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Hi all!

Not much going on in my world. We went to see Cirque du Soleil Echo yesterday. Cirque du Soleil is always impressive and Echo was no different.

Just been getting my ducks in a row for the big Palm Springs dog shows this upcoming weekend (Friday - Monday), Molly's breeding, and my surgery. Then I guess I'll be getting a lot of down time to relax and recuperate.

NYE plans are to stay in. We're thinking of picking up take out Chinese and watching a movie. I want to leave at 6 AM Thursday morning, so ringing in the New Year

Bundling up... I guess it's all relative! I thought it was so warm here today. It didn't get out of the 50s, but it was sunny! For a while I was in shirtsleeves. Same temps Paula is talking about bundling up for! LOL!

VIVA O BRASIL!

The soup is good! It made a ton, so I'll have to freeze a bunch of it. It must be a few pennies a bite. A bag of dried beans, 1 ham hock, 1 onion, 2 carrots, 1 tbsp butter. Water. And that's it. I wish we still had Home Ec classes in schools. With groceries so expensive, this would be such an inexpensive, easy filling meal for a family.
https://unpeeledjournal.com/u-s-senate-bean-soup-recipe/

I am getting so excited for you!!! Two weeks! You are going to have an absolutely fabulous time! Good luck on the packing. I try to just pick the luggage I am willing to schlep around and pack what will fit which is still always more than I really need.

Well Liz, I do hope "the kids" do a better job with getting the faucet fixed before summer season starts.

Thoughts and prayers to the Florida Gals and the cold weather they are facing. Hopefully no Iguanas fall out of any trees near you. All joking aside, it is true that lower temps in Florida can eat right through you due to the damp wind.

I am still eating Christmas leftovers. I made a lot of lasagna apparently. The stuffed shells are long gone, but the lasagna remains. Weight is steady.

I opened my Delta app to check on a flight number, and it said 13 days to check in! 2 weeks from now, at this time, DH and I will be airborne on our first leg of the trip to Atlanta. Then to Rio, then to Porto Alegre. Our initial flight from Rio to Porto Alegre on Gol Airlines was cancelled, and now, instead of arriving at 1pm, we will kill 7 hours in Rio, and get to Porto Alegre at 5:45pm. The entire trip will take 23 hours. We will have dinner with a couple of friends, and the next morning a driver will take us to a mountain town. I'm not planning anything for that day, besides poking around, because we are going to be tired.

Today I booked a tour to hike at a famous canyon in the area. There were no warnings about difficulty levels etc so hopefully it will go okay. DH said that it's probably not a concern to the guide, if it is to hard, well, sucks to be you. But they asked for our ages, and one thing I know about Brazil is they take care of their older senhoras. It would be pretty shameful to them to abandon a grandma aged lady on a too hard trail. : ) I'd better get back to the gym these last 2 weeks!

DD is sleeping in my office/closet room. Tomorrow, after she leaves, (sad), I'm going to start packing. I'm going to need to try on some things because a few dresses I bought at the end of the summer might need some light alterations such as shortening straps on sun dresses. As per usual, I will want to take too many things, and will need make tough decisions. I really struggle with sandals, because I want to bring sporty and dressy in multiple colors. There is never enough room. And I'll need room to bring a few things home too. I can't believe it is almost here.

Yum! I love chicken pot pie! DH isn't much of a fan, I guess he had to eat it a lot as a poor white kid, same with pot roast which he also doesn't like!