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[Sweet Caroline 1]

[Sweet Caroline 1]

[DREAMON]

[Sweet Caroline 1]

[Sweet Caroline 1]

[DREAMON]

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@Sweet Caroline 1 wrote:

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Love this.....so warm and cozy!

[mousiegirl]

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@Sassy7356 wrote:

Tomorrow is @mousiegirl 's birthday.  I will not be available so wanted to wish her Happy Birthday a day early.  I hope @mousiegirl your birthday is as special as you are to all of us and that it will be filled with joy and lots of love.  Do you have any plans?

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@Sassy7356   Thank you!  My plan is to forget just how old I will be tomorrow, lol.  Decades ago, I would always think of myself as ten years younger than I actually was, I didn't look my age or sound my age.  Now, I think of myself as old as my next birthday so that when it arrives, I won't be so shocked, lol, whatever works.

I will be baking, I hope, and still in the kitchen all day, lots to do still.  Today, will be adding the fnishing touches to the table decor, and puttering around, seems I putter every day, though some days, I work like a horse and suffer for it.

[seaBreeze]

@AnikaBrodie 

 

[mousiegirl]

It rained the past two days, or should I say drizzled the night before, but really rained last night.  When it rains, it is much warmer, so have been able to eliminate one of the heaters in the kitchen, and not use the one in the bedroom at night, just the mattress warmer.

I plan to make a gingerbread cake and a light fruitcake.  I never liked fruitcake, all that candied fruit and hardly any cake, but I made one many decades ago with all dried fruit, delicious.  I recently found two, one I have had for man years and never made, only dried fruit, candied pineapple, apricots, dried tart cherries, and citron, will not add the candied cherries, and another dried fruitcake similar, but made in a loaf pan, will only make the first I mentioned, and maybe then the second for New Years, if not, will make cookies.

Since I decorated the kitchen, including a tree, and we are alone, we will eat in there for the holidays.  This year my theme was the vintage red and green, which is how the living room and dining rooms are decorated.  Rather than lug a lot of decor upstairs, I managed to find all that I needed upstairs in closets or the red room where some decor is stored in large deep drawers.  Some of the decor I hadn't used yet, others not in many years, so it was fun.

We will eat the usual, Tuesday sushi take out, Wednesday the marinated cracked crab and garlic butter baguette, and Christmas, prime rib which this year I will be cooking in my Ronco rotisserie, unless it will fit in the small oven I just bought, sides are twice stuffed potatoes and roasted carrots.  I ordered a three rib instead of four rib bones in, so I will see and decide.  I may also serve a broccoli casserole that I will make, if not, I will serve it the evening after.

I have decided that I do need regular ovens, so when I get the range fan, frig/freezer, I will get the ovens.  I will only use them when absolutely necessary.

DD said she isn't in the Christmas spirit, that it doesn't seem like Christmas, told her not for me either since she wouldn't be here.  One of the reasons I decided to decorate to help me get in the mood, but it is not the same without children around.

I hope everyone is and will be having lots of fun and heart warming moments at Christmas.

[1Snickers]

@Sweet Caroline 1   Be careful playing with the Husky. I had a 108 lb Alaskan Mallamute I walked . I couldn't do it now. She would knock me down playing. 
   Tony is gently with me but when the kids or my son get him excited he is strong and will put his paws on my shoulders and jump up. It's easy to loose your balance. 
    My Krypto pulled my down backwards on a hill and I broke two bones in the right wrist ans had surgery. He was only 18 lbs. Maybe slow gentle petting is better with Christmas excitement. I put Snickers in her room when company comes which isn't often. Just saying! 
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