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.
Happy New Years!
DeleteYour descriptions of your gourmet activities had my mouth watering... until the baked beans. What a fun New Year’s money tradition. We’ll be out on the central plaza with thousands of others downing our 12 grapes. I’ve been told you don’t even need a parachute to go skydiving. You only need a parachute to go skydiving twice.
ReplyDeleteAnd you are much less likely to die the second time.
DeleteWhile I am sure it is not hard, I am impressed that you know how to make Yorkies. Planes are risky enough, never mind skydiving. I will follow your wise decision to not skydive the first time.
ReplyDeleteI started making Yorkies about 5 years ago, they can be tasty.
DeleteInteresting tradition about having money in your hand at New Year's!
ReplyDeleteShould I leave a note explaining the box of money, for after I am gone?
DeleteWhat a fun, busy, tasty week you had! All that delicious cooking...wow! Our New Year's meal will be pork ribs on the grill with homemade BBQ sauce, Hoppin' John, spinach casserole, saurkraut, and cornbread. It's fun to start the new year with "good luck" foods. Love your money-in-hand tradition. Happy New Year to you and SB!
ReplyDeleteI made Enchiladas after this was finished. Happy New Years!
DeleteI was given the gift of flu by Carlos this Christmas and so I may not be awake at midnight but I will wish for what I always wish for: Peace on Earth, love, laughter, joy, learning, living ...
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and yours!
Happy New Year, take care of yourself.
DeleteHave a very Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you, I look forward to your daily posts.
DeleteI think you stole that last line from someone but I can't remember who. Happy New Year to you and the Bear.
ReplyDeleteWho ever said it first, was a wise person.
DeleteUsually once the sun, goes down I'm home.
ReplyDeleteSame here.
DeleteNice to read that you had Yorkshire pudding! But when I use the word "had" I really mean ate or consumed said Yorkshire pudding - nothing else!
ReplyDeleteConsumed, they didn't rise well this year.
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