I knew that I had wanted to make these pumpkin scones for awhile.  Every since Kathy sent me a link to the recipe. I took an hour off for lunch yesterday afternoon and whipped up all the ingredients and got these into the oven in about 10 minutes.

They bake for only 15 minutes, which is perfect if you are in a hurry for a quick pumpkin treat.  I didn’t make the glaze until later in the evening and I ended up adding too little milk at first and then I added too much.  I read “T” as teaspoon when I suppose a capital “T” means tablespoon.  Ah well, the glaze was still great, even if a little drippy.  I’ll know better for next time.

Everyone seemed to enjoy them and I sent my mother-in-law home with a few to have with some coffee this morning  

Original recipe found at Pinch My Salt.

I’m off to go make some pumpkin scone during my lunch break.  My inlaws are coming for dinner and I want some yummy scones for dessert.  I’ll report back with our findings

Isn’t that the next logical step.  Election is over…time for Thanksgiving and Christmas

Okay, seriously, let’s just talk Thanksgiving because that might be my favorite holiday.  No gift giving and lots of yummy food.  Count me in!

I would love to host Thanksgiving…eventually.  Right now seating in our house is really limited.  We could pull out folding tables and scatter people all over, but that doesn’t seem very comfortable for everyone.  My sister suggested looking into renting a table and chairs.  I didn’t realize you could do that.  She’s smart.  And she’s hosted a lot of Thanksgiving’s.  I’m gonna miss her Mac and Cheese this year.  I might have to make some anyway so it’ll feel like “home”.

I’m going to look into renting a nice dining set even if there is no Thanksgiving at our house.  It can’t hurt to get a quote so I can be prepared should some other event or holiday come up.  Has anyone ever done that before?  Good/bad experience?

A year ago today, I was throwing up and becoming a homeowner for the first time. A year later, we love our home even more.  It’s finally starting to feel more like ours and less like someone elses.

You can see a before/after shot on flickr.  Only real noticeable changes are in the size of my bushes.  heh

I woke up today feeling great.  We all watched history last night and there is something about all that is truly amazing.  I am so proud of our country and what we have been able to do. 

I’m sure we will all remember exactly where we were and who we were with and what we were doing when 11pm Eastern rolled around and the final polls on the west coast closed and Obama’s electoral votes surpassed 270. It indeed was a great day for America.

GOBAMA!

Up at 5am.  At the polling place at 6am.  Vote cast at 6:40am.  It feels good.

Did you vote yet?

Here is a very simple rule to follow. 

If you post something like a pumpkin pudding image on flickr, you need to share the recipe. That also goes for posting about anything pumpkin related on Twitter or your blog or anywhere else that other people read. 

If by some chance you do not have the recipe, then don’t share!  Okay, maybe that’s too much to ask. 

But seriously, if you have the recipe, please post it.  I need it for my Pumpkin Porn collection

This past Halloween was one of the first, in a very long time, where we had bought candy for kids that were going to be knocking on our front door.  I have to admit, I was totally excited about it.  It’s been about 8 years since we’ve lived in a private home and the apartments we’ve lived in since didn’t see much Halloween action.  In anticipation, I sent Sean out for tons of candy.  He protested plenty, insisting that we might have one or two Trick-or-Treaters.

Things definitely started off slowly.  I think the first kid showed up around 7:30.  That seemed kind of late to me.  I can remember getting home from school and wanting to hit the streets right away.  Maybe things have changed or I’ve just forgotten how it used to be.

One thing I know for sure though is that we didn’t act like the kids do these days. Yeah we might have sprayed shaving cream on stop signs and wrote our name in the streets with Silly String.  I wish I would have seen more of that and less of what we experienced. 

In the span of 2 hours, we had about 40 kids come to our door.  A few of them were really polite and said Trick-or-Treat and even a thank you here and there.  But the majority of the little beasts were rude. One kid actually rang our door bell a total of 6 times and then he started violently knocking on our front door.  I whipped it open so fast and yelled BOOOOOOO, he almost peed his pants.  I really wish he had. His mother was standing with him the entire time and never said a word.  My mother would have whopped my ass, taken all my candy away and ended Halloween right then and there, had I acted the same. 

Then there were the ones who actually grabbed the door knob and opened the door before I even got downstairs.   It wasn’t just a one time deal either. When did that become acceptable?  Finally I started locking the door after each round of kids came through. 

Oh but it doesn’t even stop with the kids.  One parent made her little girl hand out Avon booklets to the homeowners.  Another mother dropped her business card into our mailbox. Both the business card and the Avon book went right into the garbage.  What on earth were they thinking? 

The biggest issue I had with the evening was the door to door car service for all of these kids.  Out of all the kids, maybe 5 of them walked from house to house.  The rest were carted from one door to the next by car.  Not very fun and also, not very safe.  We had a stream of cars up and down our block for 2 straight hours with kids darting in between them and running all over the place getting from one car to the next house back to the car to the next house. 

I can remember so vividly walking around our neighborhood with our flashlights and friends, running to doors and then across the nicely manicured lawns to the next door step…over and over and over again.  Apparently those days are gone.  And I think that’s really sad.  It really made me want to get out there and show them how Trick-or-Treating is really done.  Maybe we’ll do that next year.