Finn is not stressing about more snow . . .

Three cheers for . . .

colostomy reversals! It was 2 years yesterday! Time flies. John suggested I eat something highly fibrous to celebrate. Haha. Weirdo! He would never suggest that if I was at his house. But really a good idea anyway. For you too!

Another good weekend to stay inside. Wind - snow - cold - wind - wind - wind. What a winter! The predicted high for Monday is -5, and then the wind chill to contend with. I might have to get therapy for my kitties after this winter. Never have they spent so much time indoors.  Mom and Dad are hermits too. Dad has needed a haircut for a couple of weeks. When it warms up Dad will get a haircut. He might need some product soon! Bernie had a nice Mohawk the other day!

Note: Time to "manscape" Bernie's eyebrows again!

Midge can't face another day of winter. Maybe . . . after this nap . . .

Stay warm people. Have some fiber. Make some soup. Pet a cat. Watch your favorite Twilight Zone episodes and a really good old movie (Day of the Triffids?). Clean some drawers (that is enough cleaning!). Work a puzzle. Listen to the wind. Stop thinking about chocolate chip cookies I JUST WANT THE DOUGH. IT'S ALL IN MY HEAD. That is my advice.

Kay

Long, Lazy Weekend

I ran off to John's house for my long weekend. Ended up getting 5+ inches of snow on Saturday; it was coming down gangbusters! My car was very happy, and snow-free, in John's garage! Then on Sunday very high winds . . .  so, having fortuitously laid in a nice supply of provisions (my idea of course!), it was a movie marathon weekend! And pizza with delicious cheap clearance cheese from Aldi (sharp provolone and manchego! I may need to take a moment . . . ). OK. Back. And mom sent us her delicious poorboys. And delicious soup with wonderful homemade stock! I got to pick the meat off 10 pounds of chicken dark meat! ARGHHHH. And delicious salads. Yummy stuff. And John whipped up some banana nut bread, no recipe, with clearance black walnuts (love those - we had a black walnut tree on the farm and that flavor sure takes me back . . . memories of hammering those suckers and walnut finger stains!) and free Greek yogurt from Kroger. It was great! And a little ping pong! Finally felt good enough to play a little. Knee and heel (knock on wood) are feeling much better. Hera was a growler this weekend, at me AND Isis! Don't know what was up with that! There are no paragraphs here (you are lucky there is even half-assed grammar!), it is all running together in a relaxed, rambling, cozy, rejuvenating fashion, just like my weekend. And I know that seems like a lot of food, but it was a 3-day weekend after all! LOL

Hera on, and Isis in, my big cozy, fleecy blanket I bought so I could be super warm at John's place. Seems it is their current fave and I did not get to use it at all! I was plenty warm this weekend anyway. It's amazing how comfy 59-61 degrees (56 at night) can feel in a newer, draft free home. With a down alternative comforter on you. And another one under you. And lots of nice layers of your good wicking clothes. And cuddl duds. I'm happy to share my blanket with the girls. After all, the kitties kindly let me share their loo. I will spare you the rhyme that logically follows . . .

After watching a newish movie, The Purge  (thumbs down from Kay), we moved on to the '70s. After a freakishly weird movie, The Baby, which I still can't get out of my head, things starting to look up with The Taking of Pelham 123; Three Days of the Condor; The Silent Partner; The Mechanic; and The Boys from Brazil. The music. The fashion. The violence. The car chases. The bralessness. Is that a word? Need I say more? I shan't. Ok I lied . . . and the fun of picking out familiar actors and trying to figure out where you know them from, then looking them up on IMDB!

Gosh I'm weird.

When I got back I picked up Bernie for a ride. He likes rides better in the spring, but winter rides are good too. In the spring he wants to go around when the farmers are planting. If he is alive. I told him I won't take him if he isn't. He laughed.  If he sees someone he knows outdoors when we are on our ride in nice weather he will stop and talk. Unless they might ask him to drive a tractor. Bernie can still drive a tractor. And why don't people have their names on their mailboxes anymore!?

Signing off. Have a good week people.

Kay

Cute Kitties

Hmm . . . maybe John didn't turn the thermostat up enough? At least the sisters are good at sharing! Love this pic he sent me this a.m. and it feels like ages since I have seen the girls.

Could we get a bigger heat vent please?

This brought back a childhood memory flash of my mom, rocking baby John in her arms, straddling the huge floor register in the kitchen in the old (and cozy!) farmhouse where I grew up. And lest I sound a little toooooo Little House on the Prairie, the only heat upstairs in the bedroom was what came up through another big vent in the kitchen ceiling. When we were very small we all slept in that one room in the winter, and mom used to make our beds using blankets for sheets! I never remember being cold. LOL  It was a big room, at least in my memory, plenty big enough for two double beds,  a crib, an old kitchen table we used as a desk/play table (making blanket houses and tents and such), and lots of toys.

We ended up getting 9 inches of snow last weekend, and now we have rain, lots of water about, sump pump is running (thank goodness!). I got antsy cats, they must be getting old (5 years old soon!), because they have resorted to using the tiny litter box I keep for emergencies! LOL  They never use it, preferring to fertilize the garden for me instead, so it's not really big enough for 2 biggish kitties! I'm not sure how Finn manages at all! Things are melting away now, so (I hope!) things can get back to normal.

Have a nice weekend folks.

Kay :)

Snow Day

Snow day! Like I would have gone out to clean car off and shovel in -50 wind chill anyway! Just saying!

Link up to Raegan's blog, cousin Denny and Holly's girl . . .

http://oh-bla-di.blogspot.com/2014/01/eve-of-hope.html

Stay warm friends!

Kay :)

January Deep Freeze

Happy New Year!

Snow snow snow. Wind wind wind. Cold cold cold. Our predicted high for tomorrow is  -17! Wind chill tonight around -46. Please please please let the power stay on! Thank goodness for gas! Gas as a fuel source that is! LOL  Shut up John. I went out first thing this a.m. to fill up the cat food bowl for the strays at work. I was sliding like crazy! People with big heavy trucks were doing OK, but it is still snowing, and now starting to blow. I wish all living creatures had a warm, safe place all the time, and especially in this weather.

Dad is "scairt" of the weather. I don't blame him. Something real to fear, instead of living in Morris, and going to bed correctly!

Mar's niece, Miss Kate, wrote about Runza on her blog, a restaurant in Nebraska that serves ground beef and cabbage sammies. Sounds great, doesn't it!? Well, being most fond of those ingredients I poked around on line and found that runza is a "midwest" dish. Hell, I'm 50 something and never heard of it! So I gave it a whirl the other night. Yum. I'll be making it again. I cheated and used frozen roll dough. Still good!

Cheeseburger runza with a speck of bacon . . . good eats.

Sunday Dinner . . . orange chicken. And a couple of said frozen rolls left over from the Runza experiement. If you forget to take them out to rise, it still works, they just aren't quite as pretty.

John had his girls to the vet for shots. Hera is a whopping 11 pounds 6 ounces. Little Isis is 8 pounds 4 ounces. The little, skinny, bottle fed kittens from the shelter have filled out beautifully! I knew they would, once they became Mallaneys! Go team go!

Too bad I haven't been able to get over to Johns . . . he turned up his heat! The girls are thankful, I'm sure. A new record for John's thermostat . . . 62!!!

Finnegan. A little too much Mallaney perhaps . . . 18 pounds 14 ounces last time he was at the vet. He looked so freakishly long on bed I put yardstick down for some scale, but he moved. He had his paws over his head when I first saw him. LOL

Lying on bed, looking out window (see the pretty snowflake sun catcher John made and gave me for Christmas a few years ago), I can't help but appreciate the beauty of the weather, but now the snow is blowing off the porch roof in an alarming way.  I'm going to get things lined up just in case of power outage (please nooooo! lol).

Take care and keep warm people!

Kay