Winter has been crazy this year -- with temperatures close to zero degrees here!!
However the cooold weather has given me a chance to stay inside and spruce up my place.

And another Moody Blues board has been spruced up, too.

Formerly Higher & Higher and Sitting Comfortably, the board has a new owner and a new name -- Moody Blues Classic Board.

When you have a few minutes, stop by and check out this site.

http://moodybluesboard.yuku.com

Where are you, DeeLee? What state? I've gone over to the classic board a few times.......... will check in, thanks for post.

I always have good intentions for the winter and staying indoors, then I get depressed and do nothing.

I was so tickled on Christmas Eve, to see the ISS go over..... like a Christmas star.... I mean, what if the first Christmas star was a spaceship??? Think of the implications!!!

well the shock wave that fries us would have gotten here already if we saw the light burst 2000 years ago. Urgh we're both turning to disaster scenarios.

Something good about winter, is when the last snow starts to fall (like it did this morning here, and I hope it doesn't stick!) it sorta falls in your hair as you're tossing bread to the robins.... the silly things came back too early! But it's a very nice morning outside..... I now have an excuse to stay in and obsess on my vacation plans. I WAS going to go grocery shopping and get mushrooms for the gumbo.

That's right. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Having said that, I've always been partial to orchids myself, and house plants. My Ex woke up and bought me a cactus once, and then when he got wind of me leaving, finally got me roses. What a twirp. I'll do back flips and obscene things for champagne, but no man has ever figured that out about me. Well, unless you count Justin's solo party on the boat. That was pretty amazing, he got us all champagne. I drank quite a bit (as much as I gracefully could snag), that after swilling three merlots at Gray's poetry reading. Made a complete fool of myself that day, just glad I didn't barf or something. Ugh.

Winter is a good time to cook a lot, nice warm cozy things like gumbo and split pea soup and such. Bean soup is good too. I'm really good with soups. I owe it all to Alice May Brock. Go get her recipe book if you like soups.

leslee it doesn't look good for you guys there... read this link. And the Weather Channel had the cajones to say last year was the "warmest on record".... blblblbbl

http://www.accuweather.com/en/.....t/23498242

I need a better fireplace. I've literally been logging out heavy brush around here, and have accumulated quite a woodpile. Get your parents a generator, and make sure it 1) doesn't need to be heaved and yanked on to start and 2) puts out enough wattage to run a freaking heater.

the one I have now is pitiful.

Spring... can't come soon enough.

I'm seeing a dress made out of pizza dough....

Do you want to know the sign for pizza? you hold up two fingers (like the 3 stooges ready to poke out an eye) and make zig zag motions with them. If a Deaf person does that sign, be sure to say YES (that's the "hang loose" Hawaiian sign, only you do it up and down, rather than rocking back and forth)

"Be off or I'll kick you downstairs!!!" -- Lewis Carroll

Ah indeed. My dog really loves pizza crust too. Alas I've given up pizza. I flip a lot of things at my dog, including scraped out yoghurt cups. He likes those too.

I love birds too, and watch them avidly, call back to them... . Some years yes we DO have robins year round but not this year.... I didn't notice they were gone until they came back... they are sure digging for worms!

I'm glad you're feeling better. Often it's just a matter of getting enough sleep, or taking multiple vitamins. We had the most lovely sun today, everyone remarked about it, and I sat out sunning myself just a little today. Very nice.

Musher you gotta learn about seat hopping. leslee is very good at it. But it's sounding good isn't it? Alas the Moodies are going to land in some snow methinks, unless the thaw happens soon. They keep saying we might get snow in Seattle this Sunday.... temp is dropping a bit outside here, but it's bright clear and cold and windy....

have fun! Drop by here and give us a report if you have time!