daily yarns 'n more

she snores

Doesn't she have the life.  She's one lucky dog wouldn't you say?

these babies are rich, rich, rich

But, good, good, good.  Wednesday night my knitting group was supposed to meet but it was canceled because of the cold weather.  We could bring a plate of goodies if we wanted, kind of like a Christmas party but not really.

I started looking through this cookbook that my husbands cousins put together along with their mom his aunt...(Did that even sound right or make any sense?)

This is a great cookbook, lots of good recipes.  I really had to search this cook book for a recipe tho...You see, for some reason my cupboards are running low on ingredients.  I think I need to stock up my pantry some.  I would find a recipe and then look to see what I had and find out I had everything but one ingredient...GRRRRR....I was getting pretty frustrated until I found this lemon bar recipe.  I think I had 3 before they even had a chance to cool down.  So instead of bringing them we ate them and I took the rest to work yesterday.

So, is everyone staying warm?  It's a whopping 6° outside today.  The wood stove has been burning for many days now and our wood supply is starting to dwindle down.  I think I'm the only one who walks into work wearing boots.  I walk a long way through parking lots and I'm not going to slip and slide the whole way.  Plus my feet stay warm.

 

We split a 1/4 of a cow/steer with our son and daughter-in-law.  I made a roast the other night and wow is this good.  Makes me wish we could raise our own beef.  This came all the way from Northern Minnesota.  Our freezers are full and it sure feels good.

It's still busy around here getting ready for Christmas.  Gifts that have to be mailed out are almost ready to go.

I hope you all have a wonderful day...Try and stay warm.

it snowed!!!!!

It snowed last night and I love it.  Sadie loves the snow too and after having been sent out to do her duty before retiring for the night she came in all wet.  She loves to dry off by the fire in the wood stove.  Man do I love that wood stove.  You can see that we have been using it a lot this winter so far.  But technically it's till considered fall/autumn isn't it?

Mr Wonderful tried out his new wheat grinder a couple of times already.  He's made his bread and the other night he made some Pumpkin Carrot Muffins minus the carrots which we didn't have.  So he rolled some wheat and put that in place of it.  These were yummy!!!

 

The snow is melting fast this morning as there is rain mixed with it.  It's more raining than snowing right now...Bummer!!!

It's so funny how many people really don't like the snow.  There's an exit door by my work area and it's a full windowed door so I get to see what it's like outside during the day.  I love it.  I hate being stuck in an office with no windows.  But, that's changing at the end of the month as the medical records department is moving to the basement of the hospital. Anyway...I'm getting off track here.  Where was I?  Oh yeah the door.  We were expecting snow yesterday and I think everyone who works in the department came by that door to see if it was snowing yet.  It was at 5 minute increments that someone came by and would say "Is it snowing yet?"...AND...They had to all comment on how much they HATED snow. 

Finally their boss (who is not my boss) came by and looked out the window and I thought to myself...Oh no, here goes the boss putting in her 2 cents worth of complaint.  Was I surprised and pleased when she turned around and said "Is it snowing yet?  Is it snowing yet?  Is it snowing yet?"  And proceeded to ask her whole staff "If you don't like the snow, why did they live where it snows"?

I laughed and told her...AMEN!!

You all have a great day today!

peppermint...yum!!!

I love peppermint ice cream, and this reminds me of it.

Whew!!!!! and a Double Whew!!!!!

I finished them all.  The sleepover quilts that I made for the 5 oldest grandchildren.

These are so cute that two of my DIL's said that they want one :)

As you can see this is what I've been doing this weekend.  Actually I sewed all the quilt tops a few days ago and on Friday I started putting them together and Saturday I finished them up.  Now I can check these off my list.

Hey, Hey, Hey....It came!!!!!  and We didn't have to wait until NEXT Halloween to get it.  The motor on this thing is HUGE compared to the other two grinders we've had.  It comes with a 10 year guarantee.  The reason why we got it so fast is because we didn't order a colored one, so it didn't need to be painted.  My understanding of the company is that when you order one then they put one together and ship it out.  But, if you want a colored one they have to paint it and that's where the hold up is.  So, we just ordered a plain one.

This grinds the wheat a bit slower than our other one but it grinds it much finer too.  You can grind it however course you want it.

The weather is getting much colder here and so far the chickens are doing fine with it.  We still haven't had any snow other than a few snow flurries and a light dusting on the ground.

We have a warm fire going in the wood stove and Sadie has parked herself in front of it.  She knows where the warmest spot is.

I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday.

the tree is up

But nothing else is...Our youngest put up the tree this year for us.  We have voted to not go all out this year on the decorations....Just the tree and a few figurines I wanted out and that's it.

It snowed last night but not much.  I was hoping for the 5 inches that was predicted for the people across the state line.

I've got to run, lots on the to-do list today.

You all have a wonderful day!