Remember...

What ever your plans today, take a minute to remember our members of the US military...past, present, and future, those who have served or will make the choice to serve.

We applaud you, we appreciate you, and most certainly, we thank you!

Monday Miscellany

Today is Memorial Day. I had to work on Saturday so we stayed home this holiday weekend. It turned out for the best though because we don't like fighting all of the crowds on major holidays and it seems like we've been gone alot lately too. It was nice to have no plans.

Today is Monday and it was filled with miscellany. It was a blog reading, ebay bidding, house straightening, bill paying, thank you card writing, grill cooking, cupcake baking kinda day! Yep, miscellany with a capital "M"!

Even though I don't cook regularly anymore, I like cookbooks and kitchen gadgets. I picked up this cute thing at Crate & Barrel a few weeks ago. As a matter of fact, I picked up two. Hey, I think I feel a giveaway coming on! I had the second one ear marked for a friend's birthday but a giveaway would be so much more fun don't you think!?!

This is my newest kitchen gadget. I was surprised at how sturdy it is. Can you tell what it is?


And this is what it looked like at the end of the day. I think I may have even figured out my convection cooking dilemma because these things turned out scrumptious...no hard crust tops on these babies!


In case you're wondering, all of my ebay bidding efforts today proved fruitless...no milk glass dessert cups, no Vera Bradley tote bag, no Tiffany goodies of any kind, nothin'...but I'm still holding out hope for my Wilton Armetale cabbage design soup tureen!!