It was almost 8:30 before we got up this morning. I guess we're feeling the effects of the Christmas rush. I headed for the treadmill right away, and then had breakfast after my workout. Mother came over later in the morning and put together a graham cracker cookie Christmas house to use as an example at the workshop Saturday.
While she did that, I wrote a press release for the Master Gardeners, announcing an upcoming nine-week training. Hubbie is actually the publicity chairman for the organization, but he prevails upon me for press releases, public service announcements, and photography, which I'm glad to do.
By the time we completed these tasks, it was lunch time. After lunch, we went to our polling site to vote on a quarter cent economic development tax. Usually any mention of tax is doused by voters in our town, but this one passed almost two to one.
Back home, Hubbie, Mother, and I worked together to make veggie/fruit muffins and potato soup . Hubbie is handy at peeling potatoes, using the food processor to shred carrots, etc., which makes it easier and faster for Mother and me to put together recipes. He's also a willing dishwasher, and keeps utensils, and bowls washed as we use them.
Even though today was quite warm, muggy, and rainy, the soup and muffins were very good for supper.
After supper, Hubbie and I went shopping. We stopped first at the video/music/book store, where I picked up a "Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul," and a CD of Christmas music. The CD will become one of the 12 days of Christmas gifts for Mother. The book will be one of her Christmas Eve gifts.
From there, we went to the WDCS for several grocery items, and token gifts for several men in Hubbie's family. It's almost impossible to find suitable gifts for men, but since most of them like hot and spicy foods, we chose gift boxes of bottled hot sauces.
Then we went to the everything's a dollar store, where I found Christmas themed clear plastic bags to use for food gifts.
Lastly, we stopped at the other discount store, where Hubbie bought a bag of chocolate cream drop candies, and a bag of ginger snaps. While at the WDCS, a friend told us that melting a bag of chocolate cream drops in the microwave, and then adding a half cup of peanut butter, will make a small batch of fudge, so Hubbie wants to try it. None for me, thanks.
Our friend was looking for the chocolate drops at the WDCS, but there weren't any, so Hubbie told her to try the other discount store, where he'd seen them a few days ago. I don't know if she went to the store, or not.
On the way home, we saw a van upended in a ditch, three wheels comically in the air. The van apparently got too close to the edge of a restaurant driveway and nose-dived into the drainage ditch.
By the time we reached our driveway, it was windy and sharply cooler. Predictions are for the temp to drop into the 20s tonight. Often, when the weather here in the south dramatically changes from warm to cold in the same day, there is tornadic activity. Fortunately, today there was not, at least not in our state.
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