Fun, Family and Friends (thanks to M,J, M, D, C, J, B, P and P)
Flaming candles and Fancy gifts
Fine Food, Full tummies (aka Fat) :-( (thanks to me and D’s cookies)
Fascinating stories (thanks to P)
Fantastic musical toast (thanks to the other P)
Frosty,Foaming beer and Fine, Fruity wine.
Plenty of Foolishness to go around.
We’re so, so Fortunate to have such Fine Family and Friends!!!
Fondly, Elenka and Birdman (my Fav!)
One container of chocolate syrup that has been in the fridge since summer.
One container of whipped cream. LIGHT whipped cream. I hear it contains no calories as opposed to it's heavier brother, HEAVY whipped cream.
Carefully pour the chocolate syrup into a teaspoon. I don't use a tablespoon because that would be pigging out, tempting though it is.
Squirt out a healthy dollop of the light whipped cream. Deposit into mouth.
Do it again.
Yum. Emergency solved.I was just sitting here, fooling around on my laptop, with my jacket still on, because Mr. Downeastdoingstuff, aka Birdman, was making a fire in the woodstove, and it wasn't balmy enough in the kitchen to de-jacket.
I suddenly feel my phone vibrate in the pocket of my jacket and reach in to retreive it.
But my phone wasn't in my pocket.
It was out on the hutch cabinet 6 feet away.
And it wasn't ringing.
Or vibrating.
What do you make of that??
(keep it clean.....)
This is the recipe I follow except I add dried cranberries to the apple mix, I use lots more apples and I add some chopped nuts to the topping. I also leave out the chopped butter to put on top of the apples. I could never figure out why all recipes ask for that. Seems like a waste of good butter and, ahem, calories. (But you know Paula Deen and her butter!)
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Line a 9-inch pie pan with half of dough. Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. Stir in apples, applesauce, and lemon juice. Spoon apple mixture into pie pan and dot with butter. Cut remaining crust into strips; arrange in a lattice design over top of pie. For crunch topping, combine flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Using a fork, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over top of crust. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees F and continue to bake for about 45 minutes, or until crust and topping are golden brown.
Some recipes to follow.....
My 7th graders just finished an Abstract Sculpture unit. Here are some images showing their work.
Pretty good, I think!I just watched a very depressing movie.....The Lovely Bones. It’s about a 14 year old girl that gets murdered and she tells the story about it as she is watching her family try to deal with the fact that she is missing and presumed dead. They never find the body, which was deposited in an old safe and dumped in the nearest sinkhole.
So I switched to America’s Next Top Model. This show is about several anorexic woman traipsing around trying to be America’s Next Top Model aka The Lovely Bones.
This did not improve my mood while I’m sitting on the couch just having devoured 3 huge slices of sour dough bread slathered with a mountain of margarine. This was my dessert following a previous dessert which consisted of two cookies left over from the wedding. My days of applying for America’s Next Top Model are now officially over before they started. I might have Lovely Bones, but you can’t see any sign of them.
So I switch to Man Vs Food. If you’ve never seen this show it’s time you should. Watching a man consume massive amounts of food at one sitting makes you feel like you are Jenny Craig’s dietian. Makes you feel like, heck, I am in total control of what I eat. Where's that Top Model application?
Right now he’s eating a cheeseburger(s) that is 12 inches high. (They had to put a skewer in it to keep it from keeling over.)
If he can eat it under 20 minutes, he doesn’t have to pay the $20 for the foot tall burger. What a way to save a buck.
Finally, flipping around the channels with the world's worst designed remote control, (thank you Time Warner) I find Biography. Now I’m OK. I'm really OK. It’s about ABBA.
Mamma Mia.
Congratulations to my sweet nephew and his beautiful bride. May your lives be filled with joy and love.
Every hear of Lubec? (Looooooo-BEC) Check out the fine print on the sign. See the word 'Easternmost'? Ayuh. It's true. The 'Easternmost', 'Westernmost', 'Northernmost' or 'Southernmost' of anything can't be all that good, can it?
The bridge to Canada. Thank God we didn't have our passports or we might have ended up in the tundra.
Lighthouse in Canada. 
OK, folks, now get ready for this. THIS is the Main Street in Lubec. Not many Main Streets that the photographer can stand out in the middle of the road, like, forever, and snap this photo.
End of the world aka end of Main Street. (aka Water Street)
The only open place we could find. Went in for a cup of coffee. The proprietor was sooooo nice, made a fresh pot of coffee for Mr. D AND decaf for me. 
A view from one of the windows in the cafe.
Wild blueberry fields.....
BACK in MACHIAS. (again...) Had to stop at the famous Helen's Restaurant for Helen's famous blueberry pie, supposedly the best in the world!
It WAS very good.
This is the Bed and Breakfast that we stayed in in Prospect Harbor called Elsa's. It was a lovely, warm and inviting homestead directly across from the harbor.
The view across the street from the Inn. (Notice the light house in the distance.)
A corner of the living room.
The dining room.
The view from our upstairs bedroom. We had our own private entrance from the front porch.
We ate dinner in Winter Harbor. They have their own Village Doctor! 
...and a 5 and 10!
Photo of my husband, Mr. Downeastdoingstuff, aka Birdman (on his blog.) This is the position I see him in most of the time when we are out and about. Heck, even at home he takes many photos of our surroundings!
Down the street was this massive guy. I actually EAT that brand sardines! I didn't think they actually came from somewhere. (yes, I like sardines....me and about 2 other people)
