Waffles with butter and real maple syrup

Yumminess for breakfast all this week.  I finally got brave and bought real maple syrup.  I always passed because $$ so if I don't like it I'd feel bad for wasting money.  Of course now I'm like "ugh, have to eat up all the low sugar swill before I can buy more good stuff and this real stuff is $$" but at least knowing I like it I can go for the larger size discount when I've used up the fake stuff. 

The butter I think is a side effect of the gub'mint deciding that trans-fats were bad.  Now the groceries have multiple whipped butter options and few margarines (I was searching for one for travel hardiness.)    And butter is not expensive anymore.  Now it would take wanting hormone free stuff to get $$ I think.   Of course when I was a kid they didn't have the hormones to soup up dairy production so much and probably had less subsidies.  Although yogurt is plenty pricey.  I don't drink milk but I think the higher fat dairy stuff like butter, cream, sour cream is relatively cheaper but the lowfat items are not.   Heh, that works for me.  

Our fridge in the house has been not quite right so Dad bought a new one.  I'll have to get all the stuff into the fridge in the garage Sunday evening.   A good excuse to limit cooking this weekend at least.

I am behind on getting Tanza legged up.  I've been wimpy about riding him at home if its windy and about networking to find folks willing to meet up for riding away from home.   Oh well, we will get there for being ready for rides this summer.  I decided that I wanted to go to a multi-day ride in NM rather than try to do the BH 100 this summer so that takes pressure off.   Perhaps I will end up never trying that BH 100; but I think if  Tanza and I stay healthy I will feel like he has enough base to try it safely next year.  

I'm such a good daughter

Dad kept telling sis and I to shoot lots of hogs on our zero success hunt and I teased him that he really missed pork chops but pretty much that was it.   Village Inn in local town quit serving them and I had never bought any pork other than ham, bacon or prepared pulled pork in sauce once or twice.    Well, I don't need to go hunting until I succeed or even buy a whole or 1/2 butcher hog to procure pork chops.   I bought a package at Safeway and breaded and baked them Saturday.   I baked them longer than needed because I didn't start the rice quick enough but they were still OK, not shoe leather and dad was happy.   Sunday I baked the spiral sliced ham I had bought for Easter because on sale and then also made ham and bean soup after putting the extra slices into baggies to freeze.   Dad likes soup,  he eats a lot of the canned and instant soups.   Well with the ham I like the ham and bean soup too,  with the turkey I might throw the carcass away if it was only me although with the pressure cooker making soup is OK.  

What I did not do is dig out my taxes and see if I am missing any 1099 or other forms and get a good start on that task.  Its not worth going to an accountant because the biggest part of the task for me is getting all the forms in one place and tabulating my charitable contributions but tax time always makes me wish I had a personal secretary.   Its silly, if I was rich enough to afford one, I'd still have to keep track of things to make sure they were not cheating me.  I guess I should marry a numbers nerd man.   But I think I would drive such types away with my messy personality or they would drive me crazy.