Cookies, Birds and Mice Oh My!

Hubby wanted to play with some equipment so he borrowed a friend's little machine and moved around some snow and ice.  It's so funny to see him in something so small because he has backhoes, dozers and excavators, big machines. 
It was a beautiful day too.

Spring is so close!  It must be getting close, I received another seed catalog this week.  I love those catalogs.  Hubby and I were discussing where we are going to put the greenhouse we purchased.  It's 14 x 40 feet so we have to find a nice big open area.  We have yet to decide.

I have a roll top desk I purchased used a few years ago.  It has secret compartments in it so today I thought I would go through it and see how many of them I could find.  I found one that I had not know of.  I stuck my hand in hoping for something fun and what did I find???

Eeeewwww!  So NOT what I was expecting.  LOL

I made hubby some peanut butter cookies today.  This is the recipe I used but I would add more peanut butter and I'm not sure why they broke it up into 1-6 and then the last 2 ingredients.  I ended up getting a mouthful of the baking soda because it didn't get mixed in so well.  I would think you could add those two in with the other dry ingredients

Ingredients :

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/4 cups sifted flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 375?. Mix first six ingredients. Add the rest of the ingredients. Mix well. Roll into balls and press down with a fork dipped in sugar or flour. Bake for 10-12 minutes on ungreased cookie sheet.

Had some visitors at the bird feeder today.  I love the Mourning Doves.  I love listening to their coos. 

One of these guys has some funky tail feathers.  Not sure they are supposed to look like that.  

I also found a bird nest out back.  It much easier to find the nests with no leaves on the trees.  Now I know where to look this spring.  I wonder what type of bird belongs to this nest.