I'm Puzzled

 Is it just me or are the days screaming by faster than a speeding train?  It feels like Groundhog Day.  Except today ..... the painters return.  My mornings of wandering the house in my 35 year old bath robe are gone.  Yessirree ... I've had this bright red floor length beauty for 32 years and it's still going strong.  It came from an era when they made things to last more than six weeks.  Too bad there will be no more lounging until the painting is finished.

Here's my first fifteen minutes ... every morning.  It's why we can't have nice things in our house.  It just took me 30 minutes to figure out how to air drop it to my computer.  I was puzzled because my email provider only allows 38 mb to be sent over the airwaves.  My file said it had 31, but it refused to send it.  Now I just have to figure out how to block every other person or business in the world who will be sending me stuff.

My second trip Saturday was to the fabric store.  Where else would I go on a busy holiday and have to brave the traffic except to buy fabric.  I was shocked that hardly anyone was on the highway and NO ONE in the store except me.  I thought maybe I had stepped into the Twilight Zone.  

Sadly, it only took me five minutes to find these two pieces.  I didn't even walk the store to see what else I might find.  I've got painting to pay for, so NO Nancy ... you can't have any more fabric!

BUT WAIT .... what should I see but a jigsaw puzzle about quilting!!  I didn't even know they made these, let alone sell them at the store.  It was even on sale ... but not really a bargain.

Once home I immediately spread it out on my huge coffee table.  It doesn't look so big here, but it is ginormous and now completely covered with puzzle pieces.  This will certainly help wile away the hours.  I spent two whole hours just getting those small pieces at the bottom together.  Patsy ... HELP!!!!  I am SO puzzled now!!

Having finally polished off the last of the cookies, I thought maybe I had the ingredients for another glorious batch of brown butter beauties.  Has anyone ever tried this?  You have to brown the butter in a pan before adding it to the rest of the ingredients.  

That's two cubes of butter .... or at least it WAS.  Good grief ... I even had it on the smallest burner at mid heat.  Suddenly it started to foam up.  I stirred.  It foamed more ... I stirred faster.  In a flash, even as I lifted it OFF the heat, it overflowed like lava with no end in sight.  I grabbed a BIGGER pot from the drawer below and dumped it in while I watched in horror as it just kept expanding and expanding!!

Too bad I wasn't fast enough on the draw.  I looked down to see butter running off the counter down the entire front of my beautiful wood cabinets.  I'm sure the neighbors heard me yelling NOOOOOOOOO!

Big sigh ..... I cleaned up the mess (scrubbing outside the drawers, inside the drawers and the entire floor), plopped another cube of butter into the pan and began again.  This time ... with a gallon pot ... nothing boiled over and I made these lovely cookies.  Too bad they are not as good as the first batch.  I didn't have any caramel bits and I only added white chocolate chips.  All white chips are not alike.  Buy the good ones, not the cheapies with no flavor.  It's okay ... you know me, I'll eat them anyway.

I'm also puzzled by a beep beep beep I heard this morning.  It's nothing like I've ever encountered before.  I walked one direction ... nope it's back there.  I walked that way ... nope, it's over there.  I'm again puzzled because I don't have any devices that beep like that.  It's not even the normal fire alarm battery beep.

Finally I realize it's my alarm panel.  Apparently I have to replace the batteries in the motion detectors?  Who knew?  This should be fun, right?  Another device that I have no clue how to open up, let alone replace the battery.  And what size battery?  I guess that will be my problem of the day to solve.  

Of course if there's one, there's six more!!  This should be good for a laugh!!!  The perfect way to start off a Monday!!