Tuesday, January 3, 2023

A New Year Begins

                                                                 Jumping Fox

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Wow, can you believe it is 2023?  Amazing that we made it through 2022, but we did.

We had a bad storm the week before Christmas. No mail delivery for a week, no package deliveries, etc. We live on a dead end road and the County never plows it. Luckily one of our 5 neighbors has a Bobcat and plowed our road the first day but we had such a bad NE wind that comes down from Canada that it blew shut within an hour or more. When it finally quit snowing, he plowed it again so you could at least get down our road. Then it started raining and everything turned to ice and you could not walk outside! Our snow drifts because of the wind so we actually had bare spots in our front yard that were skating rinks. So glad that is all over....for now anyway. My brother and his wife flew up from AZ for Christmas but with the weather so bad we didn't get to visit with them before they flew out. I was so disappointed but you can't fight the weather!

The kids could get here Christmas and we had a really nice, homey day. We couldn't get out but I had my daughter pick up 10# of chicken wings at Costco so I could make our chicken wings. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without them for us. The kids all brought lots of stuff so we had plenty to eat. As soon as dinner was over we played Uno for hours. Our daughter in law makes up new wild cards so our Uno is a Killer! Gets pretty wild but all in good nature. Our daughter works at a grocery Corporate Office and they get lots of sample products in so she had been collecting some for a gift bag, so whoever wins gets to go through the gift bag and there is always something everyone wants! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and got to be with family. At least we didn't have to mess with airlines! 

We are such stay at homers, we even quit going out for groceries. WalMart had a special where you if you joined WalMart+ you got Paramount+ free, so that was all I needed to join. We had been doing WalMart pick ups for months. But this is so nice....having your groceries brought to your door! Plus we had been wanting to get Paramount+ for a long time but just didn't feel we could afford it. We are old timers and like western type shows. We had joined the free month last summer just so we could watch 1883! But had canceled after 2 weeks. So now we are looking forward to 1923. But are going to wait until the season is over and watch it back to back. Plus we are looking forward to Yellowstone coming on Peacock. We have the economy pack from Comcast and get Peacock free. But our cost is going up in January by $13.00 and just found out our power is going up 12+% so there goes our "big" retirement raise! 

I hope you didn't get tired of my gnome themes! I fell in love with them and am working on all the holidays. 

Our son and his wife brought a Nordic Trac they couldn't use anymore for my husband (he turned 87 in Dec.) to use. But after being in the shop during that winter storm we had, it won't work. They went through it yesterday and mechanically it is fine so it has to be in the panel so my husband is checking that out today.

I am still doing my walks, but I don't go out when it is super cold and windy. Hoping to be able to get out today.

I wish you all a Happy, Healthy New Year. Please take care of yourselves and your loved ones.

                         4 Gnomes New Year

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2 comments:

  1. Oh cool! Hello fellow Washingtonian. I too live here. Camano Island. Your art work is simply bar none the very best. The color compositions are just awesome. Your themes are balanced. 🐌

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    1. Thanks, KMel.....I have a grandson and some old friends that live on Camano Island. Beautiful place and have been there many times. Thanks for liking my work. Several of my themes were actually pics that I took on Camano Island. Have a super New Year and enjoy our beautiful state and beauty.

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