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Yay!

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I hope you had fantastic Christmas and FABULOUS New Year CELEBRATIONS!!

I’m late for the festivities and things are moving a bit slow around here but more about that later.

Santa (aka Mr. Aitch) knew I didn’t need any new yarn and that I’m trying to use up stash yarn but I wish I got some knitterly motivation to get my WIPs (works in progress) finished. He did come through with something under the tree…

…and a 2026 Honda Passport in the garage.

It’s been out of the garage twice, once on Christmas Day for the photo-op and yesterday to set up a few tech things.

Both Mr. Aitch and I have been a bit under the weather lately. He started the day after Christmas and I waited until last Sunday to feel bad. We’re not sure if it is a cold, sinus infection, flu, or the disease-that-shall-not-be-named rearing it’s ugly head. Mr. Aitch seems to have bounced back while I’m still dragging. I lost my sense of taste and smell on Tuesday so over-eating or snacking because the food tastes so good. Texture can be interesting and I could almost get the sinus-clearing sensation when I slathered some horseradish on my ham sandwich.

How was your holiday season so far? Fun, quiet, loud, simple, over-the-top, entertaining, full of surprises, perfect?

Enjoy the weekend, it’s back to work on Monday…or whenever.

Patti

Gift tracker

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I do a lot of on-line shopping especially at this time of the year. I don’t know about you but I have a hard time keeping track of things I order online. And with Christmas just around the corner, I’m going to need to make sure I order the gifts in time for delivery.

I decided to make an Online Shopping List for keeping track of my orders.

It has the important information at my fingertips. I made a printable if you are interested in one for yourself. depending on your shopping list, you might need to print off more than one sheet.

Printable Online Shopping ListDownload

Have a great day!

four things | fourteen

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Spring has finally arrived. It was sunny and warm in my neck of the world. Cold and windy (enough to drag out the winter coats and hats) on Wednesday quickly changed to warm and sunny yesterday. In fact we had temperatures in the low 80’s! No humidity and no bugs…I’ll take it.

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. It is a time to celebrate!

what I’m reading

My Book Club met at my house on Monday. We discussed Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Windspear. This is the first book in the series of 18 and though I read it several years ago I loved it enough to recommend it for the book club. They all loved it, too, and plan to continue the series on their own. The books takes place between 1913-1929 in England. If you like historical fiction, you might like this series that follows Maisie, a female private investigator and psychologist, from her adolescence to opening her agency and landing her first case.

what I’m listening to

About month ago Mr. Aitch and I had tickets to see/listen to the Airmen of Note, the Air Force Jazz Band. The concert was postponed due to bad weather but they came back last weekend to hold a band clinic for the area high schools and then preform for the public. We both love jazz and they did not disappoint. If you have to opportunity to hear them, please take advantage of it.

what I’m loving

These bunny racecars were stuck in the planter in front of one of the cluster mailboxes down the street. How sweet for Easter!

what I saw on my walk

This cute arched cloud…

Have a wonderful Easter weekend!

Is it me?

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Maybe it’s cabin fever. Perhaps it’s aging. Or the weather. Could I be overwhelmed? Underwhelmed?

Whatever it is, I’m in a funk.

I haven’t touched my knitting in over a week.

Yesterday when I was outside with Pepper, I saw everything that needs to be done in the yard. More dead or dying trees should be cut down. The 550-600 pavers want to be a walkway around the deck. The almost bare sometimes muddy path between the deck and garage door and around the garage longs for a paver/concrete sidewalk. The flower beds in front of the house are pathetic.

The good things about being outside were the fresh air and the clear, sunshiny skies with a few whipsy clouds.

Inside the house… Let’s not even think about that!

Well, I have no motivation. My just-do-one-thing voice is on vacation. I sit and play games on my iPad. All. Day. WTH?!

I tried to make pie crust for the beef pot pies we had last week. I completely screwed it up. I forgot to cut the butter/lard into smaller chunks before adding to the flour. Then I forgot to cut the fat into the flour before adding the water. Everything went into the food processor at the same time. I couldn’t figure out why I had this overworked lump of stickiness with a big hunk of frozen lard in the middle.

I took a deep breath, cleaned the food processor, took another deep breath, and started over. Perfect pie crust.

So is it just me? Or do you suffer from the February Funk?

Patti