Dorothy, I read about "value added" frosting to do with some scones a few years ago - orange and cranberry scones got more orangey if you added some OJ to the icing (just powdered sugar and OJ, as I recall, and a speck of salt). I think you stumbled onto a good fix for otherwise non-exciting baked goods.

Yes, have been busy. Not on my own stuff, just work stuff, it seems. But Saturday is supposed to be a nice day before our next cool-down, so I'll get some beneficial nematodes and get the garden soil ready for planting in the next few weeks. They knock out the cut worms in particular, and kill some of the larval stages of pests that are now in the soil.

Allergies are in the background, threatening to burst forth as the season warms.

One room is beginning to look like a grown-up's living room. Now I have 8 more rooms in the house to make look grown-up. :)

SRS