COLD DARK ROOM

[Kristoff]

Good mornooning roommates! It's been a busy day, so I almost forgot to open my first Christmas card.

The first to arrive was one from @Bambam1989



I love it!

Brandy, did you do the Yellow Billed Hornbill picture? It's beautiful! <3

 

[Maro2Bear]

Watching Christmas hallmark movies

We were watching Celtic Women here a bit ago, always entertaining, fantastic vocalists!

 

[Yvonne G]

Watching Christmas hallmark movies

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Aw geez - cuteness overload.

 

[CarolM]

Here’s a quick pix of the two Xmas ornaments done so far. Can’t tell from the angle, but they are both about 6 inches long, tip to tip. Ae need a tree up now to hang!

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Oh Wow, I love those.

 

[CarolM]

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AAhhhh, How adorable they all are. congratulations.

 

[CarolM]

Oh my garsh. I won't get on a ladder unless someone is spotting me anymore. I've fallen too many times. Once I was trying to paint the awnings and fell behind the shrubs. I forced myself to recover a bit and get up because I probably just looked like a bag of rags. I would have been found though when I got stinky...

Whahaha. You are so funny!!

 

[CarolM]

LOL! This reminds me of when I was up on the roof of the barn cleaning off the pepper tree leaves. My barn is a metal building, sort of like a three stall run-in shed, and there's a pepper tree right behind it. Well, you can't leave the leaves on that metal or it will eventually rot and rust away, so several times throughout the summer I would have to get up the ladder and clean off the roof. I had a long handled rake I could use for most of it, but it wasn't long enough to reach all the way across. Plus, if you actually got up on the roof, you had to only step on the metal supports because the roof panels aren't strong enough to support one's weight. So this one day I was up on the roof and I accidentally kicked the ladder away. Here I am, in a semi-rural neighborhood, among working people (no one's home) and stuck up on the roof of the barn. Actually, if I had been using my head, I could have laid on my stomach and hung off the edge of the roof and there probably would have only been a 3 or 4 foot drop, but I wasn't thinking. So I sat up there hoping someone would go by the street. I waited maybe a half hour and eventually I saw a neighbor a couple acres away out in his front yard. I hollered and hollered. He eventually heard me and came to my rescue! This was many years ago. I wouldn't dare do that now.

Oh my word. That sounds like a terrible thing to happen. But a good story to tell in later years.

 

[CarolM]

I have several cats, but only one that lives indoors, Little Missy Kitty:
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She's not fond of the two new little interlopers and she searches them out then sits about 10' away from them and hisses and growls at them. At first the kittens would run 'home' (the closet), but they've gotten to realize she's no threat, only hissing and growling, so they just sit there and stare back at her.

Little Missy Kitty's 'safe' place to sleep is on the cat tree in the living room, the highest shelf. It took the kittens a long time to venture out of my bedroom and closet into the rest of the house, but they discovered the living room this past week, and the cat tree this morning. Poor Little Missy Kitty!

She now has to sleep on the back of the couch.

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Oh I love the photo's. Little Missy Kitty is a really beautiful cat. I feel for her. But you know what they say, all kids have to learn to share.

 

[CarolM]

I named my last bunny "QueSi". My vet sends birthday cards and you can't believe the digital card that came. It's an older hard to find Hispanic song called "Que Si Que No". It fit that saucy little chile pepper so well. She eventually saved my life.

I am curious, How did she save your life? You cannot drop something like that into the conversation and not share the story!

 

[CarolM]

Wifey was busy doing Thanksgiving prep work today. We made a scrumptious vegetarian butternut squash stew in the crockpot for tomorrow, and a very tasty Middle Eastern dessert called Knafeh.

Knafeh, kunafeh, konafa, all different ways of pronouncing one of the most popular desserts in the Middle East. Each country or region will have its own variation of fillings and flavours. The Levant is mostly known for their cheesy knafeh, crunchy shredded filo pastry filled with a mild cheese – usually akawi – and once cooked, it is drenched in the sweetest sugar syrup that’s lightly flavoured with rose or orange blossom water.

Here’s the masterpiece with crushed pistachios on top.

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oh now I am hungry. That looks really yummy.

 

[CarolM]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I am very thankful to be apart of this forum and our special room. I bet Adam (@tidgy’s dad ) never dreamed he would bring so many people together when he made his first post! I hope you all have a wonderful day.

Sorry I am so late, But Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it.

 

[CarolM]

Same to you Heather - Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family, as well as the extended TFO/CDR extended family.

Happy Thanks giving Mark.

 

[CarolM]

You folks 'across the pond' who don't have "Thanksgiving" you're all welcome to come visit one of us and share our meal!

Awww. Thank you Yvonne.
If I had, had a chance to come on here a little earlier I would have been knocking on your door and ready to entertain some kitties while you cooked.

 

[CarolM]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the states. Good morning to everyone across the pond. Going to my brother's for dinner. I hope I can avoid the political conversation. He tried to bait me a few times last year. But I bit my tongue.

Happy Thanksgiving Ray. So did you manage to avoid the political conversations?

 

[CarolM]

A former co-worker reached out this morning to extend Happy Thanksgiving greetings, and shared some turtle photos she took during a recent diving trip to Indonesia.

Here are two

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What gorgeous photos. Love them and thank you for sharing them with us.

 

[CarolM]

Our Thanksgiving Feast

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Hmmm, Yummy

 

[CarolM]

Tomorrow is what they call black Friday here. I have to go out early but it's a first for me. I used to go shopping the day after but it's become a circus. Tomorrow I'll try anyway. But! I'll be going when I feel like the coast is clear. There's something I want to buy for a great nephew really bad that I know he will love.sooo...

I hope you managed to survive it. We had Black Friday here as well. And Traffic was awesome coming in to work. There must have been a lot of people who took off for Black Friday. I don't do the black Friday simply because it makes a person buy stuff that you would not normally buy just because it is cheaper when in actual fact you are spending money that you don't have and would never have bought anyway.

 

[CarolM]

View attachment 283309 Ok, last Thanksgiving Day update, our kunafeh dessert ready to eat.

I am soooooo hungry right now!!!

 

[CarolM]

Had a great Thanksgiving lunch. All by my lonesome now though. Wife is visiting family out of state and son is off with his gf. 1st time in months I've gotten to watch an entire movie, start to finish, unabated. Life is great! lol

Those are the best times.

 

[CarolM]

It was an okay holiday. Kiddos have been sick today poor Maxine was really sick and I had to bring her to the Dr before we went to dinner because of her breathing. It's been a very long dinner. I didn't do any cooking but I cleaned up grandmas dinner for her.

Oh Shame, I hope Maxine is better now.