Happy Easter

Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter. Here are some cookies I made today. I saw these designs online and decided I had to give them a shot. I tried making cookies with minimal sugar so these have splenda over sugar and ricotta rather than butter. They are pretty good, but they bubbled up during the baking process. If someone has a relatively health cut-out cookie recipe, please send it my way. This one is my design. I was out of all colors at...

Newport, RI

Last weekend we spent Friday driving through Rhode Island. We did a quick stop at the Roger Williams park in Providence and decided to keep going to Newport. The Roger Williams Park area just didn't make us want to spend much time there. Newport, on the other hand, was an adorable town. Full of restaurants and shops. I wish I would have taken a picture of the scenic downtown, but we just drove through it.  In brief, Newport is home to many very...

Kyle visits Alaska

Back in March, Kyle got to go to Alaska for work. Work, in this case, was a radio propagation experiment involving the HAARP.  The plan was to fly to Anchorage, then drive to the HAARP site and to Valdez in order to learn how to set up antennas and associated equipment.  Then Kyle would go back to Anchorage, then on to Juneau to set up another antenna.  Throughout the final week they would spend time taking data from the various parts...

Here comes Spring

The 19th of March was the first weekend with nice enough weather to venture outside. We started out Spring with two very different walks. Our first jaunt was through part of Minute Man Park: The next day we walked from Davis Square through Harvard to the Charles River and back through MIT. Google Map showing the transit line which pretty much was our walking path. Davis square had a lot of restaurants and a movie theater. Looked like a great...

Cookies Anyone?

Just a quick post to show some cookies I made for St Patty's Day and for my Dad's birthday. I still need tons of practice, but it has been f...