Cookie making

Since the lock down Warren has of course not been out playing his sports. Between us we are walking Lucy, sometimes she gets two walks a day.

We are finding that, well this is my theory, Warren's tolerance of gluten is becoming less, in other words getting worse.

He had had cereal for breakfast for years usually museli but has had to give that away. Soy milk was another thing that he has stopped having. Yesterday after shopping, we had a small hot cross bun each and sure enough, he came down with a headache, not as bad as he used to get but bad enough.

So no flour things for him. On my facebook, there was a recipe for keto cookies so as I felt sorry for Warren, I decide to make some for him.

So easy only four ingredients but I did add some lemon zest as I have it, fresh off the tree.

Just 2 tbsp of butter, same of sugar, beat together with vanilla add about half a cup of almond flour/meal til it looks like bread crumbs. Roll into small balls and push down with a fork. As we "count" carbs, they are only .4gms of carbs. We have two each then I sandwiched the rest with a spoonful of cream cheese, squeeze of lemon juice and some fake sugar.

I baked them at 150 degrees in a fan forced oven for about eight minutes.

These are now in the fridge and will be our afternoon tea for the next couple of days.

Google mini

We were gifted a few weeks ago one of these mini devises. It sits up on a shelf that Warren put up on the end wall just under the air conditioner unit.

We use the Google mini mainly for music and or radio. The beauty about it, is that we can be sitting over breakfast a good five steps away from it and give a command such as "Hey Google, stop streaming" and it turns off.

This morning we thought that it looked like rain so Warren asked Google what today's weather would be.

The answer "Showers are expected in ............(our suburb) at 11am, there may be light showers in the afternoon as well".

As it wasn't that long before 11am, Warren thought he should take Lucy for her walk then.

When they got back, I made a coffee for us and we took it outside to sit under the patio. I looked at the clock outside and remarked that it should soon rain or Ms Google would be proved wrong. One minute later, when it clocked over to 11am, down came the rain and yes there were also some light showers after lunch.

An afternoon walk.

We think Lucy is putting a bit of weight and as we need to exercise too we have taken to take her for an extra walk in the afternoons.

In normal times, she was getting a long walk on Saturdays morning while Warren did park run and then during the week we were going to a walk caching.

My turn today and I couldn't believe the traffic on the road as well as people out walking. I guess the gyms and dog parks are closed so exercise by walking is about all that's left.

Lucy knows where we are going and so she heads off, today we went to the bus stop and we saw 13 people and four other dogs.

Lucy's new lead that Warren made a few weeks ago. He made two and one is permanently in the car. The lead is about 4 metres long and we just haul it in or out depending on the circumstances.

Five minutes after we were home, she brought a ball inside for Warren to go out and throw the ball for her. That usually happens at 4pm, although she will only get two or three then she sits under the trees with it, shes had enough.

Butterflies

We have noticed a abundance of butterflies in our yard lately. Time of year or just because we are using the patio more with the nicer weather.

Very hard to get a photo though.

This one was taken down along the creek, very pretty blue and black called a blue lace butterfly.

This is a couple of  white ones in there if you look closely 

Doors

Once we checked into the hotel, we headed for the lift, we were on the eighth floor.

This was inside the lift. Red glass on all three sides. Imagine coming back after a night on the town and being hit with RED glass walls in a lift. Thank goodness, I don't drink well not much anyway.

We were in the front row of the aircraft, I was sitting in  my seat when I took the pic. Three across but coming back it was only the two of us and I was the first person off the plane! I suppose I should clarify that, I was the first passenger off the plane as it seems that at least one of the hosties put on a vest and goes down the stairs to send everyone off.

Another early morning and on a Sunday too.

First photo for the day as we were driving away from the hotel.

We had an event to go to at 7.30 but had to take a little detour first.

Off to the event which was near where Sheridan had an exchange visit to a high school, back when she was 15 or 16.

Five other people came to the event and chatted until it was time to catch our plane home.

View from the park which was in front of the school.

Tasmania IS a small place.

We couldn't go too far on Saturday morning as we had to drop the tyre in to be fixed and then collect it when it was ready.

We picked the tyre up and as we had had an early start and only a yukkie coffee at the motel, our next port of was lunch. Still shopping time and parking metres were in force but we had no coin so we have to find a free park which luckily we did half a block from a cafe.

We took a seat and were given menus, then the guy, turned out to be the owner, brought over an oil heater and plugged it in "as we looked cold" we were but didnt realise it showed that much

Nice lunch and we ordered an extra coffee as that was so good and warming. While we were eating, another waitress came through and surprise, surprise she was the receptionist who had booked us in the night before. Sheridan recognized her tattoos and she recognized us as well. She had an unusual accent so I asked where was the accent from. She must have been asked that question before as she asked us where we thought she was from. We had discussed it and thought possibly Belgium or Belarus but she told us she was originally from South Africa.

One of the eating places she had recommended was the Nepali restaurant only a block from the hotel, we were able to thank her and tell her that it was a good meal in both places.
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