Global warming? Do you agree or disagree? Record breaking temperatures. History making total days in succession of temperatures over 100 degrees. No snow last winter. Not more than three drops of rain in the last forever. Something is going on in my globe and it is more than warm it is downright hot!! How high does the percentage of chances of showers have to be for us to get one? I have ordered a 24 hour gentle rain, no harsh winds nor what you could call a storm. The only trouble with that order is that I am not sure of my ranking with the Man In Charge. It may be back ordered.
I wonder if even of one of God’s gracious showers will be powerful enough to revive the desolate looking lawns and my pathetic garden. I was out of the county this past week and the lawns there look equally as desolate. So I guess my part of the globe is not being treated any worse than the neighboring one. Hopefully prayer, patience and perseverance will prevail and things will get back to normal. I have decided to pad my time sheet for my pension and social security payments to help cover the extra city billing for water usage and electricity charges for the constant running of my air conditioner. Guess I will quit complaining and be thankful that I have both electricity and an air conditioner. Thousands of people have been without both for extended periods of time.
I did not do anything exciting this past week, but I did have to part with an 18 year friendship. I finally decided I would have to admit that my faithful refrigerator was not functioning properly. I put in an emergency plea to my faithful refrigeration engineer only to receive a call back that he is on a two week vacation. He has been a faithful and honest adviser to me in the past so I took my grief elsewhere only to be told that if my appliance were 18 years old with no service charges, I had no complaints. So I put in a distress call to my son who usually bears the burden of my technical problems and he asked me a few questions and details. In a short while he called back and told me that a new one was on its way! His brother was helping to deliver it to my home. The only problem was he would also have to pick up a check to cover the cost. Since it was on sale and delivery charges were cancelled it was a good deal and by mid afternoon I had a new one installed and the old one was on its way back to his home town where if he can get it running it will be used in his shop. If not he will unplug it and use it for tool storage. Sounds as if his upbringing has taken root in his life as we always made do with what we had and did not complain about what we could not have. I really hope it does run for a year or two for him. I was using the freezer compartment for just refrigeration. So it had lost its usefulness to me. Now I can buy a gallon of milk. Powdered just does not do it for me. As with my stove when I replaced it, my new one was not of the same quality as the one I replaced. But it will do the job for just me and if it lasts 18 years, I won’t know about it.
Hope you liked the recipes that I sent you last week. I found a few very simple ones that sound like things that my mother made when I was a kid. If you are not interested in them, do not tell me about it. Now I will have to remember to return the book to my kind friend.
IRISH SODA BREAD
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Enough buttermilk or sour milk to make a soft dough. Sift the flour, soda and salt together. Add the butter milk or sour milk. Roll the dough in a circle and cut into triangles. Bake on a hot griddle, browning well on both sides. Serve warm with butter and honey.
SODA CRACKER COOKIES
35 soda crackers
1 cup butter
1 cup semisweet chocolate bits
¾ cup chopped walnuts
I cup brown sugar
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 10 x 15 inch baking pan with foil and grease. Line pan with crackers. Melt the butter and add the brown sugar. Cook and stir until sugar dissolves. Pour over the crackers. Bake from 3 to 5 minutes, or until mixture starts to bubble. Spread the chocolate chips over the hot crackers. Let stand for a minute. Spread the chocolate evenly and sprinkle with nuts. Let cool and cut into bars.
Stay cool and I need some help on prayers for rain. A lot of the crops look as if it might be too late for much help, but a good rain can do wonders over a meager watering with a garden hose.
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