Chocolate fudge Pop-Tart spread with the cheese-stuff from three cheese-and cracker packets, topped with two slices of pre-cooked bacon and heated in a toaster oven.

First the taste of the salty-smoky bacon hits you, then the implied cheesiness of the fake cheese, then finally the chocolate...

The reason most of this is gone is because I could not resist eating it before finding my camera!!

Berkshires, on the western edge of MA, where it meets New York. Rebecca Rubin, the American Girl, enjoyed traveling in her home country.

We saw some pretty scenery, what looked like real-live dollhouses, and some artwork done by students at Williams College.

We got lost in between Pittsfield and Stockbridge and ended up at a yoga retreat centre, the biggest any of us had ever seen. It even had kids'programming.

Deserves a Mention

I did not make these treats but their images were to my liking.





I did not buy any of these cookies, seen in Tunnel City coffee shop in Williamstown, MA. They looked too pretty to eat.



Tops grocery store in Batavia, NY. Why don't we have patriotic cupcakes?



And WHY can't we have MorningStar Farms products?



Same grocery store, I put my hand next to the marshmallows to show their size.



Saw this sign by the bathroom sink in another restaurant, hope it's not necessary to say this...speaking of hands touching food.

the bad food blog post

I wanted to be one of those cool food-bloggers and have a food blog. The problem is I don't cook. Here are things I have cooked that have not worked, not cooked, or cooked with a minimal amount of skill and intervention.

My daughter and I just got back from a family camp, the kind where kids go with their parents...we had fun but I am tired now, tomorrow it's back to work

She had two weeks of being away at camp where just kids go and also three weeks of daycamp. Me, I did a two-week internship and also got offered a new part-time job that has nothing to do with the internship.

Also, we went with my family to the place in Massachusetts where I was born. Here is a not-very-good-shot of a rainbow over the lake at the cottage we stayed in.



We took a day-trip to the ocean and had lunch at a really good fish restaurant. There was a truck in the parking lot with a picture of Jesus on its headlights.



And this is the park I played in as a small child. I was surprised at how small it really was, it seemed epic and huge at the time.

This grass grew over where tarmac used to be, where "big" kids with boomboxes danced to Michael Jackson. Funny how you can move in space but you can never move in time.

we were away for a few weeks, got to see some ocean

my daughter took a picture of a light fixture, at first I couldn't understand why she would do that, but I have been having fun experimenting with editing