Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Happy Late Christmas

Due to work schedules we had our Christmas dinner Sunday night.



The cookies were made.


























The decorations were up.




The table was set.








































The meat was roasted;

(for an easier than pie meat course try pork crown roast)



















The wine decanted.

(We had a mini wine tasting. The winner was a pinot from Chile.)





Family and friends arrived and we all had a great time.




Hope your Christmas or Holiday was just as good.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Bangchik was right.....

....we will be having a white Christmas!

The predicted high today is 31˚ and we already have received our small share of snow. It's enough to keep our Christmas white.















































Hope everyone has a great holiday.



Thursday, November 26, 2009

Dear.......

............retailers and corporations in general,

Holidays have been set aside as a time to spend with family and friends. They were NOT set aside to enable you to acquire more of the almighty dollar. I would like to be having Thanksgiving dinner with my family today but since two of them are required to work today I will be staying home. What I will NOT be doing is visiting any of your establishments. I will do NO shopping of any kind today.

You may not realize it, but the public's spending money is finite. Our pocketbooks are not bottomless. We may shop every other day of the week but please leave our holidays alone. We want to spend them with our families.

And to those of you who do utilize retail stores on a national holiday, (and shame on you), please keep in mind a simple fact. If you assume that all the people you see working on that particular holiday are happy to do so and are receiving special extra holiday pay for doing so - please THINK AGAIN. There are many, many, establishments (including my place of work) who are open on most major holidays and compensate their employees for working those holidays NOT AT ALL. So, no, we're not happy to be at work. In fact we're saddened that our holidays with our families are regarded as unimportant by our employer.

You can support your fellow workers by NOT supporting their open businesses today. Take away the reason for retailers to stay open on the holidays. Buy your gas, your groceries, your last minute items the day before.

Or - gasp - DO WITHOUT!




OK, enough said.


Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Happy Irish Day!




Your Leprechaun Name Is: Stinky Cabbageleaf



Top of the mornin' to ya, Patty!



Couple of things blooming today;




Yes, the sun is shining brightly here, looks like it's going to be a gorgeous day.

Too bad I'm off to work.

Oh well. Spring is on its way!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Tis the season for.................


1. Killing another poinsettia. I love them, but can never seem to get them to make it past the holidays.

2. Shopping. We don't have a lot to do. We never do. Not much family, not many friends. Still, we usually enjoy the little shopping we have.

3. Christmas cookies. Mine are finally finished. As of about 20 minutes ago. My hands are still dyed red.

4. Speaking of cookies, adding about five pounds. To my scales. Oh well. There's always next year to diet.






5. Christmas decorations. Ours are up. Thanks to hubbie Kim. The goofy and the "just for fun." Plenty of outdoor lights also.









6. The tree. Up. Blue again this year. Bought a few strands of the LED lights. Liking them.


7. Christmas dinner. Will be later in the week as usual. Kim has to work so we'll get together with the kids at a later date.

8. Trip to Idaho Botanical Garden to see the lights. That will happen tomorrow night. I'll be dressed VERY warmly. 10˚ weather hurts my face!

9. Dinner out. I like this one. This will happen tonight as Kim and I treat ourselves to a nice night out on the town. Just the two of us. My hours and days off have changed again at work and now we don't have any days off together. Kim took a bit of his vacation time so we've been enjoying spending some real time together.

10. Frantically finishing making Christmas gifts.
Yeah, this one is all mine. But I'm enjoying it for the most part.

11. Giving. Find some little thing, person, or place that needs some help and be that help.



Monday, December 1, 2008

In anticipation of CHRISTMAS.............

(Created last year while I was unemployed)




More of my Potato Head movies here.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Happy Halloween

It's almost as if fall has already come and gone as Boise experienced it's earliest recorded snowfall of 1.7 inches on October 10th.




Previously Kim and I managed to harvest some tomatoes from our meager garden which I used in a couple of recipes for dinners.





I brought our two purple daturas indoors before the snowfall and we enjoyed their blooms in the house. I'll see if they'll overwinter.
Check out Garden Girl for tips on overwintering plants.












I was also happy with our mums this year and with the white anemones.





































These two insects seem especially happy on our fireworks goldenrod.



One of the prettiest dahlias I grew from seed this year. I'll be digging these bulbs up and overwintering them in our crawlspace.



I have managed to save seeds from our white daturas, red castor beans, teddy bear sunflowers and millet plants. And I've brought in the two red geranium plants I grew from seed, we'll see how they overwinter.

Looking toward Christmas I planted the three amaryllis bulbs I saved from last year. One of them has already sprouted.

My hands are healing well since surgery, although they're still a bit sore.

Some Halloween decor; a couple of fake pumpkins I carved years ago and skeleton faces made from river rocks.





Here's wishing everyone a save and fun Halloween.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

The "Holidays" are Upon Us

The Halloween decorations have been up at work for weeks now. Truthfully I have enjoyed seeing them. I enjoy Halloween and when working at Micron I missed the daily reminders of the different holidays. Micron always looks like an asylum inside; same plain gray hallways no matter what time of year.

While shopping this week I couldn't help but be bombarded by all the holiday retail items for sale now, beginning with the Halloween decorations.




There were plenty of costumes to choose from.



And of course the requisite candy isle.



I guess it wouldn't be Halloween without Halloween undies.



Personally I could justify buying this guy. Who can resist a dracula Mr. Potato Head?




And don't forget your jack o' lantern pumpkins on the way out.



There was a nod to Thanksgiving;



And of course we all need to start planning for Christmas......*evil grin*

Don't ask me what the point is to the pig and cow.
























Next post I'll share the Halloween decorations I'll be putting up.

In the meantime, be strong and buy only what you really want.




We've received some blessed rain today. I'll leave you with a couple of fall photos from our garden.








Sunday, March 23, 2008

Happy Easter



Thanks to Michele at Laundromat, the article Easter Bunny, meet Santa Claus.

And for some lighter Easter entertainment, try the Easter Bunny Rap.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

I hope everyone had a great Christmas day.
I know we did; very calm and quiet. Vanessa, Casey and Cassie were all here for dinner and we all watched A Christmas Story which I hadn't seen in years.
We did miss my niece, Eva, but she's moved to Denver. Steph's parents are in town visiting so Steph spent the day with them.
The Crown Roast turned out great. Everyone agreed we should have it for the next Christmas dinner. (Too red for me so I didn't participate, but I was happy everyone liked it).




We also enjoyed a couple of great wines....



and Casey and Cassie gave us a unique gift certificate from the mall wine store...



There was plenty of food, chocolate and wine to go around. Some nice presents were received and given. Even without a job and with my unemployment checks about to run out, I can still see how fortunate I am and how much I have to be grateful for.

Monday, December 24, 2007

Christmas Lights

Kim, Steph and I went to see the lights at the Idaho Botanical Garden this week. This is something Kim and I try never to miss. We're members of the garden and we love visiting it all year long. Santa was there, and carolers and a live reindeer. Bonus this year, it was snowing!
(click on image to see larger.)




Kim always does a great job with our Christmas tree...



And finally, the outside lights at our house.



We're considering investing in some of the new LED Christmas lights, maybe next year the price will go down.

Oh, and snow this morning. Yay!

Have a great Christmas everyone!