Take a look at Debby's posting... https://lifesfunnylikethat.blogspot.com/
I am glad so many on Facebook are standing with Ukraine and are appalled at Trump's and Vance's behavior at the Whitehouse meeting with Zelensky. Zelensky handled himself so well and we ( US citizens) are lucky that it was filmed and we can see for ourselves what happened!!
Did a little shopping plus picked up my prescriptions today... won't need to do anything tomorrow!! We hope others will be doing the same thing.
Weather still has been nice.. sunny and surprisingly warm but windy. The kids across our circle have a basketball goal... it has been knocked down by the wind yesterday and today.
Yesterday was gorgeous..hard to believe the temperature reached 64 and today is supposed to be almost as good. Our teacher/daughter's students had a ball outside for recess...red light/green light and tag! Just like I did a million years ago!
All the snow is gone and the workers are still at work on digging..adding green plastic boxes and using the ditch witch for the black tubing ( conduit).
We may head out to the Brass Armadillo... getting some steps in and looking at all the "antique" booths.... maybe finish up in Bates City's antique mall? Too nice to just stay in...
Did the Brass Armadillo but not Bates City..... didn't find anything I "just had to have"... though we did talk to another looker. She wanted our opinion.
Going to pick up my prescriptions and cat stuff at Target tomorrow... do NOT want to be tempted to buy anything Friday ...the no-shop event
We did get a few things accomplished yesterday and having warmer weather was probably ... partly the push.
First of all was laundry. We do it in one go with multiple batches. Every thing folded and put away. Bed remade...nice clean sheets tonight.
Made a new soup recipe ... hamburger, pasta and tomato. I added carrots and peppers to the recipe and ended up with a huge batch filling my BIG LeCrueset (sp?) pot. Pasta to be added later.
While the soup was simmering I worked on a bear and found I was almost out of the steel shot I use for weighting. After finishing the bear I went online to order more shot. A 10 lb bag lasts forever but ordering one bag was no longer a big enough order for this supplier . After searching I did find a new supplier.. same price but a little higher shipping... no big deal .. and placed the order. BTW no local store that sells gun reloading supplies handles steel shot.. just lead. Lead corrodes , steel shot doesn't.. not good for inside a bear!!
Bob and I have been watching the workers outside on our circle... First flags were placed last week. Now they have been digging holes and a ditch witch adds some sort of tubing. Not sure what it's all about... which utility. The yellow flags say Evergy... can't read the red ones.
BTW... it is 64 today and the snow is gone...and the ground is soft enough for digging.
Found a Canadian "loonie" leftover from my last visit !!
Tigger ( the orange cat) has discovered that we have birds eating bird food on our deck railing. Bob wipes off the snow before he puts down a trail of bird seed. Tigger watches through the kitchen window.
This morning we had TEN mourning doves. some juncos, a starling, a blue jay and some sparrows! Tigger was fascinated....
I decided tunafish sandwiches would be ideal for dinner tonight. Tigger knew what was up the moment I took the tuna cans out of the cupboard and got out the can opener! Not an electric opener either!!
I open the can and drain the water ( tuna juice the cats call it) onto two plates... one for Tigger and one for Jack. Both were in 7th heaven and licked the plates clean!!
Still too cold to go out so we are hibernating... still. Bob did go out to put the trash bin out at the end of our driveway. It was emptied... poor trash guys , I wouldn't want their job right now! Bob didn't go out and bring the bin back to the house. So there it sits waiting.
The KC Star says newspaper delivery will be questionable. Schools are closed. Restaurants are closed... and it will be colder tomorrow.
I made a turkey chili this evening.. not the best. Worked on a bear and read...Tomorrow won't be very different!
Yesterday we headed out to the grocery store. The fridge and freezer were looking pretty empty after a week of hibernating. I think we spent way more than usual but the forecast for next week means we will probably be staying home .. again!! Nice to feel all set no matter the weather!
Luckily I am a Kindle reader... Bob headed out to the library to return his things and to pick up things on hold.I say things because it was just books but movies..
Schools were closed most of last week due to snow and the cold and will be closed again Monday for President's Day... possibly closed again after that due to the sub-zero weather predicted. Wonder whether these days off are considered snow days and the school calendar will have to make up for them at the end of the school year.
Spent part of the afternoon making a huge pot of zucchini soup... my M-I-L 's recipe. Well not really a recipe more of a guideline. The house smells of Italian sausage... the basis of the soup. I also made another blueberry crostata.
My Wayfair order has arrived. I love the look of my new frying pans and my new bathmat looks great and fits perfectly. Here's hoping the cats don't get a chance to pee on this one.
Well... we had some of that snow the Weather Bug predicted this morning when I got up and tiny snowflakes all this morning. They are predicted a heavy snowfall this evening.
So spent some time on a bear and then on the computer to look at frying pans. Bob and I agreed to two new frying pans - an 8 " and a 10". We had donated two of the same size time a few weeks ago since they didn't clean well any more. I missed the 8 inch one especially . We then decided to order a new little rug for outside the shower. The cats had decided to use the old one to pee on and washing/drying it didn't stop them. ( did take them to the vet to see if there was a problem ... but no there wasn't).
Do like Wayfair's free shipping... variety of items etc.
So far... no more snow. Wonder what it will be like tomorrow morning?!
"I feel as if I know nothing anymore. As if everything I took for granted like the Constitution, the rule of law, like freedom and justice for all (okay, maybe not that but it was a good goal), have all been blasted into smithereens. Like someone had an almighty big hand grenade and hurled it right into the capitol and stood back and laughed as things crumbled and all of our ideals bled a silent death. "
This is a quote from Mrs. Moon of the "bless our hearts" blog... it says what I have been thinking!
Sitting and waiting for the two snow storms predicted...
Since today is ice free and sunny Bob and I headed out to "fix" our health insurance updates. First off to Dr. Liston ( our cardiologist) to let them know we now have Signa Medicare Advantage . The office put our info into the computer and gave us new appointments ( July !)
Then it was off to Target to do the same thing for our pharmacy records! Hooray !
The rest of the day was spent puttering around, bear making and reading... turned some leftover chicken into chicken salad for some great sandwiches for dinner which I served with a green salad and cottage cheese with "tinned" peaches ( Bob loves cottage cheese).
We had all sorts of errands planned for today... we had received stuff from our new Medicare Advantage provider and we wanted to get things "fixed" at out cardiologist, pharmacy, primary care physicians etc. BUT when we headed out our car, the front steps, the driveway etc were all covered in a sheet of hard ice. Super slippery... Cancelled everything and went back inside for a quiet day.
A huge butternut squash awaited me... so I peeled it , chopped it up and put it in my large pot with water to cook. Then I remembered the pint of blueberries in the fridge and went to work putting Joanne 's ( Cup on the Bus) crostata together and into the oven. Both things turned out well!!
Then I rewarded myself with some Kindle book reading time!
Almost all ( two including my daughter's didn't) cancelled school today .. too icy... too many accidents. We will see how tomorrow is..
