My one and only fave teacup!

tranquili•tea: n. a state of peace and quiet while drinking tea

This teacup (mug?) was a Christmas present back a couple five years ago, along with a cylinder of blueberry Republic of Tea. This photo is also my entry into Joy the Baker’s Rishi tea giveaway! Go over and enter yourself – you have until the end of tomorrow, Friday March 20!

(Hope this doesn’t disqualify me…)

The perfect hard-boiled egg.

Everyone in the world has a post about the elusive ‘perfect’ hard-boiled egg, seems like. I’m not here to add to the camp – I’m just here to say that yes, it’s possible to cook the perfect hard-boiled egg without fancy cookers or special additives. I made mine with just a pot of water and, well, eggs.

This time, I have an excuse.

This weekend was going to be a weekend for 354 and I. Just us – with the exception of working at the barn – and Friday and Saturday were pretty good. Yesterday was not. Yesterday, this is everything that happened, in chronolog:

• 354 and I were involved a single vehicle wreck after church (no injuries, unless you count the truck, which has a fairly banged up passenger side).
• We all got snowed in at his grandmother’s house & lost power in both our places, which made me worry about the pup and my good dog locked in the bathroom at the barn.
• We had to put Duke down (and I spent most of the night crying on and off about that).
• We didn’t get power back until 0400 this morning, and stayed awake for most of the night to make sure that his grandmother (who is on oxygen) made it through the night without any problems.

We finally got power back this morning, like I said, but I didn’t exactly have a chance to get anything cooked or photo’d, understandably. Maybe sometime this week.

We’ll see.