“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
This year:
Lemons = stomach flus (yes plural) through Christmas
Lemonade = waking a nocturnal rodent and trying to entice it through a wrapping paper tube maze with treats.
It didnt work but the attempt was valiant.
Now back to bed for the sickies (TheWeeOne and TheMommy).
After perhaps the strangest, sickest, and most isolated Christmas evar! there is a sense of normalcy returning.
Except that The Mommy is now sick – and appears as if she will miss her planned flight to PA. (Sigh)
#rollinwiththepunches
These taste amazingly good this year – this is the espresso flavor truffle.
I’ve had 5 tonight and probably 10 more in the past week.
My sugar restricted diet from a year ago is still mostly in effect, which makes these candies so much more delicious when I do indulge.
But all that comes at a price – which I’ve outlined before (http://blief.zwise.net/?p=1115)
And I remain, for the most part, asthma free, eczema free, medicine free, and on a path to not expressing those genes I clearly have which turn sugar into triglycerides at an alarming rate in my body.
But I’m here to say, that if your body doesn’t freak out quite as badly as mine does when I’m “on sugar” and you are interested in the best homemade candy this side of the MississiCedar, hook up with The Frosting Angel or find her on Facebook at facebook.com/TheFrostingAngel.
There’s just a few boxes of assorted truffles remaining.
It started as an innocent grinding. In forty feet it became a stuck pulley. Tonight I took it off to inspect/clean/repair but I most certainly will simply replace the bearing…I thought.
So I got a good blunt instrument at the ready to extract the remnants of the bearing race…and I broke it.
The whole pulley.
The cost isn’t as big of an issue as the wait to get new pulleys. Sigh.
This is a test of a new web-service I discovered called IFTTT.
If This Then That.
I wonder if a Philosophy major was involved in IFTTT’s creation? [he said questioningly]
Anyway – this image came from Instagram – imported directly into this blog.
Could also be done using IFTTT but with a little less creative control.
And now I expect, on saving this post here – that it will automatically get posted to my facebook timeline.
Here goes. 🙂
I think this is a record in two ways;
1) the earliest I have ever put up lights.
2) the most lights I have ever put up.
And, come to think of it,
3) the most dud light strands I’ve had in one year.
As you can see in this picture, the center middle eve of the top roof, is out. Weird thing about that section; it’s the middle of one continuous 100pc strand and it’s on about 20%.
Sounds like a short-circuit to me. Any electrical engineers in the house?
Ahem.
Quite the whirlwind of meals.
Celebrated with aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents aplenty.
During that time there was a fair amount of “screen-time” which was oddly, a very social time. TheWeeOne did declare a no-phone-zone so we could play a board game at one point but the glow of screens on little faces…I suppose it’s an acquired taste.
Anyway, this little image was too much for me to pass up.
Today was an unconventional, time-shifted, Thanksgiving.
TheMommy developed a migraine (for which no-body is thankful) yesterday-ish and without much hassle our Thanksgiving date was moved to Friday in hopes that the migraine would be tolerable (or gone) in time. Thanks to AuntiePam for being flexible.
While the migraine isn’t gone it is diminished enough for The Mermaids to begin making cranberry relish and a pumpkin log for Thanksgiving – tomorrow.
Today, apparently, time is a theme.
We read a book called The Magic Half that deals with time travel.
We watched a movie called Back To The Future, also (oddly enough) dealing with time travel.
Tomorrow we celebrate.
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