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N and J came over to play boardgames last night. They brought food for twenty (food detail on flickr). We played a few rounds of Carcassonne (next game purchase will be expansions), attempted to play Thurn and Taxi but gave up (guess game of the year doesn't guarantee our interest!) , then ended the evening with a few more rounds of the bean game. Woot! So happy to have N + J back, yay boardgames :D
mmm.. table full of snacks. Our friends N+J came over for Christmas dinner. (welcome back!) They braved crazy nutty slush and more slush to share Christmas with us. They brought lots of goodies - sweet peppers, marinated peppers and garlic, nummy breads, drinks, and their cheerful selves! (details of fud on flickr). May this be the first of many wonderful fud we will share :) The fuzzies mostly behaved themselves. (Hi Kooler! She is hiding on the right side on the table. Winter spent a lot of time under the table and attacked J's bread in her bag! ).
on 16th of December... G was diagnosis with kidney failure and we checked him into Swedish Hospital emergency room in Seattle around 10am in the morning. He stayed in intensive care for two days, and general / Nephrology for another two days. He came home on the 19th. He is on a special diet while he is on dialysis - low potassium, low phosphorous, no add'l salt, high protein, and various changes. He is going through the treatment process and will find out what's waiting on the other side.
At the same time, we have consecutive snow storms since about the 14th. I did not grow up around snow, and usually stay home in this weather. According to all the weather and news reports, this area has not seen snow like this. Needless to say, it has been quite frightful between G and this weather ...
The highways are clear, on and off. The arterial and main streets are plowed and packed down. Public works use rubber scrapers and do not plow to bare pavement on these streets due to the reflectors on the road. They also use de-ice chemical instead of salt. The side street where we are also plowed with a few inches of snow packed and ice underneath.
Our neighbor built an igloo, but it only last a day, until the next snow. Some of my plants in the holding area turned into an ice cream cone. I've got snow in my boots. One of the fuzzy likes to explore in a foot of snow. One of the fuzzy wanted to follow my footprints.
Both G and I tried to shovel our way out of the driveway. Our friend N (of N+J) was visiting and he shovel the pile left by the snow plow in front of the driveway.
The weather should break in the next few days. Merry Christmas and best wishes to everyone.
... to acknowledge the problem.
I was pulling cookies off the cookie sheet. I realized I was stacking them in their shapes. As soon as I realized I was doing that. I stopped.
It is cold. The snow and the cold artic air the weather serivce have been talking about arrived yesterday. The fuzzies love it. They keep asking to go outside. But I am inside with coffee + (homemade) eggnog instead.
Snow (and weather in general) is news around here. Go figure. :) "They" have been talking about it for the entire week. Well, if you look really closely, in the dark (cause it is still dark at 6:30am), you can see the grass has an ever so slight dusting. (Actually, the National Weather Service rescinded the snow advisory yesterday morning. ) It is 36, and feels like 32 outside.
And this is about how I feel. I burnt some butter cookies last night. And this particular little one made a face at me! (I woke G up from his pre-dinner nap to decorated the cookies.) Getting to know the new oven and a new recipe.
My first trifle - triple chocolate trifle ala Martha Stewart. The candy canes didnt work out. If I get around to get more today, I will sprinkle them on. I also goofed the layering of the dark chocolate pudding and white chocolate mouse. It was not enough to layer correctly, and I noticed too late that the pic shows both, alternating, in the same layer. Whoops! It is messier looking than I would like. Otherwise, this is good enough to go out the door. I tasted the extra pieces (I had to trim the 8" cake to fit in the bowl) last night and I just about fell over. Oye. Too rich for me. *the condensation is from the layers resting in the fridge overnight
As I was doing the Thanksgiving uploads I remembered this photo I wanted to share of Regan at the Woodland Zoo from a year and a half ago. Regan seems to be very skeptical that this bird is actualy safe to be around...either that or she's waiting for the bird to dump on Craig.
