Warming up with soup. . .

Monday was my typically cleaning day (for the indoors anyway).  My indoor clothesline and all of my drying racks were filled to capacity.  

 I only had to put about 4 items on the line outside.  We had wind, and a few moments of sunshine.

Most of the day it was like this - cloudy. 

I took a bit of a break and warmed up some organic tomato soup and topped it with a dab of organic butter.  My kids think I'm weird, but I've always done it that way.

 Dinner was a success.  I think everyone went back for seconds.  I pulled my first garden carrots from the freezer for this meal.  The potatoes we put in the fridge are doing well.

 I started a cat bed to put on the back of the couch.  I worked on this while the dinner cooked down.  I'm working it with a shell pattern I have not tried before.

Later I worked on handmade Christmas gifts.  I am sort of, but trying not to, in a panic over time this season.  I guess with the terrible garden year prior to this past awesome year, I didn't plan ahead for it.

I woke up to find Hubby gone.  He left for work sometime in the night.  It's a good thing he put an extra log on the fire.  I forgot to go out and fill the kindling bucket last night.  It's a frigid -7°F wind chill this morning.  Everything that was slush yesterday is frozen to the ground.  The wind is pretty cold today.  

With the kids having a 2 hour delay (again), I was up early to check the fire.  It was dog out, dog in, most of the morning, then the cats wanted fed.  I am trying to figure out dinner for tonight, but we do have leftovers. 

I think I might soak some soup beans tonight and make a kale and ham bone soup tomorrow.  Warming up with soup sounds wonderful.  In fact, I secretly hope school cancels today.  I could simply hang around in my warm robe and sip hot teas (or coffee) for once.  

Then again, I still have to don Hubby's full body carhartt, to make a trip to the animal barn.  I'm not complaining.  A -7°F wind chill is a piece of cake, considering our -28 from last season.  This year our November is a very cold one, compared to normal temperatures.