Lunch With Friends

We went to lunch today on 4th Avenue and exchanged out Christmas  gifts. Kathy will be heading home for the Holiday's to freezing cold weather. Barb and I stay put, this is cold enough for us. We had a nice day did a little walking around but not much. Barb took some streets we don't travel much to see how things in this town have change or not.

Didn't work on the village today at all. Tomorrow I will pick up Anthony and hope to get more done and the front yard done.

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Half Way Done

Ran to the Walmart Grocery and Walgreen's for some last minute thing.

Picked up 2 huge pkgs. of batteries one is almost gone. Everything needs batteries. Some 2 some 3. Still lots to be done. Wires need to be hidden, one has to come up through the hole in the table to set up the ice rink. So I have to wait for Anthony to get those things done. Hope we can do that on Tue.
Oh I see I knocked down lots of stuff hooking up the lights

 Yep we forgot to put the background in the corner. I wonder how he is going to reach that?

 Do you see the car in the right bottom?

 The light from the train

 The see-saw goes up and down and the dogs head moves to follow

 

 Do you remember doing this if you lived in the land of snow?

 The top of the light house flashes

Now I am going to through myself in my chair and watch some mindless TV

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Sure Tired Tonight

We had temps in the high 20's last night. But I slept like a baby.

Picked up Anthony this morning so he could bring in all the village pieces and the plywood base. We got lots done while he was here. His mom, my daughter, is working some crazy hours now until well into the end of Jan. so while she had some free time today and a car she picked up Anthony so they could get their tree.

But at least he got the stuff in the house for me and I will pick him up again next week Tue. or something. We need to bring in another table to set up the other village on the other side of the room. This takes lots of time, energy and patience to set this up. But we all love it and it has been 3 yrs. since it last went up. There is also 3 different train sets to go with it all.
All the pieces are unpacked

 At least the farm is done but the background still need to go up. I have an idea for it maybe I will work on it tomorrow

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and staying warm.

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Another Chilly Day

It sure was cold this morning. Bundled up Fred and myself for out first outs. My furnace is acting up again. It warms up the house but it just runs and shuts down then runs again and shuts down.  Went out and bought a electric oil heater for the living room. I have a few small ones just to take the chill out for a shower. I like sleeping in a cold room but if it gets to cold I'll use one of the small ones in my room.

Not much else so stay warm everyone.

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I Think It's Winter

It is really cold now. I tried keeping the heat off but it's just to cold.

I tried to stay busy to not notice. I dragged the tree in and put it together. And put out a few more things outside. I decorated the tree and saved some decorations for the tree that will go on the porch.

On our last walk I put Fred in his hoodie it barely fits. Trying to get heavy jackets for a Doxie is hard because of the body shape. Their chests are so large. But he proudly walked down the street to show off his jacket to Sparky but he wasn't around. So I took him to my sisters house. I almost had a good shot of him and of course he moved.

 

 

Late afternoon pictures

 

 

I understand some of my readers are in really cold spots right now so I really shouldn't complain. Some are even being told they may have power outages that can last several days. Please stay safe.

Time for a nice hot cup of tea

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Baby It's Cold Outside

It was warmer at 6:30am than the rest of the day.  The wind was strong and the clouds came and went.

As I watched the sunrise this morning I could see the storm moving in

Then it seemed to all blow away and the sky was a pretty blue with just a few clouds.
But the wind increased and the clouds came back but we haven't had the rain yet.

I took the boxes outside to finish the changing of the ribbon  since I made such a mess in the house yesterday. It was so cold I had to really force myself to finish the 2 boxes but I did it and I left them out on the porch for now

As Fred and I took out last walk it sure was cold and of course I forgot to reload the bags so home we came as fast as we could to get the bags loaded and head back out. It sure was windy and the air had a bite to it.

Sounds like the wind has died down now but who knows what tonight will bring. Haven't had to turn up the heater yet. But I'm sure it will come on when it hits the low setting I have it on.

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Getting Ready For Cold Front

I figured I better get my shopping done  today so off I went and got that done since tomorrow the cold front moves in with wind and rain.

I like warm stuff for lunch and dinner so I used a recipe I found on Sharon's blog Tinycamper. Sharon called it Hopping John.  I added lots of stuff to it. I posted about this before. I still haven't found Tex Mex so once again I used Ro Tel with green chili and Italian cut tomatoes, turkey sausage flavored with Cajun spices and lots of veggies. It had a little bite to it but is sure is good. I remembered I had defrosted some ground turkey so I made a meatloaf, green bean salad and yams that I didn't use on Thanksgiving. All will be put into serving sized containers. Maybe tomorrow I will a black bean soup.

I put some Parmesan cheese on the side and some rice crackers.  I didn't eat this just wanted a picture.

The yams are made with brown splenda sugar and sugar free maple syrup and diced walnuts. Green bean salad had cut string cheese and pimento I used walnut raspberry dressing and red onion. The meat loaf doesn't look very good since it fell apart but it was very good.

I had been looking in the shed for outside decorations which are 3 sizes of gift boxes. today I moved something and there they were. I bought new ribbon for them since the old stuff was all faded and not very pretty anymore. I brought them in and got one finished and had glitter everywhere. I think I'll do the rest outside.

Maybe I will bring in the tree tomorrow and maybe I won't. I did put a few snowmen out in the front yard to get them out of the way.

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