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Thirfty Whole Wheat Rosemary Foccacia

Right now I've got a big batch of rosemary foccacia rising in on oiled bowl. This is a very yummy, very cheap bread that lends a touch of class to a frugal meal. The frugal meal I'm making tonight is pinto bean & ham leftovers, salsa to go on top of the pinto beans, & foccacia bread. I made the salsa yesterday and the pinto beans are bubbling away in the pot. This recipe is really easy and uses very few ingredients. It is sort of rustic so if you like that kind of thing, this recipe may be for you.

Ingredients:
1/4 cup olive oil
1 onion chopped
1/2 tsp sugar
1 pack yeast [or 1 1/2 tsp if you have the jarred kind]
2 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups unbleached  all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tbsp dried rosemary or 2 tbsp fresh- I use fresh since I have a nice rosemary bush in the garden.
cornmeal
coarse salt

OK, here are the directions. Caramelize the onions in the 1/4 cup olive oil and let cool. In a bowl mix the yeast, sugar, & warm water. Let this sit ten minutes to proof [get all bubbly]. Mix the flours, salt, & rosemary. Add the bubbly stuff. Stir well. Turn out on a floured surface and knead about ten minutes. Put dough into an oiled bowl and turn once. Let it sit and rise 35-45 minutes. Punch it down and knead just a time or two. Make it into 2 balls. Flatten them out to 10 inches in diameter. Place on a oiled cookie sheet that has been dusted with cornmeal. Brush tops with olive oil, grind some coarse salt over it, and sprinkle more rosemary on top. Let it rise again. Bake at 375 for 25-30 minutes. Let it sit on cookie pan 10 minutes. Cut in wedges to serve.

Hope you'll give this one a try!    

Super Easy Pesto

This is the recipe for my super fast pesto. It will be fine in a glass jar in the frig for a week or so. My pesto is not fancy, I hate to go to the expense of buying pine nuts. But even so, we like it a lot.

I keep a huge pot planted with basil, cilantro, & thyme by the back door. It supplies me with plenty of fresh seasonal herbs.

Ingredients:

2 cups of fresh basil [any kind's fine but I have sweet basil]
1/2 olive oil [give or take]
1 pinch nutmeg
salt & pepper to taste
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup nuts- today I used sunflower seeds- any nut or seed would do

Strip you basil stalks down to just leaves and wash well. Squeeze out water and put basil along with everything else into your food processor. Process until it's the consistency you like. We like ours to have plenty of bulk and be a little on the dry side. If that's not you add more olive oil.

Busy Day!!!

I've had a really busy day today. Thursdays are the day I go and volunteer at our little local library. Usually I shelve books or do clerical type tasks for the Summer Reading Program. Today was no different. The thing I like about shelving books is that I get first pick of all the new ones that have been just returned. And I always get a DVD or 2 to watch while I'm running on the treadmill.

Today after I did my volunteer job I did lots of other fun and interesting things. I went to a local Farmers' Market. OK, here's the thing about our Farmers' Market.....the prices are much higher than they would be at my cheap cost plus 10% grocery store. So, I didn't end up getting anything. That was pretty discouraging.

Then I went to Walgreen's to see what was on sale. Again, nothing that I felt was a good value this week for me. But next I went to Good Will. I was able to get tons of neat stuff there including some Christmas type things. I can't say a whole lot about the Christmas items.....friends & family read the blog. But for myself I got a pair of turkey salt and pepper shakers I've been looking for for Thanksgiving. They were unused and still in their original box- price .99. And I got a totally cute huge chunky Santa mug that says, 'I believe'. That is for us as well. We use Christmas dishes, glasses, & mugs from Thanksgiving until New Year.

I got a really nice almost new pet shed blade. The good ones can cost about 20 dollars but I don't think the Good Will folks realized what it was because it was hanging with the kitchen implements LOL....the asking price was 1.99. I've been wanting one of these for a long time for my dog, but have been too cheap to shell out the big bucks. So I was really glad to find it!

I found loads of great books. Goodwill has a lovely supply of just about any book type you like. Paperbacks are 1.50, hardbacks are 2.50. These are almost new books. So I got a sack full to use for porch reading over the rest of the Summer. After I read them I donate them to the library or pass them on to friends.

Then I went next door to Bealls outlet. I always seem to find something nice at Bealls. I got 2 nice brand name Fall/Winter tops from the clearance racks there for 2.50 each. And I was able to get two 10 dollar name brand candles for 2.50 each also. They are a neutral green and have a refreshing herby type aroma. They will go into my gift closet.    

Then I went to CVS. I had lots better luck there than I had at Walgreen's. I got several toiletry items I'd been needing and I used my CVS card, of course. They were also having a big sale on current paperback books- 1 dollar a piece.

Then I got home and windswept the house so that I could feel comfortable reading one of those books I got. We are eating very lightly these days so I made Hutch a nice big salad for supper and now I'm finally able to sit and catch my breath a bit.

Hope your day has been as productive as mine.           

Cheap & Easy Tricks to Living a Gracious & Simple Life #2

This is the second in what I hope will become a nice lengthy series of tips for attaining that simple, gracious, & hospitable life we all crave. A few years back I was watching way too many of the home makeover shows and lusting after granite counter tops and bamboo flooring.Then I would grab a ladies' magazine and be desolate because I haven't worn a size 4 since college. I was a crabby and unhappy woman, let me tell you. I was never content and was always thinking in 'if onlies'.

You know what I'm talking about. If only I had a newer car I'd be happy. If only I could lose ten pounds, I'd be happy. If only we could put in high end flooring I'd be happy. Then I joined a ladies' Bible study and one sentence somebody said changed my life.

That sentence was, 'Love what you have'. It sounds too easy doesn't it? But that simple sentence did radically change the way I look at life. I started to look at my home and my husband and my kids and my clothing with that in mind. Of course I already loved my family, but just looking at them through the filter of that one sentence made me appreciate them so much more.

It made me appreciate everything more. Honestly, I'm not being a Polly Anna here, I still have the same carpet that has been in my living room for 20 years. I have not lost ten pounds, but I have lost a  few pounds LOL. I'll probably have the old car I have now until the wheels fall off of it. Nothing has changed in my life except my attitude. But I'm content. Really.

We are big on long term planning and goals here at Shady Creek Hollow. Some of the things I'd like to fix around the house are on that plan to be renewed in several years. Some of the things that had been on an earlier goal list got accomplished this Summer. They weren't at the top of my personal list, but they were needed so that the house kept its value. I'm learning to be patient and prudent. In the meantime I'm finding that I can truly love what I have. Nobody can make me feel deprived but myself.

Two lifestyle changes that have really helped me in this effort to love what I have are: I limit severely the amount of home renovation TV I watch [my home started looking better to me as soon as I did this!] & I realized that most magazines essentially function as a venue to make you crave the stuff they advertise [Actually to make you feel like you NEED the things they promote to be really happy, of course that's a lie].

A glass of ice water and a good book on the porch swing make me happy. You can't get much more simple or frugal than that! I bet if you did a personal inventory of what really makes you content you'd be as surprised as I was when I did this exercise. Who knew a simple bubble bath would make me as happy as an expensive dinner at a fancy place? Make your own list and see for yourself. You might be pleasantly surprised too.     

   

Bodacious Brats!

I'm loving the smell of my crock-pot mustard & brown sugar brats! This is one of the fantastic recipes I got in the free e-book I received when I subscribed to Christy's blog 'The Southern Plate'. Go to her icon here and get your own free e-book!I just can't say enough about how easy and yummy and cheap these sausages are going to be for supper tonight!   

Two New Books in the Reading Room

These books really aren't new to me [or you either probably], but I had to give them another plug. The first is the Bible of Frugality- The Tightwad Gazette....and all its incarnations. I purchased my first TWG at a Thrift store. Since that one I've bought many to give as gifts at garage sales, Good Wills, & even used on Amazon. I gave one to my daughter Allie as a Wedding gift.

Here's the secret to reading these gems and not getting overwhelmed. Just read one or two tips a day. Then just try one tip a week. More than that is frugality overload. Adding just one tip a week will make significant inroads into sparing your budget. My personal favorite for a number one tip to try is a making a grocery store price book. It seems like a tedious and redundant process, I know. But it actually works.

The second book is my favorite 'inspiration book'- 'Frugal Luxuries by the Season' by Tracey McBride. Every season I haul this one off the cookbook shelves in my kitchen and read it. Do I do everything Mrs. McBride suggests?....no. But just reading her thoughts on frugality & gracious living by the different season inspires me to brainstorm ideas of my own. And it also makes me thankful for what I have, especially the intangibles- health, love, the ability to appreciate beauty, & faith. 

One of my favorite ideas she spurred me to discover were new uses for my teapots and pitchers. You see, I had a grandmother who loved collecting teapots and pitchers. Some of them were antiques, but most of them were just pretty. Being the only grandchild on that side of the family, I inherited them all. For many years they just sat up on a shelf gathering dust. Until I read 'Frugal Luxuries by the Season'.

Reading it made me wonder what I could do with this under utilised 'luxury' I possessed. I found all kinds of neat ways to use those pitchers and teapots. Here's a few....teapots make great planters for old fashioned violets [they look so cheerful in the dead of Winter on the kitchen window sill], there is nothing prettier than a cut glass pitcher full of any colored drink served cold [even Kool Aid!], small pitchers make great creamers & warm syrup dispensers, teapots and pitchers make lovely vases for cut flowers to tuck into those dark corners around your home that need a little brightening up. These are just a few of the ideas that I sprang to mind from reading these two highly informative books.

I hope you read them both and start getting some ideas of your own. I'd love to hear from you about your thoughts on this subject, and I'd love even more hearing your ideas on making your own home a gracious and inviting place.

GBY & yours this fine day.       

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Cheap & Easy Tricks to Living a Gracious & Simple Life #1

I'm starting this as a numerical kind of list thingy.... I guess you can tell I've been playing around with the blog today- all day. I like the new look & name and I hope you will too. So back to this cheap but elegant life topic. I will start numbering my thrifty ideas from now on so you will know if they are new to you.

Tip Number One is how to make sure your car smells like a million bucks all the time. I know, I know, somebody reading this is going to say, "just do the cloves trick". The cloves trick, to those who haven't heard of it, is to sprinkle whole cloves in the cup holder/center divider of your car. I tried the cloves trick, it does work. However, except at Christmas time I'm not that in love with the strong scent of cloves. Not to mention that the little brown cloves look sort of nasty just sitting there in the cup holder. Soooo....

The next best thing is the 'drawer envelope trick'. Very simply put, you buy one of those .99 envelope drawer sachets. They sell them everywhere, especially at Dollar Stores. Slip the sachet envelope of your choice in the side door pocket of your car. It's out of the way, it smells divine, and you won't need to replace it for a long, long time.

You can make your own with an envelope, cotton balls, & essential oils [or your favorite perfume]. I know because I tried it. This trick [like the cloves trick] is even less expensive than buying the .99 sachet....but I found that the homemade version didn't last very long. So my vote goes to buying the .99 sachet.   

So if your car is getting a little on the stinky side and you hate getting in there, use this cheap and easy trick to make your like more gracious & simple.      

Making Moonshine Jelly

This is the time of year when I usually start thinking about Christmas....gifts that is. Last year I used a very old recipe I found [its here under the recipe icon] to make a huge amount of Colonial Rumpot. That's a sort of brandied fruit that you have to start in Summer when the various fruits are ripe. I made a whale of a lot of this delicious stuff and gave it away in pint jars accompanied by a recipe to make a Martha Washington Rumpot Cake. That gift was well received. I got lots of nice feedback from neighbors, family, and friends on the quality of the cake they were able to bake using the Rumpot ingredients.

Soooo....I wanted to come up with something equally unique and frugal for this Christmas. When we went to West Virginia for the Hatfield and McCoy Half Marathon I saw an advertisement in a local magazine for funny 'hillbilly' type gifts and Moonshine Jelly was high on that list. That's when I started my search for a recipe.

Of course I don't have access to any real moonshine, although I believe some states do allow its sale in liquor stores. Imagine my surprise when I found, by reading a list of ingredients on the back of a moonshine jelly jar I saw recently in a gift shop on my trip to South West Georgia, that it is actually made with white wine!

Today I'm making up half pint jars of 'moonshine' jelly. I'll be using my tried and true grape juice jelly recipe substituting a nice white wine for the grape juice. I'm even thinking of making 'Champagne' jelly at some point since it would be such a cute New Year's gift along with suitable crackers and cream cheese.

Of course I'll need to come up with a funny label for my moonshine jelly. I've made jelly labels before with the computer using bigger mailing labels. I'm sure that's what I'll do this time. I'll try to post it so you can use the labels as well, if you so desire.   

Anyhoo, here is the recipe I'm making today-

Moonshine Jelly

Ingredients:

3 cups white wine
5 1/4 cups sugar
1 box pectin [Sure-Jell]
1/2 tsp margarine-to reduce foaming & scum

Put ingredients in big pot. Bring to a full rolling boil and stir until the liquid clabbers off a spoon. Clabbering is when you kind of let the mixture fall off the long edge of a tablespoon. It should sheet off in waves instead of just dripping- that's clabbering. If you can't tell if its clabbering, don't worry. Just boil it till you can't stir the boil away. It will be done. Skim off any foam from the pot. If you leave the foam in there its going to look nasty. So don't skimp on the skimming. Pour into 12 half pint jars. Immediately screw on lids and place on counter [or process in a water bath]. Leave the jelly there at least overnight. It may take this jelly a few days to actually firmly set up. Wearing a pair of rubber gloves will help you get the lids on the jars while they are still very, very hot.

I used to work in the Jelly Ministry at church and we always used the 'place on counter' trick. You can tell if you get the correct seal when you examine the jars after several days. The flat lid should be concave & make a very nice pop sound if you're there when they start sealing. If the lid's not concave when you check on them, either process the suspect jar in a boiling water bath, put it in the frig and use up quickly, or just throw it away. We threw the very few that didn't seal properly away.

Oh yeah, here's where I give the plug for reusing any old jars you might have saved from say pesto or mayo or any other pretty jar you just couldn't make yourself throw away. If those jars will take a standard sized canning lid and band you can use them for this method of making jelly. Just be sure you use new lids and bands. Using recycled jars makes this gift even more frugal!

Well, I need to get started making my moonshine jelly. Hope you try this recipe too.             

     

Patty's Peach Pie

OK, this is a great way to use up some of those peaches you have sitting in the basket on the counter. The ones that are getting just a little too ripe to just slice and eat. I made it this past weekend & it's already gone! I used a bought crust. I get the cheapest ones possible and buy them in bulk for the freezer.

Ingredients:

1 bought pie crust
1/2 cup each brown and white sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
3/4 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/4 tsp vanilla
5 mushy ripe peaches peeled & sliced
2 tbsp lemon juice

For the crumb topping:

1 cup each brown sugar [or white if you're out of brown] & all purpose flour
1/4 cup margarine [or 1/2 cup if you want a really crunchy top]

Put all the top ingredients in a big black skillet ,except the pie crust of course, and bring to a boil. The filling will thicken up considerably. When it's nice and thick pour it all into the uncooked pie shell. For the crumb topping- Rub or cut the butter into the sugar and flour just like you were making biscuits. Press this mixture on top of the pie filling. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until top starts getting nicely browned.

This is a very yummy pie that has a lot of heft to the taste of it. Hope you'll give it a try! 

Three Southern Blogs

OK, somebody cue the 'Gone With the Wind' theme music so we can all get in the proper mood for this post. I wanted to point you to three really wonderful and uniquely Southern blogs. All of them feature Southern ladies who blog. I must say I wish my blog had their readerships and their beautiful formats. Uhmmmmm....guess I need to get busy around Shady Creek Hollow if I want to get it up to snuff.

Anyhoo. The first one has truly good & easy Southern recipes. And I think Christy, the blogger is such a talented and funny writer. When I read her blog I feel like I'm talking with my girl cousins in South West Georgia- that's in the Deep, Deep South!I was surprised but not alarmed to learn they used the term 'gallivantin' in Alabama too. It was my Grandma's favorite term for getting into trouble. As you can imagine, I heard it a lot growing up. Anyhoo go here: Southern Plate to check out Christy's very neat site.

The next blog has great decorating tips. If you want to see how we do the hospitality/decorating/gardening 'thing' down South, there's no better place to visit than: Southern Hospitality

And last but not least, if you need to be more thrifty [and really, who doesn't?] go here: Southern Savers to get printable coupons and news about the best deals in Dixie.

Hope you'll try them all, I sure have enjoyed visiting them!

Andrew Found!

Thank you for all the prayers! Andrew was found in Canada. He is fine and will continue his journey home to Georgia. It seems that first he lost his cell phone and then his car broke down. I guess he finally found a pay phone this afternoon, cause he called his folks to let them know he was OK. Whew!!! We sure spent a really rough day wondering what could have happened and praying for him. Again many, many thanks & thanks most of all to the Lord for His infinite kindnesses to us!

Please Pray For Andrew

My SIL called us this morning to let us know that our nephew Andrew is missing. He is on a road trip returning from Alaska. He had been calling her regularly but she hasn't been able to contact him for 4 days now. And there has been no activity on his phone. This is very unusual. Andrew is a free spirit and he told her that he had picked up 2 hitchhikers recently. There is a missing persons bulletin out for him, but our family needs your prayers. Please pray that he is safe and returns home safely as well. I'd surely appreciate any and all prayers for him. 

A New Author I Like

I've found a new author whom I really like. I'm a big fan of time travel novels. It is hard to find one that is fun to read but not linked to witchcraft, the occult, etc. But I have found a lady who writes really rolicking adventure time travel novels that are rated PG. OK, here's the disclaimer- these have a romance flavor to them, so if that's not your thing, you probably won't care for them. But I really have enjoyed the ones I've read. I haven't read them all, but I did research the author and she says she's committed to making her books PG rated. I like that a lot!

Her name is Lynn Kurland. If you'd like to read a great emotional love story that also incorporates edge of your seat adventure in different eras of history and time travel, she's a great choice. I wish somebody would start making movies out of her books. IMHO they have a lot more to recommend them than most bestsellers that get bought for movies.

Be prepared though, I think this lady has written tons of books that all interconnect. So if you start reading her, you might find yourself hooked for a mighty long time! I plan to read her books all Winter. Ahh..a cup of steaming chamomille tea, a good book in my hand, and a roaring fire as the frigid wind whips around outside- sounds like Heaven doesn't it?!

 Anyhoo, I hope you'll check her out at your local library.    

Baking Hostess Gifts

This has been a super busy day for me! I had to go to the Post Office and ship an international package. Go to Walmart to pick up movie posters and frames for the media room. And since I've gotten home I've been baking hostess gifts for all the folks we will be visiting this week at the homeplace. I must have made 10 dozen cookies and I've got a big ham in the oven right now.

Everybody but my Mom is getting a variety of cookies. Mom is not a sweets eater.....hmm....gee, sure wish I'd inherited THAT gene! Anyhoo, the ham is for her. She doesn't like wine or flowers either, so ham it is.

I wanted to post one of the cookie recipes here today since it is soooo super duper easy and the cookies look really cute too. So here goes.

Ingredients:

1 small bag of any bite sized wrapped chocolate candies [I used MIlky Ways]

1 tube of refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough

1 individual bag of M&Ms

OK, spray a couple of mini muffin pans with Pam or grease them well. Roll the cookie dough into walnut sized pieces and place one in each muffin hole. With your knuckle press them in until they form a sort of cup. You don't have to be real ticky about this as they will rise as they cook. Bake these little beauties about 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees. Take them out and place one unwrapped candy into the center of each cookie cup. Press it in there good and put the pan back into the oven for a minute or two to melt the chocolate. When you take them out press a few M&Ms into the melted chocolate in each little cup. Cool and lift from pan. That's it! These are super easy and you can make them loads of different ways....little Reece Cups, little Snickers, little Almond Joys, anything bite sized and covered in chocolate will do fine. Also if you can't get the refrigerated cookie dough, either use a pouch mix or make your own dough from scratch. I've done all of the above and they all taste great. 

Hope you give these a try.   

   

Tomatoes in My Future!!!!

I have been pretty busy over the last few weeks. I don't know why Summer seems to be much more busy than normal this year....but it certainly has kept me jumping. My FIL is having an 80th birthday party in August, Allie and I are taking a trip to my mother's this week, we've just gotten through with re-purposing one of the bedrooms into a media/movie room, & Jon is preparing to do his student teaching in the Fall.

The Media Room is taking shape nicely. Hutch painted it a darker neutral color [Olympic Paints- Earthy Cane] and we installed blackout drapes. All I have left to do is get two movie posters framed and get a black leather chair. We have another big cozy chair and ottoman in there now. My mother has one [comfy black leather chair] she wants to give me and I will be checking it out this week. Oh, and I'm changing the lampshade to a barrel shaped black one. Or I may just cover the one I have with some textured black material....can't decide. 

Allie and I are looking forward to our trip to Mom's home. My cousin Jo called me last night wanting Hutch to do something computerish for her. She raises bloodhounds for law enforcement folks and one of her dogs 'saved the day', so to speak, and was featured on TV recently. She wants to add the video to her Facebook page. My long-suffering husband gets loads of calls like that and is always nice about being the family computer tech. I'll see Jo [and everyone else including my 98 yr old Aunt Myrt] when I go to Mom's.

I'm also going to hit my cousin Ronnie up for his salsa recipe [again]. He cans a tremendous amount of salsa each Summer from tomatoes he grows in his backyard. He gives the salsa as Christmas gifts. It is a gift folks fight over, let me tell you! Ronnie's salsa is the very best salsa I've ever had. So far he's been pretty hard to pin down on the EXACT recipe...but this time I'm bringing out the big guns [LOL] if I have to!!! Consider yourself warned Big Guy. 

For fun we are going to the Agrirama- it's a sort of living history museum in Tifton, Ga. And we'll be going to a U Pick Em tomato and strawberry farm. We'll stop by and visit with all the kinfolk and friends. I'm especially looking forward to seeing Mr. Paul. He's Mom's special friend. He's a retired pastor who takes care of his invalid blind sister. I must confess he's one of my truly favorite people in the whole wide world.   

He wears overalls, grew up on an old style farm, milked cows at a dairy to earn the money for seminary, and just loves to talk about the world and especially theology. He's so wise. It's fun to just sit and listen to him.  He's the one who taught me how to milk a goat LOL.

Our landscaping turned out to be just what we'd hoped it would. We are still watering like crazy! But the results are lovely. I'll try to post some photos of the yard.

Hope wherever you are, it's warm and sunny, and your life is going well.

 

         

       

New Books in the Reading Room

I love these new books I've been reading lately. The first one is, 'Screen Doors and Sweet Tea' by Martha Hall Foose. On my, just about every recipe in it reminds me of my grandmother and the lady who cooked for her. I guarantee, if you're looking for authentic Southern recipes, this is the book to read. I especially liked the recipes for foods like Fried Peach Pies & Sweet Tea Pie.

Another really great recipe book I've used recently is, 'The Savannah Cookbook' by Damon Lee Fowler. He is the food editor for the Savannah Daily News. I admit there were times I literally had to put this book down for a while because it made me so homesick for Savannah. Reading the pages I could almost smell the marshes and hear the seagulls!

I hope you'll give each one a try. I got mine from my local library.        

Banana Pudding Ramblings

It's been quite a while since I've blogged and I do apologize. A combination of things has led to my absence. The main one has been computer problems. In that ongoing saga, I believe we've finally gotten to the source of the glitch. In the end it was not a software issue but a server/network issue.

Life has been great here at Shady Creek Hollow. We got our landscaping installed last week. I've got lots of Knock Out roses now! About 18 bushes worth! I'm so happy with our yard, I could sit on my front porch all day long and enjoy the view. My new hobby is watering the grass and bushes LOL.

I've been reading and relaxing and generally enjoying my Summer. I've been researching recipes and food presentations. We have lots of opportunities for hospitality in the Summertime and I like to try new foods and ways to serve them.  One of my favorite ideas this Summer is to make banana pudding in individual 1/2 pint jars to serve for dessert. They are so cute for a casual meal and it eliminates the need to dip up and serve the messy pudding. These little jewels can sit on your buffet ready for the taking.

Just make the banana pudding as usual but assemble it in half pint jars. Also I find banana pudding delicious when flavored with bourbon instead of vanilla extract. 

Hope you get the chance to put your feet up, sip a glass of iced tea, and eat banana pudding today.