Joy in the Little Things

[Phaedra]

What a lovely way to make the people who nobody ever thinks about feel appreciated.

I learned it from someone from the US and shared the video on YouTube. Now, it's our December family tradition.

 

[Phaedra]

Homemade chocolate pralines

 

[ducks4you]

Lovely chocolates!
CUTEST ceramic Husky!!

 

[Phaedra]

Finally, I found a home-scale woodchipper that works well.

 

[ducks4you]

To the cold December heaven
Came the pale Moon and the stars,
As the yellow Sun was sinking
Behind the purple bars.
–Charles Dawson Shanly, Irish-born Canadian poet (1811–75)

 

[baymule]

I should look into a wood chipper. I sure got lots of material to chip! Does yours have a pull rope start of electric start? I’m such a dunce with anything with a pull rope start. One of those things I’ve never mastered, I just don’t have that touch! Hahaha!

 

[Phaedra]

I should look into a wood chipper. I sure got lots of material to chip! Does yours have a pull rope start of electric start? I’m such a dunce with anything with a pull rope start. One of those things I’ve never mastered, I just don’t have that touch! Hahaha!

It's a pull-rope start, and I also have trouble with anything with a pull-rope start! haha~
Originally we bought a Bosch shredder...but it's totally incapable and disappointing (and bulky and costly, gosh!)

This one did amaze me, and it is also very easy to clean. I need it for making compost and mulching materials.

 

[Phaedra]

Finally, a nice cake from the neighboring town, made with vanilla rice pudding, yummy.

 

[flowerbug]

Lovely chocolates!
CUTEST ceramic Husky!!

i thought at first it might also be a chocolate...

 

[ducks4you]

RE woodchippers, don't go cheap. I bought a cheap one, it was even heavy, several decades ago. I even moved it HERE 24 years ago. Finally, I recycled it for scrap metal. It never really made good chips out of anything, even little twigs would get stuck, even the dry ones.
SUCH a disappointment and a waste of money.
Just FYI...do your window shopping and recommendations before you buy.