End of May Basement update

The basement project is coming along nicely. Next I'll be working on the floor, including leveling some areas where there will be vinyl flooring and selecting the carpet and floor that we'll be using. In the last few days, we've sprung another leak near the furnace - I hope it's just the drainage water pump, but I may have to call my furnace guy over. On top of that, we have a tree coming down in the yard, some aluminum fascia work to be fixed, we have electrical work to be performed on the first, second and third floors, and we have to have insulation wrapped up. Oh, and I start teaching a new class format next week and I have a 100 mile bike ride for Tour De Cure on 6/10. Yikes.

Basement update for May 2012

Some tasty brownies

Mary Grace loves these, William doesn't. But I keep losing the recipe, so I'm placing it here. 1/2 cup melted butter 1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup flour 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (a little less FTW) 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp baking powder Add eggs, sugar and vanilla to butter, mix. Beat in flour, salt and baking powder. Pour batter into greased 8" square pan and bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes at room temperature and serve (preferably with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!)