Just sitting at home watching the Eagles win! Off to the Super Bowl.

DH shoveled the 4-6” of snow off the driveway, and we stayed in all day. We have seen on,y a couple of hours of sun in the last several weeks, and it is taking a toll on my ”up and at ’em-ness”. Usually after a snow the sky is bright blue, but not this year. Today in the greyness I’ve been reading music and am about to pour my second glass of wine and settle in for an evening of movies. I think I need to replace the batteries in my mantle‘s winter display of deer and fairy lights, to keep up with the automatic candles in the fireplace. Maybe I’ll end the evening with a wee glass of Bailey’s that DH gave me for Christmas.

Oh, and we had leftovers for dinner. It would have been a dull day except DH made me the most delicious omelet for breakfast! Chopped fresh chives and tomato (and added sunflower seeds) and it was a hint of summer! I think this is my favorite omelet he’s made.

Stay warm and dry and snuggly!

Watching the Chiefs vs Bengals game. Steaks are in the smoker to be ready for half time!

Very cold day today although it feels as though the days are getting longer (or wishful thinking?) I made Thai Coconut Chicken soup for dinner today, which really was perfect as a warm-up. Now I'm getting ready to settle in with Daniel Silva's latest book - Portrait of An Unknown Woman. I'm enjoying what I've read thus far.

Busy day. My oldest grands 10th birthday. I had 3 grands sleep over last night and then met my DD at Urban Air with another little girl in tow for several hours. Then to my home for dinner and cake for 10. Everyone just left. Dishwasher is running, house is pretty much put back in order and I'm absolutely not moving again until I crawl into bed.

Another cold, gloomy, damp day. When I got home from church and lunch, I settled in my recliner wrapped in a throw and with a good book. Read myself to sleep. Hate, hate these winter days. Only one more month until March!

Gloomy hot winter day. Every day but one in January has been way above normal and is the hottest Jan in history. . I hate it. We have had zero snow. Yesterday it was almost 60!! Hate it!! My daughter and I hiked while the three guys rooted for their home team, the Eagles who are going to the Super Bowl. Now the madness starts with these three. As soon as that's over, they will start the Phillies' madness.

Working. Had to work last night, came home and cooked breakfast and cleaned the kitchen. Slept all day, woke up around 3 pm, made SO salmon patties and herbed rice before heading back to work. It is raining and I hope it clears out before midnight so I can do my midnight walk outside. I have my umbrella so if the rain is light enough I can still walk outside. If not, I will have to walk back and forth in my little tiny office and that gets tedious, having to keep stopping and turning around instead of a continuous walk. I hope its a quiet night, work wise. I have a headache that wont let up. Stay cozy everyone!

A perfect sunny, warm, breezy day here today. We went to a granddaughter's volleyball tournament --left the house at 7;15 and got home just after 3:30.

My refrigerator quit yesterday (after 9.25 years). So, I have made runs to get dry ice and regular ice, called repairmen (no one available on a weekend), cooked the seafood to eat before it thawed and spoiled, and spent considerable time checking store inventories for a new unit that will fit my budget, my space, and through my doorways.

Sticker and lack-of-inventory shock!

it was a cold but sunny day today. DD and DH had to finish cleaning out her storage unit. They demolished a heavy, falling apart desk and took it to our local dump. Someone had to stay home here and make sure our 18 m/o rescue Doberman pup didn’t demolish the house, and so that was me. I spent hours watching over him while prepping for a yummy gourmet dinner this evening. Literally, hours! Thank goodness it turned out great! Now vegging on the sofa here while DH watches the end of the last football game.

A little colder than normal but a beautiful sunny day. I'm baby-sitting my sons 3 year old Golden Retriever so I took him on my normal Sunday hike with friends and he loved it. The hike was a shorter than normal meandering 2 hours but he probably did twice the distance that the rest of us did. Came home and he slept the rest of the day.

We've added 2 new dogs (siblings) to our household. Labradoodles arrived yesterday. We are working on the integrating our current Rottie with them. It's gone much better than expected so far. The two girrrls are having minor bickers but it's all working out. The two girrls shared space today. All 3 dogs line up for treats without any signs of food aggression. The sister is protective of her brother, my dog is protective of me. LOL The pair was born during Covid so are a bit lacking in social skills with humans and other animals. My dog has already accepted their presence and they went from two nervous dogs after their arrival yesterday to happy social dogs seeking pets and lovies today. They turned out to be a lot bigger than they looked in their pictures. My large, for a female, Rottweiler is smaller than either of them.

Went riding. It was raining. Stopped raining, put on my regular jacket, started to rain, put my raincoat back on. No more rain. Nice trail ride with just my instructor.

Stopped for lunch on the way home.

Went online and ordered 3 new breakaway collars.

Took the male out for a walk up and down the street because I was told he pulls a lot, so I introduced him to a prong collar. He enjoyed his walk. Happy boy. No pulling at all. When I removed the collar he nosed it like "put it back on". LOL Crossed a milestone.

Took a nap.

Up bright and early this morning, hoping the contract workers come to demolish my bathroom. They didn't come until noon on Saturday and I had company coming that afternoon and said they wouldn't be done in time so they are coming back today.

It's a foggy morning and so decided to eat some leftover stuffed bell pepper soup and have a cup of coffee. They're supposed to be here at 8:00 but they aren't, why am I not surprised.

One of my friends picked up the other's phone Saturday night by accident. The one friend and I went to a bakery in Frankfort yesterday morning that she had mentioned the night before and where I had never been, and then we went to the other person's house and had a nice chit chat and coffee with her and her mom.

Oh raee, you have my sympathies. Happened to me more than once and dealing with the choosing, purchasing, and delivery of a new fridge was/is draining. Last time I bought a small mini fridge to tide me over because it happened on a weekend. Luckily didn't have much in the freezer. Good luck.

After 10+ days of sunny weather, it is raining again. We've had over 7.5 inches of rain in January so far, but I like the rain - I like listening to it, and I like not having to water anything. However, it has been cold all month with temps in the 50s, and many days not getting above the low 60s.

We went grocery shopping on Friday around 4 PM, and the store was almost empty, which was nice, and it wasn't even raining that day.

Front and back yards are growing out of control, due to the rain, and I have orchids in the back yard that will be blooming in a couple of days. Everything seems to be blooming later this year - possibly because there has been less sun that normal.

These aeonium buds should have been open a month ago.

These haven't even started to bloom but have become massive, due to the rain, I think. I won't thin them out until they have bloomed and it is dry enough.

I'm tweaking things in my condo. I'm home recovering from surgery and I'm discovering a lot of things that need to be organized and/or fixed. A friend dropped off a bread bin I bought off facebook marketplace and I ordered a spice rack off Amazon that will be arriving tomorrow. I also finished up a small knitting project.

Lars, your low 60's sound heavenly to me. We're having a little blast of cold, only a couple of days worth so I shouldn't be whining but it was 25F at 6 AM this morning.

The hummingbird feeders were frozen, we hadn't even thought of them last night. I had to wake DH to give me a hand with them. They hang under the eaves out of weather and I could not deal with a step stool in my robe at 25F in the dark. He can reach them from the ground.

He went back to bed. When it began to get light, I could see there was a line up of woodpeckers, flickers at his woodpecker feeder and it needed to be filled. How did we turn into those bird watching old folks ;)

Well, demo people came and proceeded to smash a bowl in the kitchen somehow. Sounded like they had a jackhammer in the bathroom and something smashed. I thought it was the mirror. A few minutes later one of them came out and I thought he was just checking to see if the noise was bothering me. A few minutes later I hear what sounds like water but I thought, can't be, but when the noise didn't stop I went back to look and water is gushing from a pipe and the two guys here can't speak much English. They're on the phone with the company and I took them out to show them the turn off valve outside. They didn't have a tool and neither did I because I kept putting it off and then I forgot about it.

I called the water company but it took them time to get here. I'm angry at myself for not buying that tool but also angry at the company for having workers who don't know what they're doing. The manager just left and was going to have a plumber come over and fix the pipe so I can turn my water back on.

After she left I walked into the kitchen and that's when I noticed a decorative bowl had fallen off a shelf and broke. I have a glass rooster up there too and it was on the edge ready to fall so I took it down.

Anyway, as soon as everyone is done today I'm going to go buy a shut off tool. I don't know what kind of damage is added now but they are going to take care of it. No one is here right now but me.

Gee @Kathsgrdn, in your shoes I’d be livid.

Kathsgrdn, I've had similar, but fortunately not as destructive, experiences with roofers, gutter installation, carpet installation, and concrete work in the past several years. Workers sent by the contractor, the contractor himself never appears, no English speakers, clearly not experienced, sometimes with one also non-English speaker "in charge" - and I ended up having to have the work fixed or re-done. It is quite frustrating.

Kaths, I'm sorry. Not a great start to your project. I hope the bowl wasn't something too important.

We have a city key. Not a key to the city, but what the water department uses to turn off the water at the street. It's about 4' long, heavy, awkward, and called a key. After adding some duct work for a new heating system, additional basement ceiling insulation in our former house, it was easier to turn off the water at the meter than to fight finding the whole-house shut off downstairs. This is a smaller community and DH knows more than one person working for the water department. I think we've had that key 25 years. We no longer even live in that house (but we're on the same municipal water system with the same meters).

Sounds awful Kaths. I find there are really great tradespeople who are mindful of their surroundings and then those that are bulls in a china shop. I had a record player stand broken by a gas tech a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks to all above who commented. I can't wait until this is over with. I retired so I could get rid of stress and am now rethinking ever doing my kitchen. We're at the beginning of an ice storm, ice already on the trees and my car. The demo floor person is coming from Lexington so was told she may not be here till 9 or 10. I was glad so I could sleep in but then Chewie had other plans. Woke me at 6:00 and again at 7:00 so I just got up and stayed up.

At least the floor where the tub was in dry this morning. They had the fans going all night. I originally asked them to remove on outer wall to check for termite damage from a few years ago and there is none. So that's good news. Because of the water spraying everywhere they went and removed all of the drywall, so it's down to the 2x4s now.