lakeshore homes for sale in my price range. The house next door remains unsold though it’s been on and off the market for most of three years now.  The widow on the corner is listing her house next week.  I won’t list mine until the other two on my street are sold.  I think I’m going to be here a while.  I can’t say I’m terribly disappointed. 

Mom: I went to church on a Monday.

Last night we went to Organ Virtuoso Cameron Carpenter’s performance at Saint Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi.  I found the performance interesting, but couldn’t quite wrap my brain around it being music.  My piano teacher will attest to the fact my taste in music is very traditional and I must admit I was finding the performance a tad long and was getting fidgety.  Cameron Carpenter’s piano encore made it all worth while!

I have my cake, but I’m not eating it.

I think Mr.B enjoyed getting to know my friend GJ over dinner last night.  I won’t be sharing the banana orange layer cake recipe.  That was a lot of work with a marginal result.  Though the Guys were a good sport about it last night.  The frosting was way too runny and even though I thought I fixed that problem, the resulting frosting was so slippery the top layer kept sliding off the bottom. 

I have my cake, but I’m not eating it.

I think Mr.B enjoyed getting to know my friend GJ over dinner last night.  I won’t be sharing the banana orange layer cake recipe.  That was a lot of work with a marginal result.  Though the Guys were a good sport about it last night.  The frosting was way too runny and even though I thought I fixed that problem, the resulting frosting was so slippery the top layer kept sliding off the bottom. 

Busy! Busy! Busy!

I worked for a while today.  On my way home I stopped at the grocery store for the first time since I can’t remember when.  I made two pans of lasagna, eight loaves of banana bread and two banana orange layer cakes while Mr.B made the salad and planted more future salad makings.  A productive day!  It needed to be as tomorrow will be busy with church in the morning, Steinway Artist Larry Dalton’s concert benefiting the Smile Network in the afternoon and we’ve got guests coming for dinner.