Ice cream cake, now with pics...

First, you need an adorable helper. I'd loan ya mine, but I'm keepin' him. He does crack eggs with out peel, though. That pic on the fridge behind him is a cow, getting a shower from a water tower. The little thing by the cows tail is a chicken, of course.


Two cakes, cooled all the way.

Take the same pan you use for the cakes, line it with plastic wrap, and smush in slightly softened ice cream. Place another sheet of plastic on top and smooth out with your fingers. Re- freeze for a few hours at least. (I did mine over night) ( I also did it before I baked the cakes, and then just pulled the plastic wrap out and put the whole deal on a plate in the freezer.)
Cut the rounded tops off both cakes. When I put the batter in the pans, I very carefully spread it out to keep it from getting too dome-y. (Always best to do pinkies out with your man-hands...)


Put one cake, cut side up, on the plate you wish to serve on. Center your ice cream block and trim the edges to fit. Eat trimming with the tops you cut off the cake, with your adorable helper.


Put the other cake on top, cut side down. (The "frayed" edges stick to the ice cream keeping stuff from sliding later.

Frost. I think you should re-freeze for an hour before you frost, but I didn't. Then when I was frosting the sides, melty ice cream was running into the frosting, making me have to stop halfway and refreeze. So, learn from my mistakes. And I have no pics of the final project either, as I failed. But I still have to write happy birthday on it, so maybe I'll get another before consumption tomorrow.

I know baskin robins makes way spiffy jelly roll ice cream cakes, but eh, mine doesn't taste all freezer burn-y and is WAY cheaper, so kiss my grits, 31 flavors.

The forgotten

Our sale priced awesomeness. Lasted about 5 minutes.

Tasted pretty good though.

The cooler. Day one of storm.

The cooler, day 7098 of storm. Also, chairs. You can see one right by the window, there are actually 3 in a row there.

Why does blogger make it so hard to upload pics in order, or rather the order I want them in? And then I get a bunch in and type a bunch up, and post it, and all the pics are in a row and all the "dialog" is at the bottom, not near any thing and not particularly useful as description? Just to stymie me and make me not care about ever posting again, i bet.

The great storm of aught 10...

January 18th thru the 22nd it snowed. the first day 12 inches, the second about 10. the next day it just didn't stop, and then it rained too.
Here are a few pics from the storm.

This is Miles sledding down the front yard. This was the first day, it snowed all night and then was nice. Then it snowed all night again. After a bit, it was steep enough to hit the house, leading to this next pic.



This is Asa building a ramp up the side of the house so Miles could stop before the thud.

By the time the storm ended, the ramp was way buried. So was the sled for that matter.




Out the living room window. Taller than me. Blag. What is this silliness? Who moved me here? Oh wait, it was me. Dammit.


He was measuring the snow for me. And he is 49.5 inches tall.





Renfield in the "wizz tunnel" Bet you he wished he could use the toilet. It took me forever to dig this out too.


Oh look, more.

At this point it is safe to say I am done with snow. REAL done. And it is snowing right now, depending on who you ask either 4 or 12 inches tonight.


But things should grow like weeds this spring and summer and so I shall look forward to that.

Well, folks, it's been a wild ride here in on the old mt top. Four or five feet of snow in the last three days, depending on which side of town you live on, plus rain last night, to melt some and then refreeze, (and coat all the pine needles with ice so when you are out shoveling this morning they stab thru your hat. Good times)
This to the left is the Ice skating rink, it caved in this morning I think.



And This, This is sad. This is/was Bookmans. And Joanns fabric store on the left. My two favorite places. (my Third is the burrito place immediately to the right of Bookmans, no word on its roof, but it hasn't been mentioned. The best used book store in all the land. They are saying complete rebuild.


They made it mandatory that people with flat roofs shovel or evacuate today, since 2 more feet of snow are supposed to fall tonight.

So Asa, sweet man that he is, spent the day at my dads, shoveling his roof (my dad is a t4 paraplegic, no ladders for him. Hell, no leaving his house for him these days.) That's after he did ours, and spent an hour shoveling our own driveway. (Well, chipping the 5 inches of ice up)

I have pics I took, Miles in snow over his head and the doggy tits deep, as it were. I'll post them soon.

Stay warm, and dry. I reckon this storm is heading east.

day 9 in which I was forced offline by bad monkeys.

These things were in our computer, and Asa spent a few hours today getting them out. Or maybe it was some stupid virus that some dumb fuck made up, that made our computer play random music and tooth paste commercials, even when it was offline. Really, I hate the dorks who write viruses. Use your gigantic brains to fight evil, dammit.

I got to do some spy work/recon for some politicos here tonight, to see how many people were at a fundraiser for the incumbent mayor, it's almost election time here, they do it in May for better results. I felt very sneaky, ha ha ha.

And I found out they have a CSA here, which is awesome, come Monday I'm gonna see if we can get in.

That is all, thank you, and goodnight.

Failed miserably, already. Yet, not.

Ok, so on the 5th, Miles and I made a ginger bread house (bought at 75% off, so it was 2.50, that's what I'm talking about) and about 5 minutes later we ate it. Well, parts of it. Cuz why not.

On the 6th, we got approved for the loan for the shop. WIN!

On the 7th, um, Asa changed the oil in the jeep. And I started knitting my first cowl, cuz now (well next week) I'll have a place to sell my goods... WOOHOO)

And I made a really yummy frozen pizza for dinner. (with a bottle of wine that was also 75% off cuz it was wrapped up for New Years.)

And I talked to my mom since it's her birthday.

Day 4 in which next to nothing happened and I am here to tell you all about it...

Today I paid the rent. and went to Michaels. Which is normally a lovely experience for me, but I've never been to the flagstaff Micheals before. Both of the female employees I dealt with were DUMB. Like I ask a simple question having to do with the gift card i got for x-mas and they reply "whu... I don't understand" multiple times. I kinda wanted to kick 'em.

Then my son and I had super awesome delicious Indian food, so that was the best part of the day (in keeping with the best theme of the nablopomo that I can't actually join due to them being wankers. Or maybe I'm the wanker)

Then someone from freecycle answered my post about the moving boxes we had and then actually came to get them... So now I can get to my washer and dryer, at the same time, YAY!

Then I found this, which in many ways is the other best part of my day. Don't click if you don't like foul language a la Charles Bukowski. But oh it's funny. http://progressiveboink.com/archive/peanuts-by-charles-bukowski/

My DH just told me my style of eating pretzels was "satisfying, but complicated."

With that, I'll bid both of you a sweet adieu, until tomorrow...