Cup #2

Well, it's about 3 in the morning.  I tried all day yesterday, and our internet was just about totally unusable.  So, since I got up for... early morning potty break, thought I would see if it works NOW.  Gee, when everyone else has gone to bed, and aren't streaming everything, it works pretty good!

Sorry about the glare, This cup was not great to photograph...

This is the the first cup that I couldn’t put up.  Better late than never, I guess…

A large cup, I think it holds about 16 oz., or so...

Today’s cup is my most recent.  Mom picked it up, I think, at a thrift store.  I thought it was the same as some other snowmen cups I have, but it’s not.  It is similar.  Sort of a cousin to the others.  Husband says it is an “honest snowman” because it has such a short nose!

Quiet day today.  I made cookies.  Husband had noticed a big bag of chocolate chips, (I am getting ready to make Christmas gifts), and he hopefully asked if that was going to be cookies.  Er, no, it was going to be fudge, do you want chocolate chip cookies?

YES, PLEASE!

Well, I made much and many cookies.  Some will probably be gifted, but most will be kept for Husband’s noshing…  

I made our rooster, Mon Ami, happy, too.  He is the only one we allow to roam out from the chicken yard.  He doesn’t make a mess, stays off the concrete, and off the porch railings.  He just wants to get away from Mulan Rouge…  So, I had made some terrible corn bread. (Note: if you forget an ingredient, don’t try to mix it in while it’s in the pan, just… Don’t.)  It was edible.  Barely.  So Mon Ami was outside, and I walked out with the remaining dreck bread, and he came running!  I crumbled it up, and he ate, and ate, until I thought for sure he’d get sick.  I haven’t Googled “do chickens barf”, but I was beginning to wonder if I would find out graphically.  But, he finished it up, flapped his wings a bit, then strolled off under our Sequoia tree, and took a nap.  

I think he has his priorities straight…

The grand plan for blogging again... Really! Honest!!

So, I have a great plan on getting back into blogging.  Let’s see if it works… 

I figured I needed something to give me the impetus to try for doing daily blogs again, and I was drawing a blank.  Then, after Thanksgiving dinner, we were chatting a little bit about Christmas.  Hmm.

Christmas.
 
Need to get out my Christmas ‘stuff’.  Have to have Husband help me get down all my cups.  My collection of them.  How many do I have, anyway?  Well, as he was getting them down, I have either 27 or 28… So!

I will use that as a jumping off point.  I love Christmas cups, because they are fun, and useful.  So I will work on putting up a photo a day of each cup.  I had one cup I sort of counted as a Christmas cup, I called it “Starbucks' Red”, because I picked up a plain red cup, during that whole controversy on how Christmas-y the cups were, or weren’t, that year.  BUT, the darn thing got a bad chip in it, and so will not count this year for the collection.  Maybe I can pick up a plain red one again sometime in the future.  But the ones I will be showing you are from mildly Christmas-y, to Ugly Sweater, what-was-Santa-smoking Christmas-y, and all in between.

I will blog on the normal doings and nonsense in my life, too, so it won’t just be a picture, but that will at least make me think to do it!  Right?  I hope?? Heh…

The garden is put to bed, all the raised beds that don’t have over wintering items are covered with cloth and leaves, or shred paper.  The llamas are enjoying hay, when they don’t managed to sad eye beg me into giving them chicken feed. 

The chickens are doing pretty well, I lost 4 of the new hatch to a hawk, but it seems to have found someone else to tick off…  Marshmallow had a chick, I called it Jet Puff, it is getting adult feathers, but it is TINY!  I don’t know why, but it is only about a third of the size of the others, and it should be getting some growth.  I don’t know that I care, it seems healthy, and it is feisty as all get out.  I have picked it up to check it, and have yet to get away without being bitten or scratched.  As tiny as it is, that isn’t a horrible fate, but it still gets my attention, if I am not careful.

The cats are fine and fuzzy, family is doing fairly well, and as I think of more things, I will post in the next blog. 

But for now… Good night!