Saturday, December 16, 2023

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing this 50th week of 2023?  I've battled a nasty cold & cough this week.  Daughter & Coworkers had to be out of work due to their's turning into the nastier flu & sinus infections that required antibiotics. I might have to too before it's all over & done with. Kevin & I had a nice Christmas dinner with Kevin's work crew & their plus 1s. I had the best strawberry cake I think I've ever ate. I had a sleepover with Grands & we did some Christmassy things. Kevin framed a Christmas picture for me & cut boards to go over the sink & stove to make more serving space in our small kitchen for our upcoming Christmas with Daughter's family.  Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you a few more details, come walk with me...

I devoured lots of Christmas treats with Coworkers
this week, that were gifted from Customers.

*  I spent the night with Grands while their parents went Christmas shopping.  We watched Christmas movies including Miracle on 34th Street. I believe! We made Christmas fudge. We made Christmas tree ornaments. We picked up items to make a Christmas greenery bouquet while walking to the mailbox to retrieve a Christmas card.  

We made snowflake & snowman Christmas tree ornaments.

Christmas Lily Elf & Christmas
Elfis Elf came prepared for a
Christmas movie night
sleepover.
 
3 ingredient no fail Christmas fudge - a bag
of semi-sweet chocolate chips, 1 can condensed
 milk, a teaspoon of vanilla. Heat chips & milk till 
melted, mix in vanilla.  It makes an 8X8 pan, no
boiling needed, nuts of choice are optional.

One of the them suggested they go outside to play on the trampoline with the
water hose. Me thinking in a flash that it was 40 something degrees out there.
 They settled for having milk & gingerbread debbie cakes instead.

Happy Birthday to Grand McClain.
I went to his party at the pizza place.
I ate a tasty salad & got my fill of
 pizza from the buffet, including the
chocolate chip dessert pizza. Those
 tickets helped get lots of whoppie
cushions for all that wanted one.
 

 
I got my 4th deer.  Luckily the headlight was
only knocked out of it's socket & didn't
 get busted out. Kevin says he'll fix it.

The Christmas picture Kevin
framed for me.


These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?





8 comments:

  1. Oh the sweets are such temptations. I hope you are feeling better. I'm glad you didn't get hurt from the deer incident and the headlight is fixable. Thank you for your weekend coffee share.

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  2. The framed Christmas pictures really is a beauty!

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  3. Lots of great holiday pictures.
    Sorry to hear about the deer and your car. I hit one a few years ago and it was scary.

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  4. I hope you're feeling better now. Quite a few people seem to be down with coughs and colds at the moment.

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  5. Wonderful. Miss you

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  6. You must be invisible to deer! Glad the damage was not worse. Looks like great fun with your Grands!

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  7. Yikes on the deer and sorry to hear you have been under the weather. That box of chocolate is HUGE! I bet the sleepover with the grands was a lot of fun.

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