Friendsgiving was another success. Cedric, Tami, Roger, and Susan came over with some amazing food and we discovered some new holiday staples. And then everyone else brought some amazing dishes to round out the dinner!! Every dish was great! And some neighbors came over after dinner.
We haven’t had a big party in a while, so I decided we’d have a Canadian themed party around my birthday. Plans were dashed when I couldn’t get the Canadian snacks in time and that the floors had to be redone, so we postponed it until February. We had a ton of Canadian chips, snacks,
It got cold this year and people started posting how terrible it was in West Virginia, so I took some pictures of the backyard. Looking pretty good!
Christmas 2023 started rough when the tree came crashing down and destroyed most of the ornaments and jewels; along with one of the rings. I’d been meaning to add some kind of winch system for years, but I was finally motivated to get one installed. Then the Modern Christmas Tree (https://www.modernchristmastrees.com/) people restrung the tree
After the travel-heavy schedule of 2023, we decided to stay home for Lina’s birthday, which means Friendsgiving. We didn’t want to get out of control like the year we had 20+ people over, so we kept it intimate this year. But we did have enough food for 30 people, of course. We had: A great
I bought a foldable kayak on Kickstarter before COVID and they ran into a lot of problems in their supply chain, which delayed the kayak’s delivery by a year, or so and they had hacked together a seat with the parts they could get in order to keep shipping. It arrived too late to use,
We needed a truck to pull the Airstream. The Airstream is far from ready, but we also might be spending a good chunk of the winter in Palm Springs, so more storage for those trips would help as well. I’ve been periodically looking at truck ads to get a feel for pricing and see if
I’ve long admired living walls in homes and businesses. The soothing green and feeling of nature brought indoors especially during the pandemic when we’re feeling anxious and can’t leave our house. I love living walls, but I was also afraid to lose our mirrored wall. In July, we went to a garage sale at an
We decided to take advantage of a great camping spot at Rambler Ranch. George, Shawn, Brad, Pam, Chris Carter, Teresa, Lina and I brought our trailers for the weekend and Paul, Cedric, and Tami stopped by on Saturday afternoon for the tour. We didn’t take any pictures of the tour, but it was amazing again!
I found this recipe in an old-timey church cookbook from my mom’s collection. I’ve been wanting to make this recipe ever since I saw that four packets of gelatin was the first ingredient, but never had the guts. The Denver Modernism show had a 1960’s themed cooking segment and I saw my chance. The instructions
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