It's been a long haul today--I didn't work, as I had something done with my jaw...not going to discuss it here, as it's not appropriate, but I'm horribly sore and tired after a very painful experience.

Before I left this morning, I did the final page of my new recipe blog. http://justplaincooking.wordpress.com/ It's no big deal, but I liked the idea of having my and my family's recipes posted on the net to share--although I'm sure some of them have been posted before. Some of the recipes are my own original recipes, many are from mum's recipe box, collected over the course of 40 some-odd years of cooking. Some are even older, a few from mum's mother, and great-grandmother, and two from my great-aunt Carrie, of whom I know very little about, other than she had a farm in the early part of the century--and I have photos of mum and other family members taken there. Mum and I went back, in the early 80's, to try and find it--but had not much luck. The farm lane was long gone, and mum couldn't remember quite which one it was. It made her rather sad, I think, tho' she tried to pass it off.

This was the farm where mum had to sleep in the same palor as her grandmother's coffin, where she used to get chased into the outhouse by a mean goose, and where she had her first real-life experience in finding out the phrase, "running around like a chicken with its head cut off" is actually true. Nevertheless, she also enjoyed her family visits to Aunt Carrie, I suspect.

Well, I'm going to rest awhile, methinks. Cheers.