Ooopsi Photo...23º

Many times when taking photos with my iPhone, I inadvertently move the settings to video, square, pano, or sometimes I just get a photo of the floor, ceiling or heaven forbid a crotch shot!...(as my daughter calls them)...Looking through Photos this morning I see a one second video of a snow scene...I liked the looks of it so I figured out how to trim it and then take a screen shot of it and save it as a regular photo into my favorites...But now as I try to publish it in my blog, it will not work...So all I have to show is yesterdays dinner....DARN...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Snow Scene

Chicken, Yam and Salad

Winter returns...25º

Another weather advisory is posted on our local weather...Looking to possible "inches" of snow over the next 3 days...Will it be a repeat of earlier storms on the valley floor or will most of it be higher in the mountains?...Fergie, the local ski area, is having a great season and this could keep them open for a few more weekends.

I'm hoping that this storm wears itself out before next weekend as 10 of us ladies have tickets for a musical at the Elgin Opera House...It would be nice if we can all enjoy "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" without worrying about road conditions...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Nachos Supreme, our latest in comfort food.

Noodles, Cookies...20º

Memories pop up on Facebook, a photo of noodle soup, taken from my blog of February 2012...I follow the link and find a photo of cookies as well...Am I a creature of habit or is February just a good month for comfort food?..This week I repeated myself making noodles and cookies.

Winter is a good time to cook and experiment, usually I do turkey and noodles but this week it was beef and noodles and the cookies instead of just chocolate chip had peanut butter added...Yesterday the leftover beef/noodles was turned into a stir fry (veggies added) for another dinner and the cookies sampled warm from the oven before bagging them for the freezer.

I managed to sort another sack of books, before succuming to a book called "Roots and Shoots," all about gardening with children and another "The Complete Book of Herbs."...They kept me entertained until a notice on my computer said that the book "The Bridge Ladies," is available on libraries to go...I read this book until 9:30pm without falling asleep, must be a good one...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Back at it...21º

You would think that snowy days would entice me to sort more books, chase more dust and get rid of more clutter...But in reality I sorted through some books and came up with more reading material...So in my comfortable recliner, I watched the storms out the living room window, and read the hours away...Comfort food simmered away in the crockpot (flank steak covered in onions, roasted tomatoes, mushrooms and red wine)...I finished the book, "The Inheritance" by Charles Finch in time to make the dough for homemade noodles, which we smothered with the flank steak and rich succulent gravy.

It snowed overnight and maybe more will fall today, but this morning I will fill more bags with books and get on with the sorting and cleaning before water therapy...Then after a dinner of leftovers I will read again...Herb is outside clearing walks, so I must get moving...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Still Winter...30º

After a few warm, sunny, spring like days last week, the talk was all about the first buttercup, sprouting daffodils and buds starting to swell...It has been a crazy, beautiful, miserable, magical winter...And guess what, folks, it is not over yet...Remember it is still February.

After snowing off and on all day yesterday, we got up this morning to a snow covered world...More of the same is predicted for the rest of the week...I seriously doubt that we will have another foot of snow that sticks around, any time soon, but the 2 to 3 inches like we got last night will probably replay several times before we have real spring weather.

Yesterday after write group and water therapy, Herb and I had beef barley soup and toasted tuna sandwiches for our dinner...Then we whiled away the day reading our books and watching the storm from a toasty warm living room...Spring will arrive but instead of being right around the corner, it is down the road apiece...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Holiday...39º

After one retires, holidays, weekends and other days of the week all run together...For those still working, Monday holidays seem to be a special treat...Many times the reason for these "special holidays" is forgotten and they are enjoyed as a mini vacation from the drudgery of the everyday work place.

Now when I was a child, eye rolls everyone or deep sighs or now is the time to recede into ones self but appear to be listening as Oma blathers on!

Holidays such as George Washington's and Abraham Lincoln's birthdays were looked forward to by students because even though we attended school on those days we celebrated!...We learned about the history of our country and that George Washington had wooden teeth, that he chopped down a cherry tree, his wife's name was Martha, he wore a white powdered wig and funny clothes, but also that he was the first president of the United States of America...We recited the pledge of allegiance with renewed vigor, sang the national anthem (off key) but with all our hearts and souls.

On Abraham Lincolns birthday, we learned first of all that he would never tell a lie, thus the phrase "Honest as Old Abe."...He came from humble beginnings, was a wood cutter, loved to read books and married a woman above his station, named Mary...The Civil War was fought during his presidency and Congress passed the 13th amendment that abolished slavery while he was president....He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theater...We memorized his famous speech, "The Gettysburg Address," understanding little of its meaning...We sang songs written long after his death such as "God Bless America," and "America The Beautiful," also off key, but understood phases like "land of the free," and "land that we love."...We celebrated our leaders and learned to love and be proud of our country.

I wish I could say the same on this day, because no matter who is president our country is in one big mess!...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Progress...50º

My readers will be happy to know (I think) that Herb loaded 4 sacks of cookbooks into the car on Tuesday morning and Pam helped me carry them into Soroptomist...The ladies there were delighted to see the cookbooks and said I could bring more anytime.

My plan kind of snowballed on me when, since I got one corner cleared out, and thought, would this be a good time to have the carpets cleaned?...I anticipated having a week to do more cleaning...But instead the carpets got cleaned yesterday and we made an impromptu trip to Costco and came home to carpets drying and days ahead of us of more cleaning, sorting and rearranging.

Since we remodeled our house over 20 years ago, I have loved our living room, but lately it seems to be overloaded with stuff and tends to suffocate me...So maybe I can clean out more drawers, fill more boxes and bags and help Soroptomist give scholarships and do community projects...Sometimes I still think I would like to do a yard sale, but not sure that will ever happen.

Pam went with us on our road trip yesterday and we shopped at Winco, Walmart and Costco...Ate a lovely lunch/dinner at Tomato Brothers and were back home and unloaded by 4pm...It was a good day.

The wind is blowing like crazy this morning, I got up at 3am, scrabble games are done, coffee is finished, it will be light soon, another day begins...Hugs To All...OWAV:)