Something About Nothing............ #14

I am home. We ended up doing some last minute shopping and didn't leave until around 2:00. The traffic was horrible. I think it took almost an hour to get out of the touristy areas and onto the interstate. We finally made it home around 9:00. The cat seemed happy to see us.

I'm going to try to finish a book I started reading this weekend. It's due back at the library on Wednesday. Good night.
 
@Charade67 that photo is amazing! Did you see any while you were there? What book are you reading? I’m reading a daily poem for advent in a book called “Haphazard by Starlight”. Not long ones so I started the classic Christmas Carol last night.

Need a walk over to our little store this morning as I need more eggs. Have Christmas Tree crumpets for the early risers then J is making sausage rolls for lunch and I’ll do a roast chicken dinner for this evening. I’m trawling recipes for a chocolate Bundt one but know I won’t get buttermilk at our little shop.

Finally finished the Christmas card writing so will pop them in the post box. L wrote 30 for her class and her handwriting has really come on. We were worrying as J struggles to hold a pen due to his dyspraxia and does not enjoy it at all. It takes an awful lot of effort. His school have said he will be allowed to type (which he is good at) as he gets older but they want him to continue with a pen as well.

No plans to go anywhere today as plenty to keep us occupied here. Christmas with the Cranks recorded for later. One of our favourites.

Our church services are having to be limited over Christmas - usually packed out. Sadly will be first come first served for (free) tickets going online at 12 so I will attempt to get them for the Christmas Eve crib building but won’t stress if not lucky.

Happy Sunday all.
 
OMG! I just looked at the Facebook page for the motel where we stayed in Gatlinburg. This picture is from last night! That's our red car.

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WOW indeed!!! So that`s what the yelling was about the night before.......thankfully not something we have to worry about over here. I always remember several years back Janet posted a picture of a bear on her property......that was a big ol` bear!!!

Glad you made it home safely and hope you had a good sleep after your journey......






Taken me ages to post this morning, our internet has been going off and on for the last hour.......finally seems to have settled down.

Rain everywhere this morning it seems.......it is bouncing down here this morning and dark enough for the lamp still to be on in here. I did think if it wasn`t raining I`d meet my friend with new doggy on the beach for a walk......but not a chance this morning. Plus it`s cold......I`ll meet him eventually.

Need to get an electrician as one of kitchen baseboard lights has gone out and also one of the under cabinet lights too......typical both at the same time. The under cabinet light is not in one the main areas of worktops I use. I do like lights on in there too. They are all LED and Tom being Tom, believes in "getting the guy". Will txt our electrician tomorrow to see when he can come fix them.

Had bacon again for breakfast........and have diced beef in the slow cooker with ale and stock for tonight. Making a steak pie for us later, a firm favourite in our house, and very winter warming. Puff pastry on top! Lush.....

No plans today, except to do some TR.....that`ll keep me out of mischief for most of the day........Grand Prix tonight is one we`ll watch for a change. Then a movie.......Christmas movie watching starts in earnest this coming week.....DVD`s all dragged out for their once a year viewing......I did try to watch one of the Hallmark tv Christmas movies last week......nope.....not for me! Will stick to the classics, and yes Die Hard is definitely a Christmas movie.




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Good Morning.

My usual Sunday morning. Quiet and tea. Rain has held off today, and that’s a good thing. Winds are predicted to be 40 mph with 50 mph gusts. Add rain to that, and would be very icky. Though today will be a chilly one, as with the wind, 30F feeling day.

Real, seems like all meals accounted for today. All sound perfect, though I would not eat sausage items. All our religious places are online, even for Christmas. Many of the churches have said singing would be done in the parking lots, with proper spacing for those that want to hear. At least some semblance of the religious holidays having songs for all.

Aw, Schumi, sorry the weather is not nice for a dog meeting. I am sure when the beach is nicer, both dogs will be great to see. Yeah, lights always seem to go out with more than one at a time.

Charade, awesome the view of the hotel including your car. Ack, to a more traffic than wanted drive home. Glad you made it last night, and enjoyed some book reading.

For us, it’s our get the trash out, ready for the week day schedule. Little one will be doing her finals this week, older one still has classes. And, a meet up with my sister, as we need to go over, what we hope, is the end of the estate work.

Ah, back to the remote and need a tea refill, and have to put most of the wash In the dryer.

A most happy Sunday homies.
 
that photo is amazing! Did you see any while you were there? What book are you reading? I’m reading a daily poem for advent in a book called “Haphazard by Starlight”. Not long ones so I started the classic Christmas Carol last night.
We saw a bear cub the day that we took a drive to Cades Cove. It was close to the side of the road, but quickly ran back into the woods.

The book I am reading is called The Gift of the Magpie. It's a lighthearted, "cozy" mystery by Donna Andrews. All of her books have birds in the titles.

WOW indeed!!! So that`s what the yelling was about the night before..
I am so glad that I never saw the bear when I looked out the window. I would not have been able to sleep. I love bears, but do not want to be that close to one again.

I think today we will decorate for Christmas. Just need to wait until the rest of the family wakes up.
 
Good Morning.

My usual Sunday morning. Quiet and tea. Rain has held off today, and that’s a good thing. Winds are predicted to be 40 mph with 50 mph gusts. Add rain to that, and would be very icky. Though today will be a chilly one, as with the wind, 30F feeling day.

Real, seems like all meals accounted for today. All sound perfect, though I would not eat sausage items. All our religious places are online, even for Christmas. Many of the churches have said singing would be done in the parking lots, with proper spacing for those that want to hear. At least some semblance of the religious holidays having songs for all.

Aw, Schumi, sorry the weather is not nice for a dog meeting. I am sure when the beach is nicer, both dogs will be great to see. Yeah, lights always seem to go out with more than one at a time.

Charade, awesome the view of the hotel including your car. Ack, to a more traffic than wanted drive home. Glad you made it last night, and enjoyed some book reading.

For us, it’s our get the trash out, ready for the week day schedule. Little one will be doing her finals this week, older one still has classes. And, a meet up with my sister, as we need to go over, what we hope, is the end of the estate work.

Ah, back to the remote and need a tea refill, and have to put most of the wash In the dryer.

A most happy Sunday homies.


Dealing with estates can take forever at times. I`m sure you`ll be glad when it`s over, I know we were. It can be too time consuming.

Yes, there`ll be more days for walks....maybe time it for a lunch at the same time, some places close to the beach allow dogs in part of their venues.




We saw a bear cub the day that we took a drive to Cades Cove. It was close to the side of the road, but quickly ran back into the woods.

The book I am reading is called The Gift of the Magpie. It's a lighthearted, "cozy" mystery by Donna Andrews. All of her books have birds in the titles.


I am so glad that I never saw the bear when I looked out the window. I would not have been able to sleep. I love bears, but do not want to be that close to one again.

I think today we will decorate for Christmas. Just need to wait until the rest of the family wakes up.


I haven`t heard of that author before......our book group are reading a book I`d not normally associate with a book group. It`s called After the End by an author called Clare Mackintosh......it`s a very hard read as it`s a sensitive subject, so it`s difficult. But, I will read it. It`s not very long though. I prefer a chunky book for group.....but not my choice this time.

Bears are cute.....as long as they are not too close......lol......

Hope you get the decorations up.......I have the opposite in our house.....Kyle has always been one to get up before dawn....never sleeps late, even on the weekends. I think he gets that from us though........






Rain stopped this afternoon about an hour ago, now starting to get dark so time for lamps and Christmas trees......

Beef is smelling lovely, ready made puff pastry to roll out later for pie, some mashed potato, not many as the pie is very filling and some carrots roasted. Then I`m making chocolate fondants for later for the three of them.........I can imagine they`ll enjoy that! I have some coconut ice cream for me.......nice!

Still haven`t made my hair appointment for next week, or maybe the following week would do. We have two meals out after the 12th I think.......so as long as hair is done by then, I`ll be happy.....it`s so long!
 
So here I sit in the parking lot of the local urgent care. “Why is Charade at urgent care?”, you might ask. Today we decided to put up decorations. B and I were working on the inside of the house while Dh was working on the outside. Well, he accidentally hit himself on the head with a ladder. His head has been bleeding for about the last hour or so. I wanted to take him to the emergency room, but he resisted. He finally agreed to go to urgent care. We are waiting for him to be called in. He is still bleeding, just not nearly as bad as he was.


I haven`t heard of that author before..
I happened to find Donna Andrews several years ago when I was browsing the mystery session of the library. I really like her books. She live here in Virginia (closer to the D. C. Area) and her books are set in a fictional town in VA.

Still waiting. I was hoping that bleeding from the head would give him priority in the triage.
 
Ooh Charade, how scary. I hope he got treatment already. Yeah, when my brother was a teen, got the claw part of the hammer fling off into his head, right above his right eye, they stitched him up fast. Still to this day, he has the Harry Potter scar.

And so. Dark and cold out. Maybe not as cold as Elsa, but cool night for us.

And a funny light for ya:
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And a funny, to hope gives ya a chuckle:
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Hope you are home now Charade. Guess no work for DH tonight. I hope he is not in pain. I am glad he got help.

And so, coldest night since beginning of March. Low 20’s for us. Well, trash out, older one finished his assignment before midnight, and little one is playing and is as noisy as her older sibling, as she has her final that can be taken any time tomorrow. So, I assume night owl kids again tonight. Me, nope. Back to my early routine.

Ooh, and I did well, and did a Target run and done. That and a stop at the big box store, with a how much bill? But now kitchen is well stocked once again. And the trash has left the house. Ah yes,
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Charade how scary 12 staples! Glad he finally agreed to go in. Hope he feels better soon!

Lynne I think you might be tied with me for cold low of 25 tonight. Got lots of stuff done around the house so lazy night reading a little of my standby books - you guessed it, it’s Harry. :)

Please Monday don’t come. Can tomorrow be Sunday again?
 
Hope you are home now Charade. Guess no work for DH tonight. I hope he is not in pain. I am glad he got help.
Charade how scary 12 staples! Glad he finally agreed to go in. Hope he feels better soon!

Nope, no more work fo Dh tonight. He got part of our outside lights done.
B and I got most of our main tree decorated. I still have a couple of boxes of ornaments to go through.

Dh is feeling pretty good all things considered. He just took some Tylenol. We'll see how he is feeling in the morning.

Speaking of morning - We might get some snow tomorrow morning.

One of our therapists is not coming in tomorrow. Her son is sick and has been tested for Covid. She is going to stay home until he gets his results back. I may be by myself in the office tomorrow.
 
Charade usually a scalp wound has heavy bleeding
With a dozen staples in his head, he should heal fine

Keep an eye out on him if he gets near a ladder again...

Weather for me was fine today
60 but temps will drop to the 40’s tonight and will have a cool Monday and Tuesday

Back to 60’s later in the week

Not a big deal for me as I stay in the house as our library shut down in November.
There is talk it will reopen to the public around the 14th-15th this month.

That’s the most exciting news for me.

I am betting it will be cold here late December and early January.
We usually get a good month of dreary cold weather in the winter.

Hope all the homies are getting ready for Christmas and no one gets coal in their stockings.

Sweet dreams all..
 
Morning all. Oh Charade so glad he got help. Home accidents are awful. I have DH collecting huge mirrored glass this morning for the wall in the downstairs cloakroom. Apprehensive about getting that in and fixed but I can help him - just limited room in there to manoeuvre!
Flu jabs this afternoon and normal Monday laundry underway. No other plans.
Hope everyone has a peaceful day.
 

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