I Can Open My Oven Door

Without using a screwdriver!  Hannah already baked cupcakes in the new oven.  We're excited.

Today's Experiment

I don't bake biscuits very often and when I do, I usually use baking mix.  Since I try to be frugal, I sometimes make my own.  Today I was pondering whether I could make it with whole wheat flour.  It didn't take long to find a recipe so I mixed it up and baked an experimental batch of biscuits.  Phillip isn't here right now so I don't have the real expert's opinion, but I liked them.  Hannah said they were good, but I'm not sure she really meant it.  She's learned to be wary of my cooking experiments.  I hope Phillip likes them because it makes quite a bit of baking mix so we'll be using it for a while.

Poison

We were at Lowe's the other day and Phillip saw a flower he loved.  We bought it and he planted it in an old iron pot.  The plant is a foxglove, which is pretty but we found out it is poisonous.  We drug the iron pot to a far corner of the yard where it's surrounded by bushes and hard to get to, and warned the kids not to bother it.  Lilly took all of this very seriously. This week she brought over a sign she had made for me to put beside the plant. (Lilly is in kindergarten, by the way.)

The sign reads:  Poayzin flawwr
                           It will cill you
                           It cills you BI a tuch

Consider yourselves forwarned!