But yesterday was a different day.
Bits of snow and occasionally rain sprinkled my area from these portentous skies.
But nothing stuck and today is a sunny day.
Yay!
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
SUN'S BACK
Yes, today is better with the sunshine back even though the temperature is still a bit crisp out there.
But yesterday was a different day.
But yesterday was a different day.
Monday, November 28, 2016
SNOW DAY
If you peer intently at this photograph you can see a few white spots.
The photograph was taken earlier today and those white spots are snow falling from our Arizona sky.
Keep in mind that we live at just over 5,100 feet so our weather is quite a bit different than that of Phoenix or Tucson or Yuma.
Regardless of that, the temperature was in the low 40's so none of the snow stuck here.
But winter appears to have crashed into us as the high temperature will be in the 40's every day for the foreseeable future.
And to someone accustomed to our normally balmy weather, that's downright chilly.
We're retired so barring the trips to doctor's visits and grocery stores, we can simply hunker down and stay warm in our home.
The BRD and her Beau Jack have another solution.
They're heading for Cabo San Lucas in a few days for a week in the sun.
It's 83 there right now.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Saturday, November 26, 2016
IT'S BEGINNING . . . .
. . . . to look a lot like Christmas,
everywhere you go.
This homeowner in our development has a big evergreeen tree in his front yard and he has it decorated for the Yule.
It looks a big odd there, surrounded as it is by the other non-Christmas vegetation around his house.
But it was a nice discovery as we took a drive yesterday.
Friday, November 25, 2016
FRIDAY FUNNIES
Oh joy!
It's the hap-hap-happiest day of the week.
It's Friday!
And you know what that means.
No, no, no, stop planning your tours of the shopping meccas for Black Friday.
It's time for the Friday Funnies!
But first, this warning.
It's the hap-hap-happiest day of the week.
It's Friday!
And you know what that means.
No, no, no, stop planning your tours of the shopping meccas for Black Friday.
It's time for the Friday Funnies!
But first, this warning.
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and ate too much.
All right, that's enough merriment for awhile.
Until we meet again, please accept my wish that you have a wonderful weekend of Thanksgiving leftovers and always (you can finish it, can't you?) remember to keep laughing!
Here, kitty-kitty . . .
(uh-oh, he got there first.)
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
TURKEY(?) DAY
For "foodies" tomorrow is one of the most important days of the year.
It's supposed to be a day for giving thanks for any and every thing good in your life.
But it has evolved into a day to overeat, usually of turkey and a variety of foods that accompany it.
Dressing (cooked outside of the turkey) and/or stuffing (cooked inside of the turkey), sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, various vegetable dishes, cranberries in a variety of forms, olives, onions, cheese, crackers, bread, rolls, and on and on.
Dessert? Always pie. Pumpkin pie is the traditional one. But sometimes sweet potatoe pie, apple, cherry, blueberry, pecan (in the American south mainly), maybe peach, or whatever.
Or cheesecake.
We're doing our traditional, non-traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner.
We haven't done a full turkey for years, decades maybe.
Since turkey breasts became available in supermarkets, that has been our turkey dinner of choice.
But tomorrow, SWMBO is preparing Spatchcocked (butterflied) Chicken instead of turkey.
We discovered that dish in the past year and we both like it, probably better than turkey.
Alongside the turkey, er, chicken the accompanying dishes will be the same as if we actually had the turkey.
We will be only the two of us.
The BRD has been overwhelmed this year as she and her Beau Jack move into a new home so they will dine separately from us whenever they get the time.
Thanksgiving can be a day fraught with peril, as members of one's extended family get together with all of their disparate views on the news of the day.
Arguments can develop, feelings can be hurt.
Which makes our feasting day this year all the easier.
And it has another value.
SWMBO is making a pumpkin pie today or tomorrow but she made an apple pie yesterday.
And since we are just the two of us, we didn't have to wait for the big day.
We cut it and had the first pieces last night!
It's supposed to be a day for giving thanks for any and every thing good in your life.
But it has evolved into a day to overeat, usually of turkey and a variety of foods that accompany it.
Dressing (cooked outside of the turkey) and/or stuffing (cooked inside of the turkey), sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, various vegetable dishes, cranberries in a variety of forms, olives, onions, cheese, crackers, bread, rolls, and on and on.
Dessert? Always pie. Pumpkin pie is the traditional one. But sometimes sweet potatoe pie, apple, cherry, blueberry, pecan (in the American south mainly), maybe peach, or whatever.
Or cheesecake.
We're doing our traditional, non-traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner.
We haven't done a full turkey for years, decades maybe.
Since turkey breasts became available in supermarkets, that has been our turkey dinner of choice.
But tomorrow, SWMBO is preparing Spatchcocked (butterflied) Chicken instead of turkey.
We discovered that dish in the past year and we both like it, probably better than turkey.
Alongside the turkey, er, chicken the accompanying dishes will be the same as if we actually had the turkey.
We will be only the two of us.
The BRD has been overwhelmed this year as she and her Beau Jack move into a new home so they will dine separately from us whenever they get the time.
Thanksgiving can be a day fraught with peril, as members of one's extended family get together with all of their disparate views on the news of the day.
Arguments can develop, feelings can be hurt.
Which makes our feasting day this year all the easier.
And it has another value.
SWMBO is making a pumpkin pie today or tomorrow but she made an apple pie yesterday.
And since we are just the two of us, we didn't have to wait for the big day.
We cut it and had the first pieces last night!
Happy Thanksgiving, Gentle Readers.
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