After 10 days of rain they’re now predicting 10 dry and sunny days in a row! Sounds good to us!
It does get a lot colder again though with these clear nights which means we have frozen car windows in the morning and pretty frosty grass.
So far no frozen roads yet but it can be very foggy until around 11 am so we're taken it easy on our daily commute to Newberg.
James works on a pergola in Dougs yard, part of which will be covered. He put up some massive beams after making a decorative cut at the ends.
It’s time to bring out the Christmas decorations and we hang a string of colored lights on the awning.
We get some Christmas music going to get in the ‘spirit’, decorate our tiny (but cute) Christmas tree and hang some garlands on the trim around the slides.
Voila, Christmas has arrived, time for some (spiked) eggnog!
We have some freshly baked speculaas with it. This is a special dutch treat that’s eaten on the 5th of December when we celebrate Sinterklaas!
On the evening of the 5th, Saint Nicolas, who was a spanish bishop in real life and has his birthday on this day, is supposed to drop of a (jute) bag of candy and presents at the homes of kids who have been good (where have I heard that concept before?).
He comes with his helpers, black Petes, and if you were bad, they'll put you in that same bag and take you with them to Spain! Enough to give any child a trauma for life! I mean, who comes up with this stuff?
Anywho, the candies and cookies are good and I never got into that bag so it's nice to remember the good old days when that was basically all you had to worry about.
Traditionally a hearty soup or stew is eaten on the same evening to offset all the sugar that you're going to overdose on later that night so I made a nice pea soup, 'snert', we call it in Holland, in my crockpot.
On the evening of the 5th, Saint Nicolas, who was a spanish bishop in real life and has his birthday on this day, is supposed to drop of a (jute) bag of candy and presents at the homes of kids who have been good (where have I heard that concept before?).
He comes with his helpers, black Petes, and if you were bad, they'll put you in that same bag and take you with them to Spain! Enough to give any child a trauma for life! I mean, who comes up with this stuff?
Anywho, the candies and cookies are good and I never got into that bag so it's nice to remember the good old days when that was basically all you had to worry about.
Traditionally a hearty soup or stew is eaten on the same evening to offset all the sugar that you're going to overdose on later that night so I made a nice pea soup, 'snert', we call it in Holland, in my crockpot.
Over the weekend James re-organized his 'office' again and got rid of more files and a colour printer that we never use.
We also set up our computer so that we can access the one in Dougs office to enable me to work 'from home'. Sweet!
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