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Happy New Year's Eve everyone!

Puttering again today, getting the laundry caught up and the dishes. Cleaned out some of the fridge and emptied all the garbage (except the one in hubby's office, not for sure if it is all garbage for sure) and will be getting some more decluttering done in the living room. Got some business cards designed and printed out for hubby. Simple ones for now and I will see about some slightly fancier ones later. Have a couple more League of Extraordinary Penguins designs almost tweaked. I'll get them up on my shop in the next day or two. Planning a simple evening. Pizza and movies. Since hubby can't do alcohol anymore I am making up some grape concentrate using club soda so we'll have a little bit of bubbly. Finally got the lentil chili made yesterday. Came out pretty yummy. Still needs something tho, now sure what. I did add a bit of a different twist to it, I put in about a 1/4 cup of cocoa powder, gave it a nice flavor. Made a good sized batch, so need to portion it up to

A nice quiet weekend.

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Didn't do a whole heck of a lot, mostly surfed, read blogs and tried to clean up my mail box on Gmail as I am REALLY behind on reading my mail. This is what we woke up to Saturday morning: Here are my flamingo snow meters: < BTW, there are 4 flamingos in that picture LOL Now fast forward to Sunday: Amazing what 24 hours and a whole heck of a lot of rain can do. Currently still raining out today, between snow flakes. Weather is calling for a high of 37F here and heavy snow. I guess the heavy snow will happen sometime after the temp drops. So today is putter about the house day. I currently have the oven cleaning. I broke down and bought some good oven cleaner to do some heavy duty cleaning. Hopefully once I get it done I can then use the more environmentally friendly cleaning methods to keep it clean. Planning on making lentil chili in a little bit. I have some pre-made hamburger patties we'd bought I am going to thaw, crumble and cook op for the chili. The patties have a smo

A wonderful sense of humor

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Out front of Spencer's Hardware: You gotta love a business that can laugh like that LOL

League of Extraordinary Penguins

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I've a new design up at Purple Ducky Designs . It is one hubby came up with. The League of Extraordinary Penguins with Tux in a pith helmet for Linux users.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah

Another snowy morning. Slept in until 10:30 and finally got up and had coffee. Surfed a bit and then started breakfast. Had blueberry muffins, scrambled eggs and prosciutto. Very yummy. I've the rib roast out and coming to room temperature so I can pop it int he oven. I'll have Yorkshire pudding with it. Last night's dinner was latkas and turkey brats. Very yummy. Put my boots on earlier and slogged thru the snow to get the bird seed out behind the deck. Now the little birdies are happy they have food. Watched the 1st 2 series of Dr Who with William Hartnell last night. We were up until almost 2am. I LOVE Netflix , we are getting all the old shows we remember from childhood or had wished we'd gotten growing up. Time to unwrap prezzies. Everyone have a good day.

Okay, who ordered the snow so I can beat them silly?

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At least it has stopped (more or less) for now, but it is getting a bit much. Here are my lawn flamingos on the lawn on Saturday: And here they are this morning: So I now have my Charlie Brown Christmas tree for this year. We popped out to Potlatch to the boy scout lot. Which was in a new location this year. At first we thought they had closed up shop, but on the way back to Moscow saw they had a new place. We stopped and discovered no one around. So I picked a perfect tree and we left a check for it in an envelop and slid it thru the door of the business they were in front of. Loaded it up on the car and headed home. It had started snowing again and the roads were not as clear as they could be: The blowing snow made it fun. But the snow build up on the cuts was really neat: Got home and headed out to the shed to get the tree stand and this is what I saw: I had to shovel my way into the shed, it was a bit deep out there: But the tree is now up, I will get some photos of it later. I sti

A wee bit of snow

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Nothing like we had last winter, thank the Ghodz. Here is what it looked like out the classroom window yesterday looking towards Memorial Gym: And out the break room window: This is out my office window today: And this was at home this morning: Thank goodness we got a lid on the trailer before the snow started, or else it would look like this: We do have a tarp over the boat, but it wasn't tied down, so it is in there somewhere. It is starting to get deep out in the driveway:

Brrrrrrr!

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Been very cold this week, got down to -2.2F in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Only got down to 2F this morning. Snowing now, small dry flakes so far, we are supposed to have more serious snow later. Hopefully it will hold off as hubby has a client up the mountain today and their road is tricky in the snow. A bit ticked off with Rum Tum today. He'd gone out last night and didn't coma back in. Hopefully he was holed up next door. The other two kitties were smart and didn't want to go out at all until this morning, and then it was only Scrapper who went out. Phoebe REALLY doesn't like the snow. Had the staff Christmas party yesterday, was very nice. Ms Ella came along: Lots of good food: Such as ham, yummy casseroles, appetizers and a dessert cheese ball: Fresh kiwi: Chocolate cake: All seriously yum. Speaking of yum, made a very nice veggie dinner last night. We are working on having a vegetarian dinner 2-3 times a week. We'd picked up a lot of fresh broccoli at W

Well it snowed

But not as bad as they were predicting here. Needless to say, Rum Tum is a very happy kitty. We popped out earlier to run some errands and before getting in the car tossed him some snow balls. He was in heaven. Have to get some pics of him in action catching them sometime this weekend. Speaking of Rum Tum, he's this month's best seller on my shop . Seems people love Maine Coons, esp when they are as cute as Rum Tum LOL. Have to get more pics of him and on products, he's finally earning his keep hehehehehe (or at least some special Maine Coon kitty chow once I get my first check). I'm working on a calender section in time for the New Year. I want to get it up this weekend so people can order them asap. I ordered a couple from my shop and they just arrived today. I ordered them this last weekend, sent economy and they were scheduled to arrive the 16th or 17th. So I am VERY pleased with how fast my order came from across the country. Finally got the last kitchen window sh

AUUGGHHH!!!! I'M NOT READY!!!!!!

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For snow that is. They are predicting quite a bit of it this weekend, followed by very low temps. *whimper* Got the one kitchen window sealed up and we'll hit TriState to pick up shrink wrap for the other kitchen window and the bedroom window. I've re-sent the weekday temps to 60F, since hubby is usually in his office where it stays warm thanks to the computers, plus he can handle colder temps so it won't bother him. Since I don't have any plants in the house at the moment, the colder temps should not be a problem. Still need to figure out the front door as it is warped and leaks like crazy. Probably strip all the weather seal off it and put in new and hopefully that will help. Guess I will finish organizing the living room and get the rest of the decorations up. Still haven't figured out what to do about the tree. Finished with the foodie section of my shop for the time being and got a bunch of kitty cat designs up. Since none of those went on clothing, I was ab

HURRAY FRIDAY!!!!!!

Even tho it isn't payday, it is a good day. While a bit chilly out, it isn't precipitating, so I am happy. Added a new section to my shop where I am featuring my foodie photos . I've a few photos up on mugs, mousepads, cards and a whole bunch of other stuff. I'll be adding more once I go thru my files to see what else I have. Need to start decorating the house for the holidays. I have absolutely no clue where I am going to put a tree. Since we have the hide-a-bed couch and the fish tank, there is no place I can really put one since I can't move those pieces. I may have to take the kitty condo out and stash it on the porch and put a tree in that space. If I do I have to decide if I am going to get a small tree and then have it on the condo base, or just take the whole thing out and get a big tree. We'll see. I also need to get some small Santa hats and some mufflers, I think the flamingos outside need to get some festive holiday gear, esp the dead flamingos LOL

The latest from Purple Ducky Designs

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Here are some of my newest designs: In body acceptance : In Miscellania : And in Cats :

YAWN!!!!!

Problem with having a week off, it is hard to get up for work on Monday morning. Tho I worked yesterday afternoon as we didn't have enough student staff to cover the desk. Mostly quiet with a few brief bursts of activity. Been adding more designs to my shop over the last few days. I've more in the works and now that it is holiday time, plan on getting Ms Ella out and about to get more pics of her and get those up in her section of the shop. I picked up a pair of antlers at the dollar store and she does look cute in them. Thanksgiving was good, tho my brother didn't make it up as he had a bit of a car accident. He's fine, the car isn't. Bit of a bummer as we were looking forward to visiting with him. We did have a good visit with my mom. She flew back home on Saturday, tho we ended up driving her to the Spokane airport. For some reason her plane didn't land in Pullman as it was running low on fuel, so it went on to Lewiston and wasn't coming back. So she cal