What Happened to 2024?

Hard to believe this is the last day of the year! Right now as I type on the laptop I am watching numerous birds at our feeders and birdbaths. Yesterday we had a flock of Cedar Waxwings eating berries off one our bushes. Haven’t been out to look but I think they did brake a branch. One is hanging down a lot lower than it had been.

We have spent a good portion of the last 5 days cleaning out our biggest storage unit. We got rid of quite a bit this year. Galen moved all our shelving to a smaller unit plus our climate controlled unit. We even have empty shelving. That won’t last long tho. First unit is new unit, second the climate controlled unit. I was still sorting through boxes in the controlled unit. And have a few more to sort through. I went through 2 photo albums- one from Taiwan and one of my Mom’s (1998-1999). Need to scan some of the pictures in hers to send to cousins. Not sure how many boxes of slides. Galen took mostly slides while we were overseas and my Mom took a lot of them through out the years.

We went out to Granger a couple of mornings hoping to find the Burrowing Owl again. No such luck on our last trip. We may go out again tomorrow morning.

No sewing this past week. Between working in the storage units after Christmas and getting ready for Christmas and dinner with friends, I needed to clean up the dining room a little. No we ate in the kitchen, but the area around my sewing machine ( on the dining room table) was a disaster.

For dinner I fixed oven roasted strip steaks. 2-20 ounce steaks prepared pretty much like prime rib. It’s a recipe from Milk Street and really good. Made green Chimichuri sauce to go with it. Wild rice casserole plus an asparagus dish. And like my Mother, I make a fresh fruit dish. Always tastes good with a big dinner. Bev and Lady, a mutual admiration society!

Lady must have been worn out the next day. Probably didn’t help that someone felt the need to set off fireworks on Christmas either. She snuggled up with Galen. One of my friends said she was the liquid dog. She was very relaxed!

Will end out the year with a few pictures from Christmas

I didn’t put as much out this year. My Santas stayed packed away for next year as well as a few other decorations. This was enough.

Wishing everyone a safe New Year’s Eve and a healthy and happy 2025!