Tom's grad party is today and I've been baking brownies all morning. I had to stir up a batch and a half for each as the aluminum pans are a bit bigger than my nice glass brownie pan and they are each a different color. Two are pretty much the same shade of chocolate that my brownies usually are, one is very light and the other very dark. 'Twill be interesting to see how they all taste! I woke up with a screaming headache, so I'll use that and the extra 1/2 batch of ingredients as my excuses.
It rains on. We are having the party up in Melissa's garage. I think she wanted it there to add a cheerful note after the somberness of Adam's wake, although even then, there was a good deal of joyful remembering. Stan took the base he built for her (his) hay elevator up last night. I got the task of following up the big hill - nice and slopey near the bottom, a brief more level spot and then what feels like straight up. All went well and the Trailblazer chugged up in low gear quite nicely for all it's 10 years old and rather abused.
