Wild, Wild Life

Right before 8:00 PM last night, I saw a deer trotting through the front yards of the houses across the street. I'm not sure where it was coming from or going to, but it disappeared between some bushes and into a backyard. I thought I might have imagined it since I had recently woken up from a nap so I called my mom. I wanted someone else to know.

Then, this morning I was taking my garbage to the curb around 6:45 AM, and I saw an opossum running from my yard toward the house across the street. It ran past the neighbor's trash pile and into the flower beds near their house. I think it headed for the rear of the house after that. I dropped my bag on the tree lawn and got back inside as soon as I could. That critter's tail creeped me out!

I've seen squirrels, chipmunks, skunks, raccoons and various birds in the neighborhood but never deer or opossums before this.

Too Much of a Good Thing

I didn't think it was possible to get sick of baking since I really don't mind pulling all-nighters around Christmas, but I'm currently taking a break from my oven.

Between St. Patrick's Day and Easter (this post is a little back-dated), I made cupcakes thrice (yellow cake with Mrs. Millman's frosting, chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream frosting and yellow cake with buttercream frosting and coconut), brownies, chocolate chip cookies, cut-out cookies and sour cream coffee cake.

Now is a good time to take this break since I have a lingering cold and cough that isn't conducive to baking.

Month To Month

Since I posted something on the last day of January, I figured I'd post something today. I think I'll complain.

The beginning of February started off with back pain. I'm no stranger to back pain, but it's taken a backseat to other pains in the last decade. This was a weird pain that was accompanied by cracking of my mid to lower spine. I blame work. It was either the walk to and from work or the sitting in a crappy chair for eight hours or both. It's better now thanks to either time or adjusting my walk or both.

Working also got me sick. Two of my co-workers were sick, which became three, which became four when I finally succumbed last weekend. It was mostly a cough and a rattle in my chest. And when I exhaled it sounded like the squeak of a rocking chair. Really.

I hope March is healthier.

On Second Thought...

I was worn out at the beginning of the year, but now I kind of miss this daily blog. Like yesterday when I attached an old diffuser to my hairdryer with duct tape, I thought, "that would make a funny picture for my blog." There's no place for such a picture on the main blog, but I could have put it here.

On the other hand, I'm sure too many of my January posts would have been about my recent Facebook experiences and how boring would that have been? I'm bored just thinking about it.

One funny thing about Facebook is that I found out I'm not the only Deitri in the world. Who knew?

In a Minute

I made it through a year's worth of posts. Sometimes it was easy to think of what to type and other times I wanted to type about how I had nothing to type. Something always popped into my head in the end, even if I needed a day or two to reflect on it.

Happy new year!

Just In Case

Since I'm not sure I'll be home in the next day or two, I packed up some baking supplies in case I get the urge to bake something for New Year's Day dinner. The possible baked goods are: pecan butter cookies, gingerbread (since I didn't make any gingerbread cookies for X-Mas), a bundt cake (since I got a new pan for X-Mas) or chocolate chip cookies.

There and Back Again

I'm back at home after being stranded in Lorain. I hitched a ride with my godson and his mom tonight so that I could retrieve my car and collect the newspapers and mail that accumulated while I was away. Back for good? Who can say?