MAKING MUFFINS AND PHOTO CHALLENGE DAY #4 -- SOMETHING ON THE WALL

Hello, friends!  Sorry I missed yesterday, but I was just beat.  It seems if I have one productive day, the next day I can't do anything.  Yesterday I kept falling asleep.  And I had a headache all day.  Joe is still sick so I tried to take care of him but didn't do a good job.  *sigh*  I was so tired that I sat at the kitchen table to make out my shopping list and fell asleep for 30 minutes.  I like to go food shopping on Tuesday so I get my senior discount but that just didn't happen.  I didn't even get dinner.

It is such a beautiful morning.  I love sitting at the table looking out at the bird feeder.  It looks as if they have gone through the entire feeder of seed already.  It gets expensive keeping it filled.

Look! It's a mourning dove sitting on top of the hook.

Today I am feeling better and more energized so I decided to make muffins for breakfast.  It is something I haven't done lately since we are trying to go low carb but I was just craving them.

With my back and legs getting worse and more painful all the time, I don't make my muffins from scratch much any more.  But the Jiffy mixes are good.  I had one box of apple cinnamon -- my favorite.

I usually put paper cups in my muffin tin, but Joe told me last time that he has trouble with his shaking hands to take the paper off so I decided to just spray the pan and do them that way.

It was easy to do.  One egg and 1/4 cup of milk added to the mix.

Since the mix made only 6 muffins, I found another box of mix for corn muffins and made them.  Another egg and 1/3 cup of milk added to this mix.  And another 6 muffins made.

After I had the pan filled, I looked at the boxes for the baking times.  The apple cinnamon was 12-15 minutes and the corn 15-20 minutes.  Oops.  I decided to just do 15 minutes and popped them in the oven.

While I was waiting for them to bake I worked on my color-by-number picture for today.  I love doing those pictures.  But then I've always loved to color.

The phone rang and it was "Tyler on a recorded line."  He asked if I could hear him and then hung up.  I guess he didn't hear me.  Especially since I didn't say anything.  😄

I finished the picture just as the timer rang to tell me the muffins were done.  Good timing!

 The muffins are done.  I always use my offset spatula to take them out of the little cups.

They are cooling now.  The corn muffins are on the left and the apple on the right.  They are a little browner than I would like, but they are not burned and that's good.

As soon as I finish this I am going to eat a couple of them.  Yum!

PHOTO CHALLENGE
The subject for yesterday's challenge was "something on the wall."  Wow!  I had so much to choose from.  I went back and forth on what to show you.  But I ended up with this verse that is hanging above our piano.  Joe found it in Ross a couple of years ago and wanted it so badly that we got it and hung it up right away.  I look at it every day.  Such a good reminder.

And that's it for now.  Hopefully tonight I will be back with another post for today's photo challenge.  See you then.

Kathy