Thursday's Ramblin' - This Past Week

Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.
                                                                                            ~Unknown

Just a bit of a reflection on this past week.

It was a week ago today, I brought our Sunflowers up to the cottage.  They had sat in the car (for over an hour) with a "diaper" that the florist has put around it's cut stems.  I just did a blog post about them and how to make your freshly-cut flowers last longer.  If you missed it, you can read about it here.  Here's a photo of them a whole week later...

They look like the day I first got them home!  

We had company last Saturday, so I made my famous raspberry pie for dessert.  Raspberries have been quite inexpensive this summer, so I've been taking advantage of this and buying up a lot.  I sort and rinse through them and combine all my ingredients for a pie, along with the raspberries, into a bowl.  After mixing up, I label a Ziploc bag and put them into a freezer until I need them.  Just take the bag out of the freezer a day before and once the pie dough is made, pour the raspberry filling into the pie dish directly from the Ziploc bag.  If you've never gotten my recipe before, the raspberry pie is here and here...

How many of you remembered that yesterday was National Dog Day?  Oops, if you forgot...don't forget to give your pooch an extra hug and treat today!  We've been dog sitting for Hoover again, so this is a photo I took of her the other evening, sound asleep on our sofa...

Our little Miss Molly...

And my friend, Mary's dog, Nigel.  I really think Nigel needs his own Facebook page.  Isn't he one handsome cowboy...

Have a beauty-full day!