Bread Pan Experiment

While making bread today I thought of some special bread pans in the back of the closet. I am trying as experiment as I type cooking bread in the m to see how it will come out. More pictures later.

Baking Now

It is supposed to bake an hour. Hmmm We'll see.

This is what it looked like when it came out of the oven. I didn't realize until now that you can see the way the bread stuck out the other end of the tube laying down. More pictures later of the finished product.

My Trip to Washington DC November 2013

Friday afternoon these are the machines we got Metro passes.

My first ride on the metro

The World War II Memorial

The Washington Monument with scaffolding 

These scenes were lining the walkways into the World War II Memorial

Coming around the bend to look up at the  Lincoln Memorial 

was a sight to take your breath away!

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The Vietnam Memorial.

I wish I had taken a picture of the Korean War Memorial. It was soldiers in rain ponchos carrying guns and they were trudging through fields. The looks on their faces were haunting. Even though they were stone, they looked so real.

Martin Luther King Memorial

Saturday In-N-Out at the American History Museum

The first copy machine

The talk President roosevelt gave right after Pearl Harbor. on the first line it was change from world history to infamy 

Waiting in line to go in the National Archives to see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

We walk what seemed like the full length of Washington D.C. from the National Archives down to see the White House. It was a long walk.

Sunday morning at the Air and Space Museum Wright Brothers bicycle They learned a lot of what they needed to know about airplanes from the bicycles.

The Wright Brothers  airplane

The Lunar Lander

The Washington D.C. Temple on Sunday afternoon. We also stopped of at the Visitor Center. It was decorated for Christmas.

The Enola Gay - It dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima August 6, 1945

The Space Shuttle Discovery - It was very interesting to listen to the docent talk about it. To see it in person, it looks pretty beat up. 

Sunday afternoon walk back to the hotel

Christine and I as we left the hotel for our trips home.

I got lots of cuddle time with Kenny. Love that pup!

This was the trip of a lifetime. Thanks for a wonderful time Curtis and Christine!

New Life to an Old Quilt

Grandma Hart found an old quilt my mom had made back in the early 70's. The back was tricot and had all but disintegrated. Grandma brought some orange and green fabric that didn't match her quilt she brought to work on. It matches the back of this quilt perfectly. The green matches the thread we are using to put a new back on the old quilt. This has been a learning experience and good to spend time with Grandma.


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Last roll of the First half

Last night I quilted enough to roll enough to get to the edge of the first half of this quilt. I better get going! It has taken 6 months to get this far. I need to put "spend time quilting on my to-do list everyday."


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Quilt Update

After all the football yesterday, I was able to roll the quilt. One more small turn and the first half will be done.


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Quilt Update

I have been quilting an hour or so most days lately. I turned the quilt twice last week. I was so excited to see the triple stripe at one end of the quilt on the last turn. That means I am almost to the end of the 1st half.


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Lyon Air Museum Again - A Really Old Post

The Collings Foundation was at the Lyon Air Museum again yesterday. (May 11, 2013) Jeffrey wanted to see the planes again. We went over and looked around again. There were not as many people as last year. I learned that the man who started the museum and it is named after, General William Lyon lives in Coto de Caza. 

 While Jeffrey was walking around looking at the planes I had to have a rest. I sat down on the chairs in front of this plane.

 There was a man in a wheelchair being pushed by a caregiver and his daughter was following them around. He was talking to a girl probably about  20ish. I joined the conversation. What a privilege it was. Tom was a pilot of a B-17 During the later part of the war. He was just going to have his 90th birthday.  He said that he was supposed to fly this plane but Truman was washing them all out because he said they only needed 2 planes for atomic bombs.

When I told him that my in-laws were married right after high school just before Pearl Harbor  he said, "Oh that was the time we would sing I love you truly,dear; See you in a Year" 

He told us about getting 1000 planes in the air at the same time. A cave of bats were the inspiration for  that. They would have the first level come out and circle then go up, another level of planes would come out and do the same thing until all the planes were in the air.

Hap Arnold was in command when Tom was flight. Hap had learn how to fly from the Wright Brothers. It has been a very interesting thing to look up and read about. 

I am writing this to remember.

Tom was born in Pasadena, When he was 3 months old his parents moved from there to Salt Lake City. His father was with International Harvester. They were shipping trucks out of L.A. to build Hoover Dam. They stopped and started shipping the truck out of Salt Lake, so this man moved his family. That is all the story I got. The people that were picking their party up were there to take them home. It was such an honor to get a few minutes with this man.