Feb10

Nor’easter Part 2 Feb. 10, 2010

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Here we go again! There must be another 16 inches of snow piled on top of the 23″ we got 4 days ago. Look at my van in this photo-almost all covered now! The guys haven’t even attempted to shovel anything. The wind is picking up every now and then. We haven’t lost power, but we are preparing for it. We have a fire going, I made tuna salad, hard-boiled eggs, bacon and have dough in the machine for soft pretzels (which I haven’t made in years). I am finding myself tidying up here and there. I’ll be so organized by spring!
My mom lost power for about 3 hours which prompted me to get the above food together. I am hoping that when we had repair work done after the tornado went through here in the late 90s (when I contracted Lyme Disease), they put up super duper wires and poles! Waving from Alaska-I mean Pennsylvania!

Feb8

Candy hearts and a candle

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Candy hearts and a candle, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

Carole showed some Valentine’s Day decorations on her sweet blog (Pea’s Corner), so I added some Conversation hearts to a candle holder I had in the middle of my dining room table. It’s sitting on a pink hexagon designed cake dish. I don’t go overboard for Valentine’s Day, but I am know to put out a heart or two.

Feb7

Candy and Cookies

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Something about being stuck inside makes you want to bake. It may be to pass the time or to even use up ingredients that are in the kitchen. My Facebook friend Angela said yesterday that she was baking chocolate chip cookies. I had bought bulk at BJs Wholesale so that was a perfect thing for me to do today:

This is a no fail chocolate chip cookie recipe that I just found! For years I used the butter Crisco recipe and they were good, but got hard after a week or so. If you want this recipe, let me know as it has only about 8 basic ingredients.
I was reading a December or January magazine and they said to crush up your candy canes and put them on top of melted white chocolate. So Big Lots had a bag of the chocolate for about $2.00 and that’s what I did last night. Very sweet, so a small piece will do once in a while:


I melted the chocolate in the microwave and spread it on lightly greased wax paper. Then I sprinkled the broken candy canes on it and popped the tray in the fridge. I broke it up with a knife when it firmed up again.The hardest part was taking the cellophane off the candy canes.
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Sean went to work today at noon, so that spared him the early morning icy spots. He has to be in there tomorrow at 8:30-ugh! Then it seems his hours will be more part time-4 hours a day.
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I still look out the windows and think of the deer. I am glad he didn’t have to trudge in this deep snow-well he wouldn’t have been able to. I haven’t seen a deer in days!
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Off to eat some spaghetti-that should hit the spot. : )

Feb6

Bucky

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With a heavy heart, I have to report news that I think I rather have not known. The young buck I mentioned a few posts ago is now deceased. We found out from my neighbor who came over, not to offer the use of his snow blower, but to offer up this disheartening news. Seems ‘Bucky’ was sprawled out in his side yard yesterday or the day before. That means they are on their way out. The last time I saw the dear deer, he was sweetly curled up under a blue spruce in the back of our house. Our neighbor called the PA game warden, or someone from Harrisburg, and when they inspected the body of Bucky he appeared to have a wound from an arrow that became infected. I knew he was wounded, but I thought maybe he had a broken leg. In 23 yrs of living here, we never had a deer hang around so close to the house. I got worried about him and now I feel terrible to know he was probably suffering. Our neighbor said he knows of people not too far from here that raised deer. Because Bucky was hanging around the yard, we thought maybe he was use to being around buildings. The deer population is a bit out of control in Penna., so they aren’t too quick to say they will help a wounded deer. I did shed a few tears, couldn’t help it.

Feb6

Nor’easter Feb. 6, 2010

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Nor’easter Feb. 6, 2010, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

Its still snowing at 12:45 pm. I think we have at least 2 feet. We don’t get snowstorms like this that often. The guys haven’t gone out yet to try and clear it away from the sidewalks or vehicles. There is a huge snowdrift right outside the front door! Praying the power stays on as we don’t have firewood (but the neighbor does!). It’s like living inside a snow globe. The ‘eye’ of the storm was over Washington, DC and it spread up here a bit. NYC hasn’t seen anything nor has New England.

Feb6

Photo Hunt-Average

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On any given, ‘average’ day, I can walk around a little piece of paradise in my corner of the world. This place is Longwood Gardens. And I have a garden pass-best $60 a year I spend. I think I’ve taken at least one thousand photos there over the past few years. This was just taken a few days ago when my son and I went to get snow shots. By 3 pm, the snow was mainly gone. Now tonight, it’s snowing again-we’ll probably get at least a foot or more overnight. I should maybe try those snow photos again in a few days. This is the part of the Conservatory that was remodeled in the last few years. I love how the sun looks on the back wall. And if you look even closer, you can see huge mounds of dirt as they are adding on to it again!

Feb1

Grammys 2010

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I was watching this year’s music awards and enjoyed many of the performances like the duo between Sir Elton John and Lady Gaga; Greenday and other singers doing ’21 Gun’ and Pink doing her ‘swinger and singer’ act on a twirling silk scarf that went toward the ceiling and then sprayed water on her. I had to fish around for my 3D glasses (saved from a game Sean had) but didn’t get to see much of the Michael Jackson tribute. His eldest two children Prince and Paris very eloquently accepted the award in his name.
I was very sad to learn that Kenny Rankin, one of my favorite singers had passed away last June at the age of 69 from lung cancer. His voice fit into so many genres-pop, jazz, folk. I had many of his records.

This is how I remember him-with his big mustache.
Also Dan Seals passed last year. Remember England Dan and John Ford Coley? He’s also Jim Seals younger brother. Their big hit was ‘I Really want to See You Tonight’.
Three singers in the last 12 yrs I have admired have passed: John Denver, Dan Fogelberg and now Kenny. I got to see John and Dan in concert. Kenny and Dan had cancer, John died in a solo plane accident.
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Sean is getting use to Wally World. It’s hard being on his feet a lot, but he seems to work two days and is off two. They have him working 30 odd hours, is that part time? If he is called by the Census bureau to work, he’d have to work something out with Wally World as it’s just for a few months.
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I am so dry today and it lead to a coughing attack. My sinuses started draining and it was hairy for a few minutes. I swear I have food allergies too. We had some of that rice (Dirty Rice) that you just heat up in it’s own package. I’m wondering what was in that too. Sometimes it’s a pain to cook everything from scratch, but if something is loaded with MSG, it’s going to bother me.
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I’m amazed by all the comments for my One World, One Heart entry! Wow!! Thanks everyone for visiting. I still need to visit lots of the other blogs myself, but I get eye strain so easily. I’ll do my best.
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Congrats to my friend Rachel and her hubby Mike on the arrival of their son Connor last night, just before 11 pm. He came on his due date and is home already. Rachel’s blog is Willing Hands on my blog roll. She has photos of his nursery. I have some goodies to mail off to her (she only lives in Abington, PA and I have met her once). Better get busy!