Merry Christmas!!!!

We're home and wishing all a Merry Christmas!!!!!
We are settled in to watch 24 hours of classic Sherlock Holmes and I love Basil Rathbone!

Snow

Tree limbs down and heavy snow. Perfect for building a snowman.

Just some photos from yesterday. Still no electricity at home but we are keeping our fingers crossed and praying that it will be back sooner than the have predicted.

Peppermint Dreams

I love peppermint. I love it in all forms. The smell lifts my mood and the taste makes me happy. I have two new favorites to enjoy. The first is this tea. I am not a big green tea drinker but with peppermint has changed. I love this tea!

My second new thrill are Peppermint Snowball Cookies. The recipe is a Sandra Lee recipe and is super easy. It has some bad reviews on site and I do not understand it. Sure they didn't look anything like the photos when I baked them but the taste is peppermint bliss. They flattened out when baked and I believe it's because I put a generous amount of crushed peppermint in them. The kids ate them as fast as I baked them and dusted them with more crushed peppermint. Unfortunately, Food Network Channel is freezing up on me everytime I try to get on it today so I haven't the link I wanted to post. I can't even tell you how easy these are. They have ready-made sugar cookie dough as the base with three additional ingrediants mixed in and bake. Yummy!

Cold

No heat in my office for two days! Need I say more?

I love Etsy

I love Etsy. It's my favorite place to shop. My newest purchase is this beauty and it's all mine. It came in the mail over the weekend and I love it. I don't believe there is any way you can go wrong with a Santa playing the bagpipes!

I have so many photos to get taken and posted but I'm back to work tomorrow. I hope the mission gets a new secretary soon and gets our office back into shape.

Rainbows

I have lived in this house for 11 years and have never seen a rainbow outside my front door until this evening. I have had such a long week this past week with lots of work and lots of stress and then I get to see this.

This was to the north and my view to the south was just as beautiful.

I was standing in the most beautiful golden light outside and all my stress melted.

My other stress reliever has been a little snuggle kitten. Lucy has had her name changed to Alice but she answers to nothing at all. Not even Kitty. She loves to sleep and climb

under blankets and place her paws on your face. We find her everywhere in this house sleeping. Quilts are her favorite sleeping spots but she also loves my thyme plant in it's big pot in the morning sun.

I'm back to work. If I get enough finished tonight I'll get to breathe alittle easier.