I need to start another blog and talk about airline travel.
Because it is BAD and nobody talks about it.

Navy Ball.

SEAL-to-be invited friends from this summer.
See TWO friends here? No. Only ONE.
The OTHER friend is still on an airplane.
From Minneapolis to Omaha. A One Hour flight. Took her EIGHT hours.
And she missed the Navy Ball.
SO.
FRUSTRATING.

Tell you what.
THESE girls handled it very well. I was more frustrated.
Thanks, girls, for coming this weekend!
Let’s do it again….withOUT the airline hassles!

The meal between breakfast and lunch is brunch.
What is the meal between lunch and dinner?
Lunner? Dunch? Linner?

German Oven Pancake (recipe from Steamy Kitchen)

Plus….Iowa Honeycrisp Apples sauteed with Simply Apple Juice,  handful of brown sugar, and butter

Equals…YUMMERS!

Matt just did a flag ceremony…..

AT THE HUSKER GAME!!!

Those boys are dang cute. Did a great job, too.
Elsewhere at the game….

Ran into a few of my cute cousins. ALL my cousins are beautiful. And most of my cousins are girls.
The two on the ends…Kari and Sally, own Johnny’s Cafe and The 1020 Restaurant in Omaha.
Jacqui, in black, has twins. Muffy, in white, is pregnant.
Their mother, will soon be a GreatGreatAunt.
She’s Thrilled.

Dan and I crashed their tailgate party. Look who ELSE crashed it!

TommyLee wasn’t playing this time, but the band comes down the road and stopped and played. LOVE those drums.

Poor Bo. He spend alot of his time at the game doing this!

I made bread tonight in an old Pyrex Bread Tube

It is called a Bake-A-Round and I found one of Ebay. My grandmother had one in the 70′s….as did almost everyone back then…..and she used frozen bread dough in it.
I used my bread machine to make regular dough, greased the tube with Crisco, and put the dough in the center. Covered the ends with buttered foil and let it rise in a slightly warm oven. A couple of hours later…

Pretty fun way to bake bread!
The crust was buttery and crispy and the inside was soft.

Here’s my recipe:
3/4  C  of water and milk
2 T sugar
1 t salt
1 T Olive Oil
2 C flour…more if needed. I use half unbleached flour and half bread flour.
1 t. yeast
Add to bread machine and make on dough setting. Remove and put in greased Bread Tube. The bread dough should be in the middle of the tube.
Put buttered foil on ends of tube and rise until the bread fills the tube.
Place glass tube on metal holder and bake at 350* for about 20 minutes.

The Lasertron’s bought a house!
And we know what THAT means……