My Advent Calendar

 December 16th

My newest ornament.  I purchased this at the Telephone Museum in Warner, NH this fall.  We stopped there after picking up friends from the Manchester Airport.

Here are some photos of the museum.  A fascinating spot!

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Today is homeschooling day as will be Friday this week.  Granddaughter working on her writing assignment right now. She's so easily distracted.  It's a job to keep her on task.  

One of her assignments today will be storytime on FaceTime with granddaughter #4 in Buffalo.  

My Advent Calendar

December 15th 

A small ceramic Christmas tree, purchased in the 80s or 90s at a church holiday bazaar.  The granddaughters like to rearrange the lights.

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Just updated my Books Read 2025 listing.  I'm up to 84 books this year.  I still have three weeks of reading left so will beat last year's count of 85 for sure.

If you look at the list you'll see a lot by Archer Mayor.  He's a mystery writer based in Brattleboro Vermont.  I really enjoy he's writing and though I imagine you can start reading any of them I'm reading in order. The first one is Open Season if you want to look for them in your library.

My Advent Calendar

December 14th

 

 This was likely a teacher gift to me.  I don't recall much more than that.  Over the years its glasses have become askew.  I've never really checked to see if it really is a light bulb under that decoration.

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Light snow here this morning. Dan says there is rain in our forecast for this week.

My Advent Calendar

December 13th

 

This ornament was purchased at a Native American craft stand in Arizona, probably Navajo potters made it but I don't recall.  We were visiting by brother and sister in law in 2013 I believe and took a road trip to Sedona than the long way back to Anthem where they live.

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Busy day today.

More cookies plus other stuff to do.

Molasses this time.  They smell so good. For me it's one of the fragrances of Christmas. I've made double batch.

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David, I'd love to do a comparison cook off of lemon meringue pies with Miriam.  How in the world can we pull that off?

The one I made yesterday was delicious.  Ed, who was one of our hosts for dinner, said it's his birthday pie of choice.  A June birthday, this was his half birthday pie.  I have vague memories of having one of these for a birthday when I was in my single digits 70 years ago?