Butter? What butter?

PiLady is right, when you cook heavy cream the butter rises to the top. I know this because I've beaten whipping cream a second or two too long and it turns into butter before your very eyes. Amazing.

That dessert must be one that was eaten after a delightful and sense-ational meal of lutefisk and lefse. Lefse I like, or at least I never minded it. I never took the chance on lutefisk; fish jello does not pique my senses!

I'm starting to get into the holiday mood, earlier this year than last. That's probably because the weather is a lot more wintry this year. I think I remember Christmas being "unseasonably warm" last year. That isn't the case now, with temps in the 20s for the last week and week ahead. Not too much snow; just enough to look passably good. Here's our front yard at night.


(It's blurry because I used no flash resulting in a slow shutter.) We also have a spiral lighted "tree" in green that we have inside our porch. It looks pretty nice from the street. And I'm beginning to get out my snowmen. It's fun because I rarely put them where they were last year ... except for the big ones that mostly go on top of the TV.

Speaking of TVs I should mention that Stan & I have joined the LCD flat screen generation. Ours is a small but completely satisfactory 26" screen; we looked at a 32" but decided we didn't need anything that big. I watch TV pretty much every night but we're not devoted to it. It's cool except that I won't pay my cable company ANOTHER $10.00 for HD channels. So we spent an extra $60 and have rabbit ears to pick up the local HDs. All 3 major networks are available and so is PBS. So it's pretty neat.

I baked cookies all day and packed them to send to daughters & step-daughters. That was really fun. But I'm tired so I'm going to go watch said TV and I'll try to write again soon.