#GRATEFULVIBES - ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE/WEEKLY THOUGHTS - 18 DEC 2023 - 24 DEC 2023

in Veterans11 months ago

Good morning and Merry Christmas, Hive-ians! 😊
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It’s been crazy here this week. We started the week with stuttering power that turned into three and a half days without any power or water and ended with us going into town to celebrate an early Christmas with our son and his family. Thankfully, we’ve had lots of practice cooking without a stove, so losing power wasn’t a big deal. We made ourselves some power outage pizza the first night. 😊
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Using the wood stove to warm up our yeast for some power outage cinnamon rolls. 😊
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The cinnamon buns are coming off the barbecue. 😊
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Power outage cookie bars; the left side is my handsome husband’s side and the right with all the chocolate chips is mine, heading into the barbecue. 😊
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Once the power was back on, we enjoyed some homemade chips fries in the rotisserie to go with our cheeseburgers. 😊
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We went to another potluck party this weekend and I brought two loaves of bread; fresh from the barbecue, as our contribution. This is them before going on the barbecue. 😊
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Spectacular sunrise colours. 😊
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One of our many Chickadee visitors grabbing a sunflower seed. 😊
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We went over to our sons’ place to deliver our grandchildren’s Christmas presents and have a visit, this is them all corralled onto the couch, so I could try for a clear picture of the three of them. Nope, I didn’t get a single clear shot of them all looking at me, but I thought this one was cute. 😊
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Well, that was how things have been going for us here. I hope you have all been safe and healthy and have had an amazing week! I’m grateful to God for blessing us with another week to share with you here. 😊 God bless you all. 😊 Have an awesome week everyone! 😊
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(All photos taken by me or for me by my handsome husband on my Huawei P30 Lite or Samsung S20FE5G.) (https://frostyamber.picfair.com is the address for my Picfair site if anyone’s interested in checking it out.)

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A good thing you learned the barbecue skills as they stood you in good stead last week. Spectacular sunrise! Nice shot of the chickadee.

Hope you have a very good Christmas!

Welcome back lovely lady, thanks for visiting! 😊

Yes, God prepared me for this power outage. Amen!

By ensuring I knew how to cook using something other than electricity; our barbecue has produced some fantastic food; everything from cookies to bars, to cinnamon rolls, to loaves of bread to steak and potatoes, and many helpings of corn, peas, peppers and onions too. YUM! 😊

He also blessed us by helping us learn canning skills this year. God is good always! He makes the most spectacular colours for our sunrises and sunsets and I'm glad that I've gotten some nice pictures of some of them to share here. 😊

Thanks! There seems to be more Chickadees around this year than there have been in the past. I love watching them flutter around the feeder. They're so fun to see up close, but so fast, that it's hard to get great shots of them, so I'm always happy when I get one to post. 😊

We got to spend some time with our son and his family, got to hear from our daughter and spent time with some new friends. We had a great Christmas, thank you. 😊

God bless you and your wonderful family. Have an awesome day my fabulous friend! 😊