...1.13...Over the Weekend...

...we had a big breakfast omelette...with peppers, onions, mushrooms, vegan bacon bits and vegan cheese...

...with homemade bread toast and buttery grits...

...this was the extent of our big snow event...

...a dusting of snow on the rooftops and yard

...the winter garden didn't seem to mind at all...and Daddy used to call snow "the poor man's fertilizer" because of all of the dissolved nitrogen in it...

...so we went out and did the weekly shop...nothing much of interest...

...but I did find a set of reusable silicone zipper bags...

...so I washed those up and put them on the dryer that Our Airman made for his Marketplace for Kids project all those years ago...it still works perfectly for this...

...oh...and our amarylis is about to bloom...

...then I organized the utensil drawer a little bit better using a couple of almond milk cartons...and the skinny one is the bottom of a cereal box...so now all of those pesky larger utensils are in the middle where they won't get tangled up with the other things...Sissie and I had chuckled over some comedian's joke..."I keep a potato masher because sometimes it's fun to not be able to open a drawer"...or something like that...haha...and our potato masher is right at the back where it can't get stuck in the drawer...but you do have to tilt it to get it out...

...and then I baked a loaf of bread in the bread machine...

...and sliced it...so our house smells amazing...

...and then it was FINALLY time to undecorate...

...not a job that I relish...

...but I'm so happy to have everything back in totes in the attic...

...and the big room back to normal...we started a game of dominoes...

...and then Sunday afternoon I thinned out the Tendergreens...

...using scissors this time instead of pulling them up...

...it was a much cleaner process...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!w

...1.11...Dinner and a Movie....

...starting with some Blogger comments...

...to my sweet sissie Karen who blogs from her boat at McCraw Sails...Hey K...so glad you were with Mom...and the white elephant party looks like a lot of fun...I like the chinese horse too...we got even less of a dusting than you did...but still good fun...and called for potato soup of course... Love, T...

...to karen from Pumpkin Sunrise...Hi Karen...that's the sweetest picture of Holly with her head on her paws...

...to Éphée from L'éphémère quotidienneté des repas et autres trucs de magie...Hi Éphée...I say YUM to carrots and tofu...what a cute card...pretty serious subject though...and the hasselback bread looks like a delicious and fun idea...

...to Penny from Snap That Penny...Hi Penny...what a cute pillow...nice and bright...and all your veg looks delicious...I know what you mean about waiting for your books...I waited 6 weeks for The Great Alone...I had almost forgotten about it when I got the notice that it was my turn...

...to Beth from BLD IN MT : LIVING A SIMPLE LIFE IN THIS INTERCONNECTED WORLD...Hi Beth...I loved seeing your list of books...

...on the reading front...I've read quite a few more short stories...and I'm maybe halfway through the anthology...

The Marquis de Fumerol
The Trip of Le Horla
Farewell!
The Wolf
The Inn
Monsieur Parent
Queen Hortense
Timbuctoo
After
Forgiveness
In the Spring
A Queer Night in Paris
That Costly Ride
Useless Beauty
The Father
My Uncle Sosthenes
The Baroness
Mother and Son
The Hand
A Tress of Hair
On the River
The Cripple
A Stroll
Alexandre
The Log
Julie Romain
The Rondoli Sisters
The False Gems
Fascination
Yvette Samoris
A Vendetta
My Twenty-Five Days
'The Terror'
Legend of Mont St. Michel
A New Year's Gift
Friend Patience
Abandoned
The Maison Tellier
Denis
My Wife
The Unknown
The Apparition
Clochette
The Kiss
The Legion of Honor

...for dinner...well because of the 'snow'...of course we had potato soup for supper...it's a tradition...

...a creamy and delicious pot of vegan potato soup...

...with pan fried cornbread and a salad...

...do you have a specific meal you always eat when it snows...obviously when we lived in North Dakota we made it for the first snow...and if it melted we'd do it again...or if there was a blizzard/storm...but when you have snow for 5+ months you'd be eating a lot of potato soup...haha...

...and the movie was...Wicked...I thought it was good...the Man kept wanting to fast forward through the songs...like he did for Meet me in St. Louis...but you know in a musical the songs are part of the story...and this one is another story about some people...

...what have you been watching lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

...1.10...Friday Update...

...in preparation for the winter weather we're supposed to get (a relatively rare occurrence here)...we got out our little generator...

...we're supposed to get mostly freezing rain and sleet...so the power might go off...and we'll be able to keep our fridge/freezer running...a couple of lights and a heater...so we should be pretty cozy...

...and just finishing up a couple of really minor little things in the kitchen...the Man had special ordered a white vent cover for the vent underneath the cabinet and it took about 6 weeks to get here...and I had to shave a little bit off of the quarter round and I didn't want to take it back off....so I just used the little door jamb trimmer saw thingy...

...it looks nice...not sure anyone would ever notice it though...tucked under the cabinet it's kind of hard to see...

...and we installed the little wireless under cabinet/over counter led lights...so this is looking up under the overhead cabinets...so I'm pretty happy I went ahead and painted all of that white...they're held in place on a magnetic strip and you just pop them off to charge them...

....the lights can be turned on if you just want extra light to work on the counter...or they have an automatic setting and will come on if it's dark enough and they sense any movement...

...this is what they look like in the dark...if you come into the room...they automatically come on and they stay on for 20 seconds after they sense no motion...the charge is supposed to last a month...so I'll put it on my list of the first-of-the-month chores to recharge all of the lights...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your weekend!

...1.9...Delicious Vegan Food we ate...

...I had bookmarked Sadia's Aush Reshteh recipe a while ago...on her YouTube channel it's called High protein anti-inflammatory noodle soup (aush reshteh)...and she says that she ate it all the time growing up...

...there is quite a bit of prep...you need to soak your chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils and mung beans overnight...

...then the next day...chopping onions...

...parsley and cilantro...

....and spinach...and gathering spices...just mint and turmeric...

...cooking the onions...

...until lightly golden...

...then you add everything to the pot...

...noodles...

...and greens...

...cook until everything is done...

...and serve garnished with some of the onion/spice mixture...

...this really was a nice hearty soup...and it's definitely been soup weather...

...what delicious food have you been eating lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

...1.8...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...this is another Christmas knit that you've not seen...

...a dear friend asked me to make another toboggan for her husband like the one I made for my baby brother...so I cast on for it about a week before Christmas...

...so I used the same yarn...

...I love the pattern this self patterning yarn makes...

...it's the Lighthouse Beanie...

...so then I decided to make her a Cozy Posy too...in the same yarn...and I don't really like the patterned yarn except in stockinette...it's really not much of a pattern...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...1.7...Tuesdays with Julia...

...just a pretty simple variation recipe Vegan Lamb Shanks...

...and all of the particulars are over at The Vegan Version...

~Have a lovely day!

...1.6...Over the Weekend...

...for breakfast we got some leftover waffles out of the freezer...and topped them with crumbled tofu, vegan bacon bits, and vegan cheese...and popped them in the air fryer...

...it was a good quick breakfast...and I must say that vegan cheese does really well in the air fryer...it makes it nice and crispy and browned...

...I tried to get a photo of the birds on the feeder...there were four birds...one on each little perch...and two were on the holder waiting their turn...

...and the little amarylis that our neighbor gave us for Christmas has two bloom stalks...

...since it was the first of the month...we cleaned the Berkey...

...then I made some shopping snacks...peanut butter crackers and a bottle of tea...you know in case I get hungry while I'm out shopping...for like an hour and a half...haha...

...but it was a rather huge shop this week...

...not sure there's really anything of note...the big bottle of vinegar and big box of baking soda are for the beginning of spring cleaning...we'll pour a cup of each down each drain...

...and then we spent the afternoon taking down the Christmas lights...I rolled them up in plastic like I did the Halloween lights...

...and then at the end I opened up a Christmas-y Trader Joes bag...so we'll know these are the Christmas lights...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!