MORE SNOW!!!

Still no pictures but it snowed about six inches last night so now everything really is covered in snow.  I hope to go practice driving with Marci sometime this week.  It looks like I will be coming home at the perfect time!  Love yall

-Kate

Thanksgiving in the Mountains

Hello All,
delinquent blogger here signing in.  I wish I could post some pictures of all of the snow that we got last night, but I can't find the cord from my camera to my computer (could that be because my room looks like a pigsty?).  I have been sitting here doing homework and admissions stuff all morning but it is hard to get work done when huge flakes of snow are swirling outside your window.  Despite having worked the past six days (and the next four as well), I managed to squeak in a rather nice Thanksgiving with Marci, Carli, and a friend.  We didn't have much but we had enough to fill us up and make it feel special.  Marci cooked the turkey which turned out surprisingly well for her limited cooking skills and I fixed a strawberry spinach salad [thanks D] which also turned out surprisingly well.  So, with our plates piled high with turkey and salad we sat around the island in the kitchen and pondered over which dessert we should have first.  We had three different kinds of pumpkin pie, one which held a surprising amount of Jack Daniels, chocolate snowflake cookies which I made, and a bourbon filled chocolate one that had a creme de menthe topping.  All in all, we were stuffed.  The Palace was surprisingly slow on Thanksgiving thanks to the fact that it snowed just about the whole day contrary to weather reports.  Only about 2/3 of the reservations showed up which was a bummer for all of us.  However, at the end of our shift we ate a HUGE Thanksgiving dinner with mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots, gravy, turkey, rolls, stuffing, and pumpkin pie topped with homemade whipped cream.  So, both of my Thanksgivings were good, but I would have rather only had one and been home with yall.  I hope all is well on the home front and I can't wait to see yall.  Only 13 more days!!!  Time really has flown up here.
Love yall much

-Kate

I miss you people.

Kate, you inspired me to cook.

Tomorrow night I am making Kevin and me tortilla soup (made in slow-cooker), corn/black bean/avocado salad, and chiabatta bread. So, as I write this, I am realizing two things: 1)I forgot to buy black beans at the store today (maybe I will make baked-bean salad instead. Yum.) 2)Chiabatta bread doesn't really fit the picture.

C'est la vie. I will let you all know how it turns out.

I love you all.

Selina

Hi

So look who got to spend the cold November day on somebody's bed . . . .

And not too much changes out in the hen pen. 

Note the pretty cool design on that middle cup.

Things Going On In Kate's Head

1. Kate has decided to switch her major to Art History with a focus on Gothic architecture.
2. Kate made tons of soup yesterday and spent a good 45 min. this morning just trying to get it all into bags.
3. Kate has made nice with the boss that she previously hated and is finding much friendship in her colleagues at work.
4. Kate had pot stickers for dinner.
5. Kate wants a dog.
6. Kate can't get a dog.
7. If Kate could get a dog she would want a Newfoundland.
8. Kate has spent the past hour reading about the Newfoundland breed and drooling over pet adoption sites.
9. Kate wants a cat.
10. Kate misses her cat.
11. Kate might get to move into a bigger bedroom with her own bathroom in the spring.
12. It is 16 degrees Fahrenheit outside tonight.
13. Kate is warm under her covers.
14. Kate spent yesterday afternoon being moral support for Marci while car shopping.
15. Marci finally bought a car.
16. Kate is still thinking about switching her majors and wanting a dog.
17. Kate is also thinking about how great her orchestra performance went the other night.
18. Kate can't wait for the real performance in December.
19. Kate new favorite instrument but one that she would not like to play is the tympanum.
20. Kate is loving mom's idea about the frozen ciabatta rolls.
21. Kate thanks mom.
22. Kate is missing her dear family much this evening.
23. Kate can't wait to be home for Christmas.
24. Kate is wishing that she had taken pictures of the soup to show yall how beautiful it turned out.
25. Kate has discovered that a perk of living in the cold is being able to use the back porch as a giant refrigerator.
26. Kate has discovered that sometimes when it is below freezing, stuff left on the back porch freezes as well.
27. Kate found 1" worth of frozen soup in the pot this morning.
28. Kate noted the irony of thawing soup so that it could be fit into the real freezer.
29. Kate keeps using first person grammar even though she is writing in the third person.
30. Kate went out to eat yesterday for the first time (The Palace does not count) since moving to Durango.
31. Kate discovered the wonderful fish tacos at Zia Taqueria.
32. *singing* "If I were a rich man. Deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle dumm. All day long I'd eat a fish taco..."
33. Kate's landlady got laid off (don't worry downsizing was expected) and thus we will actually be having Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving.
34. Kate still has not made up her mind on what to fix.
35. Kate is getting tired thinking of what she is thinking.
36. Kate says goodnight.
37. Kate loves yall much
38. Kate says DDL and sends xoxoxoxo yalls way.