Really pretty out
1/30/06 6:30 am.
26º F, Snowed, N wind 6mph.
Good morning,
There is a white wonderland outside this morning. As the sun comes up behind the cloud cover, the view outside is more like a black and white photograph. There are no colors, not even gray-tones. Really cool! All of the branches are covered with white snow and the undersides and shadows are black. The pine trees are especially interesting. At the base of the trees, where the branches end, it looks like there is a big black cave opening there. The view outside could be from a scarey story we heard as kids, or a scarey movie from the 20's or 30's when they were filmed in black and white. But .... it really is beautiful outside. Much more beauty than a scary movie or story. It is amazing how much shorter the sight lines are when there is even just ¼" of snow on the branches. It seems the world is much smaller than with out the snow. It really give one a chance to see the details around you, rather than looking to see how far you can see. It is really nice to look out the window or to be out in the fairyland here.
We had about an inch of rain between Saturday noon, when it started, until changing over to snow about 7:00 P.M. last night. Since we have gotten about an inch of very wet snow. Light flurries are to continue for most of the day today. Walking in the woods Saturday morning was a pleasant activity. Yesterday on the way back from church, there was a lot of water everywhere, including where I had walked the day before. The soil is pretty much frozen, except for the top 1" or so which is mud, so the water collects in the low spots rather than soaking into the soil. We noticed the Canadian geese had abandoned the harbor and taken up residence in some of the fields, now with large ponds in them. One really good thing about the rain - the van got an exterior cleaning. With the construction between here and highway #42, the van is red clay mud color a lot of the time.
I really pulled a bone-head stunt yesterday. Because of the yucky weather, I decided to wear jeans to church instead of dress pants. About 10 minutes into the service, I noticed that I had grabbed my work jeans instead of my "good" pair to wear. I couldn’t believe I had done that! I was embarrassed enough that I went home and changed them. I got back in time to hear the last half of the sermon. Guess I really don’t look at myself much in the mirror to check out how "good" I look. Haven’t pulled a stunt like that for a long time (at least that I remember).
Margriet made some bread on Saturday. It think it is probably the best she has made. Well .... at least better than usual. Not sure what happened, it surprised her how much the dough raised and the resulting breads climbed out of the pan some too. Supper Saturday night was chicken with homemade bread. She also made a "Dutch" cheesecake for desert. Also excellent. The cheese cake, really not a cheese cake as we have in this country, was made from a mix that Bietse left for us when she went back to the Netherlands. Wish she had left a couple more boxes. Really good. We will have to see if we can find it to bring back the next time we are over there.
We got an interesting email from a sister-in-law of Margriet’s yesterday. It had both of us chuckling. We sent a small package to them for Christmas and it apparently just got there. One of the things in it was the ingredients for making a kind of fudge. From the sounds of it the family started to make it before it left the box! The comment which was our biggest chuckle was they didn’t know Americans ate anything or liked anything except hamburgers and french fries! They didn’t know we had food that good. Needless to say, we were happy they enjoyed it. Gerry is an artist and I wish she was here with her brushes and paints to do some justice to this snowfall on canvas. I think she would have a good time.
Since there was a promise of snow, I picked up a pretty good sized package of neck bones and thought it was time for some soup again. We have not had too much soup of late with the hot weather. Just didn’t really feel like soup weather. I cooked down the meat yesterday and will work on the beans and the rest of the ingredients today. That should make the house smell good for most of the day. Maybe the smelling of the soup cooking so long is really what tastes good, not the soup itself. Any how, we like to eat it for lunch. For something different, we had a big salad for lunch yesterday. One of the grocery stores had packaged "salad" on sale for very cheap, so picked some up along with some mushrooms also on sale. That with emptying the refrigerator of some leftover sausage and cheese, made a pretty good meal.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
26º F, Snowed, N wind 6mph.
Good morning,
There is a white wonderland outside this morning. As the sun comes up behind the cloud cover, the view outside is more like a black and white photograph. There are no colors, not even gray-tones. Really cool! All of the branches are covered with white snow and the undersides and shadows are black. The pine trees are especially interesting. At the base of the trees, where the branches end, it looks like there is a big black cave opening there. The view outside could be from a scarey story we heard as kids, or a scarey movie from the 20's or 30's when they were filmed in black and white. But .... it really is beautiful outside. Much more beauty than a scary movie or story. It is amazing how much shorter the sight lines are when there is even just ¼" of snow on the branches. It seems the world is much smaller than with out the snow. It really give one a chance to see the details around you, rather than looking to see how far you can see. It is really nice to look out the window or to be out in the fairyland here.
We had about an inch of rain between Saturday noon, when it started, until changing over to snow about 7:00 P.M. last night. Since we have gotten about an inch of very wet snow. Light flurries are to continue for most of the day today. Walking in the woods Saturday morning was a pleasant activity. Yesterday on the way back from church, there was a lot of water everywhere, including where I had walked the day before. The soil is pretty much frozen, except for the top 1" or so which is mud, so the water collects in the low spots rather than soaking into the soil. We noticed the Canadian geese had abandoned the harbor and taken up residence in some of the fields, now with large ponds in them. One really good thing about the rain - the van got an exterior cleaning. With the construction between here and highway #42, the van is red clay mud color a lot of the time.
I really pulled a bone-head stunt yesterday. Because of the yucky weather, I decided to wear jeans to church instead of dress pants. About 10 minutes into the service, I noticed that I had grabbed my work jeans instead of my "good" pair to wear. I couldn’t believe I had done that! I was embarrassed enough that I went home and changed them. I got back in time to hear the last half of the sermon. Guess I really don’t look at myself much in the mirror to check out how "good" I look. Haven’t pulled a stunt like that for a long time (at least that I remember).
Margriet made some bread on Saturday. It think it is probably the best she has made. Well .... at least better than usual. Not sure what happened, it surprised her how much the dough raised and the resulting breads climbed out of the pan some too. Supper Saturday night was chicken with homemade bread. She also made a "Dutch" cheesecake for desert. Also excellent. The cheese cake, really not a cheese cake as we have in this country, was made from a mix that Bietse left for us when she went back to the Netherlands. Wish she had left a couple more boxes. Really good. We will have to see if we can find it to bring back the next time we are over there.
We got an interesting email from a sister-in-law of Margriet’s yesterday. It had both of us chuckling. We sent a small package to them for Christmas and it apparently just got there. One of the things in it was the ingredients for making a kind of fudge. From the sounds of it the family started to make it before it left the box! The comment which was our biggest chuckle was they didn’t know Americans ate anything or liked anything except hamburgers and french fries! They didn’t know we had food that good. Needless to say, we were happy they enjoyed it. Gerry is an artist and I wish she was here with her brushes and paints to do some justice to this snowfall on canvas. I think she would have a good time.
Since there was a promise of snow, I picked up a pretty good sized package of neck bones and thought it was time for some soup again. We have not had too much soup of late with the hot weather. Just didn’t really feel like soup weather. I cooked down the meat yesterday and will work on the beans and the rest of the ingredients today. That should make the house smell good for most of the day. Maybe the smelling of the soup cooking so long is really what tastes good, not the soup itself. Any how, we like to eat it for lunch. For something different, we had a big salad for lunch yesterday. One of the grocery stores had packaged "salad" on sale for very cheap, so picked some up along with some mushrooms also on sale. That with emptying the refrigerator of some leftover sausage and cheese, made a pretty good meal.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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