Been busy

Alright so it is a new year. Happy New Year folks!

Blogger is not letting me upload any pictures for the last several days. I guess I get what I pay for... a free service, thank you Google. Instead I shall try to use the written language alone for this post until the issues are fixed.

So aside from family gatherings I have been busy. Now that I have a crock pot after 7 months without one. Make that two crock pots now. No I am not hoarding them *innocent whistle.*
I didn't actually grow up with a oven or stove in the house for the fist half of my life, so I learned to cook with one of three things. A microwave, an electric frypan and a crock pot. Since getting them,  New England Baked Beans, French Onion Soup and, Three Bean Pork Chili. Cinnamon Coffee Cake, steaks on fresh home-made garlic bread, they all sound yummy. In my modesty, they are delicious. I am happy to know that the first time cooking chili from scratch, I cooked the kidney beans just right to umm..... de-flatulate them for consumption. Go me. The hubby says that it is a rare that anything I make isn't anything but mouth-watering, then mumbles about the 'Rosemary incident' and moves along. I put a wee bit too much dried Rosemary in pasta once, but then I remind him that Milestones thought it was a good idea to cook Lavender flavoured potatoes as a side for a while. Something that should not be done to a perfectly good potato.

While continuing on the topic of food, I made mini pumpkin cheesecakes, molasses cookies, chocolate chip oatmeal bacon (yes this is not a typo) and lemon squares. In all honestly if you are going to make the last one, barring any food allergies, keep them simple and they remain to be awesome.

Enough about food thought. I finished making ornaments, I made myself some slippers, and made a hippo hat for a lady. I am still waiting to hear back from her, she has seen the picture and my message a few days ago. Here is to hoping she likes it. I am currently working on finishing the pieces to the chessboard that has been in the works for... oh, forever.

I hope you had a happy Christmas or, one of the other festive celebrations I sadly, do not know enough about to comment on and hopefully the new year is a lot better for you than how it started for bloggers picture upload.