keeping the home fires burning

I haven't posted ... because we didn't do much of anything last weekend.  We had hoped to do our annual Sol-Bright hike, which we usually do after the first snowfall but before the ski areas open up; the weather was not all that great, plus the storms earlier in the week had brought a fair amount of snow, so we weren't all that inclined to go hiking.  We also weren't that inclined to rake the leaves but it was windy enough that most of that problem solved itself.

We stayed put: Milton and I went on lots of walks; did a bunch of laundry (and even put it away!); we made two kinds of soup - a green chile stew and a Moroccan harira - as well as two batches of pumpkin cranberry walnut muffins; and finished up this year's holiday cards.  Pretty standard, boring stuff.

This coming weekend looks to be more of the same, although the weather should be a wee dite better.  We'll see if we can't motivate a little more for this one.