It's been a week of strange diets. We started out the week with Charlie's low-fiber diet as a prelude to a procedure I don't need to mention but you can guess. I found a recipe for waffles that called for one mushy, overripe banana and put the ancient waffle iron to work. (The blueberries were for my serving. I need my fiber.)
I've been trying to correct a reflux problem with dietary restrictions that include tomatoes, so I found a recipe for Alfredo sauce to use on our pasta. Not bad. We had it for our Madroña pop-up meeting/party on Tuesday.
I'm really enjoying the new convection/microwave, though. I roasted carrots and kale, adding the kale when I turned the pan of carrots halfway through. Charlie ate just the carrots, and I enjoyed the combination.
Meanwhile, the pups came for breakfast and were willing to "stay" for treats. Dusty is limited to a fish diet, so they both eat kibble that only has fish as the protein source. He's thought to be allergic to something in his food, and this is where we stopped trying new foods. (They look scruffy, but they get groomed today, so I'll try to get a good photo of both of them when they come home.
We had a lot of rain this past week, but spread out so that it was mostly just a drizzle all the time. We shortened our walks, but still got them in most days.
Well, here's some fiber, not not consumable unless you're a moth. (Shudder!) My olive wood buttons came, and I thought I might get my Oregon Autumn cardigan finished, but I had two medical appointments besides Charlie's procedure, music for Lessons and Carols to practice, presents to wrap and grocery shopping.
I did manage to prepare the guest room for my brother-in-law's visit coming up and straighten out the workroom, which is now being used for wrapping the few presents we have that need wrapping, which is not much, because it will just be the three of us this year.
The doll for Elsie that disappeared from shipping was finally sent and arrived ahead of the new scheduled arrival time. Louis felt the need to protect Elsie's present. Alexa will wrap Max for her niece, who is our honorary granddaughter. She only has one surviving grandmother, so we have adopted her and her brother.
Alexa sent a photo of Max, looking around at his surroundings before his view is blocked by Christmas wrap.
I have had a BlueSky account for several months and am now back to more than the number of followers I had on Twitter/X before I deleted my account, as people flee the old site and arrive on BlueSky. I was a bit excited to discover that Mark Hamill was following me. He's a pretty big account, so he may have helped people find me there. Food for thought.
We're using the little tree this year, since it's just the three of us, and we got it up and decorated. There are now a few (very few) presents under it now. I'll try to get another photo when there are a few more.
We have Apple TV, and I get regular notices of what they have available. I wanted a holiday movie to watch, and received a notice of their movie, "Spirited" and thought it looked interesting, so we watched it Saturday night. The story is set in current times with the spirits from Dickens' A Christmas Carol working as part of a big enterprise working to redeem characters who are mean and cruel because of a sad past. It stars Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, along with a huge cast of great singers and dancers, including some cameo appearances. We both enjoyed it.
This Sunday at Trinity was the "Lessons and Carols" event, a worship service that tells the Christmas story in scripture and music. It was a lot of music to learn and sing. Christmas Eve will be easier.
Getting back to food, I finally got up the nerve to try baking bread in my new convection/microwave oven. I made whole-wheat sourdough bread. It turned out great!
My next blog post will be after Christmas and into Hanukkah, so it's time to say Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, and go out with this photo from Pauly's First Christmas Eve.
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To Dolls a Goodnight. Of course Santa can talk to dolls, and of course they can hear him. It was Christmas Eve 2019, and the dolls were anticipating a visit from Santa...as well as other holidays.
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