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Hello!! Let
me start right off by saying I hope that you've all had
a lovely Holiday Season! We lucked out, and got
Snow-That-Stayed, making a lovely White Christmas! Being
a Mainiac, I'm sure you know I appreciate snow more than
many! (and by the way, the rest of you outta-staters
should call us "Mainers", not Mainiacs-LOL!) |
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The photo at left {the wall
paper} is a lovely snowy photo of a building in Ellsworth,
Maine. So pretty! I LOVE the combination of Snow and Red
Buildings almost as much as I love Red & White Quilts!
...and now, comes the Drum
Roll up to the New Year! We don't go out, but New Years Eve is
still very enjoyable here at home; we watch a movie on the
telly, eat chips and onion dip, and don't feel under huge
obligation to stay up 'til midnight! THIS YEAR though, I
feel as though I would like to personally escort 2021 OUT the
door! {Maybe with a Kick in the Pants, out into the ICY freezing
air, never to be seen again! WHAT a year!}...and this is a
perfect time for us to envision, what is the change we would
like to see, in a new year? What kind of life seems "just right"
for each of us? What can we work on to make that happen?
Dreams? Aspirations? Can you picture it? Let's!
There
are things I wish for the world, and don't know of a specific
way to help, other than digging in and being sure that what
comes out of my "house", at the very least, doesn't cause more
harm. Things I wish for the family; grow more of our own
food/shop more from farms/ put up more food ourselves. Read
more. See every opportunity to HELP, where help is needed. Be
more encouraging. Get outside in the fresh air more. Be with
people more-laugh and enjoy more experiences with others. It's
nearing New Years...I go through this every year :o) As
you know. <grin>
This
afternoon I am making a GiGunda Meatloaf. (If there really IS a
word GiGunda I have NO idea how to spell it!) It's part of the
New Years plan. Cook more at home. Cook more when you do
cook, so that there is always something you can pull out of the
freezer/canning cupboard to make a meal when you don't feel like
it. Go Me! If I was clever, I've pulled enough hamburg out of
the freezer to make three bread-pan sized meat loafs!
This is a favorite recipe,
and probably the one I'll use today!* I don't generally use the
bacon on top, so you can shorten the cooking time some!
(Fabulous way to use up my leftover bread ends too!)
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These
were Katie's Christmas present. Seriously 5-10 minutes and
all three were toast. She LOVES a "stuffie"...so much
fun!...But we have never in 9 years found one she didn't eat
through in mere minutes! Ideas? It's pointless to sew
these guys up, as it would just be another couple minutes
'til they were spilling stuffing again! Ask me how I know.
We've done the fire hose ones too.
Slight
break there while I got the meat loafs in the oven. Hmm.
Meat LOAVES? Meat loafs? Hmmm. Whatever...smells delish
already! ::::some time later::::
I wound up getting FOUR meals worth! We ate one and three
are in the freezer! That feels GREAT!
Now,
before I fall asleep at the keyboard, I guess I will head to
bed and maybe even read for a while. The current book is
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High
Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression,
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish. The author was one of the
Little Heathens in her youth :) I'm loving it so far -
a light hearted glimpse at a time mostly forgotten. Lives
that while poor in cash, were rich in experiences and
relationships.
Happy Quilting All, and
oh so close to a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Marcia :o)
"
If we don't
change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going".
Prof. Irwin Corey
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