Christmas Eve goodies

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!  Although we are still encased in ice, the roads are clear for travelers.  My old-fashioned, just-like-Mom-used-to-make-them sugar cookies are baked and iced (no pun intended). 

Our Christmas Bison cookies

And the animals are frolicking in the nippy weather.  A baby deer (well, not that much of a baby anymore) - running around in the back yard chasing the birds.

 

Have a Happy Day
~ Kat

Where is the global warming they keep promising?

Winter Solstice - first official day of winter!  Well, we have had 2 snows and now an ice storm last night.  If this is any sign of what we are in for this winter, all I can say is brrrrrrr !!!!!!

But it is beautiful, in an evil icy sort of way.
~ Kat

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Being from south Texas, snow is still a wondrous event to me.  It quiets my little world and puts a peaceful blanket on everything!

Arrgg, then I have to drive in it!  The price I am willing to pay for that blissful time when I watch and listen to it fall. 

~ Kat

I am back! Is it that simple?

Hi to all 4 of my followers and any others that wonder into my cyberspace.  I am going to try this again.  Even though it was work, I seemed happy blogging. So stay tuned for new content truly focused on the simple things in life.
~ Kat

Lazy Days

Today is a lazy day - sitting here quilting or reading or watching the birds out my window (too hot right now outside for me - and no breeze).  Poor birds - it has been so hot they all are sitting around in the shade too, just panting and drinking water from the birdbath.  At least we are getting back down to seasonable temperatures after today - maybe it will hold out for the rest of the summer - and then the birds, and the humans, won't be struggling so much.

Hummingbird at feeder right outside my window.

American goldfinch sitting on a dead coneflower pod.

Make sure to take time out to have a lazy day every once in a while - otherwise, look what you miss.
-Kat

Early Taste of Fall

What a wonderful treat!  Just got my Autumn edition of The Cottage Journal magazine last week and, I was thinking, it sure doesn't feel like Fall when temperatures have been in the 100s with lows in the high 70s or 80s.  It has been another brutally hot and dry summer for us here in Oklahoma (as in many places).  Anyway, Thursday we had a front come through and it is 65 degrees this morning.  The owls put on a symphony for me while I was sitting out on the patio.  And now as the sun comes up, the birds are flying giddily around enjoy the coolness. 

So, even though it is supposed to be close to 100 again today, we were given a wonderful taste of Fall and a reminder to have faith -  comes to this hot weather too shall come to pass. 
- Kat

Flashback - Retro Candy at Pops

We decided to go to the TLC nursery in Edmond, OK, in search of desert willows - we had seen them in Utah and fell in love with them.  We were in luck - they have them and they will grow in Oklahoma.  So now we just need to decide where to put them.  As we left TLC, we were driving on Route 66 wondering (and wandering) where we could stop and eat - Pops!!!!  So we headed east to Arcadia and pulled in at Pops - home of hundreds of sodas!!!  

Food was good as always and we brought home some different sodas to try as always.  But one new offering caught my eye...retro candy!!!  How cool is this...

Lots more blast from the past candy - love this place! - Kat