Except with more grey hair.
While the laundry churned away in the background I produced two meatloaves - one for dinner tonight, and one for the freezer. Then I made and cooked a whole stack of frikadellen - Scandinavian pork patties - and these were popped in the freezer too. Laundry came out and was hung, more put into the machine. Next, dozens of double chocolate chip cookies were baked.
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| The recipe for these cookies can be found here. |
Now, before you get the urge to bludgeon me to death with a blunt instrument, please keep the following in mind to balance out the 'supposed' domestic bliss of above -
- I made myself feel decidedly sick eating as much cookie dough as I could, making this the main part of my lunch.
- My staircase looks like it has grown a layer of fluff it is so dusty.
- There is a spider in my sitting room that is so big it can physically resist being sucked into the hoover.
And most important of all (especially for any of you who may envy me the joys of living in the countryside) -
- I couldn't hang any of my laundry outside despite the perfect weather for drying it because the local farmers have spent the past few days muck spraying in every field within a five mile radius. No matter where they are we seem to be down wind. Not sure about you, but I do not wish for my clean laundry to be smelling like s**t!
Thought that might put things in perspective!
Susan
39 comments:
I was going to say "Show Off", but we have the same problem with smelly fields here, so instead I sympathize :)
You can not hang up the washing ... oh, now I know why I don't want to live on the countryside ... That is the worst! ok, spiders are worst *gg*
Well done! Your freezer now is filled and you can relax for the next two days *gg*
laughing my arse off about that spider! Send me a cookie, pleeeeeeeease!!!!
yes I have had similar spurts of domesticity but they come and then go very quickly!! Those cookies look fab! You are uber Mum!
The last bit about hanging the laundry was hilarious! I live in Portland, OR, a medium sized city and have just discovered the pleasure of line-dried laundry.
Oh I love the smell of fresh silage! Reminds me of home! Cookies look delicious! Jxo
please send me some of that motivation .. I just want to stay in bed and sleep or read or play on the internet .. cookies look great. I'll have to try the recipe. Good idea about make one and freeze one. I'll have to remember it.
I refuse to look at the cookies, that's so unfair i'm on a diet and craving chocolate !!!! I love making one and freezing one, such a surprise on a sewing day to go to the freezer and get dinner out :)
I love the feeling of getting stuff done, doesn't happen to me often!
I can picture your spider :-) you should charge him rent!
Cookies and spiders.. the joys of country living...Can totally relate to this!
Susan I certainly hope that you applied your lipstick after you put on your pinny :)
Oh stop with the little raincloud over your head. You are clearly Susie homemaker today! Next time eat the cookies after they are baked - easier on the tummy.
Ahh sweet sweet slurry... cookies sound good too... lol Dont let the spider get you....
Those cookies look yummy and as for the spider...dress him up next month for Halloween!
At least it's not mice!!
Have a fantabulous day =)
I can appreciate where you are coming from with the muck spreading! Otherwise you are a picture of domesticity. Do you warm your hubby's slippers by the fire too?????????? Di x
our cross the street person is going to do that to his pasture to grow grass for his horse soon so we will smell that to. i hope he waits till winter so all our doors and windows are closed
Oh I've totally had cookie dough for dinner before :oD
Right now that sounds like my dream day! We have allotments nearby so no washing on a Tuesday when they are allowed to have bonfires! Do I ever remember that fact?
Well it all sounds very productive and lovely, I like the way, like me, you take on all the 'nice' household jobs, ie. cooking and baking! I love a clean house and I hate cleaning, esp. the bathrooms, hoovering the stairs etc. so I am very very lucky, we now have a cleaner. To me is is wonderful and worth every penny. And it does allow me a little more sewing time :-) I live in the countryside too, surrounded by Jersey cows, so I am familiar with those smells!
LOL!!! Ewwww to huge spiders with the strength of Hercules!
Eau de poo isn't a big favourite in our house either ;)
The cookies look delicious but I'm shuddering at the thought of that (whisper it) spider...hope he's not there to steal your stash!
Nope still too domesticated for me! This must be a good year for spiders have seen tonnes of them!
I think you cooked more in one day than I do in a whole week! I'd probably just have made the cookies and then started sewing (and eating cookies).
This pic could be your new profile photo! (Just kidding - don't you dare take your real smiley self off!
We had spider so big in here last night that I had hubby don a deerstalker just to get it out! (Have a HUGE phobia of the beasties.)
Reminds me I wanted to try those cookies again cos they were so delicious but am supposed to be on a diet! Bummer!
Ha! ha! Maybe its time to name the spider and treat him to a cookie!
you know its a big spider when it drags the hoover back in the cupboard for you! Cookies look good, bet the dough was even better! :) silage is so over rated this year!
I think I've said this before but your posts always bring a smile to my face!
oh and here was me thinking I was a domestic goddess just for making a banana loaf today ;) In my head I frequently cook ahead of time and freeze stuff for later but in reality it never happens. Watch that spider doesn't run off with any cookies!
Are you sure you don't live around the corner from me? Huge spiders? Country smells?
Cookie dough, the sixth food group.
Our very own Martha Stewart (without the criminal record of course);-)
The grass is always greener.......... Thought you might like the quote from Hanne's blog today "One quilting project, like one cookie, is never enough"
I'm with Judith - muck makes me think of my childhood growing up in the middle of nowhere though I wouldn't want my laundry smelling of it! The cookies look good and I know they are as I've eaten some of them!
Hi Susan,
Im delighted to hear that those big spiders are more common than I've thought. I feared they were a special breeding of our household ;o)
So nice I finally (re)discovered your blog!
Have a nice day - btw. would love to see you in your apron!
Hihi
Christine
Could be worse...the smell could be permanent. Lol I know people who love around that all the time...they don't even smell it anymore. You do know you wail have to kill that spider eventually. Or the man will.
you shouldn't write posts like that: it makes me feel very jealous. However, I am pleased to say that it hasn;t spurred me on to do any housework!
I think I can top you. We have an inch of dust everywhere, spiders everywhere, I can never hang the washing out as I live in a dodgy part of time and someone would nick my knickers AND I haven't done anything domestic for years!
I'm glad you cleared things up because I was going to start calling you "Susie Homamaker"...
You are hilarious! I love the s**ty side of your domestic bliss :)
What a domestic Diva you've been! Hmm, I haven't hung my laundry out for the same reason. I've had fudge cookie dough for before, and they had to call an ambulance! I'm sure those cookies are as yummmy as the ones you made us :-)
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