Blogidays December 22- meals and fudge

Hello everyone 

Yesterday, Ducky visited the doggy spa, mainly because he was so smelly.  I noticed his dog bed was also stinky.  The tag on it said to only spot clean but spot cleaning was not going to freshen it up so I machine wash and dried it.  It looks great now, doesn’t it? And it smells nice. 

In my opinion, those tags that say not to machine wash are not usually reliable.  I’ve machine washed all kinds of stuffed toys, ball caps, athletic shoes and pillows and now I’ll keep washing this dog bed when it needs it. 

Grand kids were here today.  I made baked tacos for lunch.  For the toppings, I diced them finely and mixed together and then just added a small handful to each taco.  

 

I chopped pecans and planned bake banana bread and make fudge.  

So far, only the fudge has happened and it turned out delicious,  

I used This Fudge Recipe 

It called for 3 cups of chocolate chips.  I put the milk chocolate chips in a measuring cup and added enough semisweet chips to make 3 cups.

I put the chips in a microwave safe bowl with 1/4 cup diced butter and I can of sweetened condensed milk.  

Then I microwaved it for 3 minutes on 50% power for 3 minutes,  it was melted then and I just stirred it until it was combined and added 1 t vanilla and about a cup of chopped pecans.

The I spread it in a buttered dish and let it cool and then cut.  

It is really nice fudge- creamy and just firm enough to cut.  

If you need a quick treat for Christmas,  I recommend this fudge 

That puzzle that was started a few days ago is now finished and back in the box.  

It’s almost Christmas- hope you all are ready with your preparations and can enjoy the special day

Replies 

About the yard signs - I believe both sign companies are franchises.  Card My Yard has been in our town for maybe 3 years and now Gypsy Signs are here.  In general, they put the signs out the night before the special day and then pick them back up after dark the next day but that can vary.  I’ve seen them for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, births of new babies, promotions, back to school- etc.  

I think if someone wanted to start a business, a sign franchise might be something to look into. 

The Star was quite visible for us last night as we had very clear skies.  I’m sorry so many of y’all had clouds.  

❤️Rhonda 

Blogidays-December 21- Star of Bethlehem

I’m guessing you’ve all heard about the very rare space occurrence this evening - some are calling it the Star of Bethlehem or the Great Conjunction.  

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-great-conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn

Ever since I heard about it,  this song has been playing in my head and I have watched both of these on Youtube almost daily 

Star of Bethlehem with lyrics in captions 

And Star of Bethlehem sung by 3 young sisters 

We are planning to watch the southwest sky around sunset tonight and I just might keep listening to Star of Bethlehem whenever I want 

Merry Christmas everyone 

❤️Rhonda 

Blogidays December 20 - Merry Christmas sign

Hello

I entered a Facebook contest last week from a new business that does yard sign greeting cards..

I was surprised when I won and thought the prize would just be the 2 elves with the ‘we miss you’ and tree. 

The company just sent me this photo of the sign they put out at my parents retirement home.  They live on the 2nd floor and can see it from their balcony.  Many of the residents walk daily on the sidewalk and I think they will enjoy seeing it too. 

These yard cards are great!  The company sets up the ordered message and then also removes it, usually in the evening so the sign is a surprise to the recipient.  

This business is called Sign Gypsies-Stillwater 

Isn’t this  a fun greeting? 

❤️ Rhonda 

Blogidays December 19 - birthday fun

Hello everyone, 

First I want to thank everyone for the sweet comments about my granddaughter’s project.  She was on the front page of our newspaper today and now has more orders for ornaments - several of them were from people with families that have been through Covid and want the ornaments to commemorate what they went through in 2020.  In fact she has so many more ornaments to make,  I’m going to help her tomorrow.  

I’m still amazed how much she accomplished and how many people it has made happy ❤️

And thank you all for the loving comments about her 

Today we celebrated my birthday and it’s been a great day.

I went to see my parents first thing and my mom crocheted this adorable snowman for me.  

I talked to or saw all my grandchildren and children today.  

We ordered Panera catering for our lunch -salads, soups, baguettes, sandwiches and desserts.  It was delicious and there was so much, we had it for supper and will have it tomorrow and maybe Monday too.  (I know everyone is not a fan of leftovers but we are) 

My children gave me some wonderful scented candles, wax melts, potpourri and  hand lotions.  

And my husband gave me a beautiful pearl necklace. 

I took a few more photos at my parents retirement home.  

  

Both of these smaller trees have lighted gifts around the base.  They look really good in person.  

If y’all have read my blog any length of time,  you know I like to grow succulents. 

I saw this mini succulent that hangs on a car mirror on Mercari and it may be cute buts it’s ridiculous and would most likely block a lot of the drivers vision.  

But it is really cute 😊

Good night everyone. 

Hope you all have a good day 

❤️Rhonda 

 

Blogidays December 18 - our little philanthropist

Hello everyone 

This will be a brag post about our oldest Granddaughter- 10 year old Elizabeth 

I think these photos will explain what she did 

She ended up selling 97 ornaments and raising almost $600

Below is what she bought (with Walmart grocery pickup) 

We helped her family pick up and deliver all this to the hospital.  

They loaded the snacks into their van and the drinks went in the back of my husband’s pickup.   

Our former next door neighbor is the Public Relations director at our little hospital and she was just so happy with this donation. 

She said there are 90 workers in the Covid unit (at this little hospital😳) and she said this will really help them be more comfortable and help raise their spirits.  

Little people can do big things and I’m very proud of her and happy that the workers will get a little boost

❤️Rhonda