Well I missed a whole bunch but definitely welcome to the newcomer!
Yucky weather is why my 4runner has been on 4WD for a couple days. Just took it off today as streets dry and I was driving in town. And middles car and DH car have all wheel drive. Had to get new tires for the new car/middle kids car though. Nice to have friends who can get us some good deals t-Michelin tires on the car! Nice warm up until sunday now when the next icy mix will hit...
DH's club got numbers on the Wingapalooza fundraiser-$101K in profit! More to spread to our local children's charities!! As a 403c profit has to be given to charities-they do a grant/application system, and I know in years past there is always a charity or 2 that they couldn't fund as much as they'd like.
And apparently Schumi has been busy booking more trips
and only has a few days to go til back home!
Colds are trying to drag down hubs and son, me-I am chasing away germs with lemon drop martini-had to use the juice of the lemons as I needed lemon zest for dinner. Along with orange zest, rosemary (harvested from garden before snow a couple days ago), and garlic on the pork tenderloin.
Glad the cold demon is being banished from your house!!
Happy belated Bday!!!! woot!!
Love doing this!! I buy free range/organic chickens and turkeys so I always use the bones to make broth. I do it with the beef bones as well when I have a ziploc full. I toss bones in crockpot with herbs, splash cider vinegar and water overnight-crockpot does the work. In fact-just did rotisserie chicken in crockpot last night just so I could make some stock for use next week! Then my living chickens got the leftover meat off bones from the stock-they are molting and need extra protein. Kinda creepy I know...but the mini dinosaurs eat everything!
Middle kid is having a photographer from her HS magazine out tomorrow as they are doing an article on kids and pets-and they discovered she has a pet chicken LOL! 2 of the girls look awful, but Diva chicken still looks pretty good, and she is the most photogenic with her attitude anyway.
And oldest found out she was accepted on a competitive team for the Imperial Barrel Award that is usually all graduate students - she is the only undergrad. It is totally not in her interest as it is in petroleum but the networking and experience will be great. She is pretty excited!
And DH's oldest daughter and family will be coming through our town tomorrow and again Tuesday-hoping we can catch them for dinner at least on Tuesday. Tomorrow they are a bit pressed for time to get to her mom's. Maybe she will about wanting family at Christmas again in Jacksonville and DH will be convinced we can spend winter break somewhere warm
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Tickets for new HP movie purchased for saturday matinee. Reserved seats of course-now that oldest kid is 21 she wanted a show where she could try a boozy milkshake
Bad influence here told her there is always mimosa's and bloody mary's for early show
. Took boy to see Grinch last weekend. Was cute, not spectacular but fun. Have a couple friends with December birthdays-they are both renting out a theater on separate nights for special movies. I have cleared my calendar to recover...and both DH's sis and step sis have December Bdays, as does his Grandma. December is NUTS for us.
Stan Lee's passing has our family sad, we love the Marvel universe. It is something we enjoy as a family, and of course-Universal wouldn't be there without him.
Enlisting oldest kid when she comes home tomorrow to help with the Thanksgiving shopping-list is long so need a 2nd set of hands.
How is it that the end of year is almost here?