This & That

   Good Evening Friends,

We have had some very cool nights, but I still have not turned the heat back on, Am prolonging as long as possible-smiles.

 We did have a nice warm up today. I told Larry when we first moved to the lake house that I am thinking at one point most all of the appliances here need to be replaced. The washing machine now has a constant drip inside the drum. I do so much laundry that probably is not a huge issue at the moment. My chest freezer really needs to be replaced-as does this old refrigerator, and I so want a gas stove instead of this electric one-that needs to be replaced as well.

  Sadly I have nothing to drive at the  moment. I so need to go food shopping, but  I didn't like the sound of my car when I was going to do errands last week-I just can't get stranded-no one to call for help. I am looking into a service for that though. and Larry's suburban doesn't get driven so the battery needs to get charged or replaced. Hopefully tomorrow and then I need to decide if I am brave enough to drive it. It is just soooo large of a vehicle for me. ugh. Life always throws obstacles that we just need to deal with.

  I do not usually read memoirs or biographies but in a book list that I get sent to my email, there was a book by Ina Gartner  Be Ready When the Luck Happens.  I found it an excellent read-very interesting and not boring at all.  She had a horrible childhood-a lot of abuse, but when she met and married-her  husband he was always there for her. They both had professional careers and even worked at the White House. I have watched some of her shows on Food Network and learned from her book that she has authored many cookbooks. For a memoir this flowed well and was hard to put down.

    I love Holiday baking, but Larry is eating very little food these days and hardly no sweets  I still want to  make a few Christmas cookies for us though. I love the cutouts as I can get out my cookie cutter collection. Smiles .When I use sugars in baking I am only using fair trade organic now-the flavors are sooo much better. I bought a few from Amazon this past week.  I am  getting a lot of foods delivered  this year from online shopping. I am getting  fish and meat delivered I should see if Wal mart delivers-I don't think they do though where I live especially

  I also bought a new watercolor book that just arrived in my mailbox. I watch the author on her You Tube channel and really like her. So far this book is also confidence building-not to be so hard on yourself-and just enjoy painting. Her You Tube channel is under her name. She reviews a lot of new supplies on her channel too.

   I also bought this book-One of my slow mail friends wrote that she really liked it. It's about slow stitching and about the author's journey. I love the feel of this book too while reading it.

Gorgeous photos in the book

            We are really warming up most of this coming week-so hope to get outdoors and get some work done out there. No frost or freezing in site so far

   Happy New Week!