What's for Supper?

We had our own version of taco salad and chocolate cake for dessert. Our taco salad is tortilla chips, topped with seasoned ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, sour cream and guacamole.

Dessert was extra special tonight. My children helped with the baking as their school work for the morning. We added the ingredients (my son learned how NOT to crack an egg) and talked about how they combine to create "cake". We worked together on the frosting and they were in charge of adding the sprinkles.

All supervised by Abby, of course.

A Huge Pine Hit by Lightning

We had quite a lightning storm on Saturday night. The power was knocked out to part of our house and our air conditioner started to make a strange noise. An electrician came out on Monday to look at the power situation and spent the better part of two days rewiring part of our house. Thankfully, it's fixed now and no electronics seem to be affected. However...

Electrician: Do you hear that buzz?

Me: Nooooo.

Electrician: There. That. Did you hear it?

Me: Hmmmm...yes.

Electrician: It's coming from the breaker box. I think it's your air conditioner.

Me: Can you fix it?

Electrician: You need your heat and air people to look at it.

Me: Oh.

On the upside, the electrician is the neighbor of the lady at the heat and air place. So without my having to do anything, the phone rang the next morning and we scheduled a repairman. He came out this morning and had it fixed within an hour or so. I asked what had happened. He said, "Oh, it was the lightning." Of course.

The following pictures are of the tree, some distance from the house, that we think was the reason for the trouble. If you look closely, you can see where the bark was blown off.

And this was last night's dessert, made from angel food dessert shells (store-bought) and home canned pears and pear honey. Yummy!