Free Friday and the Long Range Forecast

The rain has moved in and the temperatures dropped in the morning hours, so that's given the kids one more day home from school. We are at the bottom of the mountain but our county strectches up atop the mountain and their conditions can be quite icy when our remains rain.

At 3pm the temperature is at 59 degrees and it's still raining.

What to do on a rainy day?..think...think..I thank it's a good day for stew.

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We've all enjoyed us a bowl. 

We've also worked on refreshing Jack's math skills.

The winter break had give him a little lapse but he snapped back with a little help.

I hope where ever you are, you're warm and dry.

Thanks for stopping by and checking on the forecast.

Chime in with what's happening in your neck of the woods!

BE BLESSED!

Sanity Is Now~Dishes~the Forecast

Oh yes, this is officially the first day of normality since the Christmas break 

and 

the first day my house has remained straight and my dishes have remained done.

Yes, yes, everyone is in school or at work.

I have had an extremely satisfying morning. Today, was big band day on my AM radio station. Not to boot, if you didn't know any better you would think it Spring outside. The temperature is reading around 65 degree and the sun is mostly shining.

Will it last?

I doubt it

but 

it beats the last couple of days.

Tonight they are calling for the temperatures to be a little cooler with a 50/50 chance of sleet and rain.

Did you stop by and wonder what that set of dishes is all about in the pic above?

Along with my gardening book the Ole Man also gave me a new set of dishes. When he's bad, he's bad but when he's good he's very good. I hadn't mentioned lusting after dishes lately so when he acts as if he reads my mind I think...maybe so.

The set of dishware is from Pfaltzgraff. 

They are the Napoli  design.

I love 'em!

We had been using a White Stoneware set from Mainstay(dinner plates 10 1/4") for several years, now. They have been good ones and I got them on an extremely good deal but through the years and many teenagers, much of the bowl were gone and I had been wanting some more.

 White is good and nice much of the time but I love the colors and 

the hand-painted design this set has and the yellows play off my yellow kitchen very nicely.

They are also very substantial.

So substantial that I almost had a big problem.

The dinner plate is 12 inches.

I made a special place in my cabinets for the new dishes only to find 

The cabinet door wouldn't shut!

Ugh...now what?

Rearrange, rearrange..until they are now in the far corner of the cabinet. 

There will probably be more to the cabinet tale but right now they are in, doors shut.

In case you hadn't figure yet, sometimes I'm a little too save-y. We hadn't eaten on these dishes until last night. What good is it to save everything?..right..so we broke them out and had a really nice supper on them; roast turkey, dressing, macaroni.

I know you did not want that recipe

but 

if you are a little on the frugal side you know that turkey is on sale at a lot of grocers right now 

and

we'll get more than one fine meal out of that bird.

It's not Tuesday but I have rambled on so I'm just ending it right now

and

wishing you 

a 

BLESSED DAY! 

January 8, 2014~The Long Range Forecast

This morning we were registering 10 degrees.

This was so much warmer than yesterday.

At 3 pm, the temperature was 39 degrees,

a light breeze with clear and sunny skies.

BE BLESSED!

Blustery & Cold

BRrr..Baby It's Cold Outside~the Long Range Forecast

Just like an AM radio station here I am to give you my daily weather conditions.

Do you need me to tell you what it is right now?

Well, if you do it's cold and windy but not the coldest yet...

We started out this morning with a drizzle of rain and temperatures reading 43.3 degrees at 7am.

At 2:30pm, it is now 41 degrees clear skies and windy and windy. 

They are telling my the worst is yet to come and right now I feel fortunate when seeing the pictures of the folks west of us.

My Dad is a truckdriver by trade. For those who are not familiar with freezing conditions and diesel fuel, I want to give a quick word of warning.

Diesel fuel will gel, if the temperture is below freezing.

It will often do things to other mechanical things just because of the mere cold.

Take Caution.

Know your situation.

Stay warm 

&

BE BLESSED!