Update... Grrrrrrrr

 So, yeah.

The wood order ARRIVED in Salina

at the Menard's store.

But it's not being delivered to US

until NEXT THURSDAY!!!!!

Grrrrr.

It is what it is and there's nothing

we can do about it.

They only have a truck driver two

days a week and he already has a

big load on Monday.

So Thursday it is.

Which would be fine,

except Jim is coming the following 

Tuesday night! (Late, so Tuesday 

doesn't count...)

But, Kyle will make it work.

We might not get the roof all done,

but we will do what we can.

Meanwhile.

Update: I froze the onions. I'll probably

put some of them in the freeze dryer later,

but we will see. I kind of like them both ways.

And I saw a cute pattern on the interwebs.

So I crocheted myself a touque!

It's a bit looser than I want, so I might

unsew it and make it smaller.

Or I might not.

I'll probably make a salmon colored one now,

since I have lots of that yarn leftover.

And I'll make that one a little smaller.

Anyhow.

It's winter.

The windchill on Sunday morning is going to be 8.

That's COLD in anybody's book.

But somehow my lilacs didn't get the memo.

So I went out and picked some more yesterday.

(It's only that one day though, by Tuesday

it will be back in the 70's.... just a little

pre-season teaser...)

Kyle said the pigs LOVED the cherry 

tomatoes we gave them, so I'm going

to just pull the plants in my raised bed

and toss the whole thing over their fence.

Last night I made Nancy's pumpkin soup

for dinner. It was YUMMY!!!

I used fake maple syrup since it's what I have.

Kyle has real, but I wasn't driving back

to the farm for a half cup of syrup.

And I used dried herbs instead of fresh.

I only have fresh basil, rosemary, and chives.

Oh, and cilantro.

Today I'm going out to the yard and 

trimming ALL the herb plants and

doing an herb run in the freeze dryer.

I love freeze dried herbs.

We also have some regular mint,

some apple mint,

and more lemon balm.

I expected the cilantro to self-seed again

in the raised bed, but nothing.

And then I noticed a big patch of it

across the yard by the mint!

That's WEIRD!

But I'll take it!

Nobody likes it but me...

but I love it.

Anyhow.

I'm in soup / chili / stew mode.

So tonight I'll probably make a batch of

loaded potato soup for Rod to eat when

he gets home from the farm.

(I'll have a bowl before I start teaching.)

I'm trying to eat BEFORE class and NOT AFTER.

That's just too late at night to have a 

big ol' dinner.

Anyhow.

I am teaching the weekend class this weekend,

so I will miss Relief Society.

The Stake is coming to Teach us to Teach.

I'm sad to miss that!

Also we are practicing #1203

What Child Is This

to sing in the Christmas Sacrament Mtg.

And it's Linger Longer.

Pot luck.

I'll make.... something, and 

send it with Rod.

Anyhow.

I'm going to go crochet for a minute.

I'm doing a 16 hour fast, so no breakfast

until 11:00.

But that's when I usually eat anyway,

so no biggie.

I'm going to make some dandelion tea though.

Its chilly in the house and a good

hot mug of tea sounds yummy.

(I'll turn up the heat when I walk out to the

living room, we used the heat all last month

overnight and my power bill went DOWN.)

Natural gas is CHEAP.(ish)

Ok.

Bye.