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Club Sheba Holiday Edition 🌹✨💕

@oodiebom⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄

Good Evening Oodie, and Happy Holidays. I hope you and your husband are well. I read your post and wonder how do chestnuts taste, I never had any. Nuts are very expensive. The temperature here has gotten chilly at night, enough for an extra blanket on the bed. But the house stays at 69 without needing to turn on the heat yet. I hope its gets cold just long enough to kill mosquitoes and then mild cool temperatures. I don’t like to many cold days.
Have a great weekend Oodie, get lots of rest. ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄
Take Care ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄

@Sheba ☃️☃️⛄☃️⛄☃️⛄☃️⛄☃️⛄☃️⛄☃️⛄☃️⛄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄

BUON NATALE SHEBA 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Is Seafood in your menu tonight? We are having shrimp two ways. Shrimp curry for husband, and scampi for me.
Also have some Oxtails and a few side dishes, and one of them is squash and sage. 😋😋😋
Along with a few different desserts, and cookies.
Not sure if I will make it to Trivia, if not, have a lovely Christmas Eve Sheba. I can just see your beautiful home, fireplace rolling a wonderful fire, Poppy having a good time playing with the decorations. You cooking a midnight supper. Enjoy your evening! 🌲🌲🌲🌲⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄

@sheba2011

I have the heat on to take the chill out of the air. I am sitting here and feel the coolness. No, the vents are not anywhere near me.

I forgot to mention last night that I saw chestnuts on sale at the Market. They were not cheap. Try $8.99/lb. But, since we are not anywhere near New England, I bought a few. Probably will roast them in the oven.

I do not recall playing Trivia on Christmas Eve. It was one of my nemesis and provoked me enough to send a note to the Mods. That’s when I learned that they do not work passed 5 pm or on weekends. Then, again, we could be pleasantly surprised.

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas. I hope one of Santa’s presents will be an end to this
pandemic.

@sheba2011

Merry Christmas to you and all in the community. Have a busy day, early dinner at the restaurant with mom and sis and church after that. I am just about to go and get ready.🎅🎄🎁 Blessings to you and your family.🙌🙏

Gift of Winter

There is a quiet humility about the earth in the winter months, as animals and people retreat inside to do their deep work.

In fall, the earth begins the process of releasing all the things she has been holding onto throughout spring and summer, and by midwinter she has let everything go. She sits clean and undecorated in her simplicity, free of the frenzy of life that defines her in the warmer seasons. There is a quiet humility about the earth in the winter months, as animals and people retreat inside to escape the wet and sometimes freezing cold that takes hold. Inside our homes we create abundance and warmth in response to being effectively kicked indoors by the dark and cold that permeate the outdoors.

We burn fires in fireplaces and make heavy, hot foods to keep our bodies warm and insulated. We may find ourselves sleeping longer hours and yearning for downtime, just like the animals deep inside their caves and warrens taking a winter-long nap. Even if we live in a warmer climate, the longer nights and shorter days have the same effect on our cycles. If we surrender to this time as nature intended, we allow ourselves to slow down, sleep more, and lower the volumes on our busy minds. At the same time, we crave company in our dwellings, and the insulated warmth of the hearth tends to bring people together, creating more warmth and fostering connections that last through the coming year.

We laugh, eat, and talk, sleep, or catch up on reading, while outside our windows the earth grows dark earlier and stays cold longer, accepting as always of the process of change and her place within it. We might remember to learn from her as she so gracefully surrenders to the emptiness that precedes all form, the peace that precedes activity, the darkness that precedes the light. For everything she gives and teaches, we might offer a blessing, extending a goodly portion of the gratitude of this season her way, holding her in our hearts and thanking her for our very lives. Merry Christmas Peeps! ✨✨

@kittengirl,

Merry Christmas in California wishing you and your family all the best. ✨

Kitten take care. ✨✨

@shoelady60,

Merry Christmas my friend to you and your entire family. ✨💕🌹

@71flowerchild,

Merry Christmas to you and your family. Give the fur babies a Christmas pet from OZ. ✨

@taci,

Merry Christmas to you and your family. ✨✨

@oodiebom,

Good afternoon on the Gulf Coast hope this day finds you and hubby well.
Get your beauty winks as we may have Trivia tonight. ✨

@xango,

I know we all are busy just want to wish you a very Buon Natale! ✨✨

defg,

@ddshoppy,

Merry Christmas to you and your family in S. California. ✨✨

@loaf,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year I hope all is well for you and your family. ✨✨