This Engineer Can Bake

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to apologize for not posting in a little while. Things have been manic lately at work and at home and so I haven’t had a spare moment in a while. Our dog Lily (see Our Pets) broke her leg and so we have been dealing with a hobbling puppy as of late. Work is a whole other issue and I won’t go into that because no one wants to hear about what I do; at least that is what my wife says.

Anyway, I promise you that I will do my best to put something up tomorrow after I take Lily to her surgery appointment.

Good baking,
Stephan

Tags: update

I mentioned our pets in the last post and so I figured I should finally put up some pictures of them, especially since they seem to love being photographed. Below are three of our four pets; the missing pet is Raspberry our bunny whom seems to love moving during photo taking and so I haven’t got a good pic yet.

Anyway, this is our first pet Garfield . He is a long haired shrunken lion. This picture doesn’t do him justice, but he is a giant cat and weighs about double what the dogs do. He is massively cuddly and loves to sleep in our bed (often stealing more and more real estate as the night goes on).

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Tags: cat, dog, garfield, lily, pebbles, pets

Here in Edmonton we have a very crazy real estate market and because of this there are a lot of people moving around right now. So in our little crescent we had three people sell their homes this summer and currently we have two (the third hasn’t taken possession yet) new neighbors. The first new neighbors got some of the Sour Cherry Almond Oatmeal Scones and the Blackberry-Lemon Scones and I was planning to give the newest neighbor a batch of freshly made Buttermilk Doughnuts. This didn’t end up working since this is what the first half of them looked like inside:

Obviously I couldn’t give this to her.

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Tags: Deep Frying, Dessert, donuts, doughnuts