Winter Storm Warning
Mr Chiots and I love hearing those words on the weather channel. There’s nothing we love more than inches and inches of snow piling up outside (probably because we both work from home). It started snowing Thursday morning here in Ohio and it just stopped last night. We have about 9-10 inches of snow and a coating of ice on top of that.
It was kind of bittersweet to go out though, usually Lucy is out there with us running around. She absolutely loves playing in the snow! One of her favorite things is when you throw snowballs at her. She jumps up and catches them in her mouth. It’s hard to catch a photo of, she’s just so quick. This is the best we could do last year.
We went out sans chiots today, she’s confined to the office for at least the next 8 weeks for healing. Mr Chiots spent the better part of the morning shoveling the driveway, he always enjoys the workout.
I made sure all the bird feeders were full and then we came back in for a cup of tea.
Anyone else enjoying all this snow? I know Harley, Brooklyn’s puppy is really enjoying it!
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A White Christmas
Yesterday morning we woke up to a dusting of snow, which was perfect because we celebrated Christmas with my family. So we enjoyed a white Christmas.
It turned out to be a beautiful day with lots of sun, although super cold (in the single digits with a windchill in the negative double digits). There was lots of great food and great family fun! We always celebrate a homemade Christmas with my family, all gifts have to be made or used (except for a few gifts for the kids). It’s always fun to see what homemade items everyone has come up with. I always make cinnamon rolls for all the families so they have something delicious to pop in the oven on Christmas morning. I even found these great tree-shaped pans to put them in this year instead of the usual aluminum square.
I also made reusable cloth shopping bags for everyone this Christmas. I had a great time stitching them up earlier this week.
In the afternoon we also made birdseed pine cones with our nieces in the afternoon for their homemade gifts for everyone. They really enjoyed giving something that they made themselves.
Now only one more family Christmas to go and our own personal Christmas celebration and the season will be finished.
How many family Christmas celebrations do you attend?
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Freezing Rain
While taking a bowl of kitchen waste out to the compost pile yesterday I noticed some rain had frozen on the Red Russian kale leaves. So beautiful, especially with the purple veins of the kale running underneath it!
This is what you get when you have a 50 degree day with rain and a 30 degree drop in temperature by nightfall. Everything is covered in tiny jewels the next day!
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What I’m Missing
I love everything about winter, the snow, the cold weather and everything else. But every now and then I find myself longing for the warmer months (especially on those cold rainy dark days). So what am I missing about the summer today? Flip Flops.
I love love love free feet. I wear sandals & flip flops all summer long. My feet hate being cooped up in socks and stuffed into shoes, but soon enough they’ll be free again.
What are you missing about summer?
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Happy Thanksgiving
Here is an interesting article on the history of Thanksgiving and what kinds of food were consumed back then. It includes a menu of what they would have eaten. It was kind of a forced local and seasonal Thanksgiving back then with no supermarkets.
Our modern Thanksgiving repast is centered around the turkey, but that certainly wasn’t the case at the pilgrim’s feasts. Their meals included many different meats. Vegetable dishes, one of the main components of our modern celebration, didn’t really play a large part in the feast mentality of the seventeenth century. Depending on the time of year, many vegetables weren’t available to the colonists.
The pilgrims probably didn’t have pies or anything sweet at the harvest feast. They had brought some sugar with them on the Mayflower but by the time of the feast, the supply had dwindled. Also, they didn’t have an oven so pies and cakes and breads were not possible at all.
Regardless of what we eat, we celebrate this holiday as a day of giving Thanks.
What am I thankful for this year?
for the great country that I live in
for Mr Chiots of course (and Lucy and the cats, Samson & Sofie)
for my family and our friends
my health and the health of my family
the local farmers that spend their time growing healthy veggies and raising healthy meats for us to eat
and all of my blog readers of course!
What are a few things you’re thankful for this year?
