True to my word, we started the new year with some waffles.
Not just any old waffles. Hot off the waffle-iron, buttermilk waffles. With that crisp buttery outside and a soft delicate interior. Waffle perfection in other words.
Some of us just like butter and syrup on our waffles.
Others of us forgo the butter in exchange for bananas and pecans. I agreed to shovel the driveway and therefore was fueling my body for the exertion ahead. Yes, I realize this portion would provide enough fuel to shovel all the driveways in the neighborhood. But it's New Years. And I have a cold. You are supposed to feed a cold - starve a fever aren't you? If it's the other way around please don't tell me.
I bundled up some for Angie.
I'm not telling her I'm bringing them because she will tell me she shouldn't have them. But if she just gets waffles delivered to her doorstep at 7am she will eat them before she lets her mind get in the way.
I think that's a good all around motto for 2013. Let me write that down so I won't forget to tell my mind to butt out when it begins to encroach on my impulses. Happy New Year!
OK, if you add up that you have a cold, you volunteered to shovel snow, you did a mise en place for the waffles AND you are delivering some to your mother before 7 am....you are making the rest of us look bad. Very bad. Total slackers. slacker is now my middle name.
But I don't hold it against you: I still hope your cold goes away. :-)
Posted by: jeanette, mistress of longears | 01/02/2013 at 09:42 AM
I'm going to get the shovel out. NOW! Feel better.
Posted by: Leslie J. Moran | 01/02/2013 at 11:38 AM
I agree with Jeanette (BTW-I follow mistress of longears on Flickr--small world).
You are lovely to deliver waffles to your mom . Hope your cold is gone soon.
Happy New Year.
Posted by: Pamela. | 01/02/2013 at 02:27 PM
Hope you feel better soon. Waffles look delicious. I recently heard on the radio, some type of winter old-wives-tales/ fact or fiction segment, to feed both a cold and a fever! Your body could always use the energy. Music to my ears! Happy New Year!
Posted by: Chelsy | 01/02/2013 at 08:04 PM
Actually, I always heard it "Stuff a cold..." So you're on the right track.
I love reading your blog from Lawrence, I used to live in Ozawkie years ago and I still miss Lawrence, just not the weather. Thanks for the fun and the memories.
Posted by: Nancy | 01/02/2013 at 08:17 PM