Another week gone by -- the days just fly past! Earlier this week we celebrated my Mom's 83rd birthday. I baked a coffeecake for her afternoon get-together group at the seniors complex, and then later we took her out to dinner. She's doing so well here, better than I had dared hope.
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We've been having a real cold spell -- down into the teens over night -- and they started blowing snow on some of the ski slopes. (I know the Rockies and points east are getting the real thing, but this was a pretty exciting event for our small community, which is completely a tourist town.) They're hoping to have the slopes open soon, well ahead of the usual Thanksgiving weekend target. We can certainly expect real snow in the coming weeks -- last year the accumulation up here was well over 8 feet, but it's fun to see the *magic* snow start to appear. This is the view from my grocery store parking lot: it's so beautiful up here, every day feels like we're on vacation!
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We gratefully picked a LOAD of apples from a neighbor's tree the other day, and made up a couple of batches of applesauce. About 10 pounds -- approximately 50 apples -- cooked down into 12 cups of applesauce for the freezer. This didn't even use one of the baskets-full, so we'll be at it for a while yet. The house smells wonderful, apple-y and cinnamon-y, yum!
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