Lazy Sundays

My favorite days.  Maybe they should have been put on my "love" list.  Today is one of those days.  I made a quick and easy breakfast for all of us.  I made my grandma's baked pancakes with blackberries.  Super easy and quick

Grandma's baked pancakes
1/4 cup flour
1/4 milk
1 large egg

Mix, pour in to a greased pie pan and bake for 10-15 minutes at 450.

This is for a single serving, it can be doubled, tripled or quadrupled. I also like to add in some vanilla, and/or a sprinkling of cinnamon or nutmeg.  I also add fruit sometimes, like the blackberries, or raspberries, or apples.  We always top the whole thing off with a sprinkling of powdered sugar and some fresh squeezed lemon juice.

It's one of my favorite breakfasts.  It always reminds me of sitting at the round table in my grandma's kitchen.  The one with the triangle chairs that were so easy to tip over.  Ha!  She had her lazy susan in the middle of the table with the salt, pepper, the old Tuperware powdered sugar mill (which I now own), tabasco(a story for another day about what an awful big sister I was! LOL) and a lot of other condiments.  My brother and I would run down to her house on the weekends or summer mornings for breakfast.  She also made the best dollar sized pancakes.  I still cant get those right.  Some day!

While eating breakfast we put on our first disk of Battlestar Galatica (2010).  Amazon had a great day on the full series last week, so I scooped it up!   It's been fun rewatching it knowing what we know now. We watched the whole series already when it was on SciFi.

We opened up the house, all the windows and shades.  The sun is out today.  It never showed up yesterday.  There's barely a breeze.  The birds are all chirping and the cats are all out on the patio rolling in the sun.  Other than the birds, it's pretty quiet outside, which is weird since we are less than a block from a major intersection and less than 3 blocks from the hospital.  There's always sirens and cars racing by.

I already have dinner in the crock pot. Mom's crock ribs.  All I need to do is steam some artichokes and cube up some potatoes to roast to go with the ribs.

Mom's Crock Ribs
1 slab baby back ribs
1 onion thinly sliced
2-3 lemons thinly sliced
1 bottle of your favorite bbq sauce
1 bottle of beer, or if you are like us, sparkling apple cider since we dont drink
salt  and pepper.

Salt and pepper the ribs.  Broil for 5 minutes on each side until browned.  Cut into individual ribs and layer in the crockpot with sliced onions and lemons.  Mix bbq sauce and beer/juice and pour over ribs.  Cook on high until the meat starts falling off the bones.

Hello Cthulhu

Nothing left to do today but stitch and watch more Battlestar Galatica.  It's not even 1PM yet.  Speaking of stitching, I have a small "almost" finish.  My friend just had her baby yesterday.  I have been working on a Cthulu version of Hello Kitty.  The website I got it from is long gone. It was otherwonders.com/hanging. The design is by someone called Magpie.  Sometimes I am grateful for my hoarding ways, because I saved this design because of them.

I know this might not seem like a design for a baby, but if you knew Ness, you'd know it fits her just fine.  I am thinking of making it into a little pillow using some of the fabrics behind it or making it into a door hanging.  I really want to put some sort of cute cthulhuic saying on it for her, or the babies name or something.  I just cant think of anything clever.  Anyone have any ideas??

I am also getting ready to start a new Ink Circles.  My middle daughter has a tattoo of a treble on her shoulder with some sort of other musical symbols that I know nothing about..something about tempo or beats or whatever.  When I saw Ink Circles "Here Comes Treble"  I knew I had to do it for my daughter.   She's always been my "trouble" child, so the double entendre couldnt be resisted.  I havent made her a cross stitch other than a Christmas ornament here and there since she was first born.  Unfortunately that one was destroyed when our garage flooded one year and it was still packed in a box from our move. :(

I do need to plan a trip up to Needle in a Haystack to pick up the threads if anyone wants to plan a trip up there with me in the next couple of weeks.

Ok, I am going to head back to my lazy day.  I just thought I'd update some stitching since I havent done that in a long while and see if anyone has anything clever to put on the Hello Cthulhu.   I hope everyone else has a nice relaxing day today!