Sunday Soliloquy
Now I am not one to complain (at least not too loudly) But today….I am ready to whine about the cold. We woke up to -5 degrees this morning. Wind chill is around -15, now buddy that’s COLD! We did not even go out for church this morning. Sweetie has decided to leave this afternoon for Ohio, instead of getting up at 4 am (when it is liable to be -10) I think it is a good idea. I hate the thought of him travelling so far when it is so cold. I really hate to see him go. (it might be a little bit about keeping the wood brought in, LOL) We have had a nice uneventful weekend. I spent yesterday afternoon baking, mostly to keep the oven on warming the kitchen. Sweetie likes to take a sweet bread or muffins along for his breakfast while he is gone. I have some good recipes that I add flax meal to and lots of fruit and nuts,…very healthy. It keeps him away from Old Macdonald…”The cholesterol King”, so I do it happily. I also baked some good old fashioned sugar cookies. I found a new recipe at Christmas time for these very thin crispy sugar cookies that are not to sweet. A single batch made 5 dozen and only 3/4 cup of sugar. They are almost calorie free! Well we are eating them like they are calorie free! I also made roasted garlic and we spread that on bread with our dinner last night.
So here it is a new day and I am wondering, with sweetie leaving, what to put in the oven today… I may have to resort to turning on the electric heat if I don’t come up with something. We usually heat entirely with wood but when it gets this cold the kitchen gets chilly. I don’t want to bake anything sweet cause you know I will eat it. I may try my hand at homemade crackers.
Now to my Gratitude for the day…I am always Thankful for so much. Over the past 8 months of keeping this Gratitude Journal it has really caused me to think of the positive things I have to be Thankful for. I am Thankful that even when it is sooooo cold outside I have a warm place to call my own…many do not. I amThankful that even though Sweetie has had to be gone away from home so much these last few months, that he is good at what he does.That he has built a wonderful business and has such a good reputation that IDOT, ODOT and INDOT consider him “first choice” for all their needs. We are very fortunate. Have a great Sunday!
Yes it is very cold in Ohio also. I woke this morning to ice frozen to our windows. Our home is 30 years old and it is definitely past time for new windows. I too use my oven to help with the heating. We have total electric but switched to a propane fed gas stove two years ago just so we would have heat if the electric went out. It has been most helpful a couple of times for that purpose. But I must say I enjoy cooking more with gas than electric. And it sure was great this morning to make a breakfast casserole to warm up the kitchen and our bellies. Have a great Sunday and tell Tim hi for me.
Hi Maureen,
I enjoyed your post today. It’s cold here, too, but not quite that cold.
I am grateful today that I am feeling a lot better, more like my ole self the last couple of days.
I would like to have your recipe for the sugar cookie. Have you ever heard of tea cake cookies? If so, are your sugar cookies any thing like a tea cake cookie?
Maureen, can you tell me if my comment to today’s posting is on your blog? I left the cmment, hit submit cmment, but it hasn’t showed up. Before I left a comment, your blog was showing you only had 1 comment. Now it shows 2 comments, but where is mine?
Thanks for letting me know. If you didn’t get it for some reason then I’ll post again.
Never mind, I see you got it. It was just super slow loading.
Hello Friend,
You had the same temp. we had up here this morning. We use wood to, but this morning Hubby turned on the Natural Gas furnace. Yes, even though we live in the country we have the joy of town with Natural Gas. I would also like to have the sugar cookie recipe. We had a dinner at Church and the Church building was warmer than my house. It has gotten up to 11 degrees, but the wind is blowing. What was hard was that it was wamer where my girls live in Michigan than here in Indiana.
Maureen, thank you for the recipe for the sugar cookies. The main difference between a tea cake cookie and a sugar cookie is the tea cake ones are not as sweet as the sugar cookies. Your recipe sounds like it would taste more like a tea cake.
It’s blue-blazin’ cold here too!! But I’m thankful for the fireplace which which to warm my toes, and a car that warms up fairly quickly! And a heavy coat…I could go on!!
Thanks for stoppin’ by my spot!
I grew up and raised our kids in Northern Colorado - just north of Denver in the foothills…and I KNOW what cold is. It’s miserable. And I can understand about the wood burning stoves too…they do feel so much more comfy and homey than electric heat. I’d just worry that the pipes would freeze up….so I’d run it twice a day no matter. [Funny thing is, when we retired to Arizona we were walking around in shorts and shirt sleeves the first winter….but after being acclimated to the desert, the 2nd year we were bundled up at 40 degrees…now with being on the seashore in the subtropics, we find the damp 30 degree range is worse than the below zero we experienced in Colorado…I think it’s more or less the humidity that gets to us and our bones!! LOL
All the baking sounds delicious!!! Now, I’m hungry!!
Have a blessed quiet and peaceful evening!!!
Cricket..I would love to have a gas stove to cook on but, out here in the boondocks there are no gas lines…..I often think we live in another dimension. But in love the “Outer Limits”
Betty…I am so glad you are feeling better, I hope you enjoy those cookies as much as we do!
Joyce…Again with the gas…You girls are so lucky. Church dinners are the best. We did not even brave the weather to go.
PJ..Welcome, glad you are staying warm. I enjoyed your site looking at the bathroom remodel.
Hootin’ Anni….I bet you do know what cold is! I always open the cupboard doors under the kitchen sink and we have never had a problem with pipes freezing, Thank God! I think most of us have them “Old Bones” at this point, damp and cool is always a pain (somewhere) LOL
WOW~that is REALLY cold! God bless the Lone Star State and its 50 degree winters!!