Celebrating the
Chinese Lunar New Year. Today is the beginning of
The Year of the Rooster!
Also observed
National Chocolate Cake Day yesterday...lol!
With a single amazing slice of bakery Chocolate Layer Cake.
The caloric count said
720 calories a slice. That is nearly two whole meals worth of calories.
..and was completely worth it!
But, today is a
Fast Day, and I have lost 5 of the 8 pounds I have been adjusting through the
AFD (Alternating Fast Days) already. Should be back where I want to be by the first or second week of February.
So yes, you can have your cake and eat it, too. Just not every day...or in addition to a meal.
Caught up with the kids.
Tina and Chris doing well, and happily working their way through classes.
Lennon adjusting to full time and looking forward to purchasing a new car soon.He is looking forward to his yearly
Girl Scout Cookie Fix that I will mail soon.
James and Nicole proceeding with their lawyer toward
Modification of Custody and very hopeful. Nicole sending me
THESE from one of their Nature Hikes recently
and She and I spending a
"Spoil Aiden" Day together on Thursday.
He is just growing up so fast.
He will be 3 in May!
Since she has started doing the comb over in front, he looks just like James did at that age.
We are busily planning our
Spring Garden...Spring being a mere 52 days away!
Starting a few things inside soon. We found out why our Trumpet Vines didn't take off last year...the seeds need a winter freeze first...so they may cover her shed this summer if they survived the winter rains. She also found this
An
Uber Electric Compost Box
Where scraps are turned to soil in
24 hours in your kitchen!
Yeah, I'm impressed~
Hoping all my roses make it through the winter, and want to add this in Spring
A Shropshire Lad (David Austin) has been on my Bucket (Life) List for a couple of seasons now
...if not now...then when?
Something else that has recently joined
the list but is going to be started this Spring is one of these...
While I was looking through coconut palm photos to get ideas for my Cuban Beach painting I saw several of these...
sprouted coconuts...future palm tree...and realized I
MUST have one!
~laughing~
Working on my painting this weekend...photos soon. Right now it is
Palm Trunks. Not very exciting....shaping up though.
It is the closest thing to a beach I have right now. The weather has returned to
WINTER...and pretty much hibernating this weekend. Brought supplies in on Friday to last until at least Monday.
Maybe snow tomorrow again.
Mostly ice yesterday.
It is all good, though. This afternoon marks (hopefully) the delivery of the Grands
Girl Scout Cookies!!!
(...although they are off limits until tomorrow...)
Great Cookies for a Good Cause!
Another discovery this week...although I haven't actually tried either (and probably won't be) is
Limited Edition Snowball and Twinkie Ice Cream
whose motto must surely be
"Making America Fat, Again"
Which is still preferable to what this guy
has done, or talked about doing, in the first seven days of his Presidency.
OMFG!!!
If you aren't horrified...well...you haven't been paying attention!
And I am not going to do a line by line...because...I don't need that degree of stress over again. Checking the news has become a horrible
"Okay, what has he done...now"
affair.
7 days in and spouting executive orders like some tiny-handed tin dictator. And where are all the GOP'ers who were foaming at the mouth any time President Obama issued an EO??? Strangely silent.
Crickets chirping.
I am going to shed some light on that
Wall he is planning to build. Why
he will just slap a 20% tariff on all Mexico's exports to pay for it...
right. That is the current idea. Except...all that will accomplish is the higher costs being passed onto us...
the consumer. So yeah. We will be paying the Tens of Billions they have estimated that will cost. So much more important than healthcare and education and seniors and feeding children and such.
SMH.
Even his own party is horrified. He is like a huge Rogue Elephant (dusted in Cheetos...and with really bad hair)
Want to get
REALLY nervous?
This Guy
(also not too tightly wrapped) want to meet with
Our Guy.
And they BOTH have nukes.
Jesus Wept.
(Miz Cleo predicts in that the next six months he will probably be impeached, imprisoned, assassinated or resign.)
We'll see.
Until then we are just going to have to help one another through this craziness...
or maybe drink heavily.
I did see this a couple of nights ago
xXx: Return of Xander Case
and if you enjoy Vin Diesel and a brief, but outstanding, appearance by Samuel L. Jackson or just love the
xXx movies-
This is definitely for you!
Action packed, sometimes funny, feel good film!
And a small milestone moment for me today as I saw that my Blog Views has now surpassed 50,000.
(50,811 to be exact)
I don't track my own page views- so those are all of you!!!
Thanks for taking a moment and sharing
"My Morning Cup".
More anon...
