A little of this and a little of that

Above is my homemade ricotta draining.  I did not have cheesecloth so I used two of Mike's hankies sterilized with boiling water.  The whey that drained from it is mostly gone since I used it to make two loaves of bread.  The rest I will use in the pizza dough I am making tomorrow.  Some of the ricotta will also be on that pizza.  Yum!

Below are the cookies I made, a chocolate/peanut butter/oatmeal.  Mike loves them.  A dozen and a half are already gone and I have had maybe the half dozen.

This is the view from the top of the hill overlooking where we are staying.  I think it looks like a scene out of the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small".  Beautiful