| Dec. 20th, 2008 @ 09:47 am Brrrrr..... baby it's cold outside |
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The temp outside was reading 10 degrees (Fahrenheit) when I came out in to the livingroom at 9:30 this morning. A little too cold for me and also apparently for our well pump...yep it's frozen so no water at our house until the neighbor digs it out with the little portable backhoe I just saw head down the back of our drive to the well house.
Once it's dug out he can put a heat lamp on it to defrost it all (we've gone through this once before - I think our second winter out here).
I've been baking up a storm while I've been working at home; roads have been so frozen that we've just not gone anywhere. Last night the Spouse and I took a trip into the grocery store. Roads were fairly passable until the trip back, and by that time they'd started refreezing some and were becoming a bit slicker than we'd like.
Last night I made biscotti - Cranberry pistachio for myself and a dibetic almond chocolate for the Spouse. We've also done haystacks, a gingerbread house, gingersnaps, gingbread loaves for all my team, and fudge. The girls also did fudge that instead turned into a mousse type dessert (it's been spooned into chocolate cups and had crushed candy canes sprinkled on top) and peanut brittle. Today we'll do peppermint bark and probably attempt fudge again (grin).
The girls and I took some time off and went out into the yard to play for a bit in the early afternoon -- it's absolutely beautiful at the moment. The sun is bright, the snow is dazzling and the sky is so blue.... too bad it's so freakin' cold!
Youngest Spawn and her fort
Elder Spawn in her fort
Tree in front of my livingroon
I opened a Photobucket account so I could put pictures in *crossed fingers and hopes it works right*
One more day to Solstice for the girls.... they are really looking forward to it. Normally we've held off on placing presents around the tree until just a couple of days before, but this year we did it the day after we got the tree, so they've sat there, tempting all to wonder, what is in those gaily colored packages?!???!
I hope that this finds everyone on my friends list warm and safe and may you have a happy celebration of the season, no matter what you believe in. |
