Odds & Ends & Weekend Snow?

Perhaps those snow friends will be the real thing this weekend? We only had some snow right after Thanksgiving and that was more of an inconvenient messy snow/hail/rain event. Our first snow fall is predicted for this weekend and I can't wait! Unless the storm goes out to sea, which is common when you live on an Island, which Long Island is! Am I one of the few snow lovers out there? HAHA You don't hear of too many! 

At least the cold weather kills a lot of germs! I believe that soup is a good preventative and healer! Unfortunately, my daughter currently has a sore throat but had she just eaten some of my soup....  This is minestrone and normally she would have loved a bowl but the sore throat was already starting and she just didn't have much of an appetite. We eat a lot of soup in our family! I like to serve it before our main meal just like at a  restaurant! Plus it makes the house smell so good!

Simple, easy and delicious. 

I wish I was cooking my soup on a stove like this!:

I think it's time to start taking out the Valentine decorations! Who else decorates for Valentine's Day? I don't do a whole lot but I do decorate with hearts and a Valentine tree. It's a nice transition from Christmas! maybe I can make some prim style hearts on my new sewing machine. I used it yesterday and made some mini pillows. Nothing fancy. I'm getting used to it! Its also a challenge sewing when you have nosey cats too. 

Time to go out and feed my chickens! Its oatmeal and raisins for breakfast and they love it. I should be receiving the hatchery catalogs in the mail soon. I don't order from them because the minimum amount of chicks is too many for me to buy. I don't want twenty or thirty but prefer my small group. I currently have five but am open to adopt more in the Spring. Just not 15 or 20! Maybe two or three?But I still enjoy the catalogs and seeing all the available breeds of chickens. Here are mine~4 hens and 1 rooster. These chickens are very spoiled!

I hope you have a wonderful day!