OMG! WHAT IS IT?
FIND OUT AT THE END OF THIS POST...AND NO CHEATING!
Diana and I went on our what’s-coming-to-be annual whale-watching trip on the R/V Fulmer with folks from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Although the day was overcast and cold, we had a great trip. Except…for a gigantic brain fart on my part! For some reason I got it in my head that taking video of the trip would be way cool, especially to put here, on my blog. With foresight like that, it’s hard to believe I’ve survived in this world as long as I have! Checkout my resulting video; keep in mind I shot 1.5 hours of video and could only fudge enough for this clip!
Pathetic!
THE AMERICAN DREAM IN CAMBRIA
This one is of a semi-derelict house on the street Di and I take to go up the hill to our home. A certified nut case, who threatened a deputy sheriff with a 357-magnum revolver (which, not surprisingly, brought out about 20 more deputies with shotguns M16s, etc) owned it. This man was concerned because the authorities were going to shut off his water for non-payment of his bill for a year. After about an hour the standoff ended peacefully (I’m not sure how). It did create quite a stir in the neighborhood!
This one is of a semi-derelict house on the street Di and I take to go up the hill to our home. A certified nut case, who threatened a deputy sheriff with a 357-magnum revolver (which, not surprisingly, brought out about 20 more deputies with shotguns M16s, etc) owned it. This man was concerned because the authorities were going to shut off his water for non-payment of his bill for a year. After about an hour the standoff ended peacefully (I’m not sure how). It did create quite a stir in the neighborhood!
This person had other troubles-both legal and mental-which necessitated a surreptitious disappearance for him. But before he went bye-bye, he managed to destroy a perfectly good house in the short time he lived there.
Obviously some entity other than Mr. X now controls the property and has put it on the market. I’m assuming they’re selling it “as is”. What strikes me as funny, though, is the name on the for sale sign: “American Dream Realtors”!!!
AND THE ANSWER IS...
You guessed it...the photo is of my pineapple upside down cake! More precisely it's my birthday cake. Yes people, although I try to ignore is annual anniversary, too many people seem to enjoy sensing my general feeling of doom and gloom! This year was special: I awoke to Abbey licking my head's bald spot telling me it is 4:00 AM--time to get up! Arise I did and dutifully feed our three malnourished Brittanys. When I did, I noticed a greeting card envelope leaning against a Betty Crocker Cake package in the pantry where we keep the dogs' food.
Abbey, Max, and Bandit were enthusiastically scarfing down their breakfast, so I slowly tore up the greeting envelope--I knew it was a dreaded birthday card. Sure enough it was a "funny" birthday card with the usual copy intended to make one feel even worse than you already do about this particular day. Yes indeed, Diana got in the first dig of the day; she wrote that the cake mix was for me to make my own favorite birthday cake, pineapple upside down cake!!! Believe me, my first thought was NOT "oh, how sweet, how thoughtful of her." No indeed, it (that first thought) was something very different, believe me!
But, as all of you well know, I take up the challenges with enthusiasm and gusto. So what if I had to make my own birthday cake--it's the usual treatment I get everyday. I got to work crafting my own birthday cake later in the morning. It took awhile to read the direction on the box because the print was so small, but I persevered. The “cake” was ready to come out of the oven a couple of hours later. As is usual with all upside down cakes, I had to immediately flip the hot cake pan upside down on a plate. It literally made a big splash; evidently I wasn't supposed to add the entire juice of the pineapple can to the concoction, just a tablespoon full!
Oh yah, my birthday cake turned out nice and juicy! It wasn't pretty, but it tasted great!
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4 comments:
Happy Belated Birthday!! Guess you got to "bake your cake and eat it, too" ha ha Success in the kitchen, oh yeah. Was that a whale fluke in your video? The dolphins I recognized. And as for American Dream Realtors, they sure have a sense of humor, something Mr. X evidently was lacking in. And I thought Cambria was a sleepy little town!
Love the t-ball, ballet, and duck photos in the sidebar. The cake, uh, not so much.
The mola (sunfish) @ 1:10 in the video is cool. Very odd fish.
A "mola" - is THAT what that thing was - I was thinking giant jellyfish. Thanks for the update, E.
well done with the cake. melis just came in the room and said "oh, that's an upside down pineapple cake". you now have expectations to bake when we come visit!!!
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