Wednesdays are interesting islands of time smack dab in the middle of the week. They are a preparation day, a study day, a shopping day, a baking desserts day, a missionary day, a center day/evening, and a homework day.
We find ourselves spending more shopping time at Metro (heretofore known as the Costco Wannabe), mostly because they have items in bulk....not necessarily because of the prices. We also went to several stores who reputedly carried Crisco. We not only did not find Crisco, but have concluded that shortening does not exist in Denmark. We went to one store in particular which even has an "American aisle" ---to no avail.
What we did find was an American off-brand of peanut butter, which was pretty costly, but we got it anyway. At the center, I made peanut butter bars....a marvelous combination of peanut butter cookie base, a layer of semi-sweet chocolate and peanut butter frosting. It will be my first attempt to serve peanut butter anything.
Do Danes like peanut butter? Our first clue might be that it hardly exists here. But on the other hand, a young woman made some peanut butter candies awhile ago, and told me that everyone loves it. We'll see.
SK got the tires changed this morning....snow tires off and regular tires on. One of the APs said that he did it himself on their car, without getting any soil on his white shirt! I believe him. Those young missionaries can do just about anything...mostly because they don't know they can't. I love that kind of faith and optimism.
But senior missionaries have to be a little more cautious about attempting such things. As it was, SK expended a fair amount of energy just pulling the four regular tires out from underneath our bed, hauling them out to the car, loading them up and getting them to the auto shop. Then he did it all again in reverse with the snow tires...which are now resting nicely underneath our bed!
He also went to a dentist today. One of his crowns fell out. He had a great visit with her and was quite impressed with how she did things.
Those were his adventures for the day, while my day was far more mundane.....laundry, baking, cleaning and studying.
That is perfectly fine. I like mundane days!
The peanut butter bars sound great - and so does a "mundane" day. Tires under the bed?? Do they put them in plastic bags for you so that the carpet does not get dirty? Maybe you have wood floors. Anyway - you do great things. L&P
ReplyDeleteThe tires are in big heavy-weight plastic bags....fortunately. And we do have wood floors....fortunately! The peanut butter bars were received luke-warmly. I guess there is a reason peanut butter is hard to find!
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