Something About Nothing............ #14

[Realfoodfans]

Good afternoon all. Still struggling here but warm
and cozy in my bed and Louie by my side the majority of the time. I am improving but advised to stay isolated and resting. We have had a lot of snow and it’s still thick on the ground and I have a lovely view of the garden.

Still no Covid test results. Kev chased it up and they said they are so overwhelmed they will not investigate until day 6 (Friday). Seems ridiculous to me as if there are positive results anyone you’d seen will have been all over the place by then!

News just announced we (and a lot of the country) are being moved into tier 4 from midnight. Tough for so many businesses.

We are meant to collect from the farm butcher tomorrow - fillet steaks for NYE and a beef joint. Kev will go if necessary - our car is a 4x4 so the snow is no problem.

Hope everyone has a peaceful New Year.

 

[Lynne G]

Sending more mummy dust filled with lots of well wishes to Julie. Bed rest is the best. And aww, dog love is so good when not feeling the best. I hope negative whenever you get the test results. Delays are in the news here too. Yum, for steak dinner. Think we are doing steak and ham. Little one is no fan of ham.

Robo, so nice to see your post. Hope all are doing well, and the coffee is hot in your HHN mug. I so enjoy my blonde moments in the salon. Hehe, that skunk reference. I was a white blonde mix when waiting for that salon pampering. Hope you have a relaxing color visit to your salon. And you are so kind, those masks you make are fabulous. Nice to be able to enjoy family with a very lush sounding breakfast. For us, big breakfasts tend to only be on my off days. Which reminds me, bacon may need to be picked up on our grocery run.

Ah, to get a kid up. Neither is stirring, DH was not the best last night. Seems he partook of some very strong coffee last evening. Just means, I may be doing that nap this afternoon. Ah, so nice to have a mid week lazy day.

 

[schumigirl]

Good Wednesday morning Sans family

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So sweet he bought you such nice gifts that you wanted.




What a nice picture of your kids in front of the tree Lynne.




Merry Christmas to you too Tink. So good to see you post and your doggy is beautiful.



Thank you Schumi. Hope Father Christmas was good to all of you too. Sending continued prayers and good wishes to you and your family.




Awesome. They are very nice. Was a unexpected surprise for sure.




Sending get well wishes for you. Hope you feel better soon.



Ditto to that. You will love having him home. It will also allow you to travel whenever you want.



Bobbie good to see you post. Happy belated Christmas to you and your family. Hope your hiccup with House is settled easily so you all can move and start enjoying some Florida sun.




What a nice photo of your son and his family.




The open casket funerals are very common here in the South too.




It is very awkward. I think the elderly family and friends seem to have more ease talking about it then the younger family members do.


We had sunshine yesterday, but today it is cloudy and rain predicted. Had to go out for some printer ink yesterday. Looks like lots of people were buying for New Years Celebration.

Our next small get together with family is Saturday. So I need to go to grocery and just pick up what I need to complete that meal. I have a nice ham in the refrigerator. Theme is going to be a country Christmas breakfast. I will make cinnamon rolls that morning.

Need to get to fabric store for some more elastic for masks. It is a soft elastic and much more comfortable to the ears.

I have hair appointment this afternoon. So Pepe Le Pew will be no more...LOL.....that’s the one bad thing about having dark brown hair. When the gray starts showing it is extremely obvious.

Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone. Celebrate your family and friends.

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Your get together sounds lovely Robo......very tempting. Got to love cinnamon buns......and enjoy getting your hair done today, that`s always nice to have done....and thank you......

I also like the idea of mischief........

Good afternoon all. Still struggling here but warm
and cozy in my bed and Louie by my side the majority of the time. I am improving but advised to stay isolated and resting. We have had a lot of snow and it’s still thick on the ground and I have a lovely view of the garden.

Still no Covid test results. Kev chased it up and they said they are so overwhelmed they will not investigate until day 6 (Friday). Seems ridiculous to me as if there are positive results anyone you’d seen will have been all over the place by then!

News just announced we (and a lot of the country) are being moved into tier 4 from midnight. Tough for so many businesses.

We are meant to collect from the farm butcher tomorrow - fillet steaks for NYE and a beef joint. Kev will go if necessary - our car is a 4x4 so the snow is no problem.

Hope everyone has a peaceful New Year.

Glad you`re doing a bit better.

We went today into the middle of nowhere to our farm butcher.......roads were bad there and will be worse tomorrow. We have a 4x4 too, but, we didn`t see the sense in waiting when we could pick our order up today and avoid the worst of the weather. Although to be honest, I doubt it`ll get that bad here. Funnily enough we`re having fillet steaks but for New Years Day dinner. Chateauxbriand for Tom and I and Kyle and co are having fillet steaks.




Housework all done for New Years.....well, the rooms that we use regularly anyway......no more laundry being done till after NY.

All our decorations and trees come down on Saturday. I`d do it on the 1st, but Tom likes to have that day before we start. He does most of it anyway, him and Kyle get all the trees up in the attic and I carefully rewrap all the ornaments, it does take a while, but worth it as we haven`t had a broken ornament for as long as I can remember.

Been a beautiful day today and we did manage a short walk out at the farm store. But, so cold.

Decided on salmon with a white wine sauce tonight, parmentier potatoes and some lovely roasted yellow courgettes for dinner.

Getting hungry now........

 

[cam757]

Hello to all!

Cold morning here. It was in the 20's this morning but I think it is supposed to get up to 50. At least it is sunny.

My mom called me last night. She was a upset because she heard that her good friend from her high school days passed yesterday from COVID. She is the first person that my mom knew personally to pass away with it. I think she developed pneumonia while in the hospital. Very sad.

Not much going on today. Just at work.

Probably will do chili for dinner since I have some ground beef defrosted.

And a fish fry for Cam. Quite the haul DH had. And happy to hear Christmas was nice.

Thanks! DH went outside his comfort zone and actually grilled the fish and made a lovely garlic sauce. He totally shocked me with his culinary skills. LOL!

I love the Poirot TV show with Hastings and David Suchet too. The Peter Ustinov ones are quite humorous but among our favourites. The stars they got to appear in those movies are quite wonderful to watch. What did your son call the birds......I think those names would have been cool.

Me too. David Suchet was terrific as Poirot. I haven't seen the Peter Ustinov ones. I will have to check those out.

I think they would have been cool names too. Honestly, we ended up just calling them the green one and the blue one, LOL. Although, my son did come up with some names, I can't remember what they are. He did not like my other suggestion of Harry and Ron.

Also joining in with Dry January...no alcohol at all for the whole month......most of my friends are doing it too, and we give a donation to charity at roughly what we would have spent on alcohol. It doesn`t count if you already have the wine or alcohol in the home already, you just work out an amount and donate.

I have never heard of Dry January. What a good way to raise money for charity. Best of luck!

 

[schumigirl]

Hello to all!

Cold morning here. It was in the 20's this morning but I think it is supposed to get up to 50. At least it is sunny.

My mom called me last night. She was a upset because she heard that her good friend from her high school days passed yesterday from COVID. She is the first person that my mom knew personally to pass away with it. I think she developed pneumonia while in the hospital. Very sad.

Not much going on today. Just at work.

Probably will do chili for dinner since I have some ground beef defrosted.



Thanks! DH went outside his comfort zone and actually grilled the fish and made a lovely garlic sauce. He totally shocked me with his culinary skills. LOL!



Me too. David Suchet was terrific as Poirot. I haven't seen the Peter Ustinov ones. I will have to check those out.

I think they would have been cool names too. Honestly, we ended up just calling them the green one and the blue one, LOL. Although, my son did come up with some names, I can't remember what they are. He did not like my other suggestion of Harry and Ron.



I have never heard of Dry January. What a good way to raise money for charity. Best of luck!

I`m so sorry about your mum`s friend. There`s so much heartache through this virus.

We have around 24F tonight....coldest for a while, but we very rarely get any lower....living right beside the sea, we don`t get it as bad as inland.

I am laughing so hard at the green one and the blue one......lol. I`d have gone for Harry and Ron.

We have done Dry January previous years, I jest about it, but it is easy to do. And, yes, charity gets a good donation lol.....



Watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles tonight.....haven`t watched it in many, many years. Not as funny as I remember, but then I`m not a fan of Steve Martin. It does have it`s moments though.....

Everything is white outside tonight.......no snow yet though.......

 

[bobbie68]

it's getting colder here but at least staying dry for now. We are scheduled for some mixed percipitation later this week. We have been working on the hiccup on our house here. It is slowly working it's way out and should not be a problem to effect our closing date. I already have drivers planned for a certain weekend so keeping fingers crossed.

Thanks for the well wishes on the move hiccup it is much appreciated.

Liv started not feelng well after Christmas and has now shared with the rest of us. Believe it is just a cold no symptoms of COVId so just going to go with it. The lines to get the testing and the waiting is so bad here right now.

We have started more packing it's hard because we still have almost 4 weeks and I need to still cook so trying to figure out what else I can pack. I know it is going to fly by. As of right now we are going to have to leave one of our cars in CT and Brian will fly home a couple of weeks later to get it and drive it to Florida. My father mentioned if I wanted him to drive it but I don't think he liked my itinerary on the way down, we have to drive 55 becuase of the trailer and stop 2 nights so I have a feeling he will rescind but that is fine. The airfare on discount airlines is cheap enough.

My nephew who is in his early thirties is going to drive one of our cars so he decieded to stay with us for about 10 days and help out then visit his sister in Georgia. He has had a rought life and never really did anything so we are taking him to Universal for an overnight staying CL at RPR. He is so excited and so are we. I just bought my premiere passes at FL resident rate and saved $100.00 per pass.

I do have a question for those who have stayed at RPR, since they are doing boxed stuff for the CL is there a place on the grounds outside that we could eat. I know Liv is going to have a hard time eating in the lounge? Thanks!

Schumigirl glad that you got to watch the service and hoped in some ways. I am from a traditional Italian Catholic background and open caskets were normal but I always disliked them .In fact when my mom died I forced a closed casket, the last thing I wanted to do was to sit there for hours and watch her. I do think today it is much more common for closed caskets and less wakes over two days. It is a lot on the family. Dry January sounds like a great way to raise money for charity, good luck with it. Your menu items sound delicious as ever. I hope the weather continues to cooperate for you. Your meme on the towel dispenser in bathrooms had me and Brian in stitiches, boy did that bring back memories.

Keishashadow love the pic, and defitnely fits in with 2020. Beef stew in the crock pot sounds delicious. I used to make beef stew in the crock pot all the time but I now have 2 who eat less meat in general and I am trying to watch red meat intake it doesn't seem to agree with me. I hope your hand is doing better and heals completely fast. I love salty snacks chips and dip are one of my favorites.

Lynne I love using the air fryer but unfortunately I am not making as much meat anymore but I am going to try more vegetables with it, I think breaded zuiccini and sweet potato fries are good. I have been having issues with Liv not wanting to eat what I make so trying to have something she likes in. I hope you and your DH have a nice few days off, nice to stay in. I have Charlie wanting to do something special for his 21 in two years and yep it will go fast. I love your bang the pans on NYE, I too have trouble staying up. Glad that you feel okay with your choice to skip your trip coming up, never an easy choice.

Robo I love your PePe comment, I too have dark hair and feel like that right now. I am hoping this weekend to have the grey wash away!! Your Saturday gathering sounds nice with great company and food. We have made a few masks multiple layers out of a bamboo sheet, very soft and breathable but still working on finding good elastic for around the ears. Have a great family gathering and enjoy making the masks. I hope you and your DH are feeling good. Yes I can't wait for Florida sunshine.

Real Sorry you are still under the weather. I hope your tests come back negative and start feeling better soon. I have a cat in my bedroom right now and he loves to snuggle next to me and it is such a nice feeling, glad Louie is doing that for you. I think the isolation is such a hard part. Enjoy looking at the snow, I think it can be very beautiful to look at especially on the trees.

Cam Sorry about your mom's friend, it is never easy to lose someone and then from COVID it makes things really hit home. I hope she is doing good. My step-mother in law just lost her sister to Covid she was in the hospital for something else caught it and didn't make it. This was the first person I knew personally who died. My family loves chili and I use to make it a lot but my two have limited meat so now I am trying it vegeterian with tofu, it is pretty good, but not the same. I love the bird names Harry and Ron, Charlie is going to get a parakeet when we move he loves birds, I am wondering if he will name it (Skeletor- I particualrly liked He Man better) he is obsessed with that character.

Mac I hope you had a good Taco Bell run yesterday and the weather is being good to you!

Charade I hope you found something fun to do instead of cleaning the bathroom. Wow that is a lot of text books for a class. We have to get Liv's soon I am hoping no more than 1 per class, so far she has only had one class that had 2. I love your "clam" LOL!

I want to say a special hello to the rest of the SANS famiy and I hope everyone is ready for a safe, happy and healthy new year!!!

 

[schumigirl]

it's getting colder here but at least staying dry for now. We are scheduled for some mixed percipitation later this week. We have been working on the hiccup on our house here. It is slowly working it's way out and should not be a problem to effect our closing date. I already have drivers planned for a certain weekend so keeping fingers crossed.

Thanks for the well wishes on the move hiccup it is much appreciated.

Liv started not feelng well after Christmas and has now shared with the rest of us. Believe it is just a cold no symptoms of COVId so just going to go with it. The lines to get the testing and the waiting is so bad here right now.

We have started more packing it's hard because we still have almost 4 weeks and I need to still cook so trying to figure out what else I can pack. I know it is going to fly by. As of right now we are going to have to leave one of our cars in CT and Brian will fly home a couple of weeks later to get it and drive it to Florida. My father mentioned if I wanted him to drive it but I don't think he liked my itinerary on the way down, we have to drive 55 becuase of the trailer and stop 2 nights so I have a feeling he will rescind but that is fine. The airfare on discount airlines is cheap enough.

My nephew who is in his early thirties is going to drive one of our cars so he decieded to stay with us for about 10 days and help out then visit his sister in Georgia. He has had a rought life and never really did anything so we are taking him to Universal for an overnight staying CL at RPR. He is so excited and so are we. I just bought my premiere passes at FL resident rate and saved $100.00 per pass.

I do have a question for those who have stayed at RPR, since they are doing boxed stuff for the CL is there a place on the grounds outside that we could eat. I know Liv is going to have a hard time eating in the lounge? Thanks!

Schumigirl glad that you got to watch the service and hoped in some ways. I am from a traditional Italian Catholic background and open caskets were normal but I always disliked them .In fact when my mom died I forced a closed casket, the last thing I wanted to do was to sit there for hours and watch her. I do think today it is much more common for closed caskets and less wakes over two days. It is a lot on the family. Dry January sounds like a great way to raise money for charity, good luck with it. Your menu items sound delicious as ever. I hope the weather continues to cooperate for you. Your meme on the towel dispenser in bathrooms had me and Brian in stitiches, boy did that bring back memories.

Keishashadow love the pic, and defitnely fits in with 2020. Beef stew in the crock pot sounds delicious. I used to make beef stew in the crock pot all the time but I now have 2 who eat less meat in general and I am trying to watch red meat intake it doesn't seem to agree with me. I hope your hand is doing better and heals completely fast. I love salty snacks chips and dip are one of my favorites.

Lynne I love using the air fryer but unfortunately I am not making as much meat anymore but I am going to try more vegetables with it, I think breaded zuiccini and sweet potato fries are good. I have been having issues with Liv not wanting to eat what I make so trying to have something she likes in. I hope you and your DH have a nice few days off, nice to stay in. I have Charlie wanting to do something special for his 21 in two years and yep it will go fast. I love your bang the pans on NYE, I too have trouble staying up. Glad that you feel okay with your choice to skip your trip coming up, never an easy choice.

Robo I love your PePe comment, I too have dark hair and feel like that right now. I am hoping this weekend to have the grey wash away!! Your Saturday gathering sounds nice with great company and food. We have made a few masks multiple layers out of a bamboo sheet, very soft and breathable but still working on finding good elastic for around the ears. Have a great family gathering and enjoy making the masks. I hope you and your DH are feeling good. Yes I can't wait for Florida sunshine.

Real Sorry you are still under the weather. I hope your tests come back negative and start feeling better soon. I have a cat in my bedroom right now and he loves to snuggle next to me and it is such a nice feeling, glad Louie is doing that for you. I think the isolation is such a hard part. Enjoy looking at the snow, I think it can be very beautiful to look at especially on the trees.

Cam Sorry about your mom's friend, it is never easy to lose someone and then from COVID it makes things really hit home. I hope she is doing good. My step-mother in law just lost her sister to Covid she was in the hospital for something else caught it and didn't make it. This was the first person I knew personally who died. My family loves chili and I use to make it a lot but my two have limited meat so now I am trying it vegeterian with tofu, it is pretty good, but not the same. I love the bird names Harry and Ron, Charlie is going to get a parakeet when we move he loves birds, I am wondering if he will name it (Skeletor- I particualrly liked He Man better) he is obsessed with that character.

Mac I hope you had a good Taco Bell run yesterday and the weather is being good to you!

Charade I hope you found something fun to do instead of cleaning the bathroom. Wow that is a lot of text books for a class. We have to get Liv's soon I am hoping no more than 1 per class, so far she has only had one class that had 2. I love your "clam" LOL!

I want to say a special hello to the rest of the SANS famiy and I hope everyone is ready for a safe, happy and healthy new year!!!

Good to see you bobbie, and thank you again for the lovely message you sent me......

I`m glad the hitch is being worked out, it will be fine!! But, you won`t settle until it`s fixed properly I imagine.......

You can eat by the pool and there are benches around the outside of the pool area too. Sadly the benches tend to be used by smokers which is unpleasant.

Years ago we sometimes took our breakfast down to eat by the pool and it was so quiet.

There is also a small beach area on the walkway to the parks just along from the boatdock. Sometimes they have seats there, sometimes they don`t. But, kids can sit on the sand.

Happy New Year to you and your family too.....

 

[Charade67]

Good evening everyone. I am very happy to start a 4 day weekend. Work got a little busy after lunch and I ended up staying a little later than planned.

While I was at lunch I got a call from my mom telling my that my uncle had died. Um....which one? My mother has 5 brothers and 4 sisters. It was the husband of one of her sisters. I may have met him once when I was a little kid. She couldn't remember the exact cause of death, but it wasn't Covid.

In happier news, I stopped by my favorite ice cream shop today. They are going to be closing for the month of January, so they were trying to sell the remainder of their inventory before they close tonight. Most of the flavors (including my 2 favorites) were already sold out buy the time I got there, and they had only been open for an hour. They were selling everything for half price, so that helped. I did manage to get 4 pints to take home.

that’s the one bad thing about having dark brown hair. When the gray starts showing it is extremely obvious.

Yep, that's me too. I often refer to my skunk stripes.

I am improving but advised to stay isolated and resting.

Still no Covid test results.

Glad you are starting to feel a little better. Hope you get your results soon.

All our decorations and trees come down on Saturday.

I'm ready to take ours down, but dh wants to keep them up a little longer. We finally had to remove one of our lawn decorations because the wind kept knocking it over.

My mom called me last night. She was a upset because she heard that her good friend from her high school days passed yesterday from COVID. She is the first person that my mom knew personally to pass away with it. I think she developed pneumonia while in the hospital. Very sad.

So sorry to hear about your mom's friend.

Probably will do chili for dinner since I have some ground beef defrosted.

We are having chili tonight too.

Liv started not feelng well after Christmas and has now shared with the rest of us. Believe it is just a cold no symptoms of COVId so just going to go with it. The lines to get the testing and the waiting is so bad here right now.

Hope everyone is feeling better soon.
Good luck with all of the packing. The worst part of moving in my opinion. We once paid our movers to do our packing.

Charade I hope you found something fun to do instead of cleaning the bathroom. Wow that is a lot of text books for a class.

Noting fun, but I did do some stuff that was better than cleaning a bathroom.
The class that requires 6 books is a 400 level research class. In total she needs around 19 books for her 5 classes. Thankfully most are not actual text books, so not super expensive, but they do add up. I have been looking for the lowest prices I can get. Some will be rentals, other are purchased used. I think there are only 2 that will be purchased new.

I think it time to start the chili.

 

[Lynne G]

Bobbie, nice to hear from you again. Sounds like the move is getting closer and closer. Yeah, times do fly.

Cam, I am so sorry to hear of passing of mom’s friend passing. So many have lost lives from the virus. Sending my sympathy to the family and friends.

Went to the little zoo for a stroll today. Was crowded, as all kids out of schools this week. We were perfect, as no wait to get in, and we saw lines where we had went earlier when there was none. Always a nice place to stroll. Just some fun pictures, first of this cat, who I guess got disturbed from her heat lamp snooze:


Name is Luna, and such a beautiful animal.

Keepers of the otters were there, telling about the 2 otters at the zoo, and answering questions. I have better pictures of them from the summer, but here’s the one from today:


And a pacing cheetah that is also the other beautiful cat:

His name is Diego, and he and Luna’s offspring left this summer to other zoos. They had 3, two males and a female.

Chili sounds good Charade. Made a chicken stir fry, with only some butter added. Little one and DH both have upset tummies, so bland meal was our dinner. So sorry to hear of relative’s death. Sending sympathy to his family and friends.

And so, with all just chilling tonight, I am hoping older one and I do not get upset tummies too.

And was a blustery cool feeling day. Started with some sun, then overcast the rest of the day. That wind was cool enough, made it feel even colder. Little one put the high heat on in the car when we left the zoo. Neither of us remembered gloves. Hats, yes we did.

Last day of the year, and little one wants to stroll in the mall. I guess. We need nada, but always nice to walk inside where warm. And did a Target run today, and Valentines Day decor everywhere, Christmas stuff, decimated and less than an aisle of stuff left. Did find a few things at good prices. Went in there to buy more tea bags. Yeah, like I never seem to get out of there without other things in the bag than I went in there for.

 

[Lynne G]

Yay, for Charade, Cam and many other working homies:

 

[Monykalyn]

Greetings and well wishes and hugs to those that need them! December-February are harder currently (stupid virus) as this is when our nursing homes tend to see more passings. 3 more this week in one place (none covid related).

Nice, we watched the new Wonder Woman movie. A long one it was. Will file that under if you can’t say anything nice.

We lasted about 8 minutes with Wonder Woman......

well the best of the whole movie was the beginning..,

edited for privacy but it says: weirdest year ever, blessings from the x family

love it! Got to have a sense of humor!

Still no Covid test results. Kev chased it up and they said they are so overwhelmed they will not investigate until day 6 (Friday). Seems ridiculous to me as if there are positive results anyone you’d seen will have been all over the place by then!

hope you feel better soon!

Name is Luna, and such a beautiful animal.

Pretty! We give a family zoo membership every year to a sister in law and her family for Christmas . They use it a lot - young family, and nice to give a gift that not only is used but also supports the zoo. And the Saint Louis Zoo is free to enter (some charges for some exhibits) so it helps to have the memberships.

Will have to do a small bit of work tomorrow but then off till Monday. Oldest flies back to Seattle on Friday. Middle is trying to convince us she doesn’t wasn’t to return to Florida alone (and I’ve just happen to have scheduled myself off for a long weekend when she is set to fly back, hubs has voucher he needs to use up for airline, andthe new Dockside Inn has some super rates right now for APs... ). She has to take a covid test before she can get her room key activated, and I think she’s nervous about doing that alone- we were with her in August when she did it

Got my first dose of Moderna vaccine today at one of my nursing homes. Residents and staff lined up to get it. Super sore arm. Mild headache and starting in tiredness and sore throat. Tea and tucked myself into bed. Trying to not break down and take ibuprofen (arm is SORE - way way more than flu shot although shot itself I felt absolutely nothing!) to let the immune system rev up and do its thing, but not sure I’m gonna be able to sleep otherwise.

Snow today. Maybe 1/2-3/4 inch on surfaces? Had to finally shoo chickens into coop and close it as the feathered feet ones had no clue what to do, and didn’t seem to mind the snow. Dog loves it- toss snowballs he catches, the snow disintegrates and he looks comically all over for it.

Ready for 2021!

 

[schumigirl]

Good evening everyone. I am very happy to start a 4 day weekend. Work got a little busy after lunch and I ended up staying a little later than planned.

While I was at lunch I got a call from my mom telling my that my uncle had died. Um....which one? My mother has 5 brothers and 4 sisters. It was the husband of one of her sisters. I may have met him once when I was a little kid. She couldn't remember the exact cause of death, but it wasn't Covid.

In happier news, I stopped by my favorite ice cream shop today. They are going to be closing for the month of January, so they were trying to sell the remainder of their inventory before they close tonight. Most of the flavors (including my 2 favorites) were already sold out buy the time I got there, and they had only been open for an hour. They were selling everything for half price, so that helped. I did manage to get 4 pints to take home.

Yep, that's me too. I often refer to my skunk stripes.


Glad you are starting to feel a little better. Hope you get your results soon.

I'm ready to take ours down, but dh wants to keep them up a little longer. We finally had to remove one of our lawn decorations because the wind kept knocking it over.

So sorry to hear about your mom's friend.

We are having chili tonight too.

Hope everyone is feeling better soon.
Good luck with all of the packing. The worst part of moving in my opinion. We once paid our movers to do our packing.

Noting fun, but I did do some stuff that was better than cleaning a bathroom.
The class that requires 6 books is a 400 level research class. In total she needs around 19 books for her 5 classes. Thankfully most are not actual text books, so not super expensive, but they do add up. I have been looking for the lowest prices I can get. Some will be rentals, other are purchased used. I think there are only 2 that will be purchased new.

I think it time to start the chili.

Charade, so sorry to hear of your uncle`s death. This time of year is always hard to lose someone, your poor aunt.

Nice find on the ice cream. Always nice to have in the freezers.

I admit to not minding packing to move, and we have moved a lot over the years. Once or twice when the move was through the business, movers were paid to do the packing and that meant everything.....I did say I`d do our clothes as I didn`t fancy them doing that. But, they always did a good job.

Greetings and well wishes and hugs to those that need them! December-February are harder currently (stupid virus) as this is when our nursing homes tend to see more passings. 3 more this week in one place (none covid related).


well the best of the whole movie was the beginning..,
love it! Got to have a sense of humor!
hope you feel better soon!

Pretty! We give a family zoo membership every year to a sister in law and her family for Christmas . They use it a lot - young family, and nice to give a gift that not only is used but also supports the zoo. And the Saint Louis Zoo is free to enter (some charges for some exhibits) so it helps to have the memberships.

Will have to do a small bit of work tomorrow but then off till Monday. Oldest flies back to Seattle on Friday. Middle is trying to convince us she doesn’t wasn’t to return to Florida alone (and I’ve just happen to have scheduled myself off for a long weekend when she is set to fly back, hubs has voucher he needs to use up for airline, andthe new Dockside Inn has some super rates right now for APs... ). She has to take a covid test before she can get her room key activated, and I think she’s nervous about doing that alone- we were with her in August when she did it

Got my first dose of Moderna vaccine today at one of my nursing homes. Residents and staff lined up to get it. Super sore arm. Mild headache and starting in tiredness and sore throat. Tea and tucked myself into bed. Trying to not break down and take ibuprofen (arm is SORE - way way more than flu shot although shot itself I felt absolutely nothing!) to let the immune system rev up and do its thing, but not sure I’m gonna be able to sleep otherwise.

Snow today. Maybe 1/2-3/4 inch on surfaces? Had to finally shoo chickens into coop and close it as the feathered feet ones had no clue what to do, and didn’t seem to mind the snow. Dog loves it- toss snowballs he catches, the snow disintegrates and he looks comically all over for it.

Ready for 2021!

Good to see you Monyk.......hope you feel better soon after the vaccine.....and nice you have a trip in the near future.....let us know how Dockside is.......




Last Day of December, New Year`s Eve........last day of this darn year! Finally......I think it`s correct we have some way to go before this is all over, but the vaccine is a game changer for sure.

A couple more jobs to do this morning around the home for New Years and then a quiet movie afternoon I think. Like everyone else, not a single plan tonight, except watch midnight come around and open a nice bottle of champagne to welcome 2021 in......then bed......lol.......

Dinner is takeout tonight, not sure if it`ll be pizza or Indian, we`ll decide later I think......have to have bacon for breakfast first and grilled turkey, brie and cranberry for lunch, I have some salad ingredients so might rustle up a salad too.

Have a good New Year`s Eve........looks like a very beautiful day ahead here......

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[mckennarose]

Good Morning and Happy New Year's Eve! Like most, we'll also be celebrating at home... probably in pj's. Who am I kidding?! I'll be fast asleep by midnight! LOL!

 

[Lynne G]

McK, I may be joining you in nap land. But hoping to be awake around midnight.

On recommendation, I bought a lemon liquor, put it in the freezer for some time, had a taste last night. Quite a nice, almost sweet after dinner sip. May do that again tonight. Only need a small glass of it. I have these dainty pink liquor glasses from my great grandma. I may take one out and raise a pinky while sipping to ring the new year in.

Last day is a Thursday, and is totally a thirsty one, as drink was on mind, and staying not thirsty is a good thing.

Was looking forward to that WW movie. Good thing I can view it in my device, so I can see me fast forwarding given the long time run it is said to have. 2 hours is a long time to keep me interested, LoL.

MonyK, hope your reactions to that shot go away fast. Yeah, our dogs, all 3 loved the snow. Have not heard our neighbor chickens lately. I wonder if they are still there, though it has been a cold rainy, and cool these last couple of weeks.

And my most usual drink this choice is in my cup today. Tea. If you guessed that, you’re right.

Thus, may all have this totally terrific Thirsty end of year Thursday.

Pink:



Yay!

Hey homies, good morning. And ours has been a rainy one. Roads sound wet. Ack.

Hey, hope this finds all the homies well. Well wishes to Julie and MonyK, and any other homie not feeling the best.

 

[mckennarose]

On recommendation, I bought a lemon liquor, put it in the freezer for some time, had a taste last night. Quite a nice, almost sweet after dinner sip.

Limoncello? I LOVE Limoncello and usually make it, but I didn't make any this Christmas. We keep it in the freezer too!

I have these dainty pink liquor glasses from my great grandma. I may take one out and raise a pinky while sipping to ring the new year in.

Sounds like a great plan! Sip some for me!

 

[Lynne G]

Yep, a brand of limoncello, McK. Neat, you make it. I do like it. And will certainly take a sip for you. One of those days if you’d like a meet up, just let me know. I’m around the area many a weekend.

And so, older one thinks since we had a Christmas Eve Chinese dinner, we should have one this Eve. I guess. At least the rain seems to have taken a break for now.

 

[schumigirl]

You can make fabulous cocktails with limoncello too......I don‘t like the real limoncello straight, haven’t tried the other versions of it.

Raspberry limoncello prosecco, a sharp Lemontini and the devils punch which is quite like a margarita to name but a few drinks we’ve tried.




My guys have just left to go get our pizza take out.......I am starving as I didn’t nibble the afternoon away, and sipping on a prosecco as we wait for them to get back.

It is freezing here tonight......possible wintry showers later. Glad we have nowhere to go.

Will be a strange New Year’s Eve this year. Some FaceTime and txts order of the evening.

Just over five hours till midnight for us......

 

[mckennarose]

Yep, a brand of limoncello, McK. Neat, you make it. I do like it. And will certainly take a sip for you

Yum.... take 2 sips for me then! It's actually easy to make, it just takes time to brew/steep or whatever the word is! The next time I make it I'll have to set aside a bottle for you.

One of those days if you’d like a meet up, just let me know. I’m around the area many a weekend.

I have an email in to my rheumatologist about the vaccine, so hopefully I can get it soon and get back to normal things, like visiting people! I'll tell you what.... if the baby Pens have games open to the public we can go together when they play the baby Flyers! Or meet halfway in Allentown for a game! I'd be too afraid for a big Pens vs. big Flyers game in Philly since I'll be in my Penguin's gear.... I've seen what happened when the Eagles won the Super Bowl! LOL!
Funny story.... we met some wonderful people from Hawaii at Disney in 2018 and were talking about sports while waiting for the fireworks in MK one night. When they found out we were from PA and my son in law was an Eagles fan, the one guy said "you Philly fans are nuts!" LOL! This was after they won the Super Bowl and the chaos that ensued. They also couldn't believe that we needed to turn the heat on in the winter. One of them asked us if we had a "what do you call them? A chimney?" I lost it! Poor guy never saw snow! He also asked what we did with the snow when we shovel it. Um.... just put it on top of other snow. As long as it wasn't in front of the car, we're good. They were super sweet people and we exchanged numbers, they even invited us to stay with them in Hawaii!

And so, older one thinks since we had a Christmas Eve Chinese dinner, we should have one this Eve. I guess. At least the rain seems to have taken a break for now.

We're having lobster tail and steak. And one of my dd's boyfriends just told me they may be stopping by tomorrow so I have to find something in the freezer to make.

You can make fabulous cocktails with limoncello too......I don‘t like the real limoncello straight, haven’t tried the other versions of it.

I don't like store bought Limoncello straight, but I do drink mine straight. We keep it in the freezer so it's nice and cold. I wish I had some now! We make it for gifts for Christmas usually, but this year was weird and I didn't even think of making it.

Raspberry limoncello prosecco, a sharp Lemontini and the devils punch which is quite like a margarita to name but a few drinks we’ve tried.

Oooh, yum! When I give it as a gift, I also include a bottle of Prosecco and a recipe for Bacio Di Limone: Lemon Kiss.

 

[Realfoodfans]

Happy NYE all. Thank you for all your good wishes. We really enjoyed our fillet steaks - I did dauphinois potatoes and salad but just a small amount for me. I declined dessert which was a Buche Du Noel Em had bought. Only drink for me currently lime and soda water (club soda) lots of ice. Limoncello often given after dinner in Italy but not one I would choose.

Currently watching Die Hard but doubt we will make midnight.

So I will send you all every bit of hope and positivity that 2021 will be a better year and we never have to be isolated from those we love again.

 

[schumigirl]

Another stop off to say hello.......

About an hour and a half till midnight here......I think I may manage to keep my eyes open long enough. We`re watching a so called scary movie on Netflix, that`s just not doing the trick. Will find something else.....

Champagne is chilling for midnight when we all want to kick 2020`s butt right out the door.....

I can hear fireworks going off in the distance, they`ve been going since around 7pm on and off........they usually stop around 12.30am on the button. They don`t disturb us as they are always far enough away.

So, have a very Happy New Year I hope 2021 bring us a much better year than 2020 did.......and slightly Scottish........Happy Hogmany and hope you have a Guid new year.......