Baking day!

So after a recent trip to Glasgow, where I was wildly successful in the shopping department, I decided to try and step up my frugality this month. I decided to focus on my food budget and try to get through about 3 weeks without buying anything but milk, lettuce, yogurt, and tomatoes.

In the average household, this would probably be almost impossible, but in this household, our kitchen cabinets are filled with a plethora of American muffin mixes, and our freezer is full of frozen meat we haven't used. I figured I could nibble away at everything we normally overlook.

If you hadn't noticed, bread was not on the list of things I could buy. So...

Using stuff that's just been sitting on our shelves, I made a loaf of bread and a few rolls! I've never been very ambitious when it comes to baking, but I was quite proud of myself when I popped this adorable loaf out of the oven.

Anyone have a yummy and easy bread recipe to share?

Fast cars and duct tape

Living in small towns and adorning cars with duct tape seems to be my lot in life.

Last weekend while my housemate and I were driving through the Barvas machair (common grazing land by the sea), a cow decided to straddle the very handy driving path that we were on. In response, I did what anyone would do, I rolled down the window and shouted at it. The cow did what any cow in its situation would do, it moved.

As I smugly pushed the button to roll the window back up, my moment of victory was completely ruined. The window got stuck halfway up! Ugh. And this is Scotland we're talking about! It rains all the time!

After a bit of elbow grease generously donated by a stranger, we got the window almost closed, but not quite. There's still about 4 inches of open space, and that's no good. So here's our new and improved vehicle looking more like one of my cars than usual.

And here's a blast from the past! My beloved Ford Aspire...