Westfield, IN Farmers' Market

Friday evening we went to the Westfield Farmers' Market. We picked up a cantelope that was supposed to be from Vincennes, some sweet corn and zucchini.

The picture of the building is the side of what used to be the pharmacy. Westfield is changing too. Having the farmers' market is new since I lived in the area.

Mom's knee surgery yesterday went well. She's mostly laying around trying to get better enough to go home. She has walked twice today and had her first meal at lunch today. We really like this hospital.

Recipe

I saw Paula Deen make this recipe on her show and thought my stamping customers and downline would like it - and they really did. How can it be bad with two sticks of butter and cream cheese?

TOFFEE GOOEY BUTTER CAKE

Cake:
Vegetable oil cooking spray
yellow cake mix
1 large egg
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted

Filling:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
2 large eggs
1 t. vanilla
1 (1 pound) box confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
1 cup toffee bits

Preheat the oven to 350. Spray a 9 x 13 baking pan with cooking spray.

With electric mixer, mix well the cake mix, egg and butter. Pat evenly into the bottom of the prepared baking pan and set aside.

In a bowl, mix together the cream cheese, eggs, vanilla, confectioners' sugar and butter. Beat on medium speed until smooth. Fold in the toffee bits with the spatula.

Pour the filling over the cake mixture and spread it evenly. Bake until the center is just a little bit gooey, about 40-50 minutes. Allow to cool completely before cutting.

Weekend Stamping

Here are some pictures from my downline meeting Sat. We each brought the supplies for everyone to make a card using lots of our new products from the catalog that just came out July 1. It was a relaxing morning of stamping, technique demos and sharing business ideas.

The cupcakes were from Holy Cow Cupcakes.
The owner had on a Colts apron so when I mentioned living near Dallas Clark's hometown, she said they did cupcakes for his recent baby shower and also some for a party Jeff Saturday had.

The rest of the pictures are of some of our displays that we bring to share the ideas with each other.

Back Home Again in Indiana

Bill has been on a prairie dog hunting trip in South Dakota and Montana this past week having a good time and good shooting. While he was gone, I left for Indiana. He's home now and I'll be gone for a while. Mom is having her second knee replacement surgery this next week.

Last night we had a nice meal out at Abuello's with Uncle Neal, Aunt Jan and cousin Jodi.

I had my Stampin' Up! downline meeting this morning. It was a fun time of technique demonstrations, sharing business ideas with each other, card making and lunch.

Then I met a friend and we visited while she had lunch and then drove around Carmel looking at all the changes.

The NASCAR Brickyard race is here in Indianapolis this weekend. It's gonna be a hot one! They've been talking on the news about the things they're going to be doing to keep people cool. One of my long time friends and blog reader, Marie, will be there. Stay cool Marie!

This past week has also been RAGBRAI, the annual bike ride across Iowa. It's been really hot and humid for the 10,000 riders there too. One of my customers was going to be riding for the first time and doing three days. I can't wait to hear all about it when we get together to stamp in Sept. Click HERE to read about RAGBRAI.

I've taken several pictures since getting here Thurs. night. Will try to get some of them posted tomorrow after church and the stamp class.

Crop Duster

We woke up this morning to the sound of a crop duster. Or here, they call them spray planes. We rarely hear any kind of airplane in our area but this time of year, the spray planes are really busy. I think my dad should've been a crop duster and would've loved it. He was always buzzing people and doing crazy things in his plane plus liked farming.

Bill says they are spraying fungicide on the corn to prevent fungus. Some guys have it done, some don't and save that money. The dairy always sprays all of their corn to preserve the stalks since they chop those for silage to feed their dairy cows. Bill & Tim though want the stalks to "go away" once the ear of corn has grown so there's less "trash" in the fields to help the next year's crop grow better. Lots to think about with farming!

Along those lines, we had an appointment with our attorney/also CPA this week re: our income & expenses so far this year, etc. He told Bill to think about any tile work that needs to be done in the fields, putting up new grain bins, trading for newer semis and pickup, or building a machine shed - for more expenses/tax deductions. Bill wants to someday build a machine shed/shop next to our house, but we're trying to figure out where to put it and not ready to do that this year. Lots to think about . . .

Just HOT

Nothing much new around here. It's just been hot and humid like about everywhere else.

I'm getting things ready for a meeting and a stamp class in Indiana the end of the month. Gathering up catalogs, order forms, door prizes, stamps, ink pads, card stock, putting together projects for the ladies to make, deciding on food, etc.

I've gone the past week or so for the yearly eye exam, dentist appointment and had a couple of physical therapy sessions. I'm still battling my frozen shoulder but it is getting better. It should be since I've had it over a year. Not fun. I've been trying to get most of the appointments done in the summer since we're busy in spring and fall and the weather is iffy starting in Dec.

Today Bill greased the sprayer and mowed some weeds. He was mowing with a tractor without a cab and got stuck here for a while because we got a little rain. Yesterday he sprayed for mosquitoes around our house and his mom's and the couple days before that he was finishing up spraying fields for weeds.

Bryan, Bill's cousin, is here again this summer and has been doing my mowing job.

Today is Bill's birthday. He decided he wanted a jello cake and pizza - that's easy! I offered to make big, homemade cakes like Red Velvet, German Chocolate, Italian Cream types but he's a white cake/vanilla icing kind of guy (white walls, white house . . .).

I took both of these pictures tonight. Saw the field with hay ready to be baled down the road from us as I went to pick up the pizza. I thought the light was kind of pretty on the tasseled corn when the train came through although I didn't get the camera and outside quite quick enough.