Stacie's Ramblings

The countdown to Christmas is only! Can you believe it is only 9 days away? It's exciting, but stressful at the same time.  This evening we're joining another couple for dinner at a new bistro that opened in town. Their menu looks absolutely fabulous, so I am looking forward to a great meal with even better company.   Here's some of my favorites from the week. Out and About Saturday, we went with our good friends to a town about an hour away that had a Mingle on Main event. Street vendors with wine at each little stop. It was only $20 for a glass and there were 16 vendors pouring tastings and selling all sorts of goodies from baked goods to Tupperware. A good time was had by all and we went to a steakhouse afterwards for dinner.  Meals One night this week I did not have a dinner plan. I did not have anything thawed we could grill. I told Matt I was craving pancakes. He's doing Keto currently, so he just went with traditional chorizo, bacon and eggs, but I had a full bre

Happy Friday! I'm looking forward to a fun weekend! We're going to a holiday festival in a neighboring small town where they have wine vendors set up for a wine tasting. Looking forward to going to that!  My favorite meal this week was this chicken and pear salad. I used pre-grilled frozen chicken breasts from Sam's, cut up a pear and grilled it on the indoor griddle and put it on top of buttercrunch lettuce with cranberries and sugared pecans. I used Brianna's Honey Ginger Vinaigrette dressing. Super easy to pull together!   Matt planted rye grass in the yard for the winter and it is so lush and green. I love it!! You can see the moon rising peeking out behind the tree just to the left of the roof.  Reading I finished A California Christmas by Brenda Novak this week!  I love reading seasonal themed books; any recommendations for what I should read next? Holiday Cheer All of the office girls where gifted poinsettia's at work this week. I chose this gorgeous white on

How was your weekend? Mine was easy going, I've been trying to slow down and enjoy the season.  I am linking up today for Hello Monday with  Holly  and  Sarah . Friday afternoon, I dropped off some donations at a resale shop in town benefit the animal shelter. I did find a cute snowman painting I bought for only $8! I hung it in the guest bathroom for a little holiday cheer.  Friday night I finished up planting my lettuce seedlings out into the garden. I also made a BIG salad for dinner using the last of the leftover turkey. We didn't do Thanksgiving until last Saturday, so we have had leftovers a little later in the week than most.  Saturday I did some organizing in the storage closet and put a few things on eBay I'm no longer using.  I also put a dedicated recycling area in the closet for recycling. We're rural so we do not have curbside recycling, but I'd like to do better with plastics and paper. I will have to make an effort to drop these off at the recycle cen