Christmas Cookie List

 A blog post with no pictures? Yup.... I just wanted to post some recipes for Christmas Cookies. These aren't all cookies; I should say Christmas Treats...

~Cranberry Cookies  These have cranberries and white chocolate chips in them.

~Amish Sugar Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies

~Christmas Gooey Butter Cookies

~Christmas Wreaths

~Christmas Sugar Cookies

~Peanut Butter Blossoms

~Rocky Road Fudge

~Christmas Crack

~Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Ritz Cookies

~Christmas Chocolate Pretzel Bites

~Candy Cane Sleighs

~Christmas Tree Brownies (I make these with a regular brownie recipe and decorate with Christmas sugar and M&M's...

Wow, that's a lot of sugar..  LoL   I joined a "Christmas Cookie" group on Facebook. It is so lame! Hardly any posts, I was very disappointed. So I decided to compile all my favorites here. (Now my head hurts and I need to go back to bed LoL.) Actually my head does hurt. The past two days I have woken up with a sinusy headache. Probably because it is so bitter cold outside! Spuds seems warm in his spot (his fur is warm when he gets out.)

I will have to see what I have to make. It's going to be "Use What You Have Christmas Baking" Day...

Memories

Yesterday, I did some Christmas shopping with our youngest son. We were walking around Walmart (a rare moment he was walking with me, shopping). He went down the Hot Wheel aisle. I was thinking, "What are you doing?" He said he wanted to see if he could find a Ram (I can't remember what kind) truck for his friend for Christmas for a gag gift. 😅I was thinking about all his Hot Wheels when they were all little. I said "Do you remember that parking garage I made you for your cars when you were little?" (He didn't, so I went on my phone in Walmart, to my blog and found the picture..LoL)  He did like that. I remember it fell apart after a while. But it was fun while it lasted. They had Hot Wheel tracks, and the ramp where the cars would go flying off..  Seems like so long ago. Now they all have real trucks, and they are always breaking down or have to get something fixed. Cracked radiators, rusted out oil pans... I wish I could go back to when they were little, sometimes. 😍

I think the magazine I got the instructions from is no longer in print. It was "Family Fun" magazine. It's pretty easy to figure out, just looking at the picture though. Cut a cereal box, and we painted ours with spray paint. I think I covered the toilet paper "cement columns" with yellow paper and a glue stick. And used some electrical tape my husband had in the garage, for the parking spot lines..  

I wish we had kept all those hot wheels. We moved so much and there was so much stuff, though..  

Side note: I remember when you could get a Hot Wheel for 99 cents at Walmart. They are $3.49 now. For one hot wheel!! Oh that makes me so mad!! They were the special kind, but the regular hot wheels were not much less!

This was the post I am talking about..

Although I couldn't find the original Park and Play Garage instructions, there are a lot of ideas/tutorials online for different ones now (way cooler than this one, too). Here is one page with a few ideas.

This one is cool, too. If you go on Pinterest and look, you could be there all day trying to find ideas for a Park and Play garage.. 😍

I have to frog the golf club cover I started yesterday (I got the whole ribbing part done, too...) I learned what colors he likes. Not red. (Even though his truck is red..) I'm going to need to go get some darker green yarn... Darn it...  I hate going yarn shopping. 😁

Update: I decided to look through all the yarn I have, and I found the right color green and hopefully it will be enough. (Not pictured..)

So, here we go: Golf Club Covers, Round 2. 😂⛳  Get it... I didn't even plan that. LoL

There's only 10 days left until Christmas!! I at least got a few things this weekend, I just need to write everything else down, and clear my brain, and finish wrapping, and finish baking, and and and.....

Another Christmas Project

I decided to just crochet a golf club cover. (I will do two of them, he only has two golf clubs-he got them at Goodwill I think..)  Then I was racking my brain trying to decide what colors.... UGH. Just doing red and white. This is the first time I've crocheted since Spuds bit me. My hand still hurts..  I should probably go to the doctor... But. 🙅 Do I want to get Christmas presents or pay a copay...   I am actually using the Yarnspirations Golf Club Cover pattern, not the one I posted earlier. I think even I would rather be out golfing than what is outside...  Snow and cold. Poor Spuds. He keeps coming to the door. I am not letting him in. :( I can't...  I keep saying, "Go in your house". I will put food in there so he goes in it. 

 

I am so not ready!!! 😔 We're supposed to go shopping this weekend.

 

Christmas Baking Has Begun

I baked the Peanut Butter Blossoms yesterday. I put some Christmas music on, and baked Christmas cookies. It did not help cheer me up...  Sigh. But at least I got started on Christmas cookies. I almost froze to death putting them in the freezer in the garage. (It's not attached to the house... You have to walk outside, unlock the garage...) 🙄🥶🥶🥶 I do not know how my husband can stand working outside in the winter. 

I don't know if I wrote about how our son took a red truck ornament to put in his truck...  Well he hung it up. LoL  I did write about the red truck ornament... (Probably four times now..)

Are You Ready?

😭😭😭😭

I'm not ready!!! I hate that. I hate waiting until the last minute to go Christmas shopping. I guess sometimes it's unavoidable. Things happen. 

I did get some Hershey's Kisses to make Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies with. The recipe on the back of the bag/original recipe from Hersheyland uses shortening, though; not butter. I should start on my Christmas cookies/baking.  We also got some round crackers, I could make some chocolate covered peanut butter crackers.  😀  Here is an actual recipe for some.  I could also make some Christmas Sugar Cookies.  I want some Peppermint Bark but I don't have any white chocolate...  Not much of a blog post today..

~Well that's all for now~

Snow Globe Candy Jars, and Spuds Bite :(

These are the two finished snow globe jars for my husband and our youngest son. I should re-post the one I made for Melissa.. Here is the link to it. It's hard to get a good picture of them, the plastic ornament gets a glare on it. I think they are really cute.

Here's the snowman before I glued the whole top together. 

Here's a side picture of the "Red Truck" snow globe, I used the fake snow to cover up the wire part which I kind of used to prop the truck up so it would stand up straight. 

I'm editing to add a front view. I thought I uploaded the picture, but there's always a cat or dog, or two dogs in here distracting me. 

Here's a close up of it done...  

This is the "fake snow" I got at the dollar tree. I don't know if I shared a picture of it. So you know what it looks like.

These are the Red Truck Ornaments from the Dollar Tree that I used for the snow globe. The tree fell off the one, and that was how the whole thing/idea started... I just need to get some candy to put inside them. I might need to go back to the dollar tree for some, it cost $14.99 for a bag of candy at Meijers yesterday. That's just ridiculous. And they didn't even have any "Christmas" wrapped candy. 🙄 Not the kind I wanted anyway.  I did find more glue sticks, so I didn't have to go buy more of those. 

And, Spuds bit me yesterday. 😢 I will spare you a picture of that. It was not just a little bite, either. He bit down hard, and pulled. And somehow scratched me, too. The top of my hand was bit, the palm was scratched. Ughhhh....  That hurt!! It still hurts. It's a little swollen and a little red. But it's stopped bleeding. I washed and washed and washed it, and put antibiotic cream on and bandages. I don't know what to do.....  Everything online says "Get immediate care at the doctor"..  But, he bit my husband about a week ago. And my husband is fine (it broke through his skin, he said.) I don't know if it broke all the way through like it did with me, though. I guess I will just keep an eye on it. Doesn't he know you're not supposed to bite the hand that feeds you?  I was sitting on the chair on the porch, and he put his front legs up on my legs (with his claws dug in) and I thought he wanted up. So I tried to help him up. Well he did not like that. He probably thought I was going to hurt him.... 🙄 That's when he bit/scratched me.   I guess that solves if we are going to try and let him in the house... I don't know where we'll go from here. 

His And Hers Hats

 

I finally decided (because I tried to do a second, lighter blue but the yarn was a different weight than the dark blue and it bugged me) to do both hats just the same color. But put a pom-pom on Melissa's hat so they can tell them apart. I FINALLY mailed their Christmas presents this morning, what a relief. Now I can concentrate on everyone's presents/crochet projects here. I still haven't decided if I am going to do the golf club covers. Or the potato. Because, 1. Our son has only golfed once, maybe twice. He's not that into it. If he does it more next summer, maybe I will for next Christmas (hmmm that sounds like a no on that one), and 2. I don't know what my husband would actually do with a crocheted potato. For that matter, I don't know what our son would do with a red truck gift card holder.... 

Sigh.... I just talked myself out of everything. LoL  Maybe I'll just crochet my Penny's Santa Hat. 

Happy First Day of December

Happy first day of December, and there's only 25 more days until Christmas! 😱🎅🎄YIKES!!!!

I still need to finish Melissa's hat, before I can mail their box. I still need to finish wrapping all their presents and finish stuffing their stockings, too. 😭  I still have more stuff I want to crochet for Christmas, too. 

~A potato, for my husband. (Long story.... Every time we go shopping he gets potatoes. If they're on sale, he will get another bag even though we have a bag at home. I said "What are you obsessed with potatoes?" And I started thinking....  I can get him a potato gag gift for Christmas. Oh! I can CROCHET him a potato!! He doesn't even know the name of my blog or read it, so... I'm going to put it in his stocking. This potato thing also was why we named the stray cat Spuds.

~A Red Truck Gift Card Holder, for Eon. Because he has a red truck...  I still need to finish his Red Truck Snow Globe candy jar, too. Which will not be easy, with him home all the time now in the winter. 

~Maybe some Golf Club Covers? Eon went golfing with friends a couple times this summer.

Plus the Penny's Santa hat, for myself.. 

I wasn't even going to knit or crochet anything for Christmas this year...  Now I am so stressed out. 😭And I have to mail their box. And we're supposed to get more snow tonight. 😭😭😭 Oh! Spuds came back! My husband moved the heated pad out of the cat house, and when he went outside Spuds was asleep on the pad, under the blanket tent my husband made on our bench on the porch. 🩷 I worry if he shows up, and I worry if he doesn't show up. But, I am glad he is laying on the heated pad! Until we can figure something else out...

HIP

HIP= Hats In Progress... This is my DIL's hat, so far. I am almost done with the "ribbing" part of it. Well, technically it's all ribbing. But ribbing and elongated ribbing. I should only be working on this so I can send their box out. Uggghhhhhhhh...

But, yesterday I wasted the whole day looking for the pattern for this, and the yarn. I looked in my "hats/scarves/etc" folder, and I "found" it. (Yay....) Not. It was just the first page. Ughhh... (I was not awake..) Then I looked through my whole pile of patterns on my book shelf (that I need to reorganize and put into their proper folders). I didn't see it...  Then I thought "What if it's in the "Holiday" folder?" Not in there. Then I looked through the whole pile of loose patterns on my book shelf again. I found the rest of t!! YAYYY!!! (I stapled it together, so I wouldn't lose it again.) I didn't have a working stapler for a long time..   What a pain. I also wasted more time looking for the one I crocheted a long time ago. I thought I had done on that was purple variegated. I couldn't find it on my blog, on Facebook... Then I thought "What about Instagram?" Yup. It's the Penny's Double Tail Santa Hat. (From the Big Bang Theory.) I had bought the pattern when I was still on Ravelry. It's not available on her Etsy store anymore, so I don't know if it's still available on Ravelry? The pattern I have is not the "revised" pattern. But I don't care. After all that, my back hurt.

This is the one I crocheted, in December of 2017.. I don't know where it is, though. Sighhhh....

I was trying to get some Christmas presents wrapped (bubble wrap, and wrapping paper) for our son and daughter in law... But my cats had other plans. I couldn't stop laughing.. Cosmo came and laid on a little piece of wrapping paper. And I covered him up in the blanket. Then, Eri came right over, too. And laid right next to him on the wrapping paper. So I covered her up, too. They just laid there like that. I should go see if they're still there. They are so funny. But, I didn't get much wrapping done. It is cold upstairs. 

Not as cold as it is outside, though. 😔🥶 Yesterday, I was in here and I went to go in the kitchen and Spuds was sitting on the railing, on the back porch! I said "How did you get back there?" (Our backyard is all fenced in-he must have jumped over the fence. Or got in under the back deck... Crazy kitty. He was meowing and had snow on him. He looked so cold!! Poor kitty! My husband went around to the back gate and had food and got him to come back to the front porch. We keep trying to get him to go in the heated cat house, but he won't stay in it. :(  We haven't seen him all day today. I don't know if that's a good thing, or a bad thing...   I did let him in the back door for a minute. But he went right back out.

Well I better work on my hat!

Hats, Snow, and Cats...

                                                       

I finished our son's hat. I actually knitted two inches too far and I had to undo two inches of knitting. 😟 Ugh.... But, it's done now and ends all weaved in. I was trying to find a good hat pattern to knit for our daughter in law, too. Went on Pinterest, googled.....  Finally, I thought "I'm just going to knit the woman's hat from the same pattern." There is three different versions (and sizes) you can do. The woman's hat is a "color block" version. I wanted to do the same colors in both hats, but I wanted to use a lighter blue that I have in hers, too. I already started it. I just haven't taken a picture of it yet. It literally looks the same as this one, so far. 😝 (You can see the "Color Block" hat in this post, it's the woman's hat in the middle picture on the front of the cover.) I got them both some gloves, too. I got the kind that are fingerless, but you can fold over the top for when you aren't using your phone or whatever; for our DIL. And I got "work gloves" for our son. 🙅

I also finished two dishcloths. 😖 I used some (I think) size 6 needles. But I don't like how small it is. Maybe I'll just keep that one. Then I knitted one on size 9 needles. Much better. This is also for our son. I'm trying to get his stuff all done first, because I have to mail their Christmas presents. 

And, I found some fake "snow"! At the dollar store, too! Bonus. I don't even want to step foot in Hobby Lobby right now, it will cost at least $30... At least! 

And, I did my husband's "snow globe" mason jar. I didn't take a picture of the jar yet. I had to get it upstairs and hide it before he got home from work. He likes snowmen. And when I showed him the one I made our DIL, he said "I want one"...  I want to do one more, for our youngest son. I have an idea for a "Red Truck" one...  (His truck is red, and when I was decorating the Christmas tree, he saw a red truck ornament and said "This is mine". LoL  

This was Thanksgiving morning. I said "I was not dreaming of a white Thanksgiving!" 😡 UGH!! We are supposed to get a snow storm today and tonight/tomorrow. We could possibly get 6-10 inches of snow.😟 Which brings me to the stray cat we have had hanging around our house...

I don't know if I ever posted a picture of him. This is one I took in June. I don't know if he was hanging around before that, or not. We had seen kitty paw prints in the snow on the porch during the winter, but very rarely saw a cat. Well, he has been hanging around more lately. And the past three nights in a row, he has been sleeping on our porch. (Or under it). I don't want to just let him in the house. (Well, I do, but...) He could have diseases or fleas. We have two cats and two dogs already...   I feel so bad for him! I posted on Facebook and on Nextdoor, to see if anyone owned him. (If they do, they don't take good care of him....) This is a loooooong story. Sigh. One woman said that's their barn cat, Jak. They try to keep him in but he "gets aggressive". I don't know if she's just crazy and trying to mess with someone online, or what. Because I said, "We put a flea collar on him. We thought he is a stray" and she said "Please don't put flea collars on strays, it's dangerous." I said, "You know what's more dangerous? Letting your cat run around loose so close to the highway!" Stupid idiot. 😡 (I said it "nicely", but...)  I just decided we will try to help him here until we can get him to a vet or something... We'll see. We went to Walmart and got two bins and made a shelter for him.

(sigh...) He would not go in it. It was just a basic plastic shelter (I was going to get some straw to put inside it..) But, he wouldn't have anything to do with it. Brat cat. (We spent a lot of money, with the bins and flea collars!)

Well, we spent even more yesterday. We got him a heated outdoor shelter. He will go halfway in it (if you put his food in there). But won't go all the way in. Ughhhhh....   That was not cheap. I keep trying to get him to go in it. Then, I realized, "He probably doesn't like the flap". There's a plastic flap in the doorway. I would hold it up so he could go in.. (my husband must have put it on after I took this picture). It has velcro and you can remove it. I took it off this morning, and put his food bowl in there. He was about like this when I went back inside. We are supposed to get all that snow, so I hope he will realize that house is warm and go in it.  Obviously he isn't being taken care of. If he is someone's cat. He's friendly and rubs on our legs and got on my husband's lap. But, he also is fiesty and will swat or try to scratch you sometimes. I just hope he doesn't tell all his friends about this new house... LoL. There was a grey tortie we saw a few times, too. We would see her in the yard and Spuds would be on the porch. He must have made our porch his territory. (Thank God he hasn't "marked" his territory...)  We named him Spuds. Because I said "He's a porch potato". Then I said "We could call him Spuds". My husband liked it. He said "That's his name". Now I call him Spuds the Snow Cat.  We've spent more on Spuds than we have our own cats, lately! Sheesh.

Although we haven't seen the grey tortie in a while, we decided her name is Gravy. I was trying to think of a name for her. Our son said "What about Skit", because she is skittish. Then he said "What about Gravy?" (Spuds/Gravy...) I said "Yeah, like Grey-vy"...   So that's her name. If she ever comes back, she can go in the heated cat house.

This is Gravy. Or Grey-vy. 😝 I've seen her twice this month. I was looking through pictures on my phone and there was two of her. My husband has said he'll be on the porch, and Spuds is up there, and Gravy was in the yard meowing. Like "I want some food too". I posted her picture on a cat lost and found website. There was only one cat that was grey on there and I can't see the tip of it's tail. 

Here our cats are, laying on the rug because the tile is cold. Poor spoiled indoor kitties.... LoL. 

More Christmas Crochet

Am I going to drive everyone crazy posting how many days until Christmas? I didn't think it was a big deal (thinking about all the Christmas things I wanted to crochet..) Then I googled how many days were left, yesterday...  🥴 And I "seized the day."

I finished cleaning in the morning, and I said "I'm going to crochet". I had an idea in my head. I was thinking, "What if you crocheted a toilet paper roll cover, but it looked like a Christmas candle?" 💡🕯🎄This is what I came up with. It fits over a small (what I call a "regular") roll of toilet paper. Measuring 4 inches across the top.  I think it's cute. I need to write all these things down. I want to do more in different color combinations, too. 

How Many Days Until Christmas?

I can't believe it, it's coming up fast... Only a month and a week-ish left??? 😕 How are you doing with your Christmas shopping? I used to have it all together. Okay maybe not. But I did start my shopping early in the year there for a while. The last few years (since we moved back here) I haven't; so much. I did get a snow globe for my daughter in law, early in October. So, technically I got started out okay. I have one thing for everyone so far (except my husband). I'm trying to get our middle son and his wife's gifts done first, because I have to mail them to them. So far I have:

The Stitch Snowglobe

I realized I don't have a picture of it. It's sooo cute.  I might even want one myself. 😝

~The Stitch Snowglobe

~Stitch socks

~Snow globe candy jar

~Stockings with their initials on them

That's what I have so far, for them. I need to get busy and fill their stockings and finish shopping for them. But... "Money"...  

And mostly what I have is all for my daughter in law. She is easy to shop for, because it's either "Stitch" or snow globes.  Our middle son has ALWAYS been hard to shop for. I asked him what he wants for Christmas, "I don't know". He doesn't like anything (except xbox/gaming-which I don't even know if he is into that still he's in his late 20's now). So I just get things he needs. I am knitting the hat for him. Oh yeah, I did get him a baseball hat too.   Okay I am rambling. 

I also have an idea of something to crochet for Christmas decorating. (Sigh...)  

Oh Christmas Tree

"Oh Christmas Tree You stand in splendid beauty.. Your branches green in summer's glow And evergreen in winter's snow Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree You stand in splendid beauty" 𝅘𝅥𝅰🎵🎄🎅  I was trying to unpack more decorations and see what else I would need out of the box (so my husband can put it back in the garage)..  And I found the miniature ornaments for my crocheted Christmas tree. So I started decorating it. At 6:30 in the morning... (Well when your cat wakes you up at 4 every morning demanding food...)  I only have the little ornaments and the gold bead string. I'm going to look and see what I decorated it with before when I first made it. Then I remembered, 
"I just bought all those little ornaments from Hobby Lobby for the snow globes, maybe I could use a couple of those." I want to crochet a little yellow star for the top, too.  This is how I get sidetracked and never finish anything... Sigh... LoL Maybe I can find a star at the dollar store or something.   Anyway, I was humming this song when I was decorating my little tree. 

I have a few that the little gold part on the top just disintegrated when I tried to attach the hanging loop onto. Sigh...   I should just throw them away. Seriously....  🙄 "Noooo, I can make something with them..."  They are too big to put into the snow globe jars. 

I started on the elongated ribbing part of the hat for our son that I am knitting.  😁 It's weird because the one I knitted for our youngest son was in my memories today. "Tis the season to be knitting fa la la la la la la la la" I'm turning into my mother and turning everything into a song. 😳

Red Trucks

This is not the best picture. The "snow globe" looks scratched and dirty, and it isn't? I showed my husband the snow globe I made for our DIL, and he said "I want one". I thought "Hmmmm... I could do that!" There's still a bunch of the cute little miniatures left, AND a snowman is in there. He loves snowmen. Then, I was thinking "I could do a 'Red Truck' one, too!" Our youngest son, when I was decorating the Christmas tree, pulled a red truck ornament (I got it at the dollar store) out, and said "This is mine". I mean, he has a red truck. But, I didn't think he would be into the red truck things....  Now I have a new mission. Red trucks. I even created a new Pinterest board. LoL. I'm not sure if I will use this red truck in the snow globe, though. I might try and see if I can find any smaller ones. This one, the tree fell off of. What do you think? Should I just use it? I can't fit much else in there. Unless I find some super tiny miniatures I can buy...    I found a Red Truck Crochet Gift Card Holder, too. I am definitely going to make that. 

Snow Globe Christmas Craft

I have had an idea for a Christmas craft to make for one of my daughters in law. (My other daughter in law does not celebrate Christmas, so...)  She LOVES snow globes, and is obsessed with them. (Honestly, she has gotten me a little obsessed with them, too). I saw a Mason Jar Snow globe craft (well, I have seen a few of them). And I went to different stores to get the stuff to make one. (Sigh...) First, I went to Dollar General. I went there for something else, actually. But I thought I would see if they had anything I could use. They had some of the clear Christmas ornaments that you can take apart. I didn't get them. Don't ask me why. Because I had to go back later and buy them. Hobby Lobby didn't even have any that you can take apart, and the only ones they even had were in packs of ten and too much money. A two pack at Dollar General cost $1. So, you could make four snow globe jars for 25 cents. 

They had the exact thing I was looking for, though at Hobby Lobby. AND, it was half off. Bonus. I literally NEVER want to pay full price at Hobby Lobby. (But, I have before..)  

Then, I went to the dollar store...  They had these adorable mini Christmas trees. 

And, I was going to go to Hobby Lobby to find some "fake snow". But I found this at the dollar store and I thought, "That would work..."  

This is my finished snow globe jar. I broke it all down, how much I spent making this. I couldn't believe it- over $15? (With tax)...  But, it's a Christmas present. If you had a wide mouth mason jar laying around, and if you bought your candy at the dollar store, it wouldn't cost so much. I didn't spend $92 but... I showed my husband this, and he texted me back, "I want one". I was checked in the cupboard above the fridge (I know our son sent us a jar with candy in it for Christmas one year), and I found two big wide mouth mason jars. I have ideas for both of them. And, now I have all the stuff to make them (I *might* have to go get more glue gun sticks, though- I will have to see if I can find glue sticks at the dollar store).  Let me tell you, it is not as "easy" as it looks to make one. And I hate how the glue gets all glopped up around the edges.

Close up top view. I still think it is pretty dang cute!!! Even with the glue glop. 😝 This is the tutorial I used to make it.

I had an idea to crochet a "Snow Globe Picture Frame Ornament", too. I wrote it all down, but my notes are a MESS....  I think it's okay. 

I started another hat, too. This one is the same as others I've made in the past. It's for a Christmas present. I wasn't going to knit or crochet anything for Christmas this year. HAAA... You know how that goes. One I knitted for our son. Another one I knitted for a gift. I am using a big 16 oz skein (from my stash- I used some of it in other projects) of Caron One Pound (obviously), "Midnight Blue" 294010. The wrapper is about falling off and irritating me so I'm posting here what the yarn and color is.

I realized I don't have a close up picture of my knitted Christmas bell. I took a picture of it to post on Facebook in a group I'm in..   I don't remember where I got the pattern from, but here is one very similar. I love knitting them in variegated Christmas yarn. I only have one for my tree, and since we got a bigger tree, we need more ornaments. I might have to dig that pattern out. *Don't get sidetracked*...  

Also, in other news... It snowed in the middle of the night. 😭😭😭   I know, it's November. But, I don't want winter to be here!!!! I HATE winter!!! It's so brutally cold. At least I don't have the cold sensitivity like I did last winter. I wasn't even supposed to "breathe" the cold air. 🥶🥶🥶 I will have to take a picture of the snow (it's just now getting light out) and upload it later.

I took a couple pictures...  😭 Not only is it snowing, but the sky is totally grey. Back porch.

Front porch. 

I saw a poem on a group I follow (and it was from Michigan):

"November skies are black and gray, Thanksgiving comes a happy day".