Monday Musings

Love this little guy!  He lives with friends of ours, and we spent New Year's Eve with them.  He's a Beagle crossed with something.  Isn't he totally adorable?  He spent the evening snuggled up on the sofa, curled up between me and E.

Snow, Snow, Snow
We got minimal snow in our area.  BUT, it was in the forecast.  I stopped by the Home Depot on Thursday afternoon, pricing wood screws and could not believe the number of people in the store buying snow shovels, rock salt and snow blowers.  Total amount of snow on the ground in central Maryland right now?  An inch-ish.

BUT- I have a friend from college who lives South of us.  His boss looked outside of the window Friday afternoon to see the Weather Channel vans pulling into the parking lot and setting up shop.  "That's it" he declared.  "You know it's going to be bad when the Weather Channel shows up in your neighborhood and sets up shop. Everyone goes home, now.  See you Monday."

Christmas is Over
All of the Christmas Trees came down over the weekend.  It's sad to see it all put away, but it's wonderful to have some extra square footage back in our house!  Now it's time to decorate the mantel in the kitchen. What am I going to do?  Easter doesn't start until late this year - so I need to do something between now and then.  What to do?

Gluten Free Cake
We have finally found the most amazing recipe for Gluten Free cake.  We used the Hershey recipe for chocolate cake, and subbed in King Arthur One to One GF Flour for the gluten filled flour, and coconut milk for any cow milk in the recipe.  Good golly, that is one powerfully good recipe!  Me oh my, who knew that a gluten free dairy free cake could taste so good?

Television Antenna
We've never had cable television. We've always had an antenna.  We've never had an issue with reception.  Since we moved to this house, we've had the wire for the antenna that runs around the corner, under the front door, out around the porch, and then up onto the roof, where we had tossed the antenna.  The biggest issue we had was that our antenna was an indoor antenna and would quit working once every 5 years.  Our antenna recently quit working.  Rather than toss it up on the roof again, husband decided to put it into the attic and run the wire down through the wall and out behind the television set.  So, for the first time since we moved here, we don't have that really weird cable snaking up the side of the house and across the roof to face towards Baltimore.  OK, we also subscribe to Netflix.  We have DSL for internet - but we're close enough to the switching station that we have enough bandwidth to stream video without a problem.

Have a great week!