Let it Snow!

Let it snow! In North Carolina, in Washington DC, in New York. Just don't send it to Florida please...

The weather in Florida is consistently wonderful. We have an occasional streak of rain (this December has been very wet) and the odd hurricane now and then, but for the most part the weather here is delightful. It's so good that we take it for granted. Only in Florida will you hear people complain when the temperature drops below 50 or when it rains more than two days a week. We Floridians are indeed spoiled!

The storm system moving up the east coast made me think of a Christmas card we made a few years ago. After two hours on the beach one Saturday morning, we came up with this:


I thought this was quite cute and original but it seems we're not the only people to build snowmen on the beach.




Like building snowmen but hate the cold? You'll enjoy this:

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A Custom Order - WOOF!

I swore off custom orders this Christmas season but when I got this request from a friend I could not resist!


I've done a few dogs before but I think this is one of my best! One thing I learned making this coaster - wrinkles take a long time!!! LOL!

GO DAWGS!

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I'll Drink to That!

The holidays are upon us and many of us will be sampling those delightful sounding drinks like "Frosty Noggin" and "Gingersnap". I don't know about you but if someone offers me a drink called "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" I'll HAVE to try it and I WILL regret it.


I think someone jotted down this happy jingle after one too many "Candy-cane-tini's"...

Starkle, starkle, little twink,
Who the hell are you I think.
I’m not under what you call
The alcofluence of incohol.
I’m just a little slort of sheep,
I’m not drunk like thinkle peep.
I don’t know who is me yet,
But the drunker I stand here the longer I get.
So just give me one more fink to drill my cup,
‘Cause I got all day sober to Sunday up.

For a good cause...
It's been on the rocks for the last 100 years, buried under two feet of Antarctic ice. Now the two cases - 24 bottles - of "Rare Old" brand McKinlay and Co. whisky, left behind by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1909, are to be retrieved.

A team of New Zealand explorers heading out in January has been asked by Whyte & Mackay, the company that now owns McKinlay and Co., to get a sample of the drink. The cases were discovered by polar explorers in 2006, but couldn't be removed as they were too deeply embedded in ice. This team plans to use special drills to rescue a sample. I wonder what it will taste like?

Experts say that it will taste the same as it did 100 years ago if it has been stored upright, in the dark and away from heat (not hard to do in Antarctica). If the bottles have been stored upright there is every chance they will be drinkable.

If the team of explorers are unable to retrieve a full bottle, they are hoping to use a syringe to extract some of the contents. I personally think they must have been left it there by mistake, because it's hard to believe two crates would have been left under the hut without drinking them.

For more intoxicating silliness, check out my older post: "My Top Secret Fruitcake Recipe".

Cheers!

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