The barn and house in winter

 

No regrets that we painted our barn green and the house yellow.

And for first time viewers, no the barn is not attached to the house despite what it looks like above.

Cookbook Book Club

 Two local libraries are co-sponsoring a cookbook book club.  We read the same cookbook, try some recipes, and gather for a potluck to share.

Our first book.

Has anyone read and tried any recipes from this?

Our first meeting will be February 22nd.

These are some recipes I've marked so far that I want to try.

It's all vegetarian and gathered from 5 regions of the world where people are known to live long lives: Sardinia (Italy), Okinawa (Japan), Nicoya (Costa Rica), Ikaria (Greece) and Loma Linda (CA, US).

Continued from last Tuesday.

 

Our local library doesn't have one of these anymore.  Someone came in to look for a book and looked around for the card catalog. Nope not here!  They were offered the librarian's computer.

You would think makers of cell phones would consider someway to slam the phone.

One of our vacation rentals had one of these slides.  The granddaughters learned really fast how to climb up the slide.

And there's more to come.

A Giant

 

A giant icicle that is.  

Granddaughter #1 harvested it from a neighbor's and wanted to share it with anyone stopping by at the library open house.