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I got new glasses today, and am still getting used to them. I have been getting "progressive" lenses for the past few years, but seem to have a bit of trouble finding a good "focal" point while driving....and seeing road/street signs, etc...without shifting my head up/down with these progressives. So, this time, I went back to bifocals, and they seem to be better....time will tell.
 

It's not daylight so I'm not actually doing anything yet. Today is supposed to be warm and sunny, and the garden beckons. It wants to be cleaned up and put to bed for the winter but probably won't all get done today. I started yesterday but my mainspring wore down after an hour or so. I didn't want to keep on for fear of springing my mainspring! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
 
It's not daylight so I'm not actually doing anything yet. Today is supposed to be warm and sunny, and the garden beckons. It wants to be cleaned up and put to bed for the winter but probably won't all get done today. I started yesterday but my mainspring wore down after an hour or so. I didn't want to keep on for fear of springing my mainspring! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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(hello to Maggiecat, from Andy 😘)
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I started my Holiday baking....I made the first Yule Cake of the season. This is my own recipe, and it starts by my fermenting fruit for about 6 weeks. Once the fruit is ready, I start using it for my cakes.

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My Yule Cake has blueberries, cherries, grapes, pineapple, pears, peaches, craisins, plums and apricots. Once it's cooled, I drench the whole thing in a Kailua glaze! 😋
 
@Trila Looky! It's a picture of your DH, GoatGuy 🐐. He is soooo handsome!

I told Maggiecat that Andy sent greetings. She just looked at me with a glazed-over, blank stare. Sigh. She can be such a bore!

Kahlua is another one of those things that proves God loves us and wants us to be happy.

I have an old, old Christmas cake recipe that I used to make...orange rum...but nobody here likes it enough for me to bother with it anymore:cry: Another one that I used to make back in the day was fruitcake from a recipe on the back of the mincemeat jar. It seems that these days fruitcakes are passé, and I have no idea why. Maybe it has something to do with our childhoods? Seems like when I was a kid, the availability of sweet treats wasn't as prevalent as it is today, so we looked forward to and gobbled down treats that we usually only got during holidays.
 
@Trila Looky! It's a picture of your DH, GoatGuy 🐐. He is soooo handsome!

I told Maggiecat that Andy sent greetings. She just looked at me with a glazed-over, blank stare. Sigh. She can be such a bore!

Kahlua is another one of those things that proves God loves us and wants us to be happy.

I have an old, old Christmas cake recipe that I used to make...orange rum...but nobody here likes it enough for me to bother with it anymore:cry: Another one that I used to make back in the day was fruitcake from a recipe on the back of the mincemeat jar. It seems that these days fruitcakes are passé, and I have no idea why. Maybe it has something to do with our childhoods? Seems like when I was a kid, the availability of sweet treats wasn't as prevalent as it is today, so we looked forward to and gobbled down treats that we usually only got during holidays.
Yep! We have a 🐐calendar in our kitchen, every year! LOL

The term "fruit cake" has such a stigma, that I refuse to use it for my recipe. Besides, all of the fruit cakes that I know of, use dried fruit....mine is not! (except for the craisins)
 
This probably sounds silly, but one of the things I really liked about fruitcake was that it would keep foreffingever so on a cold winter day I could cut off a big piece of it and pig out with a cup of tea or coffee.

I also like Stollen, German Christmas cake, usually filled with marzipan and fruits. Fruits could be cherry, raisin, candied orange peel...or I guess whatevertheheck you like. Aldi usually carries them, along with German Christmas cookies. Yum! Pfeffernusse, Lebkuchen, Contessa.

Now I'm hungry for German cookies, fruitcake, Orange Rum Christmas cake, Stollen.
 
I started my Holiday baking....I made the first Yule Cake of the season. This is my own recipe, and it starts by my fermenting fruit for about 6 weeks. Once the fruit is ready, I start using it for my cakes.

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My Yule Cake has blueberries, cherries, grapes, pineapple, pears, peaches, craisins, plums and apricots. Once it's cooled, I drench the whole thing in a Kailua glaze! 😋
I'm not familiar w/a Yule cake, but it sounds and looks really good. Especially w/the Kailua glaze...yum.

What are you using to ferment the fruit?
 
Nothing all day..aside from cook dinner.. do some banking online, and speak to my daughter who rang this evening while she was in the middle of a power cut, and her roast dinner was being ruined in the oven... while she waited for the power to return...

Supposed to be a nice day tomorrow after all this rain, and snow, so I'm pleased about that for my Thursday ladies ' meeting in the morning.. ..now we'll all have to wear masks indoors again ....and then later I'll go and collect some shopping, get one of my nails repaired which broke last night after I made a grab for something that was about to fall while I was drying up... so all of that will make up for todays' nothing.. :sneaky::LOL:
 
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Why? That is ludicrous!
She and two other women who live downstairs have started bullying some of the people who took part in these activities. This was a great place to live but now that little group is causing it to be stressful. I finally left a message with my counselor at adult protective services to ask her to come talk to me. I don't want to get evicted because of them but they are affecting the health of some of my closest friends. And two are 96 years old! Can't handle the stress and it is wearing some of them down. Every day, someone is knocking on my door to vent and cry.
 
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