Sunday's Photo

I know I missed yesterday. We had a long day of collecting firewood and I was just too tired to worry about it. But I thought about y'all. :)

Today's photo is of my Christmas gift from my almost DIL. She knows me well.
Isn't that the most amazing pincushion you've ever seen! I absolutely love it, and obviously am using it. Thought I'd share.

Peace,

Deb

must have item

Real quick. DH has to get up at the butt crack of dawn again in the morning, but I have to keep up with my "photo a day".

My sister gave me a wonderful gift for Christmas in the form of a gift card to DSW. It's a shoe store. I was gonna go practical and responsible, but went for these instead.
Way more fun, don't you think?

g'nite

Deb

Yesterday's Photo

I know, I'm already slacking. I have a good excuse, though. I worked yesterday and then when I got home, we ate dinner and cleaned up, and then dh went to bed. He had to be at work this morning at 4, so he went to bed early. And the computer is in our bedroom. Well? It's all I've got.

Anyway, here is today picture.
This is Short Round, the new stove. She's not quite as aesthetically pleasing as the old one, but she sure cooks well! We've made a quiche, a shepard's pie and some cookies so far. Not bad for only having had her since Monday. I"ve been rearranging the kitchen and pulled out the old kitchen cart from the sewing room for storage, and so far it's going well. I'd been wanting to go through everything in there for a while, and now I have a reason.

Have a beautiful day!

Deb

Technical difficulties

My Kodak software is acting hinky so I can't post a picture of my new stove. BUT, I promised a picture a day so today I'm going to post this one.
This a picture of My Chemical Romance at Edgefest in April, 2007. I was on DH's shoulders in the pit. Ahhhh....that was a REALLY good show.

The weather warmed up a bit today, topping out at 58, so that was nice. I spent a lot of the morning organizing my kitchen to accommodate the new stove and also going through cabinets and pulling out things that won't be staying. I had some old rusty pans that will be recycled and some things that got thrown away and some that will be given to my son. Not done yet, but getting there. It's going to be very nice and quite efficient. C made cookies today. She's never baked in a real oven. I had to teach her even how to turn it on and what cookie sheets to use. I'm glad I was able to teach her how to use a real stove before she moved out. Of course, she doesn't know how to use a dishwasher or a thermostat either.

G'nite

Deb

Texas Ice

Woo! I made it two days in a row! I was going to post a picture of my new stove or my new shoes but I have something different. I've got plenty of days left for the stove and the shoes (they're pretty sassy shoes....)

Saturday, we had record highs here in North Texas. 84 degrees. Today, the high was 31 and that was at 12:01 am and has been dropping from there. We also had some rain today. This is the result.

A good old Texas ice storm. It's quite pretty and I don't really mind them when they hit as it seals up all the little nooks and crannies (crooks and nannies) here in my old house. It's almost warmer. Almost.

Oh, and I worked on one of those quilts in the UFO list on the side.

Peace

deb

A Picture a Day

Keeps procrastination at bay....or so I will hope. There's been discussion on my treadle message board about this being the year to finish up our UFOs (UnFinished Objects) whether they be quilting, sewing, crafty, etc. One of the members posted that she uses her blog to keep her accountable and that she uses the list feature. I'll be employing that later on today, I'm sure. But first I decided that perhaps if I pledge to post one picture a day for the rest of the month of January, I'll get back into the habit of posting here on my blog.

So here's my first picture.

This is my stove. It's a 1927 Wedgewood number with 4 gas burners and 2 wood burners there on the end. It also has a gas oven and broiler, neither of which work. I've been using this stove for about 4 years. I bought it 19 years ago and have been hauling it all over the country until I settled and bought a house it would be comfortable in. I never got the oven/broiler fixed, so I've been cooking for my family without it. My DH finally said that I needed an oven and so he's gone and bought me a modern free standing gas range to go in this one's place until the day when she can be restored. Today is her last day in the kitchen and I needed to clean her anyway, but this morning, while making scrambled eggs, I inadvertantly dumped beaten egg all over the top which then ran down inside and dripped out the back onto the floor. My dog was quite helpful with the floor portion of the cleanup. :) I also need to go tackle cleaning out a space on my screened in front porch for her to live for a while. It will be sad to have her out of the kitchen, but I'll be thrilled to have a real oven to bake in again. Holiday dinners have been interesting these last 4 years, to say the least, and I've defineately learned some serious crock pot skills. I can just about cook anything in a solar oven, a crockpot and a 10 inch counter top convection oven.

Happy New Year,

Deb

Christmas in the air

Yesterday, C and I braved the winter weather and drove to the U-cut Christmas tree farm. It was only 73 when we left the house but it warmed to 76 while we were there. :) The tree farm is about an hour north of us, almost to the state line. We tooled around on back roads to get there and once there, we picked a lovely tree that was way too big and way too expensive. The owner marked it to half price and we cut it down and brought it home. We ended up cutting another 12 inches off of the bottom and then trimmed a little off the top. We've named it Fonzie. I know normal people don't name their Christmas trees, but I never claimed to be normal. We have a legendary tree named Helga in our memories. Helps us keep things straight I guess. C and I got the tree in his stand and put the lights on before DH came home from work. Then we decorated when the whole family was here. It was a lovely day!

And now it's 22 degrees. Cold front hit about 8:45 last night. Hit us like a freight train. The wind came up so quick that it turned on both neighbor's motion sensor lights and they blinked on and off for the rest of the evening. It dropped 20 degrees in 30 minutes. Crazy Texas!

love,

Deb