Peace

There was a light dusting of snow this morning then some sleet but nothing stuck. 

We are decorated and tucked in

We stopped buying for each other a couple of years ago,it just made sense.

Husband is getting better very slowly. I would recommend that RSV vaccine this has been worse than covid. I have had time in my wool room so I have been busy knitting. But I need to get a rug started soon.

This past week has been stressful and Christmas eve is not what we planned. I have tried to walk when I can it helps to bring peace. So that is what I am wishing for all of you tonight,peace. We are all dealing with life in one way or another. 

May you find true peace.

It All Goes Sideways

I have been doing a lot of that this week.

Monday husband wakes up and is not feeling well at all ugg. It is pouring and historic flooding everywhere. We are fine but no day to be on the roads.

Well Tue he is worse long story short he spent a day and half in the hospital with RSV. 

He is home and better and should be fine for Christmas!

Before all this happened I made mini mincemeat pies. I made the crust with lard and butter. And let me tell you this is crust like Grammy made. So flaky and tasty. I will make crust like this always now.

 

I have also been working on dish cloths.

My first time making them.
 

Tomorrow morning is the winter solstic. It will be nice to see the light returning bit by bit. 

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We will be laying low until Christmas day. My shopping is done. I need to make a couple of batches of cinnamon rolls to deliver the 24th. 

I have much to be thankful for. 

Happy Solstic ♡

Christmas Joy

My Grand's Christmas review. Such a lovely talented group of young ladies.

My beautiful grand♡

And my sleep over friends. We had such a lovely fun time we did not want it to end! We are hugging goodbye and have promised at least one more sleep over this winter but 2 nights next time! Husband did great and was a hit. 

When we come together we always swap gifts. This sweet little snow woman. Donna even wove the little head scarf. And the little mushrooms she made from a dried orange and cinnamon stick. Sooo sweet.

 

And this is a spun cotton bear made by Dayle.

This is just a small sampling of the gifts we exchanged. 

I love this friendship we have and feel very blessed.

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Tuesday I have 4 friends coming for lunch. I will be so sad to see Christmas go this year!

Have a wonderful week

The Things You Learn

Last night I went to bed really early but I was awake at 1am and could not get back to sleep so I scrolled. I found you could put the youtube app on your smart TV and choose TV art! Genius! No more black hole over the mantle!

And there are hundreds to choose from! I kinda love it. I have hated that TV over the fireplace since we put it there.

Today has been fold and snow squalls. It is suppose to all clear out so I can watch the metor showers tonight. 

I had my women's group here on Monday night. A few bowed out they were not feeling well and I appreciated that so much 

But the really exciting news is I am having 3 of my dear friends come for an overnight tomorrow night! One from Vermont,one from upstate NY, and one from the seacoast of Maine. We are all meeting here and they are staying over. Eeek I feel like a kid again!

I had some requests for my banana bread. Let me know if you can't read it. It makes one large loaf or two small.

I added a tspoon of Chai seasoning which turned out delicious. Bake at 350 for 1 hrs for large loaf. Aways test for doneness everyone's oven is different. 

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Well gotta go have a wonderful week. 

A Fun Busy

My brother sent me this sweet snow globe. It has batteries so you don't have to shake it for it to snow.

Friday I headed to my daughter's to stay overnight with Sweet B while they went away. Our craft project was little mushrooms made from acorn caps. Such a fun project.And we attended a play of Charlie Brown's Christmas. There were some of my grands schoolmates in the cast.

It was well done and sweet.

I am trying to winter over a plant I was given when I retired. So far so good.

I am party central I have 14 women coming for appetizers tomorrow night. So excited to have them here. I was given some bananas that needed attention. So I baked banana bread. Chai flavored banana bread. It came out so good!

This is from king Arthur flour yum

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It is raining we are loosing all of our snow. Overnight high winds ending with a bit of snow. 

I have something else soooo fun planned this week don't forget to come back.....

The Eye Appoint That Wasn't

We got snow overnight Sunday into Monday morning. Heavy snow that is bending the trees and shrubs to the ground.

It snowed lightly most of the day. And this is why I love it here. The quiet that goes with the snow. Just very peaceful.

Now I am not going to say I am not sick of it by March. Or that I love to shovel and roof rake. But some how the snow reminds me of my childhood. The really good parts.

We heard tapping on the window. A little finch letting us know that the bear is sleeping and time to put out the feeder again. 

I thought I had an eye appointment. With traffic an hour down. Someone was suppose to call me to let me know the Dr could not see me that day. Well they didn't grrr  so we made the best of it a bit of shopping and lunch out. 

We were just a couple of exits from home when we start to see the mountains and hills of home. Pretty beautiful!

I will leave you with a picture of our house all decked out for Christmas. 

   Have a wonderful week♡

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Christmas Truffle

Snowy Sunday 

Calls for an afternoon cup of coffee.

Watching the awful game and knitting slippers. I have been knitting these slippers since 8th grade the sad thing is I never progressed. 

I am going to make a few for a basket next to the door incase someone wants to use them. 

Christmas decorating done.

I have one more batch of cookies to bake.

The cookie walk was a success. I just have a couple of friends to deliver to.

I made some old fashion molasses cookies that were a flop. So what to do? Crumble them up mix with cream cheese roll into balls and dip in white chocolate. Voila a Christmas truffle.

I will leave you with my 3.00 thrift store find.Galileo thermometer. The bubbles have a temp and the lowest one tells what the room temp is. 

Just something fun. 

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 Eye appointment on Tue.  Then an over night with Sweet B.on Friday! I have a craft project already for us. 

Have a wonderful week♡