Christmas Cheer
I haven't seen a lot of
it lately, but the snow seems to help. Dogs are
always Christmas cheery.
How long will it take to remember that some types of
braking (the you're going too fast although props for
the confidence type of braking) could turn you loose
into the lane you can't see out of your passenger side
window which yes, you should have gotten back out and
cleaned off even though you just did.
That's right, high traffic melts snow which turns into
ice. This is my new car's first winter and it keeps
beeping while I blindly skid toward large trucks. I do
not find the wild blinking and beeping helpful.
I decided to go back to making
homemade presents this year and think I can dig in soon
without fear of things getting too stale (edible
presents can be cooled by the window now that the
weather had turned).
The Hershey's Kiss on a pecan half on a Kraft caramel
recommended by my Godmother for Thanksgiving did not
work. Any checking or adjustment will knock the whole
precarious thing apart and any attempt to fix the one
that fell will create a domino effect of catastrophic
candy. My ratio was about 1 out of 20 for a pretty
mediocre, partially melted snack.
On the menu so far: Red and Green Jell-O popcorn balls,
two kinds of caramel popcorn balls, caramel, the turtle
popcorn pictured above (this batch is from the State
Fair), cut out cookies, peanut butter cookies, Melted
Moments (like Mexican Wedding Cake cookies with a
cherry and one of those milk chocolate Kisses),
Puppy Chow, fudge, and
possibly brownies.
The urge to make dog biscuit cut outs has come and
gone. Sorry, dogs who can read and access the Internet.
SoCo came by to show me she was prepared for the
weather
I'll be putting photos from
this year's Capitol Christmas Pageant up soon.