18 Natural Christmas Decor Ideas For a Greener Holiday
Branches
Pine Cones
Driftwood
Herbs as Greenery
Grapevine Wreaths
Pretty Stones
Fruit
Painted Branches
Dried Fruit
Natural Wall Art
Floating Candles/Mason Jars
Evergreens
Clam Shells as serving pieces (Condiments)
Jazz up your Home Entryway
Twig Stars
Jazz up a Mirror
Mantle Decorating Ideas
Starfish (Preserved, not Live!)
https://www.thespruce.com/natural-christmas-decorations-4177526
Thanks for the new thread!
I’m picking the last of the bell peppers and tomatoes today.
Beautiful. Thank you, I missed this this morning. And a wonderful holiday season to you and yours!
I’ve decided..... I’m getting 10 or so chickens this coming spring.
Been collecting tractor supply gift cards the last year.
Getting a coop, fencing in an area up against my garden fence and going to give it a go.
My young dog chases birds so I’m worried about her trying to kill the chickens Sonim getting the biggest birds I like and going to try and keep em apart.
We’ll see how it goes
Amidst all of the hubbub I somehow failed to register that it’s now December.
Pops is out of the crash house. The nerve ablation procedure seems to be doing the trick so far. He’s still having some slightly odd heart rhythms, but his bpm is now consistently staying within a healthy range, and he’s not had any dizzy/passout spells since that was done. He felt good enough to come over for breakfast this morning and stay to visit for a couple of hours.
#1 Granddaughter Lexi is here today helping Mrs. Augie decorate the Christmas tree. They’re making good progress and enjoying their time together.
Howard has made amazing progress learning to use the jingle bells on the house door to ask out. He now understands that if he rings the bells he WILL get to go outside. I’ve been giving him 10-20 minutes of unsupervised outdoor time every time he asks out, and so far this weekend he has thanked me for that with 100% recall to voice command, even when he’s out of sight of the house - I haven’t had to beep his collar even once.
I’ve been busy setting up my new desktop computer. The old one cratered last week. It was an I3 processor model and was really suffering under Windoze 11 so rather than fix it I replaced it with an I7 model that has enough RAM in it to run smoothly.
Outdoor temps have warmed to above freezing and it’s a muddy mess out there. I got Nanner out yesterday and loaded some composted horse poo for my buddy Nick to put on his garden. It looks like the computer work is going to keep me indoors all day so harvesting the rest of my turnips will have to wait for another day.
Iced Cranberry White Chocolate Sour Cream Biscuits / Christmas morning treat
Drop biscuits are a perfect balance of sour cream, cranberries, white chocolate and icing.
Ing 2 c self-rising flour (prefer White Lily) 8 oz sour cream full fat 1/4 c halfnhalf 1 c fresh cranberries 1/2 c white chocolate morsels melted butter for tops Icing: 2 c conf 2 tbl ea melted butter/ halfnhalf
Biscuits: Add flour to bowl. Stir in sour cream. Add halfnhalf as needed for wet/sticky dough. Stir in cranberries and white chocolate. Drop onto parchmented b/sheet 2" apart. Lightly brush tops w/ melted butter. Bake 450 deg 15 min; tops are brown. Remove; cool slightly, drizzle with Icing.
Icing: Whisk ing adding enough halfnhalf for desired consistency.
Vaty---swap blueberries for cranberries.