Breezy Monday

[Colliemom]

Morning all. Bit breezy out there this morning, but not snowing. That weather has moved out. A nice mild weather pattern coming in for the week. We will probably lose most of the 8 inches of snow we have. I did get out and shoveled my deck and then blew out my drive, but it was not easy. The snow was like moving wet concrete, wet and heavy. Kept clogging up the blower. A job that should have taken me an hour at the most, wound up being three hours. I think I spent at least a half an hour just getting all that jammed up junk out of the inside of my snowblower after I finished. When we have a sunny day this week I’m going to park it outside and let what’s left of it just melt out. Needless to say I was tired when I got done.

So today I’m going to hopefully finish my ornaments that I am doing. I have some touch up on one and then I am going to start on the last one. I want to put out it all out this coming weekend while the weather is nice, so I need to get this stuff done. Got part of the display on my workbench downstairs waiting for varnish and assembly. Need to get the rest of it out of my shed. Tomorrow I plan to go to town and pick up a couple things I need to make my Jell-O salad for Thanksgiving and also get the cranberry relish for Thursdays dinner. Also need to pick up some one by twos to make some stakes to put the ornaments out again. Here is a picture of what I am working on so you have an idea of what I am doing These are a work in progress. The candle one was finished afterI took this picture.


Sheila, those temps are pretty nippy out your way. Karen, had to chuckle at your frozen tomato plant clean up. O’Sharon, how’s weather out your way? Shirl, I’ll bet your Christmas tree is pretty. I am with some of the others and that I don’t bother with Christmas either anymore. I do have a ceramic tree here though and I might put it out. I have a lot good memories of Christmas’s past and miss those days with family and friends. The opening of firearms deer season this week made me think I’ve past falls when we had friends who are used to set up a deer camp, way out in the State Forest about 40 miles from here. They had a motorhome and a travel trailer and they would set everything up and stay af for the entire 15 days of the season. Every year at Thanksgiving they would bury and cook a turkey in the ground the night before Thanksgiving, and then a bunch of us would go out on Thanksgiving day and take dishes to pass and have our dinner out there in the woods. It was wonderful. Once they took the turkey out of the ground then they added more wood to the fire and we had a nice big fire going and sometimes it would be snowing very gently. I miss those those times too. But you can’t bring the past back. I think that the older we get we tend to miss those things more. Fall is always kind of a melancholy time for me because I think back on all of the things that we used to do in the fall. Making trips to our wood lot to cut down trees, cutting, splitting and stacking firewood and getting ready for winter, looking forward to the holidays and enjoying the beautiful fall colors etc. etc.

Well enough reminiscing. The time to jump in the shower and get this day moving along. The sun is coming up, the dogs are having their morning nap and all is well with my world right now. Have a great day everyone.

[asirimarco]

Good Morning to All from Mazatlan. The weather here is still warm, going to have a couple of day of 88 then down a degree a day for a few days. The wind this year has been bad. Twice our anchored down awning has started to pull up from gusts. Hope that stops soon. Humidity is finally going down some. Dew point just under 60 now. This a a three day weekend here in Mexico so we are pretty much staying home. The hotels have 100% occupancy. Cars here from as far away as Mexico City.
There are already more rigs here in the campground than there were the last three years. Some of the regulars from Canada are coming back. We've been going places and doing things we didn't do during the Covid thing.


Glad we came

[OregonLuvr]

Good morning, not as chilly out today 33 and will warm up to 53. I will take it. Only on my first cup of coffee and watching the news. I have an eye doc appt this morning then to the grocery store for fresh salad fixings. My neighbors insisted I come to dinner on Thursday, I would be just as happy to stay home BUT they are very kind and great neighbors so I didnt want to be rude. I couldnt say I had plans because I live right next door. LOL Holidays are so meaningless to me and have been for many years. After my kids were grown and gone, family either passed or moved I used to volunteer to work the holidays so the younger gals could be home with their kids and family. As an RN we were open 24/7. I do have many great memories of holidays gone past tho.

Sue your ornaments are so cute. I still cannot get over how many talented people we have in our group. I didnt get the artsy fartsy gene. I am more of the techy type ha ha I am making Lasagna with the hamburger I cooked yesterday. that is always good. I make the Lasagna for One off of Joanies site "One Dish Kitchen" I will make two pans (I use 2 noodles for each pan) and freeze one. It is very good.

Time for some breakfast, another cuppa, then a shower.

[Redetotry]

I can't really say it has been a good morning here! To start my day as I got out of bed I knocked over my almost full water bottle (of course no lid) off the bedside table and water went everywhere. My shoes were wet and the basket beside my bed had water all inside and of course the floor was wet. I put on dry shoes and cleaned up the best I could being still half asleep. Big mistake though, I forgot to pick up my wet Birkenstock shoes. When I went back after breakfast Pippa had found the shoes and a lot of cork from both heels were gone. I hope it digests well. The sun is out and it is supposed to be in the high fifties until Friday so that thought is cheering me up.

[Acadianmom]

It's 56 and breezy here. It was overcast when I went to feed but I see the sun is out now. We are suppose to get more rain today but I see on the radar that it's still in Texas. My neighbor usually feeds the 2 cats that stay at the barn. If I see them coming to meet me I know he hasn't fed. They tell on him.

Sue, your ornaments are very nice. My Louisiana camping group would like all of your projects. They usually have something going at every campout.

Something I ate yesterday didn't agree with me. It might be the 15 gingersnap cookies. I need to hide that tin of cookies and forget where I put them. I cooked the cranberry sauce this morning while I was cooking breakfast. I need to decide today if I'm going to have Turkey for Thanksgiving so I can take the turkey roast out of the freezer. My son says he's not going to Baton Rouge but that remains to be seen. My ex-sister-in-law and niece invited me for Thanksgiving but it's a two hour drive to her house. My sister and her bunch are going but I'm going to pass.

Martha

[chalet05]

Good morning!

Like at Martha's, the clouds have given way to the sun! 27 degrees and 1 to 3 inches of snow predicted tomorrow.

More great projects, Sue! Like others, I read and have a comment, but by the time I get to my laptop I have forgotten. BJ, not a good way to start the day!

I was telling BFF about the movie filmed in Leavenworth last night and it led to a discussion about turning some Hallmark, etc. movies off for whatever reason. She said she laughed out loud at one Saturday night. I asked if it was the 3 brothers - yep! We both watched the one Sheila mentioned, 3 Wisemen and a Baby. Not the usual storyline.

I also have a ceramic Christmas tree. It's a smaller one my mother made - 1962 I believe is the date on it. Hobby Lobby had large ones in white or pink last week. I have some very old Christmas ornaments! Karen, I could skip Thanksgiving, but it's a big deal for the kids.

Off to Walmart I go! Have a good day!

[JudyJB]

Working my way through the Gatorade prep, and I have to say that the strawberry kiwi stuff is MUCH better tasting than the old stuff! Wish me well.

[snowball]

Planning on going over to my dd's house for Thanksgiving day about an hour away but it's over a major pass so hoping weather will behave it's self... 10 day forecast says one thing the one of the phone is predicting snow showers later in the week can't see Thursday weather on the phone yet...snow storms possible Weds afternoon... but can't go any further on phone app.. guess till tomorrow..
and it is 5 degrees right now will be glad when we get out of this cold front...
not sure what has been with mom lately... for some reason she keeps coming to the room to see what I'm doing not sure if its cause the light is on or if it's just checking on me... it's disconcerting to be reading and looking up and see her backing up today I was getting dressed was in my nothings getting clothes out of the drawer when I saw the front of the walker... why why why??? and she will go open the door several times a day letting in all that cold cold .... I am sure she is wondering what the weather is like outside but look out the sliding glass door ... seriously am wondering about her memory not being as good as it used to be...
I now have two items of PFChang I will have to remember not to get white rice and chicken egg rolls... not sure what the flavor was but I didn't enjoy it...
I've had a pomegranate hanging out finally cut it open and got juice all over my hands but did get the perils in a bowl...
you all have a great day
sheila