T Stands for More This and That

 Hi everyone. It's the last T Day before the Christmas holiday. I hope everyone who celebrated Hanukkah had a lovely celebration. This month seems to be slipping by me, and I think I might have missed it. 😕 I always think I have so much time in December, and then here we are, it is already the 18th of the month.

Monday we  had a lot of heavy rain and strong winds.    The power went out just after 7AM on Monday morning, and  unfortunately the  generator’s easy start battery was dead. Not that I like to play with generator as it’s not one of those automatic starting ones   You have to switch things in the circuit box and follow about 10 steps to start it. Long story short, I spent a lot of the day in the dark  (since there wasn’t much light coming from the outside today).  My husband did come home early, and he had the new battery so  we are now running on generator power.  There’s  many outages  and my road is closed to do flooding, so I’m not sure we’ll have power back before sometime Tuesday. We'll see.  

We had a little break in the rain, and I went down to get the mail and check on the condition of the driveway.  (It's gravel and a hill, and  the good news is it held up.😀) This first photo is the water running down the side of the road and going through the culvert that goes underneath the end of my driveway.

And right above this you can see the rushing water as well as water that is leaching out of the ground.

We've got a bit of water in part of the basement too, not a lot, but just enough to make the laundry room floor wet.  I have every extra towel I own on the floor soaking it up. Luckily it's not tons of water, and this rain should be stopping soon after I write this Monday evening. 

That's enough about the rain. Last week I went out to lunch twice. Here's my 2 views for T over at   Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog for this week. 

One day it was a friend's birthday, so a few of us went out to help her celebrate.

Another day I was going for a long afternoon walk,  and I managed to talk my hubby into taking me out for lunch before I went. (He didn't need a lot of arm twisting. 😏)

I was craving a tuna melt. Every now and again I just have to have one of those sandwiches. 

I had a quiet weekend so I started some holiday cookie making. 

It was marathon cookie dough making season. Some of the doughs had to be chilled so they didn't get made into actual cookies right then. Even though I washed the mixer bowl and other cooking supplies as I went, I still managed to take over the kitchen. 

For those of you who like kitchen tools, back in November I bought this nifty little zester. ( I wrote this before I saw Elizabeth's post, but I guess great minds do think alike- 😏-hee-hee.)

It fits nicely in the palm of your hand and has a small well to catch the zest. I finally tried it out when I was zesting some oranges for my ginger cookie recipe. I give it high marks for being easy to use, making  zest, and not letting my fingers get scrapped.👍

I also want thank those of  you who I received holiday cards from.  I’ll share cards  next week. I am behind on making my cards, and without light nothing was done today.  I am planning on New Years cards at this point. 

And finally, my latest sweater view as I work my way row by row around the yoke. 

I haven't gotten quite as much done this past week since a couple of nights I was too tired to knit.

That's all for me this week. For those of you that only visit for T, not only have a great T day and week ahead, but if you celebrate, have a lovely Christmas holiday too. And of course, for everyone, had a wonderful T day and week ahead.