I’ve been drinking a lot this. I caught Rick’s cold bug and have been trying to shake it now for a week or more. It’s not the flu, just an annoying drainage down the back of my throat combined with laryngitis, a hacking cough and just a general malaise. I’m ready for it to be gone!

Today we are supposed to have freezing rain, my least favorite wintery precipitation. It makes the roads slippery with black ice that you can’t see and you don’t get much out of it moisture wise. It’s just nasty.

So I’ll be sticking pretty close to home today. I have the bone from our ham that we baked on Sunday (we’ve been having ham all week in one way or another) and I’ll be cooking the bone with split peas for Split Pea Soup tonight. I think I might even make these oh-so-easy-and-super-tasty rolls too.

Bring on the freezing drizzle and more hot tea and honey, please!

Oh no!  Sorry you’re not feeling well.  Is that lemon and ginger tea?  Part of the name is covered by the mug.  Ginger will definitely help.  Get some Zicam - that will help shorten the length of your cold too along with lots of vitamin C!  Feel better soon.  Just cloudy here right now and the sun finally just broke through.

Yes, lemon and ginger! Raining now and very cold.

I like your Christmasey mug! Freezing rain is just UGH. I used to laugh at forecasters when they’d talk about “wintry mix,” which sounded so funny to this Florida boy. But I guess it’s really not that funny! Staying home sounds like a good plan.

Hope you are feeling better. Enough already, this thing has dragged on too long, right? 

And your NC kind of winter weather is the pits (freezing rain or a “winty mix”) as Steve says. They love to say that around here. We did not get that, but we did get some welcome (and unpredicted) rain finally!

Also, that is one of my favorite mugs.

Hope you feel better soon.  (Split Pea soup sounds really good.)

Beautiful Christmas tree and what fab pics of the fog.  Hope you soon shake your cold off.

Steve, that mug was done by a local potter here in town. I like it too!

Bigsis, somewhat better but not completely normal yet. I’m getting there.

Debra, the soup was delicious!

Joyce, thank you! Glad you enjoyed the pics. I will do a decorated tree pic soon. I hope my cold goes away soon too. Slowly but surely!