Satisfying Saturday

Yesterday was a busy and productive day. Lots of sunshine and warm weather until later evening, so that was good. I started the day out by putting a pork roast and veggies in the crockpot and turning it on low to cook all day. DH was out working on the shed/coop and needed my help off and on.  I did a little caulking and a little painting and a little staining to some boards he added in the coop part.

Once I had a bit of a break I went back inside to make a chocolate cake. From scratch! I get this little "magazine" from our electric co-op and there was a recipe in there for "chocolate mayonnaise cake" and since I had all the ingredients I thought I'd try it, so we'd have some dessert. As I was making it I realized there are no eggs in it. Just the mayo instead. Anyhow, it was very easy to make and once I had it frosted I was wondering how it tasted. The heck with waiting until after dinner for a slice! It was so good. It reminded me of a chocolate cake my grandma used to make.

I also spent yesterday trying to get 2 dogs to take their pills....twice a day....as soon as I'd sneak it in one way, they'd figure that out for the next time! (I started giving on Friday morning). Friday morning I tried green beans and that worked great. Friday night, nope, ate the green bean and spit out the pill (it's a large pill, too). Then I tried wrapping in some bread. Nope. Saturday morning I just split in half and tried putting in with their food. Worked on one dog, but not the other. Saturday evening the pill in the food didn't work, haha. What seems to be working now is wrapping it in a bit of sliced cheese.

Later afternoon I was outside helping DH. He was trying to use up some blue insulation foam boards he has leftover, so we were having to cut pieces to size he needed. We didn't even hear that someone had pulled in our driveway (we were in back of the house and our neighbor dogs didn't even bark, like they usually do when anyone pulls onto our street). It was the young man (one of our builder's son's) who had done all our concrete work. He and a cousin were out in the area to do bear hunting. Since he got that bear last year when he was here working on our house, he wanted to try in our area again and wanted to stop in and say hi. He was probably our favorite of the builders 4 sons. So, we visited with them for a half hour or so.

Dinner was delicious. Later we had cake and ice cream for dessert. DH says "whoa, this cake is rich" but he liked it.

I went outside with the dogs (to make sure they didn't go over and eat deer poop!) and got buzzed by a hummingbird. Yay! they are back, so I went in and make some food for them. I had tried leaving food out a couple of times the past 2 weeks, but none around until yesterday.