soup de explosion, part two and new years eve bash

1 The objective is to make Lamb Lentil Soup. The outcome was a cracked blender and soup explosion! I'm grateful for my husband who helped me with the burns and cleaned up the kitchen. Only one blister...I am thankful.


2 Dinner part two became an assortment of pickles, olives, antipasto, hame, garlic sausage, cheese and crackers, red pepper jelly and cream cheese, smoked oysters and tea, all shared by candlelight and fire from the wood stove.


3 The teens next door decided that they would have a 'party', which was really a blow out bash including broken windows and girls crying, silly boys on trampolines and taxis at all hours of the night. We smiled as we snuggled into our bed knowing tomorrow we'd wake up without hangovers, or having had a fight or broken up.