Until January 1...

More goodies - I HAD to freeze some of my cookie gifts!

Yard man's family teens made these!

I didn't know the meaning of mushrooms during this season. Mushrooms honor the reverence for nature and hopes for good luck in the coming year! A nearby neighbor who just dropped these dear little cookies off for me came from Lithuania and she was so proud to deliver them, saying "I made these!" 

I've been busy today catching up with files and other necessary things that I do every year. I'm working on a family collage instead of the usual annual list of things that happened in my life during 2022. 

Let me share my last photomanipulation of the year.  A gift was shared for three of us!

And........it is still very cold outside! I'm staying IN!

tap on image to view larger

Solitude and Sanity

Now I don't mean that I'm alone. I mean that I like to do things alone. It helps the time go by during the cold and bleak winter months. I jump between being a wife, a homemaker, and a person who is compelled to always be doing something - anything - everything.  As a result, many of my blogs are usually a mishmash of stuff not of interest or beauty, but of getting it out of my system.

So........
The other night I baked spaghetti. It was easy for me because I had all of the ingredients for lasagna but no lasagna pasta. I made it the same way and it was very good.

Yesterday I fooled around with a favorite photo of a dear friend who died last week. It helped me in my sadness that he is gone. He was 90. He was a good and gentle man.

This morning I baked caramel raisin cookies. They stuck to the baking sheet but are quite tasty.

Before lunch I howled at the moon with a photo my friend took. She added the wolf. Her picture was pure black and white.  That gave me ideas. 

And this afternoon I played with a friend's 4 year old granddaughter on a swing. In the dining room.

Click on image to view larger

Tomorrow is Wednesday. What will I do?

Overlook

I found a new way to manipulate my photos. Here are my "playtime" results today. This is such fun I could do it ALL DAY LONG

 Electric Icicle

"Overlook" (Please click on image and view larger!)

EEK!

And BOO too!

Click on image to view and be really scared!