My Trip to Saint Louis (2)

Second Day  Thursday: August 12, 2010

Weather: 99 F

I slept late and I had two small boxes of sample cereal for breakfast. We sat around for a while and I ironed some cloths, surprisingly I like to iron, it's something that doesn't take a lot of work.   We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before Nannah took me took me to Your Pots Desire (a store where you can paint pottery).  I painted a bowl, it took all afternoon and when we got out of the store it was sprinkling (a little).  Nannah and I made June's Tomato Pie.  Yum!!  While it was in the oven Nannah and Poppop's friend who is raising money to pay for graduate school by working for this company that makes and sells knives came by to give us a thirty minute tutorial.  We got to test the knives on leather and rope and see how they compared to the knives that Nannah and Poppop own.  Guess what?  The lady's knives worked better.  She told us why.  Nannah had a hard time choosing which ones to get for a thirty day trial, partly because the lady kept saying different deals that she could give us.  When she left, the tutorial had been more than two hours!  We ate the tomato pie and corn for dinner, we sat on their screened porch because it had cooled down that night.

June's Tomato Pie Recipe:

put pie crust in pie pan and bake on 425 F for five minutes

put 3-4 sliced tomatoes,
salt and pepper and
2 tops chopped fresh basil or 1 top dried chopped chives or scallions in pie crust

mix 1/2 cup mayo and
8oz monteray jack together and spread over tomatoes

cook on 400 F for 35 minutes  Enjoy!!!

My Trip to Saint Louis

These are old emails I sent about my trip where I went to Saint Louis in August.

First Day Wednesday: August 11, 2010

Weather: 100 F
Humidity: a lot (I don't know how much, but it felt like A LOT!)

I got to go on the plane by myself, for the first time!!!  It was awesome and bumpy!  The flight left Seattle at 1:00pm and got to Saint Louis at 6:00pm.  Even though it sounds like the flight was five hours it was really only three (Saint Louis is two hours ahead of Seattle). My Grandpa Jim (Poppop) was waiting at the gate and my Grandma Timmie (Nannah) was sitting outside of security (they only allow one person to pick up unaccompanied miners).  We went to their house in University City (Saint Louis) and had a dinner of ratatouille and couscous, potato salad and green salad.  Vanilla ice cream for dessert!  I went to bed.

Snow!

Today is a snow day for my school!  It's white outside and snowing right now!

Lake Chelan

I'm going cross-country skiing in Lake Chelan this weekend! I get to miss school today too!

Cousins

These are my two cousins in Ohio!  The nine-month-old is named Hailey and the four-year-old is named Kaylynn.




 

Leni!

This is my adorable 10 month old puppy, Leni!  We got her over the holidays!

My Easy Apple Crisp

Butter a 6-cup muffin tin.  Chop an apple into thin slices, put   3 slices in each cup. Mix 6 tablespoons oats, 3 tablespoons brown sugar and 1/4 cup melted butter in a small bowl.  Put 1 tablespoon oat mixture on top of apples.  Bake at 400F for 15 minutes.  Enjoy!!  Makes 6 muffin-cup sized portions.