Living Room

The living room is finally put together! (Of course, I had to clean it before I could take a picture...)

Now, the last two rooms to finish are the mud room and "my" crafting room. Soon I'll have a lamp, small table for my sewing machine, chair, and *hopefully* a recliner so I can read or do my cross stitching. It's funny, whenever I'm in that room, the cat is there with me, either inspecting everything I've got in my hand, sitting in the window or sleeping.

I have to finish the 3rd bookshelf before I can use it and get more of the books put away...it's made to fit in a corner but it needs hosed off and painted. I'll probably use the rest of the camo-colored spray paint I bought for Dave that he never used. The other one ended up looking really good--it's flat dark green. I didn't know what it was going to look like when I started, but since I got it at the thrift store and it was really ugly, I decided no matter what I did, it wasn't going to look worse!

Chicken Noodle Soup

Last week when I wasn't feeling good I decided to make chicken noodle soup. I went to the store, got two packages of chicken stock (without salt), carrots, and chicken breast. I heated the stock, cooked the breast, cut it up and added the veggies--garlic, onion, carrots and peas. I also decided to make egg noodles...
2 C flour
2 egg yolks
1 whole egg
2 tsp salt
Enough water for a firm dough

You mix the flour with the egg yolks and salt, then keep adding water a little at a time to make a dough. Knead for 10 min, roll it out thin and cut into strips. The recipe says to let the noodles dry out for 2 hours, but I didn't do that and they turned out great! Boil them for 15-20 min in the soup and eat! (I  added a whole jalapeno to simmer with the soup and it turned out amazing!).

Sunrise

I love sunrises....when I'm awake enough to appreciate them!

Sunrise at Fort Churchill

Update

Well, I caught my first cold in almost two years (or more). I left work on Wednesday feeling achy and sore, then I woke up Thursday morning with a cold. I called it a mini-cold, which Dave says doesn't exist, because I'm not really feeling sick, but I have a sore throat and I keep sneezing. Hopefully it goes away before I work on Sunday because I work two days alone this week! (I seem to get more work done that way anyway...haha)

Dave was promoted to assistant manager of the wildlife management area here. He has to start probation over again and he had to drive to Reno to be drug tested right away to get all that over with. Now he goes to management training with his boss and he's pretty excited about it.  He will be in charge of seasonals, the mechanic and the tech who replaces him.

I only have one day off for Christmas--Christmas Day--so I'm hoping we'll go to Carson to spend it with his family. I really like his mom and his sisters...and cousins....and more cousins...and aunts! He's got one aunt who is 4 years older than he is and she just had a baby. I made a cross-stitched bib for her. Theresa, his aunt, loves dragonflies and I happened to have a pink and purple dragonfly design in one of my cross-stitching books. It's probably the easiest design I've ever done and it was really fast.

Other than that, that's about it. Work's going fine...we're finally replacing some of the mannequins in the museum and getting them new Civil War uniforms. The old ones are old and faded, and they look pretty bad. One of them is missing a few fingers, and one is missing a whole hand! I want it to look like we take care of the museum...since it's the first thing the visitors see when they come in to the park!