The insurance company finally gave us the 'go ahead' to be able to dispose of Alyssa's car.

I put Alyssa's banged up car on Craigslist yesterday. Within 2 hours we had someone interested. The guy came over right away with his family and bought it!

This was a HAPPY MOMENT to see that after 5 MONTHS of it sitting in my driveway, 'Lily' will be in her next home! Now we will have room in the driveway for 2 WORKING cars!!

I was supposed to work today but things got mixed up and I was never put in for the job. PJ had taken off to go skiing. He loves to ski and hasn't gone in a few years. He went to Catamount in VT.

Today will be a great day to pack up my supplies for tomorrow nights fundraiser crop at St Wills. J,M and I enjoy this crop very much! I hope we're all winners of raffles!

I watched last nights girls night of American idol this morning. Siobhan is my pick as a top 2 performer. She's a uniquely beautiful girl. get those teeth made even and I can see model potential also! But that high note... as Randy would say...

that note was DOPE girl!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV0tDKjdyRA

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY!

Yesterday we went to a few garage sales. We got this pretty glass greenhouse for $4. I love it! PJ brought home some Primrose, basil and cilantro that he was growing at work. I put the basil and cilantro in there to keep it nice and 'tropical'. I LOVE it!!

HAPPY SNOW DAY!

Here we go again! Another snow storm! This one is going to continue on and off until tomorrow! At 10:00 AM, I took this picture. I walked to the middle of my lawn where it was flat so it would be accurate. The ruler says 10 1/2"! YET if I look across the street, those neighbors only have about 6"! They own trees, I don't!

I'm so tired of shoveling. I need and want a snow blower. With Scott away, Alyssa's bad back and PJ at work, it's all me doing the shoveling. Mike usually does my sidewalk but he's at work today.

Today was such a gloomy, rainy, yucky day. I decided to clean off the desk in my dining room where I keep my plants for the winter. It's the only sunny spot in the house. They're all bunched on the top of the desk because I have too many plants and not enough space! Hidden behind the still beautiful Poinsettia is my orchid. As I went to move it I noticed that one of the buds was open and in full bloom! To me... this means Spring isn't far away!!!

This past weekend was a very busy one when I came to de-cluttering. I cleaned out my craft closet last week and I was waiting for PJ to cut a piece of wood to make an extra shelf to put in the closet. I needed to reorganize my scrapbook supplies because they were taking over the room. I still had some stacking bins from my last job. They were closing up shop and the boss gave them to me for my scrapping supplies. It worked out great that I'm friends with that boss!
I think it turned out pretty nice. I can now actually SEE what I have and start using things that have been hidden! Now I need a few more closets because this is just the tip of the iceberg!!!!

Yesterday was NOT a good day for baking! Andrea invited a few of us over to her house for breakfast today. I decided to make a Jewish Coffee Cake. It's a great recipe that we got from PJ's cousins about 30 years ago. Everyone up in Bristol, CT (Polish town!) make this cake or the all did back then. It calls for a tube pan. The only tube pan I have left is a heavy cast iron one that makes the shape of a rose out of the cake. That would look pretty to bring to a friends house I thought! I decided to also make one for PJ to bring to work. I love to bake but don't want the results in the house. The workers appreciate free food so why not!
I got everything mixed up and put the tube pan in the oven. I then started to mix up the ingredients for the second one. I had everything in the bowl except the vanilla. I grabbed the vanilla (or what i thought was vanilla) and just eyeballed one... two... teaspoons of the vanilla. I looked at it thinking how come the vanilla isn't brown? Then the smell hit me! It was Anise! I quickly tried to scoop it out but it kind of soaked into the sugar, flour and eggs so there was still some in there. Oh well, maybe this will make it even better even though I hate Anise!
I made sure I let the pans sit for 15 minutes (like the directions said) before taking the cakes out of the pans. The one with the Anise came out easily and was a nice looking coffee cake. The one in the rose pan... it didn't want to budge! Finally i got 1/2 of it out and had to wrestle with it to get the rest out! What a mess!


I decided to bring the Anise one to Andrea's house. It will be all friends so if it's that bad, we'll have a few laughs and throw it out! PJ, Alyssa, Dave and I each had a piece of the ugly yet good tasting cake. I wrapped up the other one to be all ready for this mornings breakfast. I got online to check my emails and found out that today was canceled! It's going to be Friday!!! After all of that. I don't know if I should make another one for Friday, just not in that pan or just go for something else! It is delicious though!

This weekend we went to the MARDI GRAS on the Cayuga Wine Trail. We had so much fun! I posted the full story on my Adventure blog... http://mamazukesadventures.blogspot.com/
First we checked out out piece of property... it looks like it did last winter! There's a few more lots for sale including the one right next to ours.

Wegman's REGULAR EVERYDAY price of milk!!!

We started out at Six Mile Creek and continued on from there, sampling the food and wine.

We thought this year there was a lot more people in Mardi Gras attire than last year. We need to step it up! You get a different string of beads from each winery. We added some from last year as well.

Seneca Lake...

We had such a nice time. Our next event is in April but we may have to miss it! BUMMER!

Yesterday we had quite a blizzard. All of the schools closed, PJ had to be at work at 4 AM...
The morning had quite a few inches on the ground. There were nice breaks in between the snow where you could actually get your camera out without it getting wet!

PJ was able to come home at 5PM to sleep for a few hours before going back at midnight. That's his car this morning. He took my car back to work because he couldn't find a gas station open to get gas for his car!

Mike helped me get out this morning. PJ's car was plowed in and I had to get out! This will sound so not me but i had to get to my hairdresser appointment! I took some pics while going through the neighborhood. This was a few blocks away. The sun was shinning so nicely on that tree but it didn't show in the picture.

My block

I put the ruler on a flat part of my front lawn... 13 1/2 "!!