Baking Powder Biscuits

I finally got a really good recipe for baking powder biscuits so I thought that I would post it here. I haven't quite mastered them yet. I'm hoping for KFC quality though so may take a while.

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

Combine the following in a bowl:
2 C Flour
1TBSP Baking Powder
1 tsp salt
1TBSP + 1 tsp sugar

cut in 1/2 C shortning with pastry cutter or fork

in separate bowl mix 1 egg and 1/2 C milk

Stir in liquid mixture to other ingredients unil it forms a ball then kneed about 20 times. Roll out to 1/2 inch thickness and cut.

Cook 10-12 min. until golden.

Blue Crabs

On Saturday we went to a swapmeet type place to buy some local produce and kind of check things out. It reminded me of a big yardsale. One of the vendors there was selling these blue crabs. The "large" ones, about the size of your hand, were going for $25. They sure smelled bad, but they were kind of pretty.

Big Green Bullfrogs

As soon as we got to LynDee's apartment we could hear this crazy deep sound almost like a cow! Well we found the bullfrogs in the little pond just behind the parking lot. I couldn't believe how loud they were. We couldn't get close enough to them to show how big they were because they would swim away, but they were really big and green.

Itty-Bitty-Toads

Sunday night it finally rained while I was out in Dover. I was so excited because LynDee had been telling me about these little toads that would come out whenever it rained. Well they did come out and they were all over! I just couldn't believe how tiny they were. After I got over the fear of actually picking them up we got this picture.

Cape Henlopen

I've been able to go through some of my pictures from Delware so I thought I'd post some of our trip to the beach. It was a perfect day to be there. Overcast and not too hot. Baby Hayden was with us so we didn't plan to stay too long or get too wet. Khora was really hesitant about it all because the waves were pretty loud but it didn't take her long before she was ready to just jump right in. I had to literally hold her back. We saw some dolphins swiming not too far out as well as a horseshoe crab, bits of blue crab along the beach as well as a couple of jellyfish. It was beautiful there. I would love to go back!!!

Hayden Emmett Hackwell

This is a page I did for my newest nephew Hayden. It was so good to see this little guy! He is just adorable! Love you baby Hayden.

Delaware Trip

I got back last night just after midnight from my 8 day visit to Delaware. I went out there to visit my sister and brother-in-law, Heath and their new baby Hayden Emmett, who was born on July 17th. I flew out there a week ago Tuesday with Khora and my dad. (My mom went out two weeks earlier. Flying with a 14 month old like Khora is. . . stressful . . . especially when you're in the middle seat next to two complete strangers and she's all over the place. I'll admit that I was very tempted after the 4.5 hour flight to slip her a little Benedryll on the trip home, but it ended up being a better flight back than out and she did great! I will be posting some pictures of my trip as soon as I get them. I need to download them off my dad's camara still. We visited some hostorical parts of Dover, caught toads, heard bullfrogs, visited the beach, oohed and aughed over baby Hayden and kept up with the olympics. I also read three of the four "Twilight" series books! That's a lot even for me!

While I was gone Dennis took Jacob, Isaac and Afton on a Marker Family camping trip to the Greys in Wyoming so I'll be posting some of those pictures soon too. (Dennis won't let me look at the photos he took until he get's home from work. So I'll just have to be patient!)