This and That

 Hello…is there anyone still there? One way to lose followers is not to post on a regular schedule. 

The dark days of winter are here and not always easy to find something to blog about. I have been busy but doing what I am not sure?

I did try my hand my hand at baking a cake. Made a three layer carrot cake from scratch…We Americans  are usually prone to using a cake mix…but this is the real thing with creme cheese icing. Now I just need to learn how to decorate. I didn’t exactly put much thought into how to space my letters, and I got the decorating (orange ) icing too thin to properly make the ruffled trim.I will try again soon if someone will have a birthday. We certainly don’t want a cake this big around here to temp us!

My daughter and granddaughter sent this picture of them  posing at an event inside a Van Gogh painting.

I recognized it right away,

since Tom and I were in Arles, France at the very spot  where they are standing a few years ago.Van Gogh painted this coffee shop The Terrace Cafe in 1888 while living in Arles.That was the same year he sliced off his ear…

I am still taking courses at TCU. I wasn’t too keen on taking this course, Happiness, because a lot of these self help books seem like psycho babble sometimes, but I really like the instructor.

Right off the bat there is this chart. She says 50% of  your happiness  you inherit (set point). So if I have good circumstances (10%) in my life and I intentionally try my hand at happiness but let’s say I am a descendant of Scrooge…my chances of being happy are still only50 50.

Looks like I not only need a course in cake decorating…but I need to read this book and figure this out!…stay tuned..