Mowing the Lawn and Making Muffins

I know I'm kind of old to not know how to mow the lawn but in my family, it was mostly a guy's job. I thought it was something I should learn though so I asked David to show me. We have a big yard and I would like to help out. We have an electric lawn mower. It plugs in and has a cord. The cord especially makes it feel like vacuuming, except your vacuum is kind of heavy to push. You just have to make sure you don't run over the cord. It turns out, minus the grass I got in my sandals (apparently you're supposed to wear tennis shoes when you do it), it's actually quite fun! I'm so excited that I know how to do it now. I assume David will still do it most of the time but just knowing I COULD do it if I wanted to, makes me feel better.

Also, I am going to make raspberry lemon muffins tonight! Last time I made muffins, I accidentally left our oven on preheat (super easy to do since you have to manually change it to bake) and the tops were all burned. I'm happy to finally have a recipe that will help me use up my lemon extract (I had bought some for David's birthday cake back in December and haven't touched the stuff since).

• 6 oz container of lemon yogurt (you could also use raspberry, blueberry, vanilla, or plain but I chose lemon because I'm leaving out some of the other lemon ingredients that seem important for flavor)
• 3 T vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp lemon extract
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar plus 2 T (for topping)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries

Mix wet ingredients and dry ingredients in two different bowls. Then combine. Add the raspberries. Spoon into muffin tin and top with the extra 2 T of sugar. Bake for 15-17 minutes at 400 degrees. They're done when you push on the tops lightly and they spring back. 

I haven't made them yet but I'm excited. If you want more lemon-y flavor, you can add lemon zest or a couple tablespoons of lemon juice.


Edit: I have made them. The batter was a little thick so we added 2 T of milk before we added the raspberries. They also took closer to 20 minutes but they turned out great! David would've cut up the raspberries (we used them whole) and probably would add more lemon flavor. I don't really like lemons though so I tried to keep it subtle. I think there's plenty of lemon flavor but like I said, you could add the zest or juice to amp it up. These make a GREAT summer treat! It's like raspberry lemonade!

Edit 2: I made them again and this time instead of adding the milk, we just added the raspberries. They were juicy enough it worked out. The first time we made them we used frozen raspberries. This time we used fresh. They still took longer though.