Daily Notes- December 26

                                         

Christmas Gifts.  A new desk calendar and beautifully white flour sack dish towels. To the left my two collections of oil crayons and my Japanese black ink brush set.  The bacon press is in the blue box.  Top and out of the picture a spice rack that rotates with many small capped jars.  A good place for beads or other small art supplies.  Daughter found it at a garage sale last summer. G wants it for screws and nuts and bolts.  Tug of War going on.

I also received sock monkey striped socks- which I am wearing. They do not itch or rub me the wrong way. Nice and warm.

Daughter and I measured and mixed up the Boozy Chocolate Bundt Cake. While it baked we thought about other bundt cake combos that could be Boozed Up.  I can't remember what they were now- but one was spiced Bundt cake with amaretto I think.  The liquor is mixed with butter and water (heated to simmer) and then spooned over the just out of the oven baked cake and allowed to soak in. I used Kaluha with the chocolate Bundt cake recipe.

After supper we played a new to us dice game and since it didn't involve holding cards-- we did fine. And there weren't too many rules to confuse G.  But G gave daughter money to buy the add on set of dice so he could have yellow dice- his favorite color.  The peachy orange ones with yellow dots was okay but they weren't yellow.  Daughter sent a picture to Son in California (of us playing the game) and he was pleased that a low enough bar had been set for parental enjoyment.  Yep.

The best gift of the day- The Dude Hygiene Wipes for Men.  Yep.  Daughter wished she had known about them as her Secret Santa pick at work was a guy who likes to hunt.  He might have appreciated some Dude Wipes when he had to shit in the woods.  Yes, ladies these were available in my grocery store right alongside the feminine hygiene products.  The wipes are 14 inches square.  Heavy duty. Biodegradable.  I studied the box for awhile before tossing into the cart for G.  Glad I did.  Daughter was laughing so hard she couldn't stand up.  Riffing on the "possible" uses and "needs" the wipes would fulfill for a man.  In her head.  She didn't share them out loud.  She will share them with her friends at Crossfit tonight.  And they will come up with additional ones, I am sure.

That's about all.  Oh, I did save some of the wrapping paper for my January collage book class.  Good stuff.  My book's pages are going to be mostly Kraft brown with white accents.  One nice piece has a bronze shiny surface. Another has a raised white design- like cookie frosting.   You can rub it off.  Chalky. And daughter texted a brown paper bag with a human body divided into the eight measured segments using the head as the standard measure.  And it's printed on both sides of the bag. Wrinkled but I can iron it flat again.  I also have an LLBean brown bag with a wide green stripe. So I'll have some colors other than brown as a base.  I am still on the look out for a brown bag with some red.