By the time mid-October rolls around, Halloween sneaks up and slams you in the face and the Christmas advertisements start coming and make it seem like November never even existed even though we’re right in the middle of it. I know I won’t remember November much. Before I can get through saying, “Oh my goodness, I can’t believe it’s November!” December will be here. Not to even mention the fact that daylight savings time has arrived and seasonal depression rings the door bell with his bags in hand and crashes your house like that old friend with whom you’re not even sure how you became friends, but hey, he’s here and he’s not going anywhere for a while. Oh and he just borrowed your toothbrush because he forgot his; hope you’re ok with that; you’re practically family, so he figured you wouldn’t mind.
Because things get so hectic between end of the year work, church programs and family/friends holiday stuff, I get my Christmas decorating in early. I had my 3rd Annual Decorate April’s House for Christmas the first weekend in November this year. I normally throw my decorating party (why do it yourself when you can just throw a party, eh?) in November, but this year was the earliest I’ve ever done it. I looked at the calendar and realized I wouldn’t have any other weekend after to get the decorating done. I acquired more decorations this year, including some light up, mechanical deer for the front yard. As if Blake had some sort of bug placed on me or my house, he brought a string of shotgun shell lights that went perfectly with the deer. It’s truly a redneck Christmas over here. I whipped up some tasty food for my guest and we “gotrdone” fast. I don’t let my dedicated decorators go unappreciated though. I cooked them some chicken, pancetta and asparagus (pictured in the gallery) with a side of fettuccine alfredo and then we topped it off with some peach cobbler. There’s also a picture of fire in there because I enjoy them so.
Backing things up a bit, I had some tragedies with my computers, including the melting of my MacBook power cord. Then Apple refused to replace the fire hazard for free. I’ll show a picture or two and rant on that later. During my computer problems, I decided to spend more time experimenting in the kitchen with some corn-free recipes. I learned to make my own marshmallows and graham crackers. I have a few pictures of the graham crackers in the gallery. I realized that smores are easier if you pre-melt the chocolate onto the cookie. Genius!
I started writing this post weeks ago. It just goes to show how things go, go, go. I have a few little projects and things to show as soon as I get a chance to pull them together.
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- Graham Crackers
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- Graham and Chocolate
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- Fire
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- Chicken Pancetta Asparagus
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- Nutcrackers and Elizabeth
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- Peaches
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- Lauren stirring
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- Yard decorations
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- Flamingo
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- broken flamingo butt
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- setting up the yard
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- deer
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- shotgun lights
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- blurry lights
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