Saturday...lovely lovely Saturday...

All of the Santas are put away...lovingly in their boxes...Lucy and I said good bye to our tree...it is resting on the deck for a few days...these are the indications that Christmas has really come and is really gone...my first one ever without my mom and dad to visit call and talk to...

Friday...

It is just mildly snowing here...geese and ducks are walking very carefully across the pond...I raced out earlier to fill the birdfeeders.  I should be putting away Santas and snowmen and all the things that need to be put away after Christmas but LucyGrace and I are lounging.  We are reading and resting and writing as we watch tv.   It is a lazy day and I don't want it to be anything but that.  Lucy firmly believes that this heating pad is hers...it is supposed to be for my hurt knee but she refuses to budge from it and I don't have the heart to move her...

Artisanal Bread?

I have been making bread ever since Monday...I found a recipe on a blog called "One Hot Stove" for bread that you make in 5 minutes...and it is truly amazing!!!  You make this goopy yeasty stuff, stick it in the refrigerator and every day that you want an amazing loaf of bread you simply cut off a piece, let it rest and bake it...I am amazed at the quality.   I found the book and authors and I am ordering that from Amazon along with a baking stone.   THERE IS NO KNEADING and the bread is truly amazing.   Nothing gets really messy, you don't really need a ton of tools and again...I know I am repeating this but the bread is amazing...I can't wait to get the book so that I can do even more with my sticky yeasty evergrowing stuff...

Time to take down Christmas...tuck things away in bins until next December.  No more hall decking until next December...