Tea (and coffee) and cookie party over. Seemed a success but I'll let Dooley fill you in. All quiet now on the Western front. Music is one of my favorite jazz (and Christmas) albums, A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. dr
Thought it would be a quiet evening. I'm not working this week so have been doing home things. Today was shopping day for Christmas dinner. Thought I would get some baking done for youth group tommorrow night and an office party on Thursday. That's when the trouble started - my oven won't light. My husband is working on it now and if he does get it lit, I may do a lot of baking before shutting it off.
Some, like Randy, would have called this a bleak and bleary day and becoming bleaker and blearyer evening. But it has been chilly with a smidgen of rain and I have enjoyed it. Still working on that last gift and having great doubts about getting it done by Monday. Oh, well, I know what I will go buy her if this isn't ready in time.
Still warm here and we are both still working. Polly, the bottom half of our oven just stopped working. So if you wanna broil, go for it. Bake? Forget it. Must be something going around.
My oven went out two years ago, last year there were just too many other things requiring our money and this year I found that I don't really miss it and besides the oven has turned out to be a large and handy storage space in my small kitchen. :-D
No frost tonight but the pond and ground will take a while to fully defrost yet. The birds wait for me to feed them each morning as the ground is too hard for them to find food for themselves. I've been making vegan sweets for my youngest son, David, and his partner, Kay. Fresh dates with the stones taken out and home-made vegan marzipan put into the hollow and covered in vegan choccy. Cherries covered in chocolate too with a sprinkling of coconut on top to make them look like little Christmas puddings and cup cakes made with even more chocolate, sultanas, coconut and cherries. I think I may tackle some marzipan fruits next if I have the time. Sooooooooooo much still to do and the time is getting shorter and shorter!!
My husband got the over going. So brownies are made for tomorrow night and cranberry caramel date bars for Thursday.
Strange Sharon and I just had to buy a stove because........ you could broil but not bake{ I hear thje twilight Zone music.} Have a good night everyone.
Donna says: If you can only broil and not bake, you can still do cookies. Just flip the cookies over when they are half done. This will not, however, work with cakes or pies. It will work with cakes if you make very thin layers, like in a cookie sheet. Sharon and Richard, you know what doberge is...that's how ya gotta do a cake. Now everybody is gonna want doberge.
Jan if you ever find your way to this neck of the woods I'll make lots of vegan goodies for you and Donna.
Good Evening all See yall next year tomorrow I will ruin my eyes and brain watching too much football on TV. Have a Happy New Year all, and my love to each and every Stewie both human and non-human{cats, dogs, gnomes,etc}
Happy New Year to all. We have a houseful of guests arriving in about 1/2 hour. Yikes. At least we will not have to endure any football tomorrow. Hugs to all.
Happy New Year everyone, I am sooooo glad I found this forum last January. This has been a fantastic gardening year because of this group. Just the three of us tonight...we have neighbors who believe in fireworks and firing guns into the air as part of their special celebrations so we here in case they do something stupid and it lands on our house. No football for us tomorrow either, neither of us have any interest in it. But I do hope to get up in time to watch at least some of the Rose Parade.
