Sooo busy with the holidays, decorations, parties and such, that I could not write nor read any blogs yesterday. Here's a little catch up:
Saturday morning we awoke to snow all over the place! Aighhhh! There wasn't supposed to be snow yet. Well, there should be snow statistically speaking at this time, but there wasn't any predicted for this year at this time. I was very much enjoying that fact and love a good green Christmas. Fortunately the snow was only a minor annoyance as it didn't accumulate much on the sidewalks or streets and was pretty much relegated to the grass and trees. By Monday all of the snow was gone and all was right in the world again. That said, the snow was the impetus in LL and me staying inside most of the day on Saturday and working on Christmas cards and decorating the tree.
LL took one of her copious vacation days on Monday that she has left this year (while STILL carrying over 10 days into next year), but was a little disheartened to find out how much work I had to do. She would prefer that we just snuggle in bed or on the sofa or anywhere really and make a day of it. We did get to have lunch together though and our lunch of choice at home normally is PB and J with a few chips on the side: simple, some carbs, some protein, relatively light....good eating. Often LL will make the sandwiches but for whatever reason I was making them Monday. So I got out the jelly and the PB and started toasting the bread (oh yeah, we toast the bread first).
"Hey, this jelly is darker than normal. Did you get raspberry preserves like normal?"
"Yes I did."
Spreading jelly on the bread.
"Hmmmm, yep. Yes you did. My bad. Why is it darker than normal? Does it look darker than normal to you?"
"It does!"
Spreading peanut butter.
"It almost looks like it could be prune jelly or something. Odd. You just bought that right?"
"Nope. We had that one and the new one is in the pantry."
"Ohhhhhhh, I think I know what's up. Check that date on that bottle."
"December 1996!!! Ewwwwwwwww!!!!! I'm NOT eating that sandwich."
"Oh c'mon, it's probably fine."
"No. And you're not eating it either. We'll just make new sandwiches."
Then I remembered more fully that I "found" the jelly in the back of a shelf the other day and put it in the rotation for use. Whoops. Bad Joe. Remember to check dates!!!!
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Come on LL - woman up. Fine aged jelly. How could one turn up their nose to that?
Haha! I was wondering how it was possible you had such old jelly when you described how you "usually" have your sandwiches... "usually" implying that this happens on a somewhat regular basis.
Not much snow has fallen here either. We got a little bit yesterday, but it's going to warm up just enough to melt it. It will be a brown Christmas here. And I'm not complaining either.
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