Shouldn't that mean I get to stay home?

Yes. I think you need to stay home and shop. When the clothes get delivered in a few weeks, then you can go back to work.

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Would you kick AmyLiz and me out of bed for eating crackers cake?

Not even for eating the richest, densest flourless chocolate cake.

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There was nothing to the dirt cake, take a half-stick of butter, an 8oz block of cream cheese, and a cup of powered sugar. Mix that stuff all up into a cream, then add three cups of milk, two packages of instant vanilla pudding, and a tub of cool whip. Smash a whole bag of Oreos, use half to layer the bottom of a 9x13 pan, pour the mixture over that, cover with the remaining Oreos, and refigerate for many hours.

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There was nothing to the dirt cake

I totally thought you meant in the backyard, like mudpies. Heh.

Not even for eating the richest, densest flourless chocolate cake.

::drools::

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Oh, yeah -- I used to make Dirt for parties all the time! For an extra fun touch, you can get gummi worms and stick them halfway through the top.

Mmmmm....dirt.

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There was nothing to the dirt cake, take a half-stick of butter, an 8oz block of cream cheese, and a cup of powered sugar. Mix that stuff all up into a cream, then add three cups of milk, two packages of instant vanilla pudding, and a tub of cool whip. Smash a whole bag of Oreos, use half to layer the bottom of a 9x13 pan, pour the mixture over that, cover with the remaining Oreos, and refigerate for many hours.

My old boss made a version of this for her family Christmas party, for all the little kids. I think some of the ingredients were different, but Oreos featured prominently. She'd buy new pails and shovels, and make it in there. She also included Gummi Worms, for dirt realism.

Not even for eating the richest, densest flourless chocolate cake.

That's a wise choice. I'm pretty sure it would produce few crumbs.

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We just saw two completely black squirrels in our yard. I've never seen anything like that before. I think they may harbingers of evil. Which, not surprising up here.

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I will try to send the recipe tonight or tomorrow. . . will be tricky as I won't be home.

Amyliz - where I used to live in Gaithersburg, MD, there were whole families of black squirrels. A melanistic phase of the gray squirrel. I love how they always look like they are in silhouette.

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I seem to remember seeing a lot of them in Chicago, unless I'm thinking of the brown squirrels. I have seen black squirrels here once or twice, but we primarily have the plain old gray ones. They never bothered me until we moved to this house. We moved in, in October, of a big acorn-producing year and the yard was always full of them, which made me recognize their rattishness, and made my skin crawl.

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where I used to live in Gaithersburg, MD, there were whole families of black squirrels. A melanistic phase of the gray squirrel.

Oh. It's more fun to think of them as evil, though.

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