UPDATE: It’s snowing. It wasn’t supposed to snow today, it was supposed to cloud up and get a bit warmer. It wasn’t supposed to stay cold enough to snow and stick — and there was no snow forecast at all when I last checked.
My duck soup this year needed a bit more salt than I added to it as it cooked, but otherwise is a success. I bought some varicolored carrots for it. When I next heat it up, I think I will add a potato or two and some more salt.
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Of the 12 veggie tamales I bought in my order for the end of the OHSU Farmers’ Market for 2015, I have now eaten 13. And I’m pretty sure there’s at least one more.
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I went grocery shopping on the 29th, and also picked up a book. My grocery trip got cut short due to having to buy a new pair of pants to get home in. A shortcut I tried to take was neither so flat nor so dry as it looked from the top. I landed (not hard) on my butt and was a right muddy mess before I got back on my feet. My daughter would not have been happy with me if I had driven her (still fairly new) car home with muddy pants. On the 30th, I took a couple of friends to lunch at Sanborn’s for their Christmas present.
Does anybody know how to add words to the dictionary for spellcheck in Safari? I’m really sick of having to look at things I know perfectly well are spelled correctly with that blasted red dotted line under them.
I ran several errands on New Year’s Eve, though I didn’t finish all of them since plenty of parking where I needed it or not, the meter wasn’t printing the tickets to stick in the window. I spent the last few hours with the offspring. I didn’t want to watch a movie, so my daughter turned on one of the year-end shows and we snacked and played a board game with the kids till just before midnight. My grandson even made it all the way to midnight — and he’s not four yet. The second bottle of champagne I got for Christmas went down really well, though I don’t think my daughter finished hers, either — two beers earlier in the evening took me almost to my limit (I do carry my moderation in drinking to an extreme). When I left to come to bed, the offspring were dancing.
Besides my soup, the big excitement for New Year’s Day was finding out that the big crash that woke me up around 4 AM was the bottom hinge coming loose on my front screen door.
Laundry on Saturday, including both coats (which get to hang dry in the bathroom), and I think I will go to the library later today. It’s been coooold here since it stopped raining.
And tomorrow, back to work.