#168, 169s, the drain and the cake

 I did a series of altered postcards for 168, 169 & 169a. I'm enjoying making alterations and adding tape.

 This one is extra interesting to me, since I randomly picked up map circles (which I have lots of for my skull project) and place them on the card. The one covering the mouth of the woman, appears to have a down turned mouth. Whoa! Interesting look and it does draw attention.

 I wished the pink tape were more translucent. I have to remember this and use it as an under rather than an over element.

 Here is the big drain getting cleaned out. Three men from our local, around the corner, plumbing service, doing the job. It didn't require a lot, suck up the standing water, power water flush the stuff that was plugging the drain, and whoooosh, it all went to the big storm drain under the street and on to wherever this kind of water goes. Minutes, only minutes and it was done. A relief. And it was NOT the cause of the neighbors' basement water problem. Whew!

My friend Paula in Kentucky has a wonderful blog, in which she reviews books, posts her gorgeous art work, and tempting desserts. This apple cake recipe came from her blog and I made it 2 nights ago. It's very delicious. I'm putting the recipe on my other blog, here.
Notice how a chunk is missing? It was cut before I could take a photo, by ME! I forgot and cut into it. Our neighbor J. came by & I wanted him to taste it. Okay & I tasted it, too. Yum!

Vegan Apple cake and a squirrel

I made a really delish vegan apple cake from a recipe that my daughter created. The recipe is here. Because we make our own applesauce, there are a lot of apple cores to be dispersed, rather than tossed in the garbage bin. I put them in our big tree in the back garden. In the notch of the tree and in a little place where some shoots had been cut off leaving prongs of sorts.  Yesterday, my husband came up to my studio and said "quick, there's a squirrel sitting there eating the apple core." It was still there when I got to the kitchen window and I scored this photo of it. So cute how it held the core and ate all around it.

This morning, while returning from a walk over to have my doctor check out myh achy knee, I came upon a squirrel lying in the alley behind my house. I thought, Oh, no, it's the little apple chomping fellow. When I entered my back garden, another squirrel was sitting on the edge of my garage! Probably the apple core chomper, right?

PS my knee is fine, just a bout of tendonitis. Whew!