Winter

 On a bathroom visit this morning around 6 , there was no snow to be seen. At 7.30 everything had a light covering and it was still snowing. My daughters both had problems... one only made it 7 miles in 45 minutes and so decided to go home and would work from home. The other's 45 minute trip to her school was over an hour. Would her school district do an early closing? Around noon it was decided yes.. but the buses had such problems that the elementary schools still had students waiting for an extra hour.

Other school districts decided earlier and went virtual instead of trying to open physically.

Currently we have about 4 inches of snow... we went nowhere! But I did have "work" to do ... boxing up another piece of mohair from my etsy store and a bear from my online site!!

Daughter talked her way home  ( in the car) ... I think it helps when the way home is bad for one reason or another. We can all celebrate when she pulls into her driveway!

After dinner we turned on the fireplace again and settled into a night of streaming ending with an episode of "Great British Baking Show"

The snowplows haven't hit us yet (?) ... Bob is waiting till tomorrow to take out the trash bin ( will the trash men come?)  I have an eye doctor appointment tomorrow. What will things be like ? Will I have to cancel??

 

 

 

 

busy day??

 When I arrived at our neighborhood WalMart I was amazed!! Then I remembered the weatherman talking about snow tonight and tomorrow and I realized that shoppers were doing that stock up routine! The parking lot was full... the store was full of shoppers, non-WalMart stockers, and workers filling carts for home deliveries!!

An older man decided I was an expert and asked for help in what he needed for the stuffing he was going to make!  Expert..no.. but willing to help.

I got everything on my list and even found where things were that I hadn't needed before..success!  Checked out... got the cart to the car,, and then the trunk would not open. Frozen shut. I had to load everything into the back seat and headed home.... btw it was 25 degrees... now  23 with  a winter advisory.

Bob lugged 75% of the groceries into the house while I did the rest. Everything is put away which left Bob able to wash the kitchen floor and the entryway area. Hooray.

After all that , it was a quiet afternoon for us... but not so much for my grand daughter ( husband and three cats ). There was another fire in her building. But now she has a routine... crate the cats and out into the car,  important papers and themselves out and into the car too. There was a fire truck and two police cars but no flames and no smoke. My grand daughter thinks it was probably a kitchen fire. Undid everything when the police ok'd it.  

 Tried a new recipe for bread pudding. It tastes great but too much bread. ... but the old bread I had in the freezer is used up now!!

 

Fireplace times

When we returned from another of our round robin trips we were tired and cold enough to turn the fireplace on for the first time this winter!!

A needy buyer from my retired freind's stash on etsy needed a piece of faux fur to fill a Christmas order. So I boxed it up , put on a "click and ship" label and dropped it off at the PO during our jaunt. It's going to Maine! 

We went to a craft and vendor show in Independence and picked up the cutest hand-made reindeer and a crochet gifted for a family member...The vendor mentioned 80  sellers and there were lots. It seems like every room in the  hotel was full!

Then it was a stop at Hy-vee for Nilla wafers ( hard to find) and chocolate morsels for peppermint bark.... I am going to make rum balls for our Christmas munch-a-long.

 Temps have dropped The rain we had off and on is gone. The wind is whistling around us...they are talking about snow tomorrow or Monday morning...

 

Turkey Day at Ophelia's

 Our turkey day buffet at Ophelia's was great!! Rooms I had never seen in the restaurant were filled with tables and people!! A long set of buffet tables were filled with delicious foods ... the dessert table was to die for.

Anyway... we all enjoyed ourselves. I wish I had been "allowed" by my family to take pictures but am determined to take them at Christmas!  We enjoyed being together... lots of "Happy Thanksgiving"s. I am thankful for it all!!

I took a long nap when we got home... the Moscow Mule and all that food.. did me in!

Today ?? probably a quiet day... 

The thought of not having turkey sandwiches for leftovers enticed me to buy our own turkey during the sales. It currently sits.. a frozen lump.. in the freezer. I think the thawing process will start next weekend.We won't have all the trimmings etc... but we will enjoy turkey and then TURKEY sandwiches . I remember years of turkey sandwiches with Hellman's mayo and lettuce of Pepperidge farm white bread. Also remember years of my m-i-l's 7 day "soup" which had everything in from mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, turkey from de-boning the bird etc. Even my kids shudder at the memories.

She was a good cook but could not bear not to use up everything ... the result of living during the depression when she was young and always having to stretch things as an adult.

 

Pre-Thanksgiving

We decided to stay home today.. no crowds... no lines and so on.

It was a weird day.. no Thanksgiving prep since we are all going to Ophelia's on the Independence Square for its buffet. No house cleaning... no putting stuff away and so on. So traditions be gone.. at least for this year. We'll see how it feels next year.

 Our grand daughter called to check on us.. a big accident near us on 7 Hwy  near I  70 with a sedan like ours. She wanted to make sure it wasn't us!! 

W treated ourselves to a special cheese box from Green Dirt Farm ..so an unusual dinner for us two. The cheeses, fig jam and walnut biscuits were wonderful... all sheep cheeses. I think I liked the blue cheese best. We did have a green salad too and glasses of Shiraz.

Another trip out

 While I grocery shopped Bob found where he could buy gift cards  ( in Wal-Mart ) for our senior adoptees. We've pretty much bought the wants on their lists but with the gc's they can buy their "needs" for themselves.

Now we are going to switch and start shopping for the family ... again. We did buy some things but there are some members without.

Fresh cranberries are now  92 cents a mesh bag!! Good thing they can be frozen! The piles of sweet potatoes are high in their wooden display containers and  78 cents / lb. ! 

Finished my red cat and accessorized him ... took pictures and put him on my online show site... next show starts Dec. 5. 

 

 

Another Christmas shopping trip

I headed out this morning on another Christmas shopping trip... managed it before the parking lots started to fill!  Hooray!

Home Goods was filled with loads of Christmas temptations.. some of which I put in my shopping cart. By the way... the aisles are so narrow with all these goodies that one can barely make through. No British All Sorts though... Amazon will be sending them instead!!

The checkout line was full but moving quickly... noticed the security monitor above it...I  could see myself and everyone behind me! Easy peasy area for shoplifting!

The weather people said we would have rain to day... and we have. Not steady but off and on. The temperature is 51 F... cold enough to make it chilly. My subdivision is beginning to have lots of Christmas lights and yard decorations. Nice to see lights on ! I haven't been able to talk Bob into bringing down our boxes from the attic, but I hope to soon!