Today is my sister's birthday. I need to call and remind her - just in case she forgot.
She is now 9 years older than I am. 
Yesterday our neighbors from across the road came over. Scottie and I walk with her and her dog, Duchess every weekday morning. They own a landscaping business and are going to do some work for us. and some of that work will be removing a BIG stump that is in the way of the new RV shelter. They came to assess the job. Then right after they left the RV shelter guy came by and looked at our spot, told Bill what he needs to do to get prepared, and kindly accepted our check for a down payment. Turns out our dads probably knew each other back in the 30;s and 40's. They were both local loggers here in G.H. But anyway, Bill ordered our shelter and it will be here in January. I just hope the snows don't beat it.
TINA - even your post sounds pooped! You never get a break, do you. You need to put out a sign "Closed on Weekends"!
JANA - there is no way to do Disneyland cheaply so Matt may as well close his eyes to the cost and enjoy it. I'm sure he knows that Christmas is the busiest day of the year in that happy place, right? Glad to hear the crumblies at your house are no more! It's a good feeling to get everything all neat and tidy once again. Bill mentioned yesterday that "we" need to purge again. I just looked at him. I already took 4 carloads of stuff to the Goodwill (all MY stuff, I might add), and now he thinks I should take more. I told him if I purge any more, he won't be happy about what I give away! lol! I like big drawers in a kitchen. We have them in the RV instead of cabinets. In the house kitchen I have cabinets but they slide out so I can reach everything. Best of all! But your hook idea sounds good!
BECCA - I like sweet potatoes as long as they are truly sweet potatoes (the pale yellow ones) and NOT yams (light orange and darker). They taste very different to us. We've noticed whenever we go to Texas, they have tons of yams, call them sweet potatoes, but there actually are no sweet potatoes like we have here. Not in the stores we shop, at least. So what do you have in NC? Your DGD must have a real talent for baking. And I do believe it is a talent. My mom had it and so does my Autumn. But not me, my other DD, Lara, or either of my sisters. We CAN bake, but it's not ribbon worthy like your DGD. What other kinds of things does she bake?
I made a pot of pizza sauce yesterday. I even followed a recipe, sort of. It tasted overly tomato-y to me so I added extra herbs and more garlic, a dash of vinegar and a bit of Worchestershire, let it simmer in the crockpot a while and then canned 3 pints. I think it will be an OK gift for someone who loves to make his own homemade pizza.
I also started hand sewing my 600+ yo yo's onto 3-1/2" strips of green fabric. Eventually the strips will go together to make a quilt top. Labor intensive, but will be a good TV/car-riding project for some time to come. Someday I'll have a quilt! And we hit Costco once again - 3rd time in a week, I think. Bill remembered he had one more gift to get - our oldest DGS, Drew. We got him a pair of snowshoes for his gift from us, but in our family name draw, Bill drew Drew so we went back and got him snow pants and gloves. NOW we're done shopping! Whew!
Supper tonite will be more split pea soup. It's my favorite soup and I could eat it 5 nights a week. But I think we'll only get 2 nights out of it. We will enjoy it while we watch the Seahawks play Philadelphia. Go Hawks!
What's YOUR favorite soup? And what's for supper tonite?
