Pyrex Lid for Brownies

What do you do when you do not have an 8 inch cake pan? Why use a pyrex lid instead! 

We are having Dutch friends over for dinner tomorrow night, and I wanted to serve homemade (oops, packaged!) brownies. Luckily we picked up lots of clear glass pyrex casserole dishes with their lids while thrift shopping last year. This lid worked perfectly!

Oh, and that is fresh guacamole in the bowl on the left. Taco/chili salad is the main course. And I just remembered that I need to make the Ranch Dressing. Everything else is ready. Good thing, since we are walking to a brocante market tomorrow morning.

We thrift shopped this afternoon for another chair for the Beltway Apartment living room. Just need to lug it upstairs and give it a good wash down.

And the toaster oven ( brand new!) in the photo was a super thrift from a shop in Twello. Isn't that a cool name? Mellow Twello. Sounds like some place from the 1970's!

Experiencing Withdrawal Symptoms

Recently my hub and I finished watching the Breaking Bad series. 

What started out as a weekend marathon of viewing at our son's house this summer in the Big City, ended up as a "must see the next episode" for the next few weeks. AMC knew how to hook us on the sometimes really gross (but always superb acting) television experience.

My mom asked me if there was a lesson to be learned in this series.

Well, here it is, Mom!

(Thanks, #1son for sending this today.)

Elevator Repair

Next week we will be using these stairs instead of the elevator. 

At least for a few hours, anyway. Who would ever imagine that an old school teacher would be living in an old school? And on the top floor, to boot!

(Foto source: Not mine!)

Back at the Beltway Apartment

It is autumn here, and we are back at the Beltway apartment in The Netherlands.

Thank goodness for insulated windows, because there is activity right outside the front door of our apartment complex.

More about that at a later time. My "inner clock" is still on Louisiana time ( 4:30 am), so I am off to bed for a few hours in order to catch up on jet lag. ( or jet leg, as the Dutch call it!)

The Big City

We slept in the Big City last night. 

Flip will be staying here while we "go Dutch." This morning he was ready to check out the wild life before the sun even came up. 

What a watchdog!

And what a daybed!

Flip will have a great vacation! 

Just hope the Young Boss has as much pleasure with his four-footed visitor.

Lago d'Iseo, Italy

You know that beautiful moon you saw yesterday evening from your home somewhere on this big wide world of ours, well my Dutch sister-in-law and her husband saw that same moon from their balcony in Italy.

P. took this lovely evening shot of the harvest moon and the view overlooking Lago d'Iseo (Lake Iseo). I didn't ask permission to use his photo, but I think he will be pleased that I thought it was special.

Small World

Today we have warmer weather and a "small world." 

It is so foggy outside that I can't see the pond! 

Or our lane! 

Or even our Flip as he and Kara "hunt" the edge of the woods out back. 

Just as I write this post at 8:30 am the sun tries to take over. 

The light makes the fog look like a huge snow flurry. 

Creepy light! 

Creepy fog! 

Small World.