Changeable Weather & Fun With Laundry (Not to mention lemon butter tea cakes recipe…)

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Warm and pretty out there

I was lulled into a false sense of security when I was greeted with puffy clouds, but bright sunshine, a good breeze and lots of bits of blue sky… so I put some laundry on.

Then I got a bit cocky, and put a second load on because the weather looked so hopeful.

Less than five minutes after the first load was hung?? Rain. Of course!

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Its hard to tell, but its bucketing down.

Sigh. Oh well… I moved the clothes onto the veranda line

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Under cover

Once they were safely under cover the sun beamed out again. I did NOT beam back at it!!

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Pretty nice clouds today

So the second load finished so I hung it on the main line and took Pip for a walk

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The boundary check
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Inspecting the broccolini

I had liberated a nice bagful of stray lettuce leaves from the supermarket yesterday for the girls. (and before anyone says ‘tsk tsk’ – we are in the country and no-one cares about that sort of thing!) 🙂 (Actually the nice thing is people prefer it goes somewhere useful and not the bin)

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Fresh snacks

I spotted a rainbow so ran across the road to get a shot – I missed the rainbow but saw this!

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This didn’t look like clothes drying weather approaching.

By the time I got back to the clothes line they were spinning like a top and the rain hit! (Again)

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Thought I had better bring them in before I was collecting my undies from the neighbours paddocks!

What I couldn’t fit under cover, went on the fire flue as I had kept that going during the day today!

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And the rain went and the sun came back!

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LEMON BUTTER TEA CAKES

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Just wanted to add the recipe for these cupcakes I made yesterday.

Today the paper came off them a lot more easily. I dropped some in to Margie & her husband Des, who both pronounced them “really good” and of course one for Ruby, who was going to indulge in hers at dinner.

Preheat your oven to 180C (350F)

Ingredients

65gm butter – softened (2.3oz)

1/2 cup caster sugar

1 egg

2 teaspoons vanilla extract or essence

1 cup Self Raising Flour sifted

1/3 cup milk

4&1/2 tablespoons of Lemon Butter

Method

Beat butter, sugar, vanilla & egg for a couple of minutes until well combined.

Stir in half the milk and flour until combined.

Stir in other half of milk and flour along with 2 tablespoons of the lemon butter

Spoon mixture into 10 paper cups and add an extra teaspoon of lemon butter to top of each one.

Bake approx. 15-20 minutes.

When cooked and still hot, spread with butter and sprinkle with caster sugar.

Hope your Monday was/is good!

I now have a mountain of clean clothes to avoid folding! yay!

Cheers!

 

 

 

Author: Lisa

A happy traveller through life! Right now living in NW Tasmania with a gorgeous Nurse-Husband, a fool of a Siamese Cat and several chickens. We love our fairly simple lifestyle of growing a lot of what we eat and enjoying the stunning surrounds of our little patch.

5 thoughts on “Changeable Weather & Fun With Laundry (Not to mention lemon butter tea cakes recipe…)”

  1. Enjoy reading the blog each day.
    Just a little curious – why is sweet Pip on a leash? I’ve never seen a cat that would tolerate one. You must have trained him since he was a kitten. Sending him fond kitty hugs.

    1. Hi Bea – We were in Canberra when we got him, on a fairly busy road. He had ZERO outdoor/road sense so I decided to get him used to a leash from the beginning. We used to take him on walks around the neighbourhood and on beach holidays! 😀
      I am glad we did as we are on a country highway here, so he only goes outside on his lead. Is long so he can explore his immediate area and sleep happily in the sun unsupervised.
      My parents cat also has a lead and they take her for walks around their retirement village – to the amusement of the other residents!
      Will give him a hug from you. 🙂

  2. Hi Lisa!

    Thank you for posting the teacakes recipe, I was finally able to come look!

    I’m not surprised that you were able to turn a laundry day into an adventure… 😉

    1. lol – no worries! (The ordinary into the extraordinary! 😀 )(or in other words I didn’t do so much that day so I had to dramatize a bit!)

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