Pure Michigan, miracles and Olympic dreams

It’s no secret that I love most everything that Jim at Sweet Juniper writes. This week especially, I love what he has to say about Tim Allen, Frankenmuth and going Up North in “Two Adults, Three Kids, a Dog, and a Lizard in a Station Wagon are driving down the highway.”

“A Miracle Inside the Aurora Shooting: One Victim’s Story” is an incredible, miraculous story. It’s worth reading.

I’m going to be recording the Olympics opening ceremony tonight so we can watch it tomorrow with Rockford and Poppy, who’ve both been traveling this week. I haven’t done a lot of reading up on the individual athletes, but after reading “Bronx native John Orozco an unlikely gymnastics star,” I’m really looking forward to seeing Orozco in action.

And finally, today was supposed to be the day for the July edition of the Daring Bakers Challenge. This month’s challenge was to make crackers, and I did make a batch of Italian Four-Cheese Crackers. But with all the traveling and the bronchitis and such, I never took pictures of my crackers and I never made another type of cracker, which the challenge required. A lot of other Daring Bakers did successfully complete the challenge, though. The “Not-So-Naked Crackers” at Korena in the Kitchen and the Pepper Jack and Oregano Crackers at Bourbonnatrix Bakes sound positively scrumptious.