Jessie and I Decorated Those Sugar Cookies

It Snowed Again.

We decided to try and escape today. Dad and I went out at about 10 and started shoveling. And shoveling... and shoveling. I finished a bit from the garage to the front door only to turn around and see two fresh inches of snow covering up everything I'd just done. I cleared out part of the driveway before Dad got the tractor out. The tractor, unfortunately, had water in the bucket before the snow and now it had a block of concrete from somewhere, some rocks AND ice all piled up.After hacking at it for a while everything came out and some of the snow could be pushed around.

Enough to let us get some chains on the subaru and make it out to Sandy for more food. The crazy part is that when we went to get into the subaru we had to push almost two feet of snow off of everything and then up to two inches of ice off of all the important bits, like doors. Dad and I went to the store and after a crazy bit we got back in one piece.

(I found this wine at the store and I thought it was pretty funny. Funny enough to take a picture and then spend some time posting it. So there.)Sandy was a mess, there was about 8 inches of packed snow on the plowed roads and for a while we had to snow plow our way out of our road. Jessie spent some time sleeping, and playing tetris, and watching tv. Mom shoveled snow off of the back deck TWICE today (there was about a foot of snow on it the first time and about four or five the second time). Now, after spending a good chunk of the day shoveling things here and there I'm making some of this pretty bread and Jessie's making some sugar cookies. I've been baking and baking and baking some more!

Nooooo!

Mother's Cookies (makers of those tasty pink and white frosted animal crackers) has closed it's doors. There will be no more tasty-crack cookies for you! Which is sad (but I admit, I've only been allowed to indulge in them a couple of times but even those few have left an imprint on my brain). Never to fear, those creative people who blog about such things have created a recipe for you when you're stuck with a craving for these extinct cookies.

Dessert First has posted a recipe using these Williams-Sonoma cookie cutters. And don't bother, I've already checked around for other circus animal cookie cutters and can't find any. Sadness. I crave these little guys though!