Gosh! Who ordered this weather?

Okay!  Minus 17 degrees as a wind chill for a couple of days followed by today being dismal-foggy-rainy-windy-is a bit much for me, so I'm going to keep my face buried in a spring flower catalog until the temps get back into the 30s.
 I have been using these cold days to be domestic-
Starting up the wood burning stove:  Yes!  I do get up and do that! Actually I take turns with Hubby.
It is chilly in the morning before we start our wood burning stove- but I do get nice and toasty as soon as we have it started.   

  Used those really cold days to bake crescent dinner rolls and I am able to raise the  dough right on the top piece of soap stone in my big redware bowl. Love doing things the old time way.  Made a big pot of chicken soup to go with the rolls.  There is nothing quite a good as a big pot of soup on horrible cold days.

And then the creative monster took hold of me and forced me to try using my quilt crane that is mounted next to the wood burner to dry orange peelings and form them into wreaths and also slit and dry oranges.  The wreaths have turned out fine and the whole oranges are still drying.

Well I will say good bye for today and hope you are all snug in your homes this evening. 
Hugs
Carol                                     










  

 We did have a chance to take Petey and Simon out for a short walk during that cold snap, but we could only be out a little while before their paws started to freeze up.
You guessed it-there we are out in the freezing cold and I stop to take off my mittens to warm up their paws.  I'm thinking that the cars that went passed thought I had lost it.  Oh well isn't the first time and probably won't be the last.