Bars and Binoculars

Dearest O-Choo-Me(e) Ebab, (Haley's third nickname, Moocho Babe backwards, pronounced with a slight accent.)

To answer the questions posed in you last post, we ate the mango, although it was lying on the table for a day previous, not quite having made it into the fruit basket. I admit, I left it in the photo for purely aesthetic reasons. I think you can agree that I made the right choice. The binoculars are C's, not mine. He uses them for a variety of activities: one, squirrel monitoring (He's big, pesky and grey and digs up the neighbour's garden. I don't think they realize.) Two, humming bird watching. (Three humming birds visit the tree below our kitchen window. C. is interested and excited by their presence. I've lost interest.) Third, chem trail examinations. (Chem trails are the white clouds left by jets, for which C. has formed a mild obsession). So far, we have resisted the urge to train the lenses on the neighbour's window.

Now, for the food, as usual we are in the same head space. I also experimented with squares this weekend. I bought my first stocks of Rhubarb last week. Yes, very exciting. And went looking for a new recipe in which to use the bounty. This crumble bar recipe came from the Smitten Kitchen blog, although where she uses raspberries, I subbed rhubarb. With excellent results, I have to say. These bars are incredibly yummy. The one other itsy change I made was to cut out the second addition of butter. I'm not going to rewrite the recipe. Instead check it out on this mother of food blogs, Smitten Kitchen.