Blowing hard with snow and rain now. Dogs don't even want to go out. DH is baking a New Year's Day cheese cake. Our tradition use to be to drink champagne and eat cheese cake. Now we just do the cake. Have a happy one, all. Patti
MERRY HOLIDAY
Very festive tree, Patti. Enjoy the cheesecake.
Cranberry applesauce sounds very yummy. I may have to do that.
Be safe everyone in this new round of snow for you.
Have a wonderful and blessed New Year!!
Jan
Great looking tree Patti glad you had a good time.
I need to have it cold and snowy for Christmas, I just wish we had had it this year, oh well maybe next year.
Thanks all. The cheese cake was yummy. He also made a batch of French Caramels with sea salt. Divine. I am going to explode. We are going to celebrate 12th night, so the holidays go on. Stay warm all. Patti
Nice to see some flowers, Patti.
Karen
Very nice job on the Christmas tree, Patti! Glad you had a nice Christmas visit with DS!
French carmels with sea salt? Sounds yummy!
All the rage in expensive candy stores. DH got the recipe in the NYT. They taste exactly like a precious little box that was given to us. I choked when I saw them in a dean and deluca catalog. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/dining/31cara.html?pagewanted=all
I kept reading French camels with sea salt.
Caramels sound much better!
Do they smoke?
Yes, And they don't use deodorant.
I may have to check into this. I love caramels.
Jan, Super easy to make and even ol' cynical Dave47, might like them. Does anyone celebrate 12th night? We usually take our tree down that night, but this year we had no tree as we were in New Orleans, so what to do? I guess I could eat more Fleur De Sel French Sea Salt Caramels and smoke cigars while wearing some Right Guard Xtreme and dance around the yard. Not a pretty sight. Patti
Sounds like an interesting plan, Patti. Please indulge us & be sure to take pics, ala Dnut.
That would be fun to see!
Sounds like an awesome party, Patti.
Patti, I love caramel! No scepticism there.
But I really saw French camels with sea salt the first 2 times I looked. I cracked myself up.
you cracked me up, too. My camels were smoking & very laissez faire about it.
Happy Russian Christmas!!!! Which is celebrated today(for those of you who didn't know).
Greeks too - Eastern Orthodox.
Well, Puerto Rico was wonderful, the kids rebonded (I think it was the Superglue) and we got stuck in San Juan 48 hours longer than planned. Sounds like fun until you find out that our luggage made the flight without us and we were no longer at our lovely seaside village inn but in a downtown roach motel.
Carrrie, glad you trip was great except the ending, but warmer than here. Patti
Oh, and Patti, that's about all the tree I ever want. The rest of the family would just never let me get away with it.
Hi Carrie.
Glad to hear you had a good trip.
I did, David! Hi, how're you? Cold enough for you?
Carrie,
good thing you weren't going to NC yesterday!! My husband, the engineer, insists that it was a "landing" and not a crash. People walked away from it I suppose, even if it was only out the wing to a waiting ferry boat.
I would be perturbed to have my vacation ruined that way!
Martha
I would have been SO COLD! That's all I could think about. They said the water temp. was 40 degrees in the Hudson on the 15th, but I get shivery and stuff when we swim on the Atlantic side instead of the Caribbean side of Puerto Rico! My goodness, I've been cold just thinking about it. Brrrrrrrr.
My husband, who works for JetBlue, says this will be a huge PR help for US Airways! Now they have a hero-pilot. I guess crashing and surviving is good for publicity, it's just crashing and burning that's bad. When JetBlue didn't take off because a storm made it unsafe, it was bad publicity.
I cannot fathom why people would get upset if taking off was considered too risky.
Nor can I imagine what any Pilot must go through, knowing that the lives of the passengers, crew and folks on the ground (not to mention his own!) are at stake.
How do they deal with all that logistical & emotional baggage?
A round of kudos & extreme appreciation to him & the crew: they performed exceptionally.
I am going to go back to wearing a fanny pack when I fly with my keys, wallet and cell phone in it. Think of surviving that crash only to have no ID, charge card, house and car keys. My life is in the flash drive that is attached to my key ring.
Pilot Scully was amazing.
That's who I want flying any plane I'm on!
YankeeCat......you are asking for real trouble with a fanny pack. That is the number one easiest for a pickpocket to enter. Anything else would be better.
Your fanny is not your true butt???
I use a fanny pack sometimes, but I keep it in the front, where pickpockets would have a hard time getting to it. I also keep my wallet in my front pocket.
Karen
My son is going out to Ohio from Boston to Columbus, OH, via LaGuardia next weekend. Told him to watch out for the geese! I have nearly had accidents on Rte 128 when whole goose families decided to walk up and down the entrance and exit ramps. They hang out near the airconditioning ponds of various companies along the highway and when the eggs hatch, the goslings follow momma and dad all around. Cute, but not when you have to slam on the brakes to avoid killing them. This is especially bad in Waltham, where they have a huge reservoir with islands in the middle. Lots of geese.
Martha
Oh yes, I remember 128! I didn't know it was A/C ponds, though.
Well it's ponds in a lot of places, but along the winter street exit in Waltham on the western side of 128 is a huge reservoir with islands. Total goose country. There are deer and other wildlife too, as well as the geese. All this amongst the cubicles and parking spaces.
Martha
I remember.