Phew!

Chris cleared up the garage yesterday and finally (after about two months of parking on the driveway) parked the car inside.

Then a tree fell right over my parking spot just clearing Chris`s car. I am so glad my car was in the garage…

Cakes

I’ve made my traditional B-day cake last week. Everyone was polite and said that it tasted good, but I was not pleased with it. I was using my new mixer and got a bit loosey-goosey with the egg white foam which made the cake texture too dense. Also I used unsweetened chocolate for icing. Next time I should use unsweetened chocolate for the cake but semi sweet for the icing.

Cake

When I was planning my b-day I found another cake recipe but could not decide whether to make it (very risky) or the traditional one (which would not have been risky if I was more careful). I ended up buying ingredients for both and then only made the one.

This week I thought about the ingredients that were still in my fridge and decided to make the second cake, just to see how it would turn out. I am very glad I did, because it turned out to be the best cake I ever made. Apart from the fact that I made less than a dozen cakes in the whole course of my existence, this is impressive because I didn’t even get around to doing the icing and it was still amazing.

Film – Burn After Reading

I absolutely love being in the mountains. I don’t go very often and I rarely think about it, but when I am in the mountains, I am so happy.

Chris took me on a little weekend getaway to Vermont. We went up Killington in the gondola, walked down and then spent the rest of the day in and around Woodstock. The next day we went to the White Rocks conservation area.

White Rocks

Next time it would be nice to stay there a few more days and bring Trev. I like staying in B&Bs but I don’t like eating at restaurants every night. Getting something with a little kitchenette would be nice. This time around we didn’t do any serious hiking because we had problems with hiking shoes (as in I don’t own any and Chris forgot to bring his), but it would be nice to remedy that in the future.