A Quest for Christmas Cookies and Other Holiday Treats

We attempted to make some of our traditional holiday fare. For the most part it went well, but it was not without incident. The first batch of “chocolate bark” ran into a problem when the timer was mysteriously set to 7 hours instead of 7 minutes. Hmmm, that’s what happens when Diane does too many things at the same time. The first hint of trouble was when that burnt aroma began to permeate the house. 

 

Before                                After

Next we attempted some Kiss Cookies. Somehow one of the cookie balls decided to roll off the sheet and bake itself on the bottom of the oven. Fortunately there were no flames, but it did get a little smoky.  As you can see the rest made it.

Finally we tried some cut out cookies. These were successful. All the cookies and the subsequent successful batch of bark are now gone. Looks like we’ll be baking again next week. Click on photos for a closer look.

Greg put out a some outside lights. They look so pretty at night. This is proof that we do have some snow. I can hear the Fulton people chuckling now.

Merry Christmas to all. Click on the link below:

Christmas Card

Last Weekend

One of our traditions is to set up our New England Village the weekend after Thanksgiving, we leave it up into January. I love the warm glow of the lights at night. Somehow I find it comforting and peaceful.

Last Sunday we drove Emily back to school. I know winter is coming fast to the area, there was already ice on the rock walls the closer we got to her school. I don’t think we’ll be making the drive too many more times, Emily has decided to transfer to Salem State University starting her sophomore year. She decided it would be better to be closer to home. She wanted to get away and has now realized the down side is she is also trapped there on the weekends as she is 3 hours away. We have applied for her to transfer. Salem State is only about a half hour from home and many kids compute. We decided she could live there for her sophomore year as it’s a good experience and I tend to be a worrier when it comes to driving. It’s a tough area for commuting, there is no quick easy in and out to Salem and the traffic can be horrendous. Forget the month of October, Halloween is celebrated the entire month.