I’m dreaming of summer though we have lots of winter to live through, to enjoy, until even spring comes to Ohio. Actually the weather people just told us that early February will be the coldest weather around here since 1996 which I cannot recall at all.
I’m so desultory because tomorrow I’m leaving on a jet plane for Baltimore where Emily will pick me up and drive me the two hours back to her home near the Chesapeake Bay. And getting ready for such events makes me more dithery than usual! I wasn’t going to take a suitcase with me, but again, there are so many things to take to Em & Co. that I am filling a suitcase with most of that! And I keep thinking of more things, though I’m quite silly by this point, packing extra egg cups for them and fabric panels with the alphabet on them for the girls, along with lots of books and two pair of blue and white polka dot rain boots from Alice and a lot of other things. If I am normally disorganized, getting ready for travel makes me even more so! But in the happiest way, of course.
And we are having a lovely sunny winter wonderland sort of day here, and the skies are supposed to be clear tomorrow. It’s a joy…..But thank heaven for lists. I hope to remember my camera and to have things to share when I return.
I’m taking my kindle which has a new audiobook of Celia’s House by D.E. Stevenson downloaded on it. Andy set up the wireless for me which seemed to be lost when we changed the registration from him to me, and I bought some new silicone earphones yesterday…
I’ll be back on Tuesday……
Meanwhile, (desultory, right?) I wanted to let everyone know that I am doing my best to keep National Soup Month (January, for very good reasons) by serving a lot of delicious soups around here.
Maryland has got to be an improvement over Ohio in the January weather department. Have a fun time and keep blogging!
Vee, it is very cold there (though more than ten degrees warmer than Ohio) and people are a little worried about so many days at freezing or below. It could be quite bad for their plants.
Stephanie wants me to fly there in May. I think she’s trying to time my visit with the first (of three each year) famous Brimfield flea markets. Not certain, yet, if it will happen.
We went together to Brimfield when she was expecting Faith so that was seven years ago! Although Brimfield is a small town, it pretty much all becomes the flea market in May, July, and (I think) September. It was such a lovely day.
Have fun! Sounds like a delightful trip.
Oh, Brenda, I think you should go! You need some Stephanie and grandchildren time as well as flea market time! I will be so much fun if it does happen!
I had no idea there is something like a National Soup Month! Sounds sensible enough to me, though
Have a good trip; I am already looking forward to your posts about what you get to do and see there!
Oh, that soup looks SO good! And it’s not even cold here. I’m late to wish you a bon voyage. Hope the trip went smoothly and that you didn’t forget anything.
I just finished Stevenson’s The Blue Sapphire. Her books are always enjoyable.
Have a lovely time!
It’s a good granny that has more for the kids and grans in her suitcase than she does for herself
I can relate to feeling dithery when packing. I love to travel; I hate to pack. Have a wonderful time. Keep warm – February is indeed cold this year.
Are those matzo balls in that soup? I rarely see them…and they top off the comforting nature of soup!
Yes, it’s matzoh ball soup…..I was adopted as a child and then my adopted father died, my mother remarried and I was adopted again……So I have multiple backgrounds as to ethnicity and religion. My first adopted father was a non-practicing Jew and his mother was an orthodox Jew and kept a Kosher kitchen and made wonderful food – matzoh ball soup, buckwheat kasha, wonderful beef pot roast…. And I think of her when I make this soup.