I was taught to spoon flour if I wasn't going to sift it... in home ec class in 1997! So I've always done it and I can't make most cookies (snicker doodles never get me trouble, but oatmeal and chocolate chop are awful!) My cookes get really thin and stick to the parchment.... I tried to make carrot cake cookies for the last sit and sew I attended and they did that... they were a disaster... (not to mentoon the same day I dropped my beloved vintage food processor that my grandmother gave me when I was 16 on the floor and broke it to smithereens.... had to spend 50 bucks and buy the same one on Ebay because I loved it so much)... I was so upset with two disasters in the same day I went to the grocery store and brought a pound cake for my contribution that night! Anyway, I was talking to the ladies at the sit and sew and one of them said that I probably didn't use enough flour... so from now on I will scoop instead of spoon!

I'm glad the group could help. You can always post a reply inside your original post for updates and more info, also. It's easiest to keep things organized in one place, especially when we are garden webs most active forum... (I think...)

I think too, that the spammers Google topics like “best recipes“ or “chicken recipe“ and find threads that way as well.

I guess I am the outlier one this one... I do not find the Bray house appealing at all. To me the view looking at the red door section looks like a church that kept adding pods as the congregation grew. I don’t see any originality in the design, as this treatment is now almost a knee jerk reaction to a nice or historic or expensive or otherwise important existing house—-add on a family wing, a guest wing, a recreation wing, an office wing, however many you want, connecting them with glass corridors. HNJ does this a lot, it’s now his signature even more than the egg crate shelving (which I love, btw). I don’t mean to say the add on approach never works, because I have seen houses for which such a renovation has worked spectacularly. But when the result is this Christmas village or church appearance I don’t think it looks good. At some point an architect should say to a client “no, you can’t add ten thousand square feet to a three thousand square foot house and make it look like anything other than a groovy motel.