Day Sixty: Happy Mothers Day! Yes sir... still snowing. Lawson got up at 7:30 and woke me up to come help him make breakfast in bed for Heather. OK here it is... this is something I've come up with myself, you won't find it else where... if you do they stole it from me. There were 3 breakfasts made this morning, the 1st was Heather's Coffee, Bacon and Pancakes. I am sharing this because at this point it works consistently and even the 10 year old pulled it off... Rod's GF/LowCarb Pancakes: Mix together dry ingredients: 2 1/2 tbs Almond Flour, 1/2 tbs Psyllium Husk Powder, 1 tbs Coconut Flour, 1 tbs Monk Fruit Erythritol Blend, 1/2 tbs Baking Powder, 1/4 ts Xanthan Gum, 1/4 ts Salt... mix well. Stir in wet ingredients: 2 Eggs, 1 tbs Oil, 1 ts Vanilla, 2 tbs Water. Let set for 5 minutes. Heat up pan with a generous amount of oil/butter/bacon grease what ever in the bottom, use a low heat setting (slightly lower that to cook normal pancakes, yes they take longer to cook), these should cook a lot like regular pancakes, watch for the holes from the bubbles to stop collapsing before flipping them, they are delicate. (Putting oil/butter on the spatula might help)   Finish cooking on the other side until done... if you don't know what a finish pancake looks like when done do a google image search of pancake and strive for a pleasant colour. We like to mix in a few tbs of sugar free chocolate chips before letting the batter stand for 5 minutes but you can add anything you would to normal pancakes... coco powder and a little more sweetener makes nice chocolate pancakes. Serve with butter and warm sugar free maple flavor syrup. OK Back to the Report... I made Lawson eggs, over easy with bacon and toast for dipping... I still like my Omelettes, cheese and bacon today. Is it normal to have to make 3 different meals for breakfast? I'm starting to feel like we are running a restaurant some days. I went down to work on the basement a little more, Lawson helped carry out some stuff and cleaned his computer room (still pending on that outlet repair, now I can do it without crawling around in the filth under the desk. Heather made Crackers... frankly crackers might not seem like a big deal but GF crackers are mostly rice paste dried out in blobs and trust me that's making them sound far more tasty than they actually are... and LowCarb is the unicorn I've really quit looking for... but it's nice to have something to put all those yummy cheeses and whatnot on top of, you miss that after a while. So I bought some yummy cheese and brie last time I was at the store, Heather saw that and brought the crackers to the plate for lunch (Lawson ate some HotDogs, he's actually bored of cheese and crackers from school lunches and doesn't appreciate some of the more obscure cheese that we partake in). SideKick came by in the after noon, we had some stuff that needed worked out, talked over coffee and cookies (ok he ate the cookies), found a few tires for his car in the garage, hope they hold air... poked at the Travel Trailer, looks like he might enjoy a little get away in the bush. All in all got a lot of ducks in order and a little more room in the garage, but we had to go in because it's still pretty F'ing cold out there. Played a bout of MineCraft with the Boy... his goal today, kill two bird with one stone... basically you need to stay up a number of days without sleep until the flying beast start attacking in the night, you have to kill 2 of them with one arrow, so you need a crossbow with piercing on and then line them up in the air so you can shoot through one and into another, killing them both. It is doable. Check and Check mission accomplished... then the dumb ass attacked me. ROTFLMAO - now in a fight in Minecraft my money is on the boy 9 days out of 10... today apparently was day 10... he attacked and hit me with his sword to provoke me, I declined, he attacked again... My armor, Enchanted Netherite Chest Plate with Thorns 3 (LOL) all legitimate, Now Thorns takes the damage someone tries to inflict on me and puts a lot of it back on them... so when he attacked he got hurt and thought I was attacking back... ok, I got tired of him trying to beat on me, I pulled out my bow (it's about as impressive as the armor) and shot him between the eyes at point blank range... he bounced back held up his shield which defects all arrows like there is no point shooting him. Now I know he is notorious for abusing his armor, takes tons of unnecessary damage from everything stupid including just falling and he's bad at replacing things as they get worn... he laugh as I plugged a few more flaming arrows into his wooden shield. You hear CRUNCH TINK! then, Hey What the... his shield broke. Then he found out how much damage my Bow does. LOL The death screen rolls up in front of him... he respawns and comes back for more. Teleports directly to me, the arrow hits him again at point blank and bounces him back... now his armor is taking damage, 2 more shots his Diamond Chest Plate blows apart, "Hey that was my good armor!" - 'Was' being the operative work in that LOL - He runs for the Ocean, ya he was kind of on fire a little bit from the burning arrows... he puts out the flames just in time to get another arrow in the back of the head and another death screen... he TPed back to me again... LOL - hid in the water 40-50 block out with his Magic Crossbow he had just used on the Night Terrors, I was impressed, he actually hit me once from out there, I took 1/2 a heart damage... ROTFLMAO That was only a few seconds before THUNK! Bullseye! And his corpse sank to the bottom of the sea. I went into the mob grinder, he teleported to me again, "Hey!" The water carried him away and down the kill hole... he splatted on the ground... Poor boy was having a horrible day. He finally went into Creative Mode (you can't die or take damage in that mode at all) and he finally got me. Sorry but if you know Minecraft at all it was kind funny. Dinner Prep: The wife and I had the argument prior to the MineCraft (this was what prompted SideKick to leave), it was about the Steaks I had bought her for MothersDay dinner. My stance was No strings = Steak-Ums (scrawny thin good for sandwiches), 1 String = Good Steak for your average BBQ, 2 Strings = Good for Big Steak Night! (A tradition that fell by the wayside at some point, I'm going to have to revive that) - SHE's Trying to Tell Me I bought 3 Fucking Roasts! - I showed SideKick and asked him to weigh in on the debate... He ran to the door... I said Hey Man! She's not even your wife, why are you running? As much as it pains me dinner prep involved cutting the largest Steak in half [sad face] into two Steaks each 1/2 as thick as they used to be. [sad face] How do you make the Emoji with the Tears? Anyway Steak, Shrooms, Taters, Broccoli, a bottle of Pinot Grigio (before you bitch me out about the wine pairing, know that what pairs well with a steak also kills Heather, allergic to something in the Red Wines, SO...) and it's Dry, relatively low carbs. All the Steaks were prefect, both of theirs Med Rare, a little Moo left in the Middle, Lawson like a little blood on his plate... Mine, seared on the outside, Blue Rare... that should be Moo Rare LOL... I think Steak is one of the Boy's favorite food, he cut off little pieces and then pushed them in his pie hole and his Eyes Rolled back in his Head. It was like watching Jaws eat surfers. Dinner lingered... we never did get back to that game of Monopoly... maybe tomorrow. Finished off the day with a few short videos and games. After Lawson headed to bed I took the Cell Phone back from Heather... She had been playing Woody and got side tracked by some Click Bait selling dresses... I spent the next half an hour on the site thumbing threw some of the most hideous things, bringing them up to show Heather and Laughing at each... Maybe I had too much Wine... Maybe I should just go to sleep.