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walkitoutI have a new walking partner, D. (a few weeks now). She knitted me a scarf! So I promised to make a cake, because I am not crafty but I can bake. I finally followed up on the promise: one layer of chocolate cake with coconut nut frosting for her family and one for mine. I don't know how her half turned out, but I liked mine.
My daughter, A., however, did NOT like coconut (surprise) and requested chocolate cake with pink frosting on top and chocolate frosting on the side. Very specific! So I made another cake (1/3rd of a 2 layer recipe, baked as a single layer in a smaller pan). Then I used raspberries and strawberries in a blender to make pink icing for the top. I took pictures and updated my chocolate cake recipe page.
http://www.seanet.com/~rla/cookbook/chocolate_cake.html
I also got my hair cut today, and stopped into Acton Coffee Shop in its new location in West Acton. I got English Breakfast (in bags that claimed to be whole leaf, and certainly seemed like larger than the dust in most bags) tea and a piece of dairy-free pumpkin bread. It was yummy and the staff was very friendly about helping find something I could have.
I also received the Smart Keyboard to go with the iPad Pro 9.7 inch that I got recently. I like it! I'm able to set it in my lap to use it (altho of course then you are tipping your neck down a long ways, which probably isn't great for your neck) and while the clicks sound off from a usual clicking keyboard and the travel is bizarrely short for travel (but more than typing on glass, obviously!), and despite the smallness of the keys, I had no trouble at all typing at nearly full speed almost immediately. YMMV -- other reviewers found it tippy and had trouble typing at speed. It's not very heavy -- I don't think it's as heavy as the keyboard free folio case from Speck I was using as a temporary measure until the keyboard cover arrived. On first use, I like it better than any other tablet keyboard I've tried, and I've been buying these weird keyboards for most of two decades, because I started buying folding keyboards for a Treo Handspring and despite repeated disappointment in many of the choices -- especially Bluetooth, because they keep losing pairing randomly. The hard connection fixes the bluetooth problem. I had a Surface Pro for a while, and loved the screen, the stylus and the keyboard -- but I don't care for Windows.
I have not yet bought the Pencil, but I'm really thinking about it.
My daughter, A., however, did NOT like coconut (surprise) and requested chocolate cake with pink frosting on top and chocolate frosting on the side. Very specific! So I made another cake (1/3rd of a 2 layer recipe, baked as a single layer in a smaller pan). Then I used raspberries and strawberries in a blender to make pink icing for the top. I took pictures and updated my chocolate cake recipe page.
http://www.seanet.com/~rla/cookbook/chocolate_cake.html
I also got my hair cut today, and stopped into Acton Coffee Shop in its new location in West Acton. I got English Breakfast (in bags that claimed to be whole leaf, and certainly seemed like larger than the dust in most bags) tea and a piece of dairy-free pumpkin bread. It was yummy and the staff was very friendly about helping find something I could have.
I also received the Smart Keyboard to go with the iPad Pro 9.7 inch that I got recently. I like it! I'm able to set it in my lap to use it (altho of course then you are tipping your neck down a long ways, which probably isn't great for your neck) and while the clicks sound off from a usual clicking keyboard and the travel is bizarrely short for travel (but more than typing on glass, obviously!), and despite the smallness of the keys, I had no trouble at all typing at nearly full speed almost immediately. YMMV -- other reviewers found it tippy and had trouble typing at speed. It's not very heavy -- I don't think it's as heavy as the keyboard free folio case from Speck I was using as a temporary measure until the keyboard cover arrived. On first use, I like it better than any other tablet keyboard I've tried, and I've been buying these weird keyboards for most of two decades, because I started buying folding keyboards for a Treo Handspring and despite repeated disappointment in many of the choices -- especially Bluetooth, because they keep losing pairing randomly. The hard connection fixes the bluetooth problem. I had a Surface Pro for a while, and loved the screen, the stylus and the keyboard -- but I don't care for Windows.
I have not yet bought the Pencil, but I'm really thinking about it.