Sunday Morning and the snow is still a comming!

It is still snowing. DH just went out and is hoping the snow will slow down soon so he can plough out the yard again!
I have been pleasantly surprised that we haven't had to go out in the middle of the night and sweep of the satellite dish. Most years when we get snow like this we do, so far so good. Perhaps it's because DH decided last summer to put a light on the back side of the carport that faces down to the creek. It lights up all the way back to the dish and beyond, a very nice change to taking a flash light out and hoping no cougars were around. Yes we have the odd cougar pass through the area. We lost one very lovely Cat a couple of years ago that way. Around the same time another neighbour lost her small dog. The cougar jumped off the roof of her shed onto the dog and carried it away before she could get out to try and save it. Most of the time we don't have them around, but once in a while they pass through.
The soup I made yesterday was a complete disaster! YUK, not often anymore my cooking turns out that way, mind you when I was younger that was another matter! LOL. So i whipped up some butter and flour in a large fry pan, added a tin of mushroom soup, 1/2 the soup tin of half and half cream, about 2 cups chopped up turkey, and about 2 cups green peas ( had been frozen, but I popped them in the microwave for a couple of minutes to thaw them but not cook them). Salt and pepper and some dried, crushed parsley. heated the works and served it over toast.
Was very tasty if i do say so myself, a side of coleslaw and supper was served.
Tonight I will make a curried shrimp ( with some chopped turkey as well, i will use up the turkey yet!) . I'm going to serve this over cooked noodles. on the side I will serve steamed broccoli and cauliflower. We don't eat deserts with meals, and only rarely do we have sweets.
It will soon be a new year. I'm not making any resolutions. I think just adapting to life in general and making the best of what comes our way will be my goal this year. The economy is tanking ( or has tanked,depending on which news caster one listens to) . It really doesn't seem to make a whole lot of difference to daily life as we know it. If you don't have a lot you make do, or do without. i try not to use my car anymore than is necessary. My friend Gege and I do most of our shopping together, and look out for good bargains for each other. That seems the best of all worlds to me. We share ideas as we drive into town, recipes, news and in general everything and anything. So by the time we get home, we have whole new outlooks, and ideas. We share Internet sites and things we've learned, or want to try. Often I try and remember life before the Internet. It was good, but it took so much longer to get the information that is now at our fingertips.
A few years ago the in word was " cocooning" , I think in a way that is what we do now, but we do have our friends that we see and do things with. But more and more we stay in our own community, and really don't want to travel like we did years ago.
It took us years to find where we truly wanted to be, and now we're here why should we leave. DH hasn't left since we moved here 6 years ago. I have been away a few times to visit the kids, but even though I was glad to be with them ( I do miss them) , but oh, I was so glad to be home!