I have a wake to go  to this morning. We danced with him and his wife for years, she died 6 years ago, and he has joined her. After that,  Hubert and I are going to Joliet to do some shopping. I need to go to Sams, Bed Bath and Beyond, and to Hobby Lobby. Plus I just cleaned the kitchen and put a load of laundry in the dryer.

We have our heat on. It is to cold in here if we don't. I agree, it is early. Snow north of O'Hare. It can stay there.

Lisa, don't let your co-workers disturb you. If you have the next week off, take it. I happedned to be off when I had mine, but I would of taken 3 weeks. At least, that was the plan.

Hugs,

3 weeks. You probably would not injure any of the surgery area on the inside but a bump might smart.

How much fort he table and chairs?

'Tis a good day to sleep. This rain is much needed but not when we want to go to the Civil War Reenactment at Cantigny on Sunday. It will be a muddy mess out there. The rain also helps the new grass seed that was put down where the village took out an Ash tree.

At work and my brain is going a mile a minute. It is ongoing training for month end stats with the new girl. She did them last month and did well but practice makes perfect.

What's happening in your world?

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Good afternoon Chris and the rest of Illinois!

I am getting ready to go down and find some dinner.  Yesterday, I made a potato soup in the crock pot that turned out pretty well.  It started with that "Easy Crock Pot Potato Soup" recipe that is viral on Facebook, but I could not find the frozen potatoes, and since I had to dice my own potatoes, I embellished from there.  I used a small bag of yellow/gold potatoes, and chicken stock and about 1/3 lb. of chopped bacon.  I added some chopped celery, carrots and onion that I had in the freezer from my last soup making.  I added the can of cream of chicken soup that the original recipe called for.  Simmered on low about 6 hours.  Added the cubes of cream cheese (low fat) at the end and found that they did not melt and thicken the broth as easily as stated.  I also added about 1/4 cup of half and half.  The boys said it was good.

I made salmon patties to go with the soup along with a loaf of frozen bread dough that I found in the freezer.  My dinner was salmon patties and apple slices.  Yummy!  I also started some cookie dough since yesterday was "National Home Made Cookie Day".  They were supposed to chill overnight, so I will bake them tonight.  The family will test them out and if the recipe is good, I will send it to Liv.  We made a recipe for her graduation party that went over fantastically, but the cookies crumble too easily.  Hence, looking for a tweaked recipe.

Not a lot exciting here in the northwest corner of the state.  I am just waiting for this big storm that is supposed to be here, cancelling flights in Chicago.  Amber is traveling for work and is supposed to be back tomorrow, but if flights are cancelled, she may be delayed.

Liv is doing well, in her 6th week of college.  She is so busy getting her work done that I need to make a date with her for a phone call.

Everyone have a splendid day!