Happy Birthday Jan Finch!
Paul took a walk this morning for about an hour and a half. Good exercise. Join the walk. Paul made a short stop at Chik-fil-A to get an icea tea as the weather was fairly warm!
90 minutes is a good length of time to walk
Nearing home Paul was getting hungry and to his surprise, Santa was made of gingerbread! He was almost eaten but Paul stayed on his diet.
Did You Know? Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger. It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices. Gingerbread is often used to translate the French term pain d’épices (literally “spice bread”) or the German term Lebkuchen (The etymology of “Leb” is uncertain. It could have come from Latin “libum” (“flat bread”) or German “Laib” (“loaf”). “Kuchen” translates to “cake”) or Pfefferkuchen (“pepperbread”, literally “pepper cake”).
Gingerbread is claimed to have been brought to Europe in 992 CE by the Armenian monk Gregory of Nicopolis (also called Gregory Makar and Grégoire de Nicopolis). He left Nicopolis (in modern-day western Greece) to live in Bondaroy (north-central France), near the town of Pithiviers. He stayed there for seven years and taught gingerbread baking to French Christians.
At the end of the walk the gingerbread Santa looked pretty good!
Paul worked in the garage in the afternoon continuing his quest to reduce the clutter. There was an 8-foot four-tube fluorescent light fixture which had been there for 30 years and it finally bit the dust thanks to Paul’s new Makita Sawz-all!
We stayed home and watched a new Hallmark movie entitled “A Song For Christmas”. Summary: Pop superstar Adelaide Kay is so fed up with her controlling manager that she sneaks off the tour bus after their latest squabble. Though exhilarated to be free, she finds herself stranded in the freezing cold of a Virginia winter, with no money and no plan. A local family, the Lapps, take her in. They know the true meaning of the season, even if they’re close to losing their dairy farm. No one in the family recognizes Adelaide except Dillon, the oldest son. He figures she’s the ticket to fast cash and plots to snap photos of Adelaide around the farm and sell them to the tabs. What he doesn’t plan, however, is their mutual attraction.
We loved the movie… The star really shines!
We have a new series we are watching called “Fuller House”. Summary: Fuller House is an American sitcom created by Jeff Franklin that airs as a Netflix original series, and is a sequel to the 1987–1995 television series Full House. It centers around D.J. Tanner-Fuller, a veterinarian and widowed mother of three sons, whose sister Stephanie and best friend Kimmy—along with her teenage daughter—live together at the Tanners’ childhood home in San Francisco, California.
The series has had mixed reviews but it is funny with Kimmy carrying most of the water.
Time to crash!
