As we close in on the end of the month, it’s time for me to
start some of my recap posts, and I think you’ll see a theme throughout: this
was a strange month in which not much of the regular things happened in abundance.
The credit/blame for this lies in the combination of a vacation, a work
retreat, and the start of school all falling in this month. But I bring you the
offerings of what I have in each category!
One of
my goals is to recreate five dates we’ve done in the past, and one of those
happened on our vacation to Mackinac Island! If you’re a longtime reader here,
you might remember that on our honeymoon, we rented a tandem bike and rode
around the Village of Siesta Key. We reprised our tandem bike date on Mackinac
Island and had a lot of fun!
Ryan
lamented that our Mackinac bike didn’t have a bell for him to “DING DING,
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” like he did in Siesta Key, but I think that might have
actually been a good thing.
Here
are the Shaffers on the original and recreated dates!
My
second item that I can note from this list is trying a recipe from the Unsifted
Website. I have a goal to try all the recipes from that site (for our freshly
milled wheat adventures). This one was the Cinnamon
Swirl Coffee Cake and it received rave reviews from our small group! I
will be making this again. I try, at least on baking recipes, to follow the
recipe exactly the first time. This one does have a bit more butter in it than
I like, so I think on a redo, I might swap out some of the butter in the cake
for applesauce, and in the glaze portion, I’d just cut down the amount I used.
The glaze will still be fine.
I did
work a little more on putting together my own recipe binder of our favorite
recipes. (I try to update it a little at a time.)
In my
quest to learn to hula hoop, I purchased a hula hoop – at Menards, of
all places. It was on a clearance rack, so I grabbed it. Turns out that hula
hoops are on the long list of things that offend Lexi, so apparently I will be
learning to do this IN THE GARAGE.
I did
try to start the Shaffer coffee house menu by learning to make pumpkin spice
sauce for my coffee. It was a fun thing to put in my evening coffee at the
start of this fall.
See you
again next month, and hopefully I’ll have some fun new adventures to share!
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