John Grisham shifts his focus to baseball! The story centers around Paul Tracey, the son of Warren Tracey a Mets pitcher in the early 70's. Warren throws a pitch that changes the career of a rookie player that Paul really admires. This is a story of Paul righting that wrong.
The story has lots of baseball terminology, but at the root of it is a boy's (man) making peace with who his parent is.
Summer = baseball, ice cream, eating on the back porch and road trips. This book has 3 of those 4 elements. An easy summer/beach read for sure!
What type of cake do you give a graduating accountant? Why an adding machine/printing calculator cake of course! A friend of mine text me asking me to make one for her husband's graduation party and I accepted the challenge! I was very nervous, as this was my first sculpted cake! The night before I started working on the cake I cut the keys out of fondant. Because I wanted to make it to scale, I used a photo of an actually printing calculator. And then used the algebra my momma taught me! :) The width of almost all of my keys is 5/8 of an inch. I then cut a 2" wide strip of gum paste approximately 6" long and laid it over a quart jar overnight to dry. The next day I started by making 2 9"x13" cakes and placing one on top of the other and shaping the top one (actually only using about 1/3 of it) to make the top of the calculator! I apologize I have no photos, this was a pre-blog cake. Then came butter cream in between the layers and covering the cake! I rolled o
Comments