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  • Joy1580vb
    Joy1580vb Posts: 460 Member
    Yes, Christmas is fast approaching. Need to get a start on some decorating also. Cold and windy day today.
  • oceanmelody
    oceanmelody Posts: 496 Member
    Cold and snowy here. Could not walk in it. Wish I had cleaned windows last month!
    Made a really good kielbasa and sauerkraut slow cooker meal with my homemade sauerkraut. The recipe is going into the rotation.Also a simple Ukrainian carrot and apple salad. Tasty and different and good for you.
    Did a teeny bit of interior decorating today. If the sun comes out will try to add the lights
    outside soon.
  • Joy1580vb
    Joy1580vb Posts: 460 Member
    Your recipes sound delicious! I'm sure your sauerkraut was much better than store bought.

    The last couple of mornings have been woken up with robo calls. Was going to block the number but when I checked, I see that it is a series of different phone numbers. We get so many of these ridiculous calls. We have an answering machine so I don't answer any call that I don't recognize. If it's important, the caller can leave a message. I registered to be put on the national do not call list a few years ago but I think I need to do that again.
  • titus2cat
    titus2cat Posts: 406 Member
    Left my house at 7:30 this morning and got home at 3:30. Christmas shopping. I finished the granddaughter and halfway done on the baby. The six year old called me and asked if he could go shopping with me to pick out his presents. I am
    Fine with that, so I guess we will go after school one day.

    A church nearby has a display of 130 nativity sets from all over the world. Tomorrow is the last night so I need to try to get to that. I put up a tree and hung a wreath on the door. That’s about all the Christmas this house is going to get this year. I still need to devote myself to unpacking boxes.

    Your kraut recipe sounds delicious. Fermented foods are so good for us. My husband had cancer in his small intestine 13 years ago and fermented foods were on the list of foods to heal the gut.
  • oceanmelody
    oceanmelody Posts: 496 Member
    This was my first try at fermenting and I was happy with the result.
    There is snow on the ground here but not the next town north.So we had a nice walk in the woods with no problems. Did a little decorating but it was too cold to hang lights.
    The nativity display sounds very nice! Many years ago when one of our daughters studied abroad, we spent Christmas in Spain. Every store front window had a Belen—my favorite was the one made entirely made of chocolate at the candy store.
  • titus2cat
    titus2cat Posts: 406 Member
    I feel like my legs get so cold on walks while my upper body is toasty warm in a big down coat. RBX put their fleece leggings on sale today, so I ordered the bootcut ones. I have some that are not fleece lined and practically live in them. Hoping fleece lined ones will help me to walk longer. I wont have to come in because I am cold. Your walk in the woods sounds lovely. Do you see a lot of wildlife?
  • oceanmelody
    oceanmelody Posts: 496 Member
    Fleece leggings sound great—I will wear tights underneath when it gets cold but fleece sounds heavenly. I was reading an article today about how it is good to exercise in the cold.
    Sometimes we see a lot of wildlife and other times hardly any.
  • Joy1580vb
    Joy1580vb Posts: 460 Member
    See wildlife a lot in our area. Moose, deer and elk are frequently seen going through our land and even up to our yard passing through. Always nice to see them. Get a few calls every year from people wanting to hunt on our property but we always say no and our property is posted as no hunting or trespassing.

    Doing Christmas decorating in the house today. Time to put up my tree and a few other room decorations.
  • oceanmelody
    oceanmelody Posts: 496 Member
    I think moose and elk are magnificent looking animals. I’ve only seen them in Canada, Maine, and the Rockies.
    Most lights are up, not the tree though. Made homemade mulling spice mix for cider. Now I won’t be getting store bought anymore. Plus the house smelled great while drying the orange peels.
  • Joy1580vb
    Joy1580vb Posts: 460 Member
    Put my tabletop tree up yesterday along with my Christmas village ornaments. Decided to set everything up on a folding table that I had bought during the summer. Big mistake. Heard a crash at about midnight. My cat knocked the tree off the table onto the floor along with a couple of my Lemax village pieces. The tree is quite heavy but so is the cat. What a mess. So back to re-decorating this morning. Getting rid of the table and will put the tree up onto a smaller end table. Will use another end table to set my village up onto but will be using the bottom part of the table so the village will not be too far from the floor. Having pets can be challenging at times.

    Down a half a pound this morning so happy about that. Sure is coming off slowly.
  • oceanmelody
    oceanmelody Posts: 496 Member
    Cats will do cat things, won’t they? Used to have a wonderful orange kitty but now I don’t think I could cat-proof the place enough for another.
    Good job on the scale. I am scared to get on mine.I just keep trying to exercise and not go overboard on eating.
  • Joy1580vb
    Joy1580vb Posts: 460 Member
    Took all my breakable ornaments off the tree and put on some unbreakable ones that I had. They are quite pretty wooden balls in gold and red. They are large so I thought they wouldn't look good on a tabletop tree but they actually look nice. No one took the slightest interest in the tree last night so I think it all had to do with the big table I originally put the tree on. It left too much room for the curious cats to explore.

    You have the right attitude about exercise and mindful eating.

    Cold has settled in here again (-25 C) but should only last a couple of days and then slowly warm up to around
    -5 C later in the week.

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