Today the sun is shining - and I've managed to get some washing on the line - and I feel great. However, I've got to tell you that I had more than a few anxious moments watching the floodwaters creep up the road. Thankfully the water didn't get any higher than in some of the photos, but the huge stormwater drain behind me did keep me twitchy.
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| you could surf in this stuff! |
Then yesterday, the day after the flooding, all the cell phone coverage - all networks - went kaput. So, not only couldn't I get in contact with relatives on the coast who were hunkering down in 100km/h plus winds, but I had no way to check the weather or emergency reports for this area. Not impressed with the phone companies.
So as I anxiously waited for the phones to come back online, I started to cook. First a chocolate cake, then a lasagna. I have been re-reading the Stephanie Plum books to pass the time during the storms - and she's a terrible influence on my menu! The cake is yummy and very dense. And I am so proud of the lasagna as it is the first ever time I've cooked it! It's delicious, and the pasta is cooked just right. However it's not as good as my mothers lasagna. Isn't your mother's cooking always tastier than your own attempts at family recipes? Thankfully I don't have any pineapples in the house or it could have been a pineapple upside-down cake as I do have a recipe floating around somewhere. My only problem is now I have to either eat it all, or freeze some of the lasagna as I went a little bit overboard. Perhaps I could have Lula come over for a feed? :-)
