As the sun sets on 2025, where am I? Home, where I should be.
Where have I been this week? They gym, the pool, Fresh Market, Michaels Arts and Crafts, Trader Joes, Aldi, Harris Teeter, a haircut,
What have I been up to in the kitchen? Last Wednesday I made Lasagna; wonderful layers of pasta, ricotta, mozzarella, Italian sausage based marinara, and shredded Parmesan. Thursday was rare roast beef tenderloin, roast Brussels sprouts with Parmesan, green beans, Yorkshire pudding, and a beef and onion gravy. Fruit cake later in the day. Running the self clean cycle on the big oven, it really needed it. Roast loin of lamb, cheesy potatoes and steamed broccoli.
What did Santahamster bring me for Christmas? Some wonderful figurines of bunnies, sheep and a little bear to add to the ever growing collection, a couple of books, Britcoms on DVD, a pair of Irish knitted sheep, and a wonderful piece of art glass. All selected with lots of love.
Who have I talked with? My sweet bear, Doc Spo, Marcell,
Who have I traded messages with? Erica, Spo, Sassy, Omar, my sister, and my oldest nephew. Gloria a retired professor of Italian language, who is writing a book about horses in medieval Italy.
What is on the easel? Another portrait. There is lots of work to do on this one.
What are my New Year's Eve plans and rituals? I will stay home, stay up late, I have a bottle of bubbly, fruitcake, and caviar (not together,) I will be asleep shortly after midnight. Dinner on New Year's day will be roast pork, and baked beans. My Aunt had a tradition of having money in your hand at the stroke of midnight, I have a wood cigar box with nearly 50 years of money from midnight on New Years in it, I started writing on the paper money the year and location many years ago. Money at New Year's brings money in the New Year.
What music should be playing at midnight? https://youtu.be/Ik7ktS3PqEs?si=zkna6F-GZErgVJwQ
What interesting fact did I learn this week? You are 12 times more likely to die the first time you skydive, than the second time you skydive. I will avoid that first time. I never have understood the desire to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
Very nice, but I don't think you could have ended the year with a better photograph... and perhaps a great image to start the new year too. Calmness.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Years dears.