Saturday, October 23, 2010

Lights Out

A couple of weeks ago I bought this intriguing looking linzer cookie-cutter set for making fancy, Martha-Stewart-perfect Halloween cookies:
Unfortunately, my date-nut ball recipe was just a wee bit too sticky and they didn't come out looking even remotely like the cookies on the package. Which is not to say that the product is a piece of junk; it just requires a drier recipe.

Anyway, no food was wasted in the process. I was able to shape the balls into rough skull-shapes and decorate them with white chocolate chips. I had barely begun when I heard a couple of loud THUMPS and the lights went out, which had the amazing effect of bringing my long-lost son out of his room! I actually talked him into decorating some of the balls with me. Which is why the one at the bottom of the plate is an owl instead of a skull.

Long-lost son. I think he was four years old the last time I saw him.

Turns out a transformer pole around the corner caught on fire, and all the struts had to be replaced. (That's what the PG&E guy told me; I really have no idea what that means.) Lights were out from 11:30am to 11:00pm. Time to break out the candles:

4 comments:

  1. I aboslutely love this blog. Keep up the great work, and keep wearing those awesome Halloween shirts, too! Where did you get so many of them?

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  2. Nice save on the cookies! Mine never turn out like the pictures. :/

    Your long-lost son reminds me of mine. Except mine is usually lost in the basement.

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  3. PG & E speak is a foreign language...they came over to our house and said a bunch of jibberish when we moved in...i nodded and smiled and closed the door :)

    Glad that one way or the other, you and long lost son had some time together!

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  4. TFTG: Most of my shirts come from either Target or Walmart. Because I'm fairly short, I buy size Large from the boys department. That's where all the good ones are. When I look in the women's department, all the Halloween Ts have cutesy, sparkly stuff like witches and kitty cats.

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