1) I love spring when strawberries are in season. Yum, yum yum!

2) Janiece is made of six different kinds of awesome: Grandmom received two jars of apple butter today!

3) I’ve been reading through baking books, but haven’t yet gotten around to writing a single review. I’ll try to get to that in the near future.
For reference, the books are:
Bakewise, by Shirley O. Corriher
The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, by Peter Reinhart
Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America
and currently on my bed stand is Baking with Julia

Of the four, I think I found the CIA book most useful; Bakewise would have been rated higher, but it really needed a better editor–the tidbits often wandered afield and never quite made it home.

Actually, there may be more, but I can’t think of ’em right now.