Mix the white sugar, brown sugar, half and half, and salt into saucepan.
Bring to a boil and reduce heat to medium continue to boil and still constantly until mixture thickens to a syrup, about 8 minutes. A candy thermometer should read 220° F.
Stir in butter, pecans, and vanilla. Continue to cook until mixture reaches 234° F.
Allow the glaze to cool for 5 minutes and pour over prepared bundt cake.
In a small bowl, mix the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together.
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat; add sweet potatoes, and stir to coat. Sprinkle sugar mixture over the sweet potatoes, and stir. Cover skillet, and reduce heat to low. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 1 hour, or until the sauce is dark and the potatoes are candied. They should be tender, but a little hard around the edges.
I went yesterday and picked up my desktop from the wood place and today I will get it put on the frame and hopefully be able to move all the stuff off the table and onto that. We are running out of space and I really need to get something done about it. I have a giant white board in my bathroom, 3 desk chairs in there and too much crap on my real desk in the bedroom!
Not to mention all the clothes I really need to go through to clean out my closet and drawers. Samantha has been trying to get me to do that for months now – guess I better do something at sometime – she may just get rid of everything
I also need to figure out what all will be made for Thanksgiving – which happens to be dad’s birthday. Now last year he asked for beenie weenies. I am not going to say that I refuse to cook that for Thanksgiving, but it isn’t really going to go well with the hens…
I am sitting here and Nickel is being like a cat. He just hates when I am at a computer. Now I have Dime doing the same thing – she is less calm than him though.
Paul is coming over today and we will get good stuff done I hope. I may have threatened him to either bring me a donut or sandwich. I hope he does
OK, going to get started this morning and will get back to this later I hope.
New desk space – is that the kitchen table, maybe…
I am headed home today from a long trip. We had long days every day on this cutover, but it was still a great time. I got to sit with the person running the cutover and he was answering some question and I was really getting into it. I got to see several people who I have worked with on different occasions – always good!
We were in Richmond Virginia and even if it was a bit cold it was so pretty here with the leaves changing colors. Ariel, the person who I was with, took me all over looking at stuff which was so great. We even had some time to catch a movie.
I really hope I will be able to spend more time in the field next year like we did this one. It was satisfying to be able to help people with real work rather than just making up fake stuff to show. I like to leave people feeling a little bit better about the tool and I think that I succeeded on this trip.
I can not wait to get back to Dad and the puppies. I hope they haven’t forgotten me 😉 I will be so happy to get back to work!
Here are some pics.
Chicken in front of the BBQ place we ate.LEGO ART just schooled the new truck on how to park :)Burger joint sign looks like the Las Vegas sign :)The Markel Building – this is an office building.This is an old Lucky Strike building where you can see the man crawling out of the roof.Same Lucky Strike building but these are apartments.Train station – I think it is going to be Amtrak.This is the original Seaboard train station.This is called a double stop :)Such pretty colors.This is the same train station just another view.I thought this was funny – ladies and gentleman’s club.Looking north at Lakeside. I spent most of my time here.Looking south from Lakeside – I was in this trailer on the right all of the cutover.
Alright at first I was like, hey we haven’t had BLTs in forever, lets do that. Now after the third one in 4 days – I am BLTed out!!
Today was such a nice day weather wise I just can’t stand it. We even walked to the lunch place instead of just going downstairs.
I am catching up on some YouTube stuff. Oh and listening to the dogs bark…
Carlos and I built the new table yesterday but we could not finish 100%. Tomorrow a friend and I are going to see some tabletops to switch out the board with. I am very happy with it besides not having the top I really want
I had such a great idea for blogging and I honestly can not remember what I was thinking about Oh well, it happens to the best of us!
I have been taking some Claritin because my nose is snotty, but it dries my mouth out so bad that I am gonna have to stop. Now to find an alternative to that to help keep me clear
I REMEMBER I REMEMBER
Next week or rather next weekend I am flying to Richmond, VA! I am glad to get another little trip in and it should be very very nice out. And I don’t have to drive. I love when I don’t have to drive and get picked up and toted everywhere
OK, I feel like I am rambling now so I am gonna go to bed
I know, I am blogging 2 days in a row!!! Today is laundry day, but I am not going to do just laundry today I am going to get a table built for the business!! We need something other than the dining room table to work at so we can leave some stuff out. I am putting wheels on it so that I can just shove it in my room when we are not using it.
Last nights BLT was good, but not as awesome as it was the other day. I had 4 squares on there and I think I should have just stuck to the 2. Today I was supposed to make them for Samantha, but I don’t know for sure yet.
We are waiting on my sister to arrive before we go to the Home Depot – someone has to watch the puppies. And it just started raining hard. Might just be able to get the legs and not the top. BOOOOOO!!
The puppies were very helpful this morning in building the chairs – I am unsure if I could have finished it without them
Well, as usual I will get back to this if something good happens!!
Well, here we are again, so many days from the last blog. I am currently sitting at the table, waiting on my brothers to get here to help me figure out what the heck is wrong with my new printer! Something that should have been removed has been left on something and I feel like I have taken it apart – several times.
I took the drone downtown last night and it is pretty awesome! First time I flew it by myself from takeoff to landing. Very cool and can not wait to get some more time with it.
I have been making some good progress on the business side of things. Investing in it myself and trying to stay productive. The down side is basically working or thinking about work a lot now a days. But that is sorta normal for me I suppose, but the difference is for me and not for another person who doesn’t appreciate it as much
It is such a nice day today, the weather is nice and cool and the sun is bright! I am sure that it will heat up nicely later, but now is pretty great.
Alright, I don’t wanna go too crazy and blog a lot so I am gonna cut this short and will add another one if something cool happens
HA HA, did everyone see what I did there?! Today we were at Hamlet Yard and finished pretty quick so I got to see up close them “humping” the cars. I was talking to one of the people who control the locomotives remotely, he was so nice, and was able to give me some good info. It’s good info for me, but I promise you would not be entertained – ha!
I am now in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and sitting on my bed waiting to go to dinner. There is this little gas freak out going on here and there are several places that don’t have gas. This is just crazy, people are freaking out for no real reason and the gas stations are being greedy and raising the prices illegally – that burns me up! One station says that they will only be getting premium for the next 3 days – um, premium is the least used – so how is it you are getting two deliveries of that when you wouldn’t normally?? Maybe you are putting regular in the premium tank (probably already do that crap)…
OK, gotta move on from that cause it just fires me up!
I know that people probably don’t want to hear about this, but to me it is something that I would rather have had some idea about before I had to experience it.
I realized today that I need to turn off my mom’s cell phone. It doesn’t cost that much and it isn’t even turned on right now, but for some reason I don’t want to. It doesn’t even have her voice on the greeting. I just am not wanting someone else to have that number maybe.
I had a good conversation with my coworkers yesterday at dinner and I mentioned that I have my mother’s ring and it makes me think of her even though she didn’t have it very long. About 6 months in fact. And I also had this urge to buy something with her birthstone – she never wore her birth stones, but it is what it is. My coworker had told me that she has her grandmother’s rings, she pulled them out right there. It was very nice to see someone else had felt the exact same way for someone.
Just got back from dinner, going to play my little game and go to bed
A depot we were at in Dillon, SCThe theatre in Dillon.From the depot, maybe was a bank.A car going down the hump.The other end of the car – free rolling :)
I am sitting in my hotel room after driving to Santee, South Carolina today and I am trying to get my motivation back to blog everyday. Things have been hard and I feel numb a lot of the time, but I can’t spend this entire year in a haze.
I don’t know when it is really going to hit me that my mother is gone. Everyone keeps telling me that everyone deals with this differently and whatever it is that I am doing isn’t “wrong”. I think that is good for me to hear, but I am still worried that it will all come crashing down and I won’t really be able to handle it. My doctor said it isn’t going to be as bad as I imagine. The fear of how hard it is going to be is worse then it is going to be.
When we got here, before we even checked in we had dinner at Cracker Barrel! We both had pancakes I rode up here with one of my coworkers if anyone is curious about the “we” – I am not that crazy
There is so much going on right now that I am feeling a bit overwhelmed, but my brothers are really stepping up. Anyway, enough about that.
I am almost done with my latest book, well it shows 44%, but they count all the reference pages as part of that percentage – which is DUMB Kindle – STOP! It is another book about a building, The Chelsea Hotel. Very interesting stuff happens in buildings that people live in…
Alright, I am going to try to get some sleep early tonight so I am gonna stop this now. Goodnight!
Oh well, it happens to the best of us!
