It'S A Stye

We were up and out early this morning for an hour drive south for an appointment for husband. We ran into comuter traffic with people with their arms out the window flipping each other off. (We stayed out of the fray)what an awful start to a work day, makes me sad.

Our chronicle did a piece on a NH woman who wrote a book on how to decifer what the carvings on headstones mean.

Sounded interesting I sent for the book.

When spring and summer come around again I am going to walk the old grave yards. I found it very interesting and a lost art.

And speaking of art! Oh how I wish this were mine. I love it!

Such a cute idea. Some people are so clever.

And since Sweet B is into embrodiering jeans I sent this to her. 

The sunsets are a bit later now. We are certainly going in the right direction.

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I developed a stye on my left eye. Not jut any stye it is under my top eyelid. Well my eye lid turned maroon and it swelled around my eye. Warm compresses were doing nothing. I went to walk in care Sunday, I have an antibiotic and I am praying it goes mostly away by the time I leave for rug hooking retreat tomorrow ugg.

On another note the nurse checking me in made a joke about my husband hitting me. While it is not something that would ever happen with us. It is not something to joke about. And yes she was laughing.

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Have a wonderful week I hope to have fun stories and pictures from my retreat.

An Old Yankee

The birds have been busy. It has been very cold and windy. I have a slice of homemade toast with peanutbutter every morning for breakfast. The crusts I throw out for the crows. They have started to wait for me.
 

Because it has been so cold our heating oil needed to be refilled. Not cheap but I am so thankful for the great service and to be toasty warm.

Our poor flag has been blowing straight out. And with the cold a minus windchill brrrr.

Because I am an old Yankee. I go to great lengths to save $.

I rinse out the freezer bags after use as long as it didn't hold a meat product.,we have shut down rooms of the house that gets very little use when it is just us, I have our tvs on power strips after we are done we shut them down completely. I could go on all those little things that add up. Tell me your favorite tip to save. 

We rarely eat out anymore. It is a big savings to eat at home. Homemade bread and a pork pie. This crust has to be the best crust I have ever made.

For those who live in California my heat breaks for you. The horror and sadness. God bless the firefighters. 

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We are missing most of the storms coming east again. There is a lot of sickness around right now and my aunt reminded me the old timers felt a good coating of snow helped it go away. Who knows but we could use some snow. 

    Have a wonderful week

The 80's

True!

My dump haul. I have made a christmas shade out of christmas cards before and this frame is exactly what I need to make another one. A new roll of shelf liner yes please, and book of short stories perfect. 

The one perk of having to go to the dump while husband is getting better. 

Yes the 80s are back with my leg warmers. I walked a bit this morning and they were perfect. I love them, I am now old and quirky so I no one cares what I wear lol.

Still working on this rug! I am at the fiddly part and I am over it, I want to move on but I will continue and finish. 

Husband has finished the bluebird puzzle and has moved on to a snow scene yikes makes me dizzy to just look at it. 

It is cold with a windchill factor so I am tucked into my rug room watching a bit of football and hooking. 

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Husband has a Dr's appointment this week,other than that 

we are sticking close to home. NH has a high rate of upper respiratory infections, better safe than sorry.

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have a wonderful week. 

P.S. We are back to no reply emails and I can not follow any new blogs I am so frustrated with this!!! So please forgive me if I do not get back to you. 

Happy 2025!

Amen

And this sweet girl had her 14th birthday. I find it so hard to believe. Love her to the moon!

A dump find, I offered it to a friend but she has no use for it. I will hang onto it for now. The best thing about the dump it has a great return policy lol.

And this guy well he has been sick. Hospital sick but he is home now and doing so much better thank heavens!

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May joy and good health

Follow you all the year!!!

So Much To Crow About

 

We now have crows, 5 crows coming and going. I have not seen many crows in the winter and I am not sure what they are looking for but I do love seeing them. 

Over the hill we went again to see our daughter and family.

This time we went to Jackson NH for the evening.

First stop The Wentworth for a pre dinner drink.  

Then on to the Christmas Tree Inn for dinner.

The whole restaurant was decorated. The food was good and all was very festive.

My wonderful family.

Just for fun..lol

Christmas dinner was at my daughter's. We celebrated with my son in law's family. Her father in law always makes the dinner. This is one huge roast beef, cooked to perfection. 

And the first two at the dinner table are the grandfathers lol.

 

We have been very chilly. But it is warming up and rain is predicated. I would prefer snow because this rain will turn to ice when it hits the cold ground.

 

We are tucked in for the next few days at least. 

I hope your Christmas was a good one. I will get around to visit soon. 

Have a great week. 

Bluebirds At My Window

"Do you have any more of those tasty worms left?"

We have never had so many bluebirds at our feeders ever!

And we are so excited!!!

Husband has been under the weather and decided to do the bluebird puzzle we had that had never opened. It became very appropriate puzzle. 

We have had a couple of small snow storms and we are in a cold snap. Really really cold with a wind chill. 2 degrees F this morning brrrrr. So bread seemed a good thing to make. 

Our sunset on solstice eve. A very cold long night. 

Since I am done all shopping I am staying way away from the stores.

But a little store in the next town that has an eclectic mix of old and new was having an open house. There were only a couple of us in the store. While I could of bought lots and lots of lovely things most were out of my price range. I did purchase some cacao tea. Martha Washington's chocolate shell infusion. Martha Washington enjoyed this tea every morning for breakfast. George wrote this to his agent,

"She will thank you to get 20 lbs of the shells of cocoa nuts,if they can be had of the chocolate makers." It has a very light chocolate taste. I use no sugar only a drop of cream. It is very good and would purchase it again.

We are meeting up with our daughter and family tomorrow evening for a lovely dinner out. We love any time we can spend with them.

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I want to wish you all a lovely Christmas or Hanukkah.

I hope you get to celebrate in the way you love. 

Sending Holiday hugs.

 

Homemade Christmas

We got about 3 inches of snow overnight last night. There have been so many ups and downs from pouring rain and high 40s to below zero windchill coming this weekend. 

I thought I would show you some of the Christmas things I have made over the years. of course I am a rug hooker. I hooked this santa a few years ago. I see things I would do differently but that is how it goes. 

We made this wooden crate into a little house. I glued some lights in the window voila Christmas!

I made a lampshade years ago from old christmas cards. 

This wooly wreath, I think I need to change out the oranges they have turned very dark over the years. 

 

I made this santa many many years ago. 

It was my first jump into crafts. 

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This was us with our Sweet B on the santa train. The years have ticked by so fast it seems like a blink. 

I scraped our driveway and cleaned the walkways.

After I came in I got a bowl of soup and finished my book.

It was a fun read with time travel. 

I now have my feet up watching old movies and nodding off now and then, a good day. 

Happy Solstice we now return to the light.