Happy Crabby New Year

We ate loads of Dungeness for New Year's,my kitchen still smells like crab. A meal that involves using tools is always fun.

Survival

I survived serving Midnight Mass and the 10 am mass, by staying in a hotel a mere one block from the Cathedral. I got more sleep, and was in the very lap of luxury and still I'm trashed. And some much more dedicated ministers, like choir members, served at even more masses..and I bet they are not nearly as complainey as I!

Merry Christmas!!

Waiting For Santa

The puppies are anxious for Santa to arrive!

A Sweater For Schnitzel

It has been cold and Schnitzel is kind of bald, so I thought I would get him a sweater. I have never been one of those people who put clothes on their dogs, but there is a first time for everything. Well he HATES it. He becomes frozen and will not move when he is wearing it. So much for a fashionable dog.

Christmas Baking

I am again attempting some baking, to give as little gifts. I think I was too cavalier with this batter and obviously put these too close together... Then they didn't set up and I had to throw them out.  Hhmph.

Memories

My brother and I took a trip down memory lane when he was here.  We looked at old pictures, letters, telegrams, bibles, etc.  It was so sad that we didn't know many of the people in the pictures, or we had differing opinions of who they might have been.  My boys immediately pegged this picture as me, I don't know how they figured that out, its fifty years old!  Clearly, even then, I was a ham.