wordsfromanneli

Thoughts, ideas, photos, and stories.


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Your Reward

Thank you, friends, for checking in for the last 26 days while we did the alphabet countdown.

It’s time for your reward. Please help yourself to as many gingersnaps as you want.

If you feel like making your own, I will share the recipe at the end of the post.

Gingersnaps

  

Put in pot and let come  to boil: 

1 c. butter

1 c. molasses

½ c. brown sugar

 

Remove from heat. Put in bowl.

Add: 

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. ground ginger

 3 – 3 ½ c. flour

*

Cool in fridge. 

Roll and slice or cut with cookie cutter. 

Bake at 350* for 8 minutes.

 

Good frozen. 

*Candied ginger pieces can be added to dough.  Also grated fresh ginger may be added.


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Z is for Zoom

In the days after Christmas many people take advantage of the required couch time to recover from the buildup to Christmas and the stress and fuss of making it special.

After a bit of time for recovery, things will pick up again and, with fresh energy, we will ZOOM everywhere.

 

Christmas stress is over now,

Dinner hosts can take a bow,

Kids are happy, adults tired,

Many now in debt are mired.

 

 

Some take presents to the store,

They don’t please them anymore,

Clothes too tight, and colours wrong,

Gift return lines are so long.

 

 

No more hype or Christmas cheer,

Focus shifting to next year,

It was fun on Christmas Day,

Now a new year paves the way.

 

 

All new goals, ideas, and plans,

New Year’s Eve has many fans.

January, starting new,

With so many things to do.

 

One year passes, next one looms,

Energy around us zooms.

Projects planned, and  things to do

Happy New Year, all of you.

*****

 

Z is for zoom. 

May we all zoom into a good year ahead, with happiness for all.


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Y is for Yule

Yule is a celebration of the winter solstice as well as the Christian holiday we usually call Christmas.

Often you may hear about yule logs being placed on the fire in the fireplace. Basically that’s just a big piece of firewood, usually oak, burned around Christmas time. In days of old, people saved a piece of the previous year’s yule log to start the new fire.

My favourite yule logs are the kind I can eat. They have dates and coconut in them.

If you’d like to get the recipe for them, please check my post from a few years ago.

 

Yule Love Yule Logs

Y is for yule.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

 


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W is for Winter

“First it rained and then it blew;
Then it friz and then it snew;
Then it fogged and then it thew;
And very shortly after then
It blew and snew and thew again.”

I don’t know who wrote that poem, but I think it has been around a very long time.

Also, I should mention that these photos are from six years ago and are not a true reflection of the weather here today.

 

W is for winter.


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U is for UFO

With all the drones flying around over North America, doing “who-knows-what?” I started to wonder if any of them were UFOs.

It’s not such a crazy idea and I’ll tell you why.

A few years ago, I listened to some of the UN speeches on TV. I had the closed captioning feature turned on in case I missed anything they said. I found out that some countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and a couple of others have their food brought in from very far away. Now, I must stress that only a few countries are doing this.

Apparently they have a UFO bringing potatoes in from some other planet, or maybe even from another galaxy. But why just them? Why do they get special potatoes brought in from far away?

Well, the closed captioning said it’s because these countries have …

a disc tater ship. Honestly! That’s what the closed captioning said: “These countries pretend to have a democracy when in fact they have a disc tater ship.”

I always KNEW there was life beyond our Earth!

 

U is for UFO.


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S is for Squirrel Babies

Just to set the record straight before you read and look at the photos – these are the baby squirrels from a couple of years ago. There were no babies this year that I know of.

 

“Come on, you guys! It’s lonely at the top.”

“Let’s wrestle.”

“We need a referee.”

“You go down and tell him to come up while I find a referee’s chair for him to sit on up high.”

“Aw, come on! Stop playing hard to get.”

“I don’t want to be referee. It’s too boring.”

“Let’s play tag instead.”

“You’re it.”

S is for squirrel babies.

 


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R is for Raccoon

Reggie Raccoon is honoured to be the selection for the letter R in our countdown.

He’s waiting for that woman with the camera to go away before he’ll come down from the safety of the tree.

Next time he’ll only visit after dark when there is no danger of getting his photo taken, and when that curious Emma-dog is in the house.

That might be a good time to check out the garbage can by the back door. Last time there was a stick of pepperoni. The wind helped knock the can over, and I had a buffet midnight snack.

R is for Reggie the raccoon.


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Q is for Quail and Quince

The quince was beautiful when it was in bloom last summer.

Quentin the quail used to come visit  and hang around under it.

You may remember that he was the last of the many quail that used to live around here until our area got built up and turned into a dog walk for the subdivision about half a mile away. Quail and dogs on the loose just don’t mix, and the quail were the losers.

I last saw Quentin about a year ago, and I’m sure he has gone to quail heaven now.

But I loved having him around for visits now and then while he was still alive.

Q is for Quentin Quail in the quince.