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Ooohhh, the thought of making my own fresh butter, with colourful (summer-y) spices or vegetables, just seems so comforting in this big deep freeze of a winter.
The Dutch Girl writes of homemade butter: “The flavor is so light, delicate and fresh (so unlike anything store bought) I promise you’ll be hooked after just one bite.” “Light” is a word I can use right now! Winter feels so dark and heavy this year.
Apparently, the recipe is very easy—mostly just heavy cream and a food processor. Yum! Toast me some sourdough, pleeeeeeze…
For years, I’ve kept my eyes on the lookout for pajamas like those for babies–PJs with feet! Every time I see one of my friend’s babies wearing those pajamas, I grow envious. How cozy. How wonderfully warm to be softly and completely covered yet completely mobile with no restraint. And, no breeze anywhere! Well, the other day, on More Coffee Please, I saw them! They come in different colours, including a pink pattern with ducks (duckies??).
I’m not sure why it’s such a huge deal when I fall in the driveway during the Winter. It’s a failure of some kind. All my life I’ve been capable and strong. I’ve been able to beat serious illness, a rotten upbringing (almost beat), and the lack of family. I’ve excelled at sports and pretty well learned anything I set my mind to. However, when the driveway is covered with ice and I fall while doing something incredibly easy, like fetching something from the car, it feels like I’m an incompetent boob. Or, a lazy, incompetent boob because it’s more than likely I didn’t put on the hardcore black-rubber-with-steel-cleats-mailman-ice-grippers that work like magic when I DO wear them.
Hmm-mmm-mm… Maybe these are my new metaphor for getting my act together…Take care of myself? Stomp on whatever tries to defeat me?? Wear black?!?? 
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