Sue and Jeff surprised me with a gift of a personalized ceramic pie plate from Korff Ceramic Originals. I quickly picked up some granny smith apples and a bag of frozen cherries. I added some maple syrup as a sweetener. With the grannies Jen says it could have used more sugar.
For the holidays this year, we had an additional passenger as we headed to Pennsylvania. Josie has shown her displeasure on short rides at being stuffed into today's über-safe car seats, so we were a mite apprehensive about how she would fare. With lots of company in the back seat, she did fine.
Visiting my side of the family, we had a very nice holidays. Here in the background of this video we can see a bit of the excellent decorations put up by Diane and Todd.
The video subject is Josie rocking out on their piano. She has been offered a chance at the keys before, but here for the first time, she really gets into it. She accomplishes quite a lot with just the black keys.
The weather prognosticators called this one right. We got a storm late Friday afternoon and through the night. Another storm was called for Sunday, and as this is being written, the NOAA has us down for "Freezing Fog". This all got us to do our gift exchange a day early, on Saturday.
The supermarket had a good price on blackberries. Not very traditional, but sounded appealing, especially when imagined combined with something like lemon sans meringue. A web search turned up a recipe. This also gave me an opportunity to try out Jungle Shortening. The resulting crust was well received, but it was more cake-like, than classically flaky.
We had a nice time exchanging presents. Josie has the knack for ripping the wrapping paper off any gift, but had to be distracted from eating the paper so convenient there in her hand. She got a big kick out of her new Push and Ride Racer. It needed assembly, and I only broke it a little bit getting it together. Still a lot of fun!
We toured the New England Aquarium last Sunday as part of Jen's birthday celebration. We had a nice time. Josie takes it all in: the harbor seals, the penguins, the jelly fish, all the big fish in the main tank.
We took a brunch break at nearby Sel de la Terre. The staff there was very accommodating of our babe. The food was very good. The morning's weather saw some snow flurries, which are only barely visible in this post-meal photo. The snow in the end didn't amount to much. It certainly didn't slow us down.
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