Good morning...

I am also up,vehicle goes in today providing the parts are there. Have some hamburg to deal with that was on sale the other day.  Snow is being called for and we did get a bit last night but more is expected today.

I made the Lativian buns and oh my they are good. Will be making them again but will make them smaller. Easy to do once you get on a roll...pun intended.

Friend called and she did well in the morning, managed some sewing but by the afternoon her steam was running out. Covid makes it home in your body for a while it seems.

Better get busy..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Thanks, Jane; I looked up Funko, and it reminded me of both the troll and the bubblehead dolls of past crazes.

We were at plus six most of yesterday and evening, and today we've dropped to minus three, and no new snow arrived, and none is expected now. The coming forecast is for clear skies and colder. The weather report says under activities, dust, and dander will be high, and sinus pressure will be too. Ironically they added that fishing would be poor.

Bubble, at one time, I believe I was perhaps nine and had quite the troll collection myself.

Amy, Lativian buns sound good. Do you make the ones with bacon? With the weather we've had, all I want these days is to make it hot and keep my plate coming. My slowly increasing waistband more leisure reflects that.

I hope your van is easily and less expensively repaired with all the parts in.

Dora and Alan are sick with either Covid or the flu; they're all vaccinated and prepared. The roads leading up to them are too slick and icy to go anywhere. Dora has been knitting and Alan reading, but like your friend, they're doing more sleeping.

Patricia, van is in now and parts are there! Neihbour will take me back to pick it up when done.
 
Yes, bacon and onions chopped fine ,cooked then cooled then into the dough. I made them too big so next time less than the size of a golf ball should work out . The dough is easy to work with and tender when cooked, I wouldn't mind just using it just for buns!

We had about 2 inches of snow and now a fine drizzle making the snow heavy to move. Leaving it there as tomorrow we are to get a good snack of snow so might as well wait.

Yes, the buns alone when hot with either some herbed butter or simply garlic butter.

Well, I made a GIOOTF meal in the crock pot today and it's really good.  In case you're wondering the initials are for "get it out of the freezer".  I'm trying to use up stuff that doesn't seem to be going anywhere.  My plan is an empty freezer by summer when it's time to put fresh stuff in there.  I did have one empty shelf and then I chopped some onions, carrots, celery, turnips and "something else I can't remember" and put it in half cup size containers for quick use and there went the shelf!  Oh well, that will get used fast!

Now I'm ready to loaf for the rest of the day.  It's time for Mannix and supper!  I hope everyone's day is going well.  We have a rainy one here.  Thank goodness it's not cold enough to be snow or ice but rain is cold for walking dogs in the winter months. 

So far we've been lucky to have no snow.

Unfortunately, for me, GIOOTF means commercially frozen / packaged food.

"IT'S THE WINDMILLS?"

Mine is full of bear, sheep, moose, and caribou.

Is that bear or beer?

Yayyy..vehicle fixed and ready to go...or should I say van go(gh)?

We have had snow, about 2 inches, then light rain. There is now a crust on the snow, weather folks are saying 8 more inches to follow tonight and tomorrow.
I do believe tomorrow I shall dance.

Where is Lloyd???

I was wondering about LLOYD, too

And where's PHYLLIS?

Not many of us have Van Gogh in our driveway!

And not many of us have strange animals running around in our freezers!

I'm heading for the haystack!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, everyone!

That would be bear. I'm blessed to have friends who either think of me when they clean out their freezers or are part of my bartering group.

Where else am I going to get a quart of fresh Alaskan honey in trade?

My fridge & freezer & cupboards are full of bartered possibilities.

I'm back on my cell 📲 again as they sent me a new setup got my computer mobile yet neglected to pack instructions with it. Plus their line is down. I hope to be back on sometime tomorrow.

Good snowy morning...

We did get snow and it is still gracing the ground. I know what I shall b doing come daylight until then Jane ,van no go! We have all we need here . I picked up extra milk before I came home yesterday. Should I find some energy after the dance I will make bread. Neighbour wouldn't take anything for driving me but said he would take a loaf of bread.

Patricia, I held my breath this morning while starting up the computer, did an update before shutting down and sometimes it is a stinker to wake up and get going...........hmmm I know that feeling also 

Better get my dancing boots on..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I'm up and partly "attem".  I have to prepare for Cooper's arrival at 10:45.  I'm pretty sure Frankie said she works at 11 today.  Then I might have someone to come look at the WM pins today and hopefully, she'll want ALL of them.  She told my daughter she remembers me from work.  I don't know her name but I bet her face will be familiar!  And there's another one interested in just one pin for her daughter so I rooted that one out.  I think she might be coming today, too.

And with that in mind, I better get dressed! 

AMY, I guess Van "Gogh" is Van "Stay" today!

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good Morning everyone. it is 25º and mostely cloudy here this morning, @ at7;10 Am I have already taken my vitials and sent them off to VA via sadlite. grand deaughter just drove off to go teach school rather councle. she is both a teacher and counsler, they had a bad deal in the school one of the chidrens mothers comited suside in front of the childe. that chield is haveing a real hard time of that.that is so verry sad. have a good day just as you like it.

Lloyd

Good Mid day. well I am here,a bad pinnie always returns. I have been trying to studdie about Makeing yeast.
whrn I was a small chield. My mother and grand mother had  in a jar some likuid called yeast. they would take some of it out and use it in there bread and add back to it, for more later. but now ays most all peopel use store bought store bout yeast dry in small packets. but you can make your owen yeast , take a few grapes put them in a jar with watter on them set them in a roome at rome tempture stir them every day in a few daysthey will start to smell Like wine. it is ready there is rour live yeast. when i was a small chiled lived next door to my great grand mother, she had a grape arbeor f full city block long. she would can grapet in quart jars . she would set the jars under her bed. she would take one and losen the lid and let them fermient. great wine. I stayed away from them so I wouldent beacome a wineo.consquiently I do not drink any thing aocaloick at all any more. when i was eighteen years old i and a neighbore man was drinking and rideing around in a boat on the high watter on the plat river , by chilocethy and wreked and anded in the barpit. went up to the house and got the buldozer and went down to pull it out and got it stuck. wecalled a man with a wrecker. to come pull it out. when he got there and sessn what shape we were in e almost left and not pull it out but we beged him to pull it out he did but aftre he made us to both quit drinkeing. we both promised to and we both quit drinking. andas far as i knew he never took a nother drink as long as he lived. and i also do not drink any acehol at all either drinkeing, I do mix honey leiomen and burbbion eaqual parts.and use for collds. a od drugest tolde me how to make it. Is good head or chest. even safe to give to children ith cods. Have a great day and a better tomorow.

Lloyd

Snow has been cleaned up for now. We did get a peek at the sun today   and tomorrow is promise of more sun!

Lloyd, that is so sad.....if one can say anything good about it ,it is she didn't kill the child.

Here is a recipe for sour dough starter if you want to give it a go.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8392/sourdough-starter/

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Good Morning Everyfriend!  I was so tired last night that I just climbed into the haystack and let the eyes clump shut! 

AMY, your snow didn't make it over the border!  We had rain most of the day yesterday with temps in the low 40s.  It was cold out there and wet but no snow!

I'm not interested in buying lottery tickets.  And now that I know the odds on the bit ones, I'm even less likely to waste my money!  And what in the heck would you do if you actually won!

LLOYD, it's been busy around your house.  You must have a very smart teaching/counseling "granddaughter"!

I forgot if Frankie said she works this weekend or she's off.  I guess I'll find out when Cooper either shows up or he doesent.  I'm still working on my "Junk Room" and I'm beginning to think it looks worse now than it did when I started!  Christy and I are planning a "Driveway Sale" this Spring!  My neighborhood usually has one around Memorial Day.  or as my Gramma always called "Decoration Day"

Now I'm off to get dressed and get SOMETHING started and maybe even done, today!  I will you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good morning...

I slept in! Couldn't believe the time when I woke but it was nice to sleep in. Don't have any major snow to deal with today but will blow out the trail to the wood. With the wind yesterday the snow drifted back in. Laundry today and might get the bread made......no making any promises on that. Any one else have a problem with mind says do and bod says don't??

Better  get into high gear..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

AMY, I thought that "do the job" thing and ignoring it was just life!

Jane, just finished snowblowing the area where the snow had driffed. Temp is 4°.nice and sunny but Jack Frost still nips at body parts!! Hugging the fire now and  will contemplate what is next. That's life )

Good, barely afternoon at 12:34 and presently minus 13 and going down to downright frigid. I'm finally back online and hope to stay that way. I'm also looking for a new internet company. I did finish all my chores and even invented a few more, plus I finished reading two books, so I guess there is life other than the Internet.

Lloyd, that is horrible for that child; I agree with Amy about the mother not killing her child as well as many seem to do.

My sister and I have a sourdough starter that dates back to the 18th century, you continue to replenish, and it lasts forever. The past sourdoughs of the Yukon and Alaska would carry their starter pouches under their shirts to keep the starters warm during their travels.

Amy, none of that snow made it west to us, but then our weather travels east to west with Anchorage and southeast Alaska on the other side of the Alaskan Range traveling south.

Jane, it's so easy for clutter to accumulate. My two tables comprising my "office" on the other side of my living room are the worst as I tend to lay something down with the mistaken idea of returning to it.

PATRICIA, my office is such a mess that if I have something that I REALLY need to deal with, I lay it on the dining room table...until that pile gets so big it embarasses me. 

Now I'm off to the haystack.  I have to be up and ready for church when my son comes to pick me up.  And my DIL (who works at Starbucks) is dropping off my free bag of coffee sometime tomorrow.  I think she said she's finished at 2 and will drop it on her way home!  They do look after me!

I have to remember to ask them if granddaughter Kiran got her learner's permit.  She turned 16 a week before Christmas.  Now I think my son knows how it feels to have a kid behind the wheel!  He's the last of my kids to go there!

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!

Where's LLOYD and PHYLLIS and JENNY and EVERYFRIEND?

It is near bedtime and I finally woke up from a nap!  Goodness, doesn't take much to wear me out these days.  The wind has had the flags next door stretched out like they are  starched so even tho warmer, not a comfy day out. My daughter is spending the next week taking care of her 3 grands while their parents are off to Belize. They are going to a different area than their cousins visited last week.

Patricia, hadn't thought about how the "old sourdoughs" in early years kept their starter warm. Still think of Alaska as the one place in the world I regret not visiting, but not a time for regrets when so much to be grateful for, right?

I was talking to the neighbor about her husband's sour dough starter this week. He was an engineer with one of the aircraft plants but loved to bake cinnamon rolls for everyone at Christmas time, died a few years ago. Don't think I want to be tied to baking that often. I do cook a lot these days, but just what sounds good to anyone around. I used to bake yeast rolls & would create one loaf of cinnamon bread by braiding the dough & loading it with brown & white sugar & cinnamon as I braided. It would raise nicely on a cookie sheet instead of loaf pan and with a powdered sugar & butter icing, was really good.  A lot easier to bake my cinnamon biscuits, don't have to let them raise!

Sweet dreams and God Bless, love y'all.  I'll turn out the lights, Jane. Shirley/Tisie

Good Morning to anyone who shows up!  I'm just waiting for the coffee to perk and the furnace to begin it's day!  I already took all the batteries out of the smoke alarms.  They've been chirping for more than a week and it's time to replace the batteries (which I have to get to a store and buy.  Thinking maybe LeeAnn or Troy might make a quick stop on the way home from church.

I guess I better get this day started!  I wish you all a good one...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good morning......tad chilly out there this morning , temp is -16°. Snow will be cruncy underfoot this morning.

A day of rest here. Did get the bread done and ran a hot loaf over to the neighbour. She put it on a cooling rack and while we were talking her husband had  cut off a piece.

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

Good morning all (Made it before noon).
Cool, sunny, calm, and clear. Very quiet in the area thin morning.
Gonna be a football day.

Sheepishly coming in to say HELLO to EVERYFRIEND🥰 The days just seem to be flying by and not a one of them do I not say "I must post today".  I read the posts and start my own, and somehow I never finish😩😩

My incision is now in view after the dressing started coming off yesterday.  It feels good to have it off and so far there has been no issue.  I will be seeing Dr. Dave today and he being a would care specialist will recover it if needed.  It itches like crazy, and to me that means healing‼️ I will see my surgeon this coming Friday.

We were busy this week checking out and purchasing a cruise for us to go on.  I am SO EXCITED‼️ We go in three weeks.....sailing from San Francisco to Hawaii and back to SF.  I have to admit I am a bit concerned about the awful weather pattern that the Pacific is currently under. I hope for all involved that this crazy rain will stop! 

My best thoughts to ALL. 

Jenny 🦋

Good morning, it's 9:49 in the morning, and the temperature has gone back up to the previous six degrees. However, the skies are clear, and there is no snow in the forecast, so that it won't be warming that much further.

I've vacuumed the place, done a load of laundry, and in the dryer with a second load being washed. Yesterday, I found more cookware for donation and a two-pound coffee can of green split peas.

We have a hoarder here who also has sticky fingers. He will take anything and everything at the donation table, even women's or children's clothing. He doesn't sell it because security does bimonthly apartment checks with his sponsoring agency in his apartment. They take everything not reported missing to the Salvation Army.

Dora and Alan had a friend come by who lives close and is a retired nurse. They don't have Covid; tests were negative, but they had a nasty bout of the flu. Other than that, all is well in the local call, text, or email daily group. I'm not the only one who suddenly got the itch to clean or declutter; people are either preparing to downsize, sell, or look to clean things up a bit.