Sunday Randomness #14 A lone Wookie

More notes left around the house.  Wookies are pretty popular right now.  We've gone through kitty phases, manatee spells, puppy past-times, turtle musings and other various animal interludes. (And yes, Wookies are not animals but I still think they look like giant intelligent nice bears.  So I'm lumping them with the animals for looks only.)

Summer Fruit Tarts

Daisy made a Fourth of July Tart with raspberries and blackberries almost entirely by herself.   I helped a little with baking the crust.  We used PanNan's recipe at:  http://www.food.com/recipe/fresh-summer-fruit-tart-122364

This assorted fruit tart we bought from a local bakery.  Verdict?  They were both delicious and we would buy the local bakery tart again and we would make the homemade version again but Daisy's homemade tart did edge out the local bakery.  Maybe it was the brown sugar in the homemade crust or the difference in the fillings but the local bakery tart lasted about three days and Daisy's tart didn't even last one day before it was finished off.  Plus I loved the design on Daisy's tart.

Bountiful Baskets July

 Plum variety pack-this was one box worth of plums for $13.50

 Rainier Cherries 18 lb box for $22.50!  (Just saw Rainier cherries at a grocery store for $6.99 a lb.)

Share for $15 with two summer squash, 6 plums, 1 box raspberries (I got an extra box for volunteering), 1 box strawberries, 2 pkg. carrots, 1 cucumber, 1 bag green grapes, 1 large bunch broccoli, 4 red corn, 1 cantaloupe, and 1 head of living butter lettuce

Order every Monday, pick up on Saturday.  www.bountifulbaskets.org

Sunday Randomness #19: McDonalds Rebuild part 12

 Finished!  They did open on the 27th of June but we didn't make it up until June 30, 2012

 Cars lined up going through the Two Lane Drive-Thru

 View of the south east corner

 Left side of drive-thru menu as of June 30, 2012  Happy meal with 4 McNuggets is $3.45, hamburger happy meal $2.99 and cheeseburger happy meal $3.35. 

 Right side of drive-thru menu as of June 30, 2012  Big Mac meal is $5.25 and just the sandwich is $3.65

 We got a chicken McNugget happy meal, chicken wrap, strawberry banana smoothie  and

 a two cheeseburger meal, a big mac meal and a wild berry smoothie

It's been fun and interesting to watch them rebuild this McDonald's from the ground up over the last few months.  I just wanted to see if they would really be open by June (as advertised) and they did it. We went and tried it out but I admit we're not frequent customers of McDonald's or any fast food place or restaurant for that matter. 

(For dinner tonight we had baked top round steak, wilted spinach, imitation red lobster cheddar bay biscuits and mashed potatoes-we try to make homemade food when possible.  For dessert we're eating leftover cookies made by hedgehog: peanut butter/honey cookies and chocolate chip/coconut cookies. )

Sunday Randomness #19: McDonalds Rebuild part 11

 Now there's trees and bushes outside on pretty planted terraces-south west corner

 South side planting bushes while inside they must be working on refrigeration

Almost all the construction evidence is  gone-but there's that lone blue wheel barrow off to the right
                                                                           June 25, 2012

Sunday Randomness #19: McDonalds Rebuild part 10

 Parking lot getting closer to completion on south side but there's still the giant mound of dirt

South west corner still a fair amount of construction materials to be seen    June 23, 2012