It was one of those glorious weekends that made you wish it would never end.

It was a little too warm for a total of about three hours on Sunday and maybe two on Saturday, in midafternoon. The rest of it was cool and lovely with a breeze that made you want to breathe deeply. The nights were just chill enough that you could snuggle under a comforter and a sheet and be cozy warm without perspiring, and you could breathe through the night. Even Bandit seems to pant a little less.

James made the "Splenda and spice" cookies on their website Saturday night. He used all butter instead of part vegetable shortening (we didn't have any) and allspice instead of cloves. They were a rousing success--very cinnamonny/gingery. He must have made them much smaller than the Splenda folks intended, because he got 34 cookies when it said it should make sixteen. Put powdered sugar on 'em and they would have looked like tan "Danish wedding cookies" (or as we called 'em in my neck of the woods, "butterballs").

Incidentally, James took about half the batch and added chopped-up Hershey's sugar-free Special Dark chocolate to it. They're good, too, but I like my spice cookies straight. Now that it's autumn I will develop major gingerbread cravings. We are looking in our collection of cookbooks for gingerbread and spice cake recipes we can doctor.

We also had our usual biscuits Sunday morning. I know it's not as good for you, but I really enjoyed my two with the unsalted butter he bought for the cookies. I tried not to eat much for the rest of the day.

A good weekend always had a comedown. In our case, we're not sure if it was the richness of the pot roast gravy James made or the general age of the pot roast itself, which we crock potted from a frozen beefsicle, but both of us woke this morning with digestive ailments. In any case, he ended up staying home and I left work about 10:30 because I ran out of Pepto Bismol and couldn't bear the massive heartburn I had.

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