Christmastide:MLK Weekend Tuesday - Gingertopia

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Yep, pretty darn cold this morning. Good thing they called off school. 

Dale's workplace was closed for the money so he worked. from home. Sylvester was very active this morning and started to terrorize Dale while he was trying to work on the computer. The little guy finally settled in behind Dale's computer and calmed down. 

Dale's building opened up in the afternoon so he decided to go in and get a little more work done. I decided to have a cigar upstairs.

And a little port.  

Afterward I got some reading done. I'm now halfway through this book on Swedish American foodways and holiday foods. 

Dale stopped by the store on his way home from work. He picked up some gingery things like ginger snaps and some raspberry jam to go with them. 

They go really well together. 

Listened to some music. 

I had a gingerbread cake mix which I got ready just before dinner. 

After dinner Dale mixed up some whipped cream and we had the gingerbread cake for dessert. 

Christmastide:MLK Weekend Monday - MLK Day

Monday, January 20, 2025

MLK Day. 

Woke up this morning. Freezing outside. 

Had morning coffee with this guy on my lap. Then went to the gym with Dale. Lunch at The Howe. 

Found this out today and I'm excited. 

Set out the holiday houses. Checked my voice mail and found out school for tomorrow is cancelled due to the cold. 

Christmas Season 2024/2025: The Ninth Day of Christmas

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Started feeling the Sunday Scaries this morning. They’re hard enough to deal with on a Sunday let alone a Thursday so I had a little pep talk with myself. I decided I could sit at home worrying and anxious about going back to work on Monday or I could sit at home and enjoy still being on break. I decided to not overthink it all and just go with the latter. I was actually impressed with how easy it was to shift gears. 

Got in some nice cuddle time with Sylvester. 

Cold outside this morning.

Never-the-less, morning cigar in the garage with coffee.

While outside I got the table covered.

And the lawn chairs put away.

Also got in a few loads of washing and folding, new sheets on the bed, dishes, cat box, garbage out, recycling out, tidied up the fridge, resistance bands, 12,000 steps, and touching up the bathroom to name just a few.

Listened to lots of music.

Read holiday themed books.

Turned out to be an awesome day. Dale and I went to Lund’s for dinner of prepared foods. Dessert was vanilla bean ice cream with gingerbread cookies. 

Oh, and tonight we watched White Christmas. The movie turned 70 years old in 2024. Wow, when I first saw it it was just over 30 years old and I was younger than that! Now it would be like the movie had been made as recently as the 1990s. Yowza. 

Christmas Season 2024/2025: The Third Day of Christmas - Sylvester the Christmas Cat

Friday, December 27, 2024

Sylvester was so happy to see us when we got home yesterday eveing. I made the following today:

He missed us. 

Countdown to Christmas: 3 Days

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Hot tub this morning with John. 

He made a nice breakfast for me and Dianne. 

Dale came back at around 9:00 from staying with his Mom and Dad.  We took a nice walk and  then stopped by the club for 2nd breakfast. I had a Bloody Mary and some eggs, bacon, and potatoes and he had coffee and oatmeal. 

Took a nice swim around 1:00 p.m.

And sat in the sun for a little bit. 

At 72 degrees it felt just perfect.  

Brenda and Irv came over for cocktails and dinner. It  was good to see them. again and I think it was good for them to get out.  We sat on the patio for cocktails and then ate inside for dinner. 

Dianne brought Brenda and Irv home. John turned on the fire features and then he Dale and I went for an evening swim. 

Turned out to b e a very nice day and it's good to see myself relaxing. 

The neighbors watching Sylvester sent the above picute. God I miss him.

Thanksgiving 2024

Thursday, November 28,  2024

Made a Bloody Mary...

...and turned on the parade at 8:30.

Sylvester burrowed into a pile of pillows making a little fort for himself.

He came out eventually and made himself comforatable on whichever of our laps was available.

Dale supervised the making of the feast but I helped quite a bit. 

Mom came over around 2 pm and we ate at 3:00. All in all it turned out great. 

Dale seems to think I do a great job carving the turkey. I feel like I'm hacking away with an ax to the carcass but I guess I do okay since there's barely any meat on it when I'm finished. There's gotta be a youTube video out there that shows the most efficient and perfect way to cut it up. Maybe I'll look for that sometime. 

Mom brought over a pumpkin pie that some friends from church had made. She said they usually make about 100 pies every year to sell to people for Thanksgiving. It was delicious and one of the better pumpkin pies I've ever had. That's sayin' something cuz I LOVE pumpkin pie. 

She also brought over some port wine. Dale didn't think he'd ever had any before. I poured some for us after the pie. Mom and Dale didn't like it. They said the alcohol level was too hight (turned out it was 20%) and they just didn't like the taste. I thought it was fine but what do I know.