Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

 Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing this 51th week of 2023? I participated in a Secret Santa Sister group, I got coffee & pretzels for a Christmas present. Daughter's family came over for Christmas. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you more about our Christmas event, come walk with me...

*  Me & Kevin hosted a Christmas hotdog roast dinner party for Daughter's family.  There was also bear ribs & antelope. The youngest Grands changed into adorable comfortable looking matching pajamas. While putting the finishing touches on the food, the kids hunted for candy canes & watched bits & pieces of Kevin's favorite Christmas movie, The Christmas Story. The one about the bb gun. There was a snow shoveling competition & the Grands told their knowledge of the birth of Jesus. The main event, of course, was opening Christmas presents.

The finder of lots of candy canes.
Daughter ready to try some bear meat.

  

Putting the finishing touches
on the bear ribs.

Snow shoveling competition. 

I got new pictures of the Grands
for my frames.

Kevin got 22 shells.

We got a new picnic basket.

 

Christmas Lily Elf says
"Merry Christmas to all, 
see you again next year."

Opening presents.

Girlfriend & Grand

Girlfriend & Grand

  

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

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing this 48th week of 2023? I had a 2nd cup of coffee & stayed in my comfy snowflake flannel pajamas all day. Kevin went squirrel hunting. He got us caught up on washing the dishes. We don't have a dishwasher, so all our dishes are done by hand.  No joking, our dishes had not been done for at least 3 days due to having Thanksgiving leftovers with no pots & pans to have to cleanup. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you more about my pajama day & I've got a few Christmas gift ideas if you're a gifter & need an extra idea or 2, come walk with me...

*  This is what my pajama day looked like: 

- a sinus headache

- put away all the clean dishes

- 2 loads of laundry done

- took the trash out

- listened to Christmas music while wrapping the rest of my Christmas gifts on hand, "oh by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year" " glory to the newborn king".

- watched a couple of Christmas movies, Best. Christmas. Ever. & loveactually.

- early shower & bedtime

Digital picture frame

*  3 of my top Gift Giving Ideas for 2023:

1. Digital picture frame - I got a digital picture frame several Christmases ago.  The frames have been one of my favorite all time gifts to receive. The frame blends in with all my seasonal decorations & it also serves as a little night light in the living room.  It has features to run only at certain times, but I have mine going all the time.  Mine currently has over 400 pictures that rotate randomly on the frame. It's a great gift idea for the picture taking hobbyist.

2. Food - A food that one doesn't usually get themself at their grocery store every week such as a specialty trial mix, flavored pretzels, chocolate covered cherries, roasted peanuts in the shell or flavored coffees.  Kevin likes fruit cake, so guess what he gets for Christmas.

3. Hand soap - Everyone washes their hands more often than ever before these days, since you know, Covid.  How about fresh rain scent or frozen lake?  My favorite scents are fruity smells. How about strawberry snowflakes or candy apple.

I decorated up the planter that's
besides the steps. 

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

Christmas Lily Elf says "Yay,
it's Christmas ugly sweater
wearing season!"