More wet heavy snow today--from early morning until darkness. The trees, with limbs piled with wet snow, look so beautiful. It won't last, but in that few moments, more than enough to hold and remember.
We now have all we need to feed us until the weekend--perhaps even longer. I decided to make the carrot soup on Sunday and didn't have any cream--but did have raw cashews. So made cashew cream in the VitaMix and then added soup. Whizz. Whizz. Deluxe cream of carrot with white beans. I often forget what a lovely thing the VitaMix is. So fast, so smooth, so easy to clean.
Many years ago-- my daughter made me a set of 25 little felt envelopes for Advent. Today I measured (oh, my!) and cut a square of gold felt and bordered it with 2 inches of red felt. Managed a running stitch in gold all around on the red. Now I'm going to sit and stitch the 25 little envelopes to the square and have an Advent Calendar. During a Hallmark movie I saw one hung on the wall with a little candy cane moved and tucked into a new pocket each day. I'm deciding how I will manage the little felt envelopes. Candy? A Santa moving along as the days go by? Or--will I write a "wish" and tuck it into each envelope as the days pass. Or write of something that made me happy as the days go past? I have another week to consider.
I am going to try my hand at making shortbread cookie "baton". I may even dip one end into melted chocolate. I made something like it once. I recipe from Gourmet magazine (in the olden days) for a very large batch of cookie dough--and a range of 8 types of cookies to use the dough. I made four kinds and carried the bakery box onto a plane. You know that could never happen now. I never knew how they tasted as all the cookies were eaten minutes after we arrived at the Florida House of friends. I was told they were "glorious". Those men knew how to enjoy food.
I like the idea of writing something that made you happy every day. Or made you feel content. A slip of paper, write the good thing and the date and slip into the envelope for that day. Bring it out next year, read the old slip from last year as you put in the new slip. It's astonishing how quickly things can be forgotten so anything that can let us have that memory again is a good thing in my book. Just one woman's opinion.
ReplyDeleteDiane--once again you have the best solution. That's what I will do!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm so glad you're going to have an Advent calendar!
ReplyDeleteI think I am going to do something like it myself. I haven't any felt envelopes but I will think of something.
ReplyDeleteYou always make my day, Joanne. Thank you.