Hello December!

 

The calendars have been flipped, the advents have been pulled out and Day 1 has been opened. I am very much looking forward to opening each little door and finding the next hidden "prize". This year is a cham bracelet and I'm still waiting for my Highland Cows. According to my updates, the calendar wasn't even sent until yesterday, so it won't be here until a project delivery date of Saturday. Sigh...

With all the great sales, I was hoping for a deal on a new bread machine. I prefer making all my bread by hand, but there are those days - especially in summer where I don't have the time or maybe want to turn the oven on because of the heat. The one I really wanted did not go on sale, and the others I saw were more money than I wanted to spend.  I guess I'll keep looking for second hand ones. The last one I bought second hand had bearings that would seize, then hubby would have to pull it apart and fix it - only to have it seize again in a small amount of time. The people that sold it to us said it worked well. Well, it did when it was running. I went back to the old worn out machine that is still chugging along, but I'm wondering when it's going to die for good. Right now, the pan flops back and forth from being worn out and the paddle flops around, to name a few things, but it does keep chugging along.