Winter Sunset

Grabbed my cell phone to get this photo taken through the window in my sewing room Thursday evening.  The sky turned the most beautiful shade of pink but it didn’t last long and then it was dark.  So glad I was privileged to see it and now share this Nebraska View with you.
Until Later,
Lynn

Noodle Making Time

Yesterday was my annual noodle making marathon.  I love to give homemade egg noodles to friends and family at Christmas each year.  Everyone makes cookies or specialty breads but no one I know gives homemade noodles.
These are the noodles drying from yesterday, minus some I gifted already this morning.  I used a total of 13 1/2 cups of flour in the 4 recipes I made.  I may have to make a few more but this might be it for this Christmas.  I make noodles occasionally for John and I throughout the year but not in these large quantities.

Last year I wrote about making noodles and gave the recipe I used and you can read that blog post here.  The Kitchen Aid noodle attachment is great and I would not be making the volume of noodles without it.  Don’t get me wrong…it is still time consuming and a bit of work but nothing like doing all the kneading and cutting by hand.

Until Later,
Lynn

Cold, Colder, Coldest

The temperature lately has been horribly cold outside.  When the morning starts out with the temperature in the minus numbers you know it is frigid.  This morning it was –8 degrees F. at 7:30 am and got up to 14 degrees F around 4:00 pm.  Saturday we had our first significant snow fall, and unusual for us, it came straight down with no wind.  It is so fluffy and pretty on the trees but we all know in Nebraska we could still get wind and that pretty snow could pile up into drifts.A peek between the trees and you see the cows grazing across the highway.  Looks like they are grazing snow but in reality they are grazing a section that was planted to turnips, radishes, and rye grass. They just poke their nose through the snow and grab a mouthful.  They really like that and will spend a lot of time on those fall planted areas and when it is grazed down then will move into the corn field to get the corn and stalks left after harvest.

Sure was nice to hear the weatherman on TV last night tell us that today temperatures are supposed to get up to 30 degrees F.  Yipee…a heat wave!

Until Later,
Lynn

New Profile Photo

Today I am making another attempt to get started blogging again.  Too many activities and overnight guests this last month.  We had my whole family here for Thanksgiving week and that takes a lot of planning and food.  Everyone helped with the food but I still had a lot to do to have 14 extras sleeping here one night then 11 the next night, 9 the third night and only 2 the 4th night.  We also hosted hunters two long weekends and other guests for several days.  Not sure how it happened that we had so many people in such a short time but that is just the way it went this November.  I didn’t even have time to turn on my sewing machine so I am itching to get back to it!  I did take the time to set up my camera and get a new photo for my profile though.  I fiddled with the photo in Photoshop Elements 11 a bit and like the brighter face and darker quilt a new technique for me.  Not sure I remember what I did but like the results.  Another secret I should probably not tell you all but I used the program to smooth out the chicken wattle wrinkle on my neck….a result of loosing weight and age.  That loose skin is now magically gone.  Hey – my photo so I can do what I want right? Too bad it can’t really be magically gone like that!

My last profile photo was also taken in front of this same quilt so you might not realize it was a different photo taken 4 to 5 years apart.  I needed a new profile photo for another thing rather quickly and didn’t have any other ideas of what to use for a background so this nine patch to the rescue.  I have a remote shutter release and put my camera on the tripod and clicked away. 

Until Later,
Lynn