This has been a year like no other and for me, today has been a Christmas Eve like no other. My power supply company offered a "free power" day so I willingly accepted their offer and selected the 24th as my day. Up early this morning, the oven was on at 7am and I finally turned it off at 5pm this afternoon. In those hours I baked multiple batches of scones, a double batch of gingerbread loaves, two ginger crunch slices, three double batches of biscuits, roasted a piece of rolled pork and then roasted a chicken. All are now nicely packaged and labelled and in the freezer, saving me both money this month and also time in future weeks and months. My freezer is almost full to capacity but hopefully we will make some room before I harvest vegetables from my garden. That's another story:)
Pouring rain outside all day meant cancelling my plans to do several loads of washing (and hopefully the ironing too) but I'm feeling quite smug that I made such good use of this "free offer". A Merry Christmas to you too, 'Mr Energy Supply Company'. Please do this again next year.
During all this frenetic activity my brother and his wife called in just on lunch time so it was a scramble to put lunch on the table for them and to sit and have a chat and catch up on photos and news of their children and grandchildren. Thanks to Little Brother, and the local courier company (Little Sister sent hers this way) there are now a few presents under the Christmas Tree for us to open tomorrow. It had been looking rather bare:(
The DBEM was completely worn out and had 40 winks in her chair during the late afternoon only rousing for her dinner at night and to watch/listen to the TV news. She is now in bed and I'm having a quick cup of tea and reading some more of my book before I too visit the Land of Nod. There hasn't been a lot of stitching today but I'm almost at the end of the Basket Band and have found a comfortable position to stitch for around 45 minutes duration without removing my thumb splint. So life is looking good:)
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5 comments:
It's nice that you have found a way to stitch with your thumb splint. A free power day - I haven't heard of electric companies doing that before now. I like the idea. You got good use from it.
Wishing you and your mother a Happy Christmas.
Thanks Mary. I’m on track to finish the basket band before year end.
Wishing you and DBEM a healthy and worry-free New Year!
Wow, what a productive day! And you'll be able to have a couple 'lazy' days in the future, relying on what's in your freezer.
I am glad that you made good use of the free day! Just what we need in this cold weather.
I am glad that you were able to have some family visit too.
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