G'day, people.
Linda, 2 degrees F still sounds mighty cold to me. I hope you get your painting done, before you lose your energy and the light. Like you, I'm doing a fair bit of baking at the moment.
Sharon/WO, I hope you can satisfy your need for exercise. I've got more baking to do tomorrow also, I do find that I don't eat a lot of what I'm baking, when I'm trying to lose weight I tend to cook a lot more (rtying to make everyone else fat!).
I didn't get any baking done today but I did some digging on recipes I need and then went shopping this afternoon with mother in law so I could stock up on ingredients. difficult child 3 came too, he did some running around for us and bought SIL1's present from us all. Meanwhile I had some running around to do, driving to another store I don't often go to so I could buy bulk bread flour. Twenty kilos of it!
We got home with less than an hour before I had to go out again, for the rehearsal for our upcoming village carols night. The run-through happened very quickly, my choir was standing there with a "what now" attitude so we grabbed the chance to do a little more practice before sending them home. Then I took myself off home - I'd gone down on my mobility scooter so it was like walking home, in terms of meeting people etc. I dropped in on my friend to find out how her neighbour is going - he's still with us, amazingly.
It was lovely coming home in the warm evening air looking at the Christmas lights around the various homes. I'm not usually out at dusk, usually it's either much later, or I'm home well before dark. But tonight I was watching the dusk settle and hearing noises from the wildlife. A couple of dark shapes flew overhead, looking too big to be the usual magpies. Then I heard the screechy, squeaky noises - I think we have flying foxes in the village! I haven't heard them near our home, but we do have the right sort of trees for flying foxes, down near the shops. So next time I'm down there, I'll look up in the trees and see if I can see them roosting.
Tomorrow is my regular cleaning/housekeeping day. I've got a lot of cooking to do, some washing, and then after he's gone (if I have any energy left) I'll get busy with my Christmas baking - biscuits, brioche, pannetone. Somewhere in there we have to do a regular loaf of white bread, but I might make some savoury rolls for the various parties we're going to over the next few days. Our bread machine is going to be working overtime tomorrow!
difficult child 3 & I did manage to get to the beach today - it was in the middle of the day (not generally advisable) and difficult child 3's shoulders were a bit pink. Mine are OK though. If things work out, we might get to the beach again tomorrow, but a stormy change is due through and I want to go for a swim before that happens. I'll have washing to get off the clothes line, plus I'll be between various bread batches, so I'll have to watch the clock.
I've got a party to go to tomorrow evening, girls night out with the drama class mothers. Here's hoping I have the energy! The storms will be hovering about then.
Friday is another baking day with easy child 2/difficult child 2 and her friend, followed by our church Christmas party in the evening.
Enjoy your Wednesday.
Marg