No blizzard or squalls here in the Ville, just light snow and frigid wind that will freeze your face off in about 10 seconds. It’s miserable. And it’s not even pretty… nothing special.
Embracing the cozy…
Might as well make use of the downtime to snuggle on the couch with whichever hound makes it to the coveted spot at my feet first. It happened to be Merida this time around.
Time stuck inside looks different for everyone. My Momma is working on a puzzle, and Perry, Ben and I are playing video games. Ben’s a dwarf miner in his game, Perry is a fabulous baseball player, and I’ve been trying my hand at horticulture — strange horticulture.
No one around here has been playing chess – and no axes have been used. 😉
Now you know: Chess games are banned at Russian Antarctic Stations because in 1959 one researcher attacked another with an axe out of anger after losing a game.
Week #3 of “52 weeks of the hound.”
Dharma has this thing she loves — standing between the legs of anyone for butt scratches…
For the first time in history, US national dept tops $34,000,000,000,000.00. If you’re like me, you had to count back the clusters of 3 zeros to arrive at $34 TRILLION dollars. The fact that your country owes its creditors that much money — and the fact that it remains on the same unsustainable path — should be alarming.
Typing this early, it hasn’t started snowing yet but it is forecasted and I’m already getting excited. It might be for no good reason, we all know how reliable forecasts are. Frigid temps without snow are like cereal without milk. Pretty darned bland.
UPDATE:
Is this the best Mother Nature’s got?
Now you know: Jennifer Pan, under intense pressure to succeed, deceived her parents for over a decade, leading them to believe she was a successful pharmacist, despite not graduating high school. When her lies unraveled, she arranged for her parents’ murder.
You’ll notice whatifitdid.com is sporting different colors and a little different layout. Before I started, I did some digging around about blogs/journaling to see what type of lifestyle blogs people look for. Crazy, but this site gets a decent number of hits, (significantly more than my favorite brother’s business blog that he pushes across social media), and I’ve never understood why.
Currently, people visit blogs/journals on the following in order of popularity: 1. food 2. fashion & beauty 3: health and fitness 4. lifestyle 5. travel 6. photography
I guess I throw a bit of everything in there except there’s no fashion and beauty around here, for sure! I did find a food blog I liked during my search (other than the ads). It’s https://julieblanner.com/.
I must be feeling creative lately!
I’ve already tackled a 365 day project (one post every single day for a year), and I did one sunset a week photo on shelleyerwin.com (you can see those here) in 2023. So now what?
I haven’t decided yet, but it’s time to get the party started.
The only thing I know for sure is it won’t be a self-portrait a week project. 🙂
And tonight I will be in front of the TV at 9:00 PM ET.
Casey Anthony’s trial (accused of killing her daughter Caylee) was in 2011. I thought the jury got it wrong. Tonight is a special on A&E that I don’t want to miss. George and Cindy (Casey’s parents) are taking lie detector tests. OoOooOo!
Watching the preview, I’m not sure if I’m more worried about George or Cindy. OR if I’m most worried about how I’m going to watch it since nothing I have carries A&E. ARG!
Now you know: JAXA (Japanese NASA) tests astronaut candidates by making them fold a thousand origami cranes. This helps determine how the person deals with boring, repetitive tasks and time constraints.
It’s not often you can go outside on Christmas Eve in Indiana without a coat. This year was the year!
The winter wheat is coming up nicely giving me some Christmas green as a view. Y’all know I wanted snow, but the chances weren’t that great — and it was certainly a fail this year. Guess I could move to Michigan — they had 18″ last year?
Perry’s looking for employees and a new job. 🙁
Poor Perry had to work last night on Christmas Eve. We’d planned to have a few people over and play cards, but that was spoiled when his assistant manager didn’t show up or call in. Yes, he also has to work today on Christmas, and his relief person is… guess who!? Yup, same one that was a no show last night. He may be pulling a double. Again.
Heartfelt Christmas wishes to you and yours.
May this season be filled with the warmth of love, the joy of shared laughter, and the magic of cherished moments with family and friends.
Now you know – 5 fun Christmas facts:
It’s a tradition in Japan to eat KFC for Christmas. Orders must be placed two months in advance.
1 in 3 men wait until Christmas Eve to do their shopping.
Bing Crosby’s version of “White Christmas” is the highest selling single of all time.
The abbreviation X in X-mas is not really an abbreviation. It stands for “Chi”, meaning Christ in Greek.
The city of Vancouver, Canada claims to be the birthplace of the first “ugly Christmas sweater” party.
When Ben was a little feller he did countdowns by ‘sleeps.’ “How many more sleeps until we do this or that?” It’s an easy way to count how far in advance something is going to happen.
Soooo… how many more sleeps until we have fresh tomatoes?
Mr. Pesky has already tilled the garden — the momentous act accomplished just a couple days ago. I heard him talking about green onions and that’s great! But what I REALLY care about is how long until we have big, fresh, juicy, red tomatoes?
Still early March, counting sleeps would be too depressing since I’m pretty sure they won’t even be planted here until late May. While my Easter lilies are popping up, the only other green plants to be found are inside.
Pests — not to be confused with Pesky.
I’ve eliminated my ant problem. A little sweet orange oil on a make-up pad works wonders. I just skim the underside of the countertops and drop the pad under the sink about every other week or so (whenever I think about it) and I’ve not seen one ant since. Now if I can only get rid of these darned stink bugs.
They aren’t awful yet — just a few here and there — but by summer they’ll be a huge nuisance. I suck those bad boys up in a hand held sweeper (that then blows their stench into the room) but haven’t tried a stink bug trap — a pan of soapy water under a light source. We’ll test that out once we have red tomatoes. 😉
TIL (Today I Learned): People with blue eyes have a higher rate of alcoholism than people with dark eyes.
