i like Thursday # 430 cookies, quilts, squirrel, and memories of a poodle
Middle of December, we still have some snow left from a couple weeks ago, and this is my list of likes
Starting with a close up of a quilt I made years ago in Maryland. I love looking at it while the tv is on, and I'm in the sit and stare portion of the evening. I actually painted something this week
4 X 6" from a tutorial on youtube
Our prompt :
If you could eat only one type of cookie this holiday season,
which cookie would you be eating a lot of?
easy, sugar cookies! I love the ones cut out but make circles. I like my candy cane cookies sugar with peppermint. I make a variety of cookies (half recipes) in december and freeze some for a cookie platter mix while DH is off work. Recipe below under fine dining.
What
would be the ideal way for you to spend Christmas Eve?
these days of still avoiding risk of illness, taking an evening walk and taking part in the church service in the park with carols. I fondly remember other times when I went to our National Cathedral, spent time wrapping santa's gifts to my sister's kids, playing games with a martini in my hand, wandering the pretty lit streets of Annapolis MD, going to my friend Lane's church service with candles in Tampa, and a really fun time in Baltimore.
DH, My poodle Cole, and I went to the most lit street in Baltimore with a Meeelion other people and a quirky display. Then on to Little Italy for some treats at Vaccaros to take home. Watching people playing bocci ball, walking around the granite stoops and then finishing down at the Harbor.
We love a small two person charcuterie board during the holidays, here's one on a crystal star dish
apples, almond crackers, sweet pepper jelly, gruyere cheese, peppers, celery, cucumber, tomatoes and turkey summer sausage from Hickory farms.
On audio this week:
On TV, Survivor is great, altho they sent home my favorites already. I admit to watching the housewive shows on Bravo and am loving Beverly Hills and NYC at the moment. We are almost caught up on Emily in Paris, and mid season of Murdoch mysteries (on Acorn)
I like that my podiatrist appt this week went okay. I have apparently got Reynauds where my toes get cold and circulation stops and they get infected. I had been trying to walk anyway and in compensating for the pain I sprained my foot, but an xray showed no break. That was the good news. Gotta keep my fingers warm too, or they blister. I love cold weather too.
Milo as a naughty puppy....
Milo's Memories
I am barely coping, his shark toy still sleeps in our bed. We remember so many moments from his life each day, and it's somewhat comforting.
He was a naughty puppy, willing to throw tantrums if told no. On walks he would pick up rocks, I'd take them out of his mouth, and he'd throw a fit pulling at the leash, growling, pulling us. When we moved to Colorado, land o' rocks, he was in heaven. We stopped taking them away until the end of a walk, and I built a small cairn in the house of them. I still have them.
If he'd been a little boy, his pockets would have been full at end of every day.
Our neighbor in the rental was chatting with us, and Milo picked up a rock. I grabbed his snout, shook it out saying dammit Milo! you spit that out! the neighbor said, now THAT's a mama.
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