Joys of aging, not

 

I like to send Amazon gift cards to my great nieces in California for Christmas and their birthdays.  My nephew is very good about sending thank you videos from the kids.  His 2 year old is so cute, she has trouble pronouncing certain letters of the alphabet.  So I have been replaying her little thank you video many times.  'Thank you Auntie Chrispine'.  It gives me such a chuckle everytime.    It is the cutest age.

In other news my blood cholesterol has been inching up over the last year.  The doctor thought I should start taking medication to start treating it earlier rather than later.  In fact, he says he is on cholesterol meds himself.  So I started last week on Rosuvastatin it is called.  It can have side effects that I have to be aware of over the next 6-8 weeks (Jaundice and muscle pain).   In addition to that my blood sugar level went to 6.1 which means I am prediabetic. Anything above 6.0 is considered prediabetic. To this point I had no problem with these things so I am calling it the joys of aging, not.

Happy Boxing Day anyway.

Merry Christmas 2023!

 Wishing you a wonderful Christmas Day!  This photo is from a pretty gift bag I received this year.

Sunday Smiles - Aww

 Sharing this delightful photo of my nephew's pets for Gillena's Sunday Smiles today.

Have a wonderful Christmas Eve!

Christmas Lights

 Daughter L met up with some friends recently in Toronto's Distillery District downtown and shared these lovely photos from there.  We forgot how pretty it looks down there, especially at this time of year.

Friday Art - Woodpecker

 Welcome to Friday Art!  I did a Woodpecker ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2"), I thought the red and green colours seemed seasonal.

Linking to Nicole's Friday Face Off and to Gillena's Art For Fun Friday.

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Christmas Cookies and Easy No Knead bread

 Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date's 'Christmas Cookies' theme!  Here are the Christmas Cookies I did for you today!

For the dinner date, I made some easy no knead bread.  Daughter L found the recipe based on a Pinterest post.  I used unbleached flour below.

3 c flour

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp yeast (active or instant is fine)

1 1/2 c warm water (110F)

Mix flour, salt, yeast in a large bowl.  Mix in warm water.  Cover with plastic wrap 6 - 15 hours.  I did this in the evening and baked it the next morning.

Preheat oven 450 F

add 3 cups of very hot water to a 9 x 13" baking pan.  Place it in the bottom rack of the oven.  The water will create steam to keep the bread crusty on the outside as it bakes.

Transfer the sticky dough to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, loosely shape into a loaf with floured hands. Consider patting some flour on the top and cutting several slits on top.  Bake 25-30 mins until browned.

The next day I made the same recipe with whole wheat flour.

Then the next day I made the same recipe with white flour.  It is easy!

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