Peacock Alley

With family coming home for the Holidays, I've been working on the house some. In shopping I saw some awesome looking fine linens. They carried peacock alley, John Atkinson and more. When everyone is home we have a house full and it's nice if we all sleep well. I think we're about ready for Christmas now!

Web Cam

We haven’t had much time to use our new web cam lately. It seems to work much better than our older one. The little bit we have used it was in talking to Jake a week or so ago. Jake’s camera is built into his computer and it works great. It is so clear and crisp. Ours is a separate unit that can either mount on the monitor or sit on the desk. It does seem to be a lot clearer then our old one was. It has been hard to find time to try it, but soon we will need to use it again and chat with our kids.

Homemade Pea Soup

I decided that this would be the weekend I would make my Grandma's homemade pea soup. It has been a long time. We were actually home on Saturday, so it was the perfect time for it. You have to soak the peas over night in water and baking soda. Then in the morning I started the soup. It's really pretty easy. You just add water and begin boiling the peas. Add chopped potatoes and carrots to the water. Boil stew meat and onion slowly in a separate pan. When potatoes and carrots are softening, then add the meat and juice to the soup mixture. Continue to cook adding beef base and 1 tsp of baking soda. The soda must help break up the peas. Then the soup will thicken up and it's ready to eat. Boy, has it been good in this cool weather.

Charter Services

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Movie Recording

There are times when we have missed television movies, but not so much any more. We now have a DVD recorder so we can make sure we don't miss the programs we like. I leave it to Bill to set the recorder up. Once we figured out the machine it was easy to record. Now we can record movies and watch them at our leisure. I wish we would have purchased a DVD recorded long ago.

Monster Cookies

Last night Bill made some monster cookies from a recipe that his mom had given me. He had never made them before but they were very good. He was a bit unsure how they would turn out I think. He took some to work and we have a plastic container about half full here at home. I am glad he made them. They are very tasty. Now that he knows how to make them he can treat us again sometime. He's very good about doing that. He's the best!