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WHEEEE!!!!! The Holiday Season is upon us!!!!!!

Turkey Day first and am in full prep mode. The bird is thawing in the electric cooler, the two potato side dishes are in the deep freeze and tomorrow is baking day. Hubby has requested carrot cake, so will be doing that and also prepping two pumpkin pies with GF coconut crust (scored some coconut flour at Winco the other day). Won't be stuffing the bird this year. While I have been happy witht eh GF stuffings, I have been HAPPY! So will stuff the bird with fresh herbs, onion and lemon. Season under the breast skin and shoot up with wine, mead or juice (leaning towards mead this year as I have homemade). Other side dishes will be regular bread dressing in the slow cooker, gluten free rolls and onion stuffed onions . Will prep the onions and rolls Wednesday night and that just leaves the bird and dressing for Thursday, along with the gravy. Will be doing some steamed veg and cranberry sauce out of the can with the ridges intact LOL! Mom arrived into town last night, we met her

Fabulous Fashionistas (2013)

I want to be just like these ladies when I get old!

Catch up

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Time to play catch-up LOL! Tried to give blood today, but my veins were being snotty and the glow slowed down and when they went to adjust the needle to get it going again, my blood started clotting up like crazy :( So not enough donated to be really useful except for calibrating machines, maybe. Ah well, next time. Had a lovely day this last Sat at the Winter Market, sold enough to pay for my table that day, on Dec 14 and a little on top of that.Lots of interest, so with luck I will do even better next time around. Here is my table: I was in the main room and a straight shot from the one door: The view from my side: My brooches/pins made from CPUs and heat sinks were very popular and I also sold one pair of wire wrapped capacitor earrings. Chatted with lots of people and I didn't make too much of an idiot of myself (talking to strangers is very difficult for me) and moved a few business cards. Been gathering stuff up and getting it to the Hope Center. We have a

I Fought For You

Veterans Day 2013 - Freedom Isn't Free!

The Trews - Highway of Heroes

A Pittance of Time - Terry Kelly

SURPRISE! Winter is here

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Woke up to this this morning: Not sure if I am ready for this, but Rum Tum was a very happy snow covered kitty this morning. Roads were wet, but clear so the drive in this morning was fine. Have to remember to bring the snow shovel back out front for the duration.

Coolness!

Got a phone call this morning from a 4th cousin on my maternal grandmother's side of the family. He's doing genealogy and had some questions regarding where my grandfather was buried and he sent me all the stuff he's collected so far. I've semi-sort of looked into genealogy on my dad's side of the family and have some info that my dad had gathered. Looks like I've got a new project to work on. He also sent along some family lore from the Revolutionary War and scans of photos of various people. Will be cool to go thru and set up the family tree and see who is who. Need to get to work on the other side of the family too. Picked up an open source genealogy program that runs on Linux, so I can work on that when I have the time. Had a very nice Samhain this last weekend and Halloween was a very quiet evening. No trick or treaters in our area, so we just did chicken from Winco for dinner and watched stuff on the DVR. We are ditching the satellite as of the 3rd (