We need to put the roof vent in on Monday. They’re forecasting 40 degrees right now. Our weather is nothing if not indecisive.<\/p>\n
We made a brief foray to Costco, and decided to come on home—it was very slippery, and there were the usual crazy drivers who hadn’t planned to have to go slower. <\/p>\n
We’re also going to mulch the roses Monday. We hope. <\/p>\n
We’re not going to get this kitchen finished before January. But we have enough cleared for Christmas trees. We don’t go for stylish: we just have collected so many ‘favorite’ or meaningful ornaments over our lifetimes that we have to have 2 trees. We don’t have room for a really big one, but we can fit two smaller ones in—in the same room. <\/p>\n
We’re now mostly in a cleanup stage, getting the drywall dust cleaned up, and so on.<\/p>\n
I’ve promised Jane Mandarin Chicken for Christmas, which mostly consists of chicken, salt pepper, clove and cinnamon, plus mandarin oranges, stirfried; and sauced with a reduction of mandarin oranges and cinnamon. Goes well with baked sweet potatoes, and also with cranberry sauce. <\/p>\n
Our family recipe for cranberry sauce is: cranberries, raw, sent through a hand grinder (coarse) with seedless orange slices and either walnuts or pecans: it’s not jellied, but kind of a real sauce, and if the oranges don’t supply enough sugar, you do need to add a bit, to taste. Real easy to do and quite good on its own: as a kid, I always used to have a whole bowlful of it just for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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