Me: Cliff, tomorrow is the 31st. It's New Year's Eve! Anything special you want to do? Cliff: I think I need to vacuum! The Christmas decorations are down. The outside and inside trees are packed. Wreaths are off the windows. Christmas dishes are carefully packed in their boxes. Everything is back in the garage in their usual places. This holiday has held the least interest that we've ever felt. When Mark and Jen come for Thanksgiving, Cliff likes to have the house, inside and out, decorated for them. The two trees went up. Porch lights were swagged. Wreaths were placed on the windows. Then we lost interest, desire, and it seemed to become a chore. Remaining boxes of decorations stayed on the back porch, taped up tightly. Next year will be better. HAPPY NEW YEAR! May we vacuum out the dust and old debris. Let go of this year's negative events and begin a new year with positive thoughts.
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Nature's Perfect Timing........... We got about 2" inches of icy crusty snow last night that caused some power outages and vehicle accidents. Cliff chose not to respond because our road was treacherous as were the other roads. I'm pleased he didn't. We cooked a nice turkey dinner together and have a cozy fire in the stove. No dessert. I was too lazy to make any. He'll eat the leftover tapioca pudding. Some of the snow melted but our road is still "iffy". Certain neighbors on our road never stay home and have been out-and-about since morning. Some people don't worry about Covid nor icy roads. Merry Christmas!!
Let's see how this goes............ I figured this would be a good day to play with the blog and see what I can screw up today. It's very dark still at 8:30 a.m. as rain pounds the roof bringing a fast moving cold front through. The barometric pressure is dropping quickly. Our temperature will plummet this afternoon from low 50's to 20 degrees. My hot tea sits to my left on the desk and from my peripheral vision, I watch the fog thicken in the forest as the weather changes. I recall my mother telling me how she felt like a drunk when she woke during the deepest darkest time in winter when our bodies experience a slowing and hibernating need. I've felt that the past week. The other day I craved warm cooked apples. Found a quick easy Sauteed Cinnamon Apples recipe. apples sauteed in coconut oil until softened My choice was spooned over cherry vanilla ice-cream.......... Cliff's choice was "black and white" ice-cream to
At 8:30 am........... The sun was out, granted it was only 25 degrees, and the lazy squirrel was still cured up in his squirrel house sound asleep. 8:47............ Eyes barely opened................he needed black coffee. Yesterday was lovely. Temperature hit high 60's by 3 pm. We strolled Konehetee (Cherokee for "village by the water") Park. My hip and knee were complaining so we only went around once. I'm loving these few mild days and this afternoon we'll do the walk again, maybe a bit longer. Sun feels warming and comforting. It was welcoming to see people walking their dogs, children playing basketball. we also saw a group of six friends sitting in a spaceous circle
Yesterday 7:30 am................. Early this afternoon.............. This is our kind of snow............... The Almanac mentions snow showers and snowfalls often for our area this winter. Yesterday I made a warm sweet potato with red lentil soup to comfort us in the 34 degree day. This morning we woke to 17 degrees until the sun warmed the air to 49. Thursday Mark and Jen arrived for the Thanksgiving weekend. Friday Jen and I spent the morning together in the kitchen cooking up a storm. I made the dressing with sprouted grain bread that I had dried on cookie sheets for four days and to my surprise it was the best dressing I ever made. I bought a nine pound turkey breast, not a Butterball because they're injected with stuff, but just a plain old store name turkey, and baked it in a cup of white wine and it was so moist and juicy. Even the gravy was delicious. We had peas and farmers market winter squash. I was really pleased that everything came out as we wanted, moist,