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Christmas, Horse, horse shopping, horses, Scribbles: The Ramblings of A Renaissance Woman, shelties, Shetland Sheepdogs, snow
Oh the weather outside is frightful….so goes the song. We are delayed from leaving for Florida by this rather exciting blizzard we’re having! But I had some fun and cooked up Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourgignon….wonderful and it perfumed the house. We piled logs on the fireplace and lit it with mixed results. I can’t make up my mind if the logs were green or we just have a really lousy flue in our chimney…this is a new house, and this was our first fire here. I watched “Christmas In Connecticut” as I cooked and just embraced the notion of being snowed in! I haven’t had much snow in the last ten years as we head to Florida for the show season about this time…I always miss the snow…but judging by the howls outside the window and the reluctance of the shelties to brave the elements, I may make up for it with just this one storm…
We’ve been trying to leave for Florida for the last two weeks! So here I find myself in an undecorated house. If I had known we would have so many setbacks, I would have pulled out my Christmas decorations and put a little tree up. I am contenting myself with a vase of winter berries, a little, fat, red candle and Nigella Lawson’s new Christmas cookbook displayed on a plate rack!
But it’s cool, ’cause the Christmas Horse has passed the clinical exam and the x-rays are excellent….just waiting for lab stuff and he IS mine! And we will get to Florida ANY day now….maybe even in time for Christmas!
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Sounds like a beautiful day, Christmas decorations or no!
It was…and the snow just stopped here a little while ago! We’ve got well over two feet and are most definitely snowed in!!! Photos later…
You must be very excited about your new horse. Best wishes and Merry Christmas!
Ah, so you are a gourmet chef in addition to an accomplished equestrian! Very nice. Hope you get to go to Florida to meet your new horse very soon!
Ha ha- I see you made the Boeuf Bourgignon! Did you see the movie Julie and Julia? I saw that and it made me want to start blogging so here I am!!
I did see the movie and read the book…but I’ve been cooking with Julia since the seventies!!! Hers was the first cookbook I ever owned! My horse adventures are my blog inspiration!!!