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.