Merry Christmas!

I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!

I'm posting this in the middle of the night with hopes of adding to it later in the day. The chickens are sleeping and I didn't think they would be happy to pose in the Christmas tree so I cheated and used my little lid pot holders. Ho, Ho, Ho!

[? eggs today]

I'll check for eggs later.

Smiles

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Christmas Cranberries

This is mandarin season up here and it is easy to find people selling big bags of mandarins. I love using mandarins because they are easy to peel, have no seeds and are sweet and juicy. I only had a small bag of cranberries and probably added too many mandarins. I love this stuff! Click here for Suzanne's recipe.

The recipe on the bag of cranberries called for one cup of water and one cup of sugar, but since the mandarins are so juicy I will consider reducing the water to a half cup and adding more if necessary. This batch has turned out a little soupy, but it tastes great!

I took the Recent Comments widget off the sidebar. Too bad it quit working. It was fun watching the comments appear. I hope google gets the code fixed.

Morgan got very sick last night after eating the organic chicken feed and Kristine was up all night with Morgan taking her in and out. Morgan didn't have bloat but she did have pain in her tummy. Poor baby. Morgan is better now, but we will have to be very careful she doesn't get in the feed again. I'm going to have to do some building and replace the chicken door the bear tore off the coop since Morgan can squeeze through there to get to the feed. This could be fun. I'll get to make a chicken size door that Morgan can't get past.

If you are voting for Suzanne click here. To check on voting click here. Only two more days of voting. Wonder if the judges will be wise enough to pick Suzanne.

[1 egg today]

Kristine brought home a new bag of organic chicken feed.

Smiles

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Love and Hugs!

Christmas!

Look at all the lovely goodies

on the snack table.

It looks

so festive!

And here is the star

of the evening.

Is that a beautiful turkey

or what!

It tasted even better than it looked.

Master chefs

at works!

Those were great

mashed potatoes.

Where's the gravy?

Need any help?

Happy Camper!

What is this?

Merry Christmas!

Where is everybody?

At Last...

I told you I was going to get a photo

of Dolores and her quilt.

Isn't

she lovely!

What a cute smile!

Is someone tickling her behind the quilt?

We had a lovely Christmas, but as always the time went by too quickly and it was soon time for us to brave the roads and weather and head off for home. I do have more photos but I'm still not exactly sure about what I can post or whether I can use names or not. I know my daughter doesn't want anything to do with being on the blog. 

I still haven't figured out why some photos will enlarge when you click on them and some won't. I'll keep checking. I did finally find the About Me profile on the side bar. I had stuck it down at the bottom and it didn't show up... so I put it on the sidebar and even added a photo. I will eventually get a better one or at least a different one for my profile photo.

 What do you think about putting your whole name, city, and recognizable photo on your blog? I live in a tiny town and don't really want to become known as the lady who has "that blog." It must be easier in a city where you can kind of disappear.

I have planned this blog to be fun, informative, and eventually to be a journal that I will have printed and thus it will have a more permanent life than if it existed solely on the net. After all it could all go poof into the ethernet. I found a site that will scrapbook the blog. Take a look at the site and click on the pages and turn through the sample. Pretty neat, huh, and more fun than just getting the blog turned into a book.

Enjoy your day.

Smiles!