Lovely picture Pumpkin - hope you get to see her again soon. What State do you live in? So many different rules for each area. Much the same is happening here.
@schumigirl make sure to stock up on stamps. They are increasing in price soon.
We are watching “Elf” at the same time as playing with the new dolls in the family! Nursery set up in the lounge.
Just heard from one of my dearest friends. Her husband went for tests today that should have been done in August. They had a call this evening that the results were shocking and he has to go into hospital on Monday for a blood transfusion. He has ongoing problems following a stroke. Such a shame he’s a lovely man who was always active and busy.
Hope everyone is heading into a good weekend x
I don`t go through that many stamps a year to be honest, maybe twenty or thirty max.......but I agree the price is ridiculous for the service you get at times. I posted a first class birthday card to a niece in London, took 5 days to get there, and this was in October, before the rush.
Hi all,
Hands a little better today... been wearing my compression glove-thingies. The joy of RA! I think gripping the shovel yesterday really did me in.
Youngest dd and I went for some extra groceries today. I still have one more stop but I'll do that on Monday when the weekend crowd dies down. It was surprisingly quick today, but most people won't go out while there's still a lot of snow. The main roads are clear, but the parking lots and side streets are still snow covered. DD drove to let me rest my hands.
We passed the arena where we watch the baby Pen's hockey and I was sad. We usually get season tickets and it's a big family thing to go to games. Hoping we can do it again soon! They started vaccines here for health care workers. Our updated cases for my county were up over 500 today. That's the most we've had in one day.
You know how it goes.... flare ups are a pain.
LOVE that movie!
Thanks, it will calm down. Typing is a little easier today.
This is another of my favorite Christmas movies and usually the first one we watch during Christmas season!
We will be baking this weekend too. We usually have a big baking party, but not this year. Just youngest dd, hubby and I baking.
Oh yum! Send some this way please!
That is my all time favorite Christmas movie!
I'm sorry. I know it's tough. We're in the same boat here. My parents decided they don't want to come over to try to be safe. I don't know what we're doing yet with my kids, but we're working on it.
Ours too! We have about an inch of packed snow on the side streets and parking lots right now, and piles of plowed snow about 6 feet high in some areas. There's just no place to put it. It was hard pushing a grocery cart through the snow, lol! 4 wheel drive got a work out today.
Super cute!
Charcuterie plates tonight for snacking and movie watching. Not sure which one we will watch tonight. Youngest dd and I are working on some crafting projects for gifts.
Glad the compression glove helps.....I don`t know anyone who`s ever used one before.
White Christmas is a classic. And our regular Christmas Eve movie along with Alasdair Sin Scrooge from 1951. My favourite of all the Christmas Carol films.
Charcuterie is one of our favourite things to have......it`ll be part of our Christmas Eve buffet plates......always popular.
Have a great weekend mrose......
Chocolate chocolate chip cookies, tart cherry scones, magic cookie bars, and chocolate chip cookies so far. Decided to do the pretzels later.
Cherry scones are one of our favourite things to bake.......I`m not the best baker in the world, but scones always turn out well.
Late night check in. Had a somewhat busy day today. The vet visit did not go well. Caspian would not eat the food with the gabapentin. I think he can smell it. We got him in the carrier with no problem, but once at the vet's office he refused to cooperate. They would not attempt the nail trim. Dh suggested having him fully sedated, but that's an awful lot of money to spend to do a nail trim. I'm going to try again next week.
After lunch today we went over to Michael's so dh could get cases for a football and basketball he has. I think they are signed by the team coaches. After that i went to Kohl's to get a new throw blanket. I like to keep one on my recliner. The one I currently have is a cheap
Walmart one that is starting to come apart. I went into Kohl's and the line to check out stretched all the way from the registers to the back of the store. Nope! I decided to order it online and then go back later and use curbside pickup. I also made the mistake of going into Walmart. I won't be doing that again until after Christmas.
This is probably my favorite Christmas movie.
No recipe from me. The one time I tried to make it from scratch I just throw in all the remaining cheese I had in the refrigerator. I forget how many different types there were. It wasn't bad, but I won't do it that way again.
B wants to have dinner with you. She loves salmon.
Hi Pumpkin. Good to see you. I forget - are you working towards a degree or something else?
Adorable. I think that's the cutest socially distant Santo photo I've seen so far.
How awful. I hope everything goes well for him.
I'm headed over to Lynne's house. Bye!
Yes, we have a grocery pick up and some dleiveries from more local places this week......so we won`t be heading out to any places now till after Christmas......it`s crazy!
Salmon is gorgeous......love it. Tell your daughter we`ll set a plate next time.....
White Christmas is one of the best Christmas movies ever. The one I`m not fond of is A Wonderful Life.....yes, everyone quotes it as one of the best, but I find it about an hour too long and a bit boring.....I like the beginning and the end.....so we haven`t watched it in years.
Muppet Christmas Carol tonight......
We slept in this morning......all of us, but, deliberately......nothing to get up for as we have no plans to go out or do any shopping from now till after Christmas. Bacon was enjoyed and tried another type of black pudding which we weren`t keen on, will stick to the stuff we get from the Orkney Islands.
We do have our deliveries next week from the butcher and farm shops, and a click and collect grocery shop Wednesday morning......that`s a 7am pick up though, so early rise that morning as the store is around 40 minutes away from us.
But for today, making some more mini sausage rolls this morning, pork sausage meat and cranberry ones as we all like them, makes them slightly sweeter. A little bit of baking this afternoon to hand in to the farm next to us, she doesn`t get to bake as much as she`d like now due to arthritis.
We have a beautiful day here, sunshine and around 40F........a nice day to stay inside I think.
Have a wonderful Saturday
). Our road crews are great at getting out and plowing right away, but even though they plow, everyone is driving around and packing the falling snow, and at our current temps, it just turns into a skating rink. They do put a sand/salt mixture down on the roads. The sand helps with traction when it's colder than -15C, then once it starts to warm up the salt helps to cut through the ice. So needless to say, our vehicles get to be a gross sloppy mess. Our car washes are very busy all year lol. 
