Thursday, May 7, 2009

When the Going Gets Tough

Heard a ROAR overhead this morning while I was posting my previous whinge-fest. I've seen this show before!



All week there have been rehearsals for the May 9 parades. The ground troops/equipment rehearsed one evening earlier this week. You can see good shots of that here.

Then it was time to get some serious mood-altering done. Skittles helped me make these:



I used a recipe from this book. A wonderful gorgeous friend sent me this when we lived in Argentina. It is a great sampler of classic American dishes. The kind Mom used to make.


Take that Dr. Atkins! Chocolate is a vegetable, you know.