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| Hosted by Natalie the Explorer. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & walk with me... |
Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from South Dakota. How you doing this 4th week of 2023? Daughter & I started making plans for summer visits around oldest Grand's graduation. I asked Kevin what he thought a good graduation gift would be for us to get Grand. Kevin said his favorite things he remembers getting for graduation was a pocketknife & a fishing creel. I remembered getting cards with money in them as being my favorite graduation gifts. Here's a few of the other things that's happened around my place this week.
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| Our 1st born Grand, anticipating & planning for his High School graduation & thereafters. A cookout is in the works for a graduation party. Son-in-law grills up the most delicious smash burgers. |
* We went to the Lions Club hosted community bingo. Kevin was the number caller, I kept up with the card counts. We both helped clean up afterwards. Player brought in some delicious cookies to share. I made a jug of tang & brought peppermints & suckers to go with Member's popcorn. It was a fun competitive evening getting extra cards at times to try to win 1 of the 3 dozen of eggs being offered as prizes.
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* We had a charcuterie board style picnic lunch in the truck while out exploring the prairie. We saw grouse & a coyote while out & about. Other things on the menu this week was a rabbit bake using a chicken recipe & a meat & cheese roll that's one of Kevin's favorites that he's been requesting for a while. The meat loaf was made using 1/2 venison & 1/2 beef.
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| The end of the road for now. |
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| It was entertaining to see if we humans could walk on top of the snow. |
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| The forecast called for wind & snow this week with the high temperatures reaching the mid 30s F. That's pretty much what we got - wind, snow & cold. The talk of the town was about the bitter cold wind & how lucky we had been the past couple of weeks to have done without it. This windmill was churning & still in operation to provide water for the livestock. |
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| It's like Christmas when there's boxes to be opened. |
These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?
That was quite a week....thanks for sharing. Ours has been mixed and we are in the middle of a rather hot set of daily temperatures so we are mostly inside...and when motivated, I am doing some more packing for our eventual house move in about 3 months.
ReplyDeleteThe humidifier + the other ideas to increase your humidity make for an interesting experiment and I'll be checking in to see if it helps your skin. I wonder how much the cold air from living in such a snowy place impacts on your skin. We live in more of a hot/dry environment and seem to have less issues with things like that.
ReplyDeleteI read that dry skin is more common in the winter from the dry heat humidity inside the home. In the summer I don't seem to have troubles with dry skin. I thought my dry hands were due to handling dry things at work though seems it's more about the humidity in my home.
DeleteI haven't played bingo in years. We always had fun when we went, but I was always surprised by how competitive it was. Have a great weekend, Karen.
ReplyDeleteI like to play a few games of bingo & since it's once a month participating in the community club, it's doable. It's all more for the fun & socializing.
DeleteSounds like you were very lucky while playing Bingo! I always have great fun but never win. LOL I hope your humidifier and other tactics help; I go through so much lotion in the winter and slather on real thick layer of it. We do keep an old pot of water on our woodstove and fill it up each day but I'm not really sure it does us all that much good as our woodstove is in the basement.
ReplyDeleteAll the bingo players got at least one win so that was good fun. The pot of water helps humidity more than we realize; I think. Spraying the mist with a spray bottle around in all the rooms didn't seem to raise the humidity. Maybe I was expecting to see immediate results too soon.
DeleteSounds like a good week.
ReplyDeleteThanks, it was a good week.
DeleteCongrats on your bingo win! I hope the humidifier helps. If it's only your hands that are extremely dry, it may be something else that your hands have regular contact with that causes the dryness (e.g. hand soap, dishwashing detergent). Thank you for your weekend coffee share.
ReplyDeleteWay to go eggs for a bingo prize!! In the winter keeping ahead of dry skin is almost a full time job:)
ReplyDeleteLots of good stuff. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Those are some great prizes you won!
ReplyDeleteCold wind... yuck. I'm fairly weather-tolerant, but I *hate* wind. Down here in AZ we get hot wind in the spring--feels like someone is chasing me with a giant hair dryer. So. Gross.
ReplyDeleteI love your charcuterie board! Charcuterie boards = Lunchables for adults, and I'm here for them.
Have a wonderful week!