Too Many Christmases.

Kubes and I made the trip home to MinneSNOWta last week and after celebrating Christmas with families and friends, it seems like the Holiday has already past!

Most of our 9 day vacay was spent with family, which is a good thing.  No compaints there. Swapping presents, eating big meals, drinking (of course)... all these things add to the feeling of the Holidays and we've already done it all!

We do have a Christmas tree up back here in Lima, and there still are presents to each other underneath it, but it's just a little odd.  By necessity, we celebrated a little to early.  :)

It's Live TV...

Besides a delay courtesy of Tiger Woods, the 6pm broadast today started out like any other.  And why should I assume anything differently for my weather cast?  Well...

The Quickcast went smooth and as planned, no issues there.  But the full weather cast had some technical difficulties!  After looking at the radar I pushed the button on my clicker and nothing happened!  I changed a setting on it and pushed the button again, nothing!

This is what went through my mind next... "OMG, what do I do?  Should I just walk back to the desk and go to commercial to figure out what's wrong?  Should I just keep the radar up and give my forecast without any additional graphics? Laura... tell Josh to get you the other clicker."

So I just said... "My clicker isn't working, Josh, could you get me a new one?  In the mean time, let's take a deeper look at this radar."  Or something like that.

Whew... catastrophe avoided.  Now I have that experience under my belt.  I'm sure it won't be the last time!

Free Shipping!

I was listening to the radio today and heard a great Christmas shopping tip!

If you haven't bought all your presents by December 17th, you're in luck!  It's free shipping day.

Hundreds of major retailors across the nation are participating in the 3rd annual free shipping day... I'm definitely going to log on for this!

FreeShippingDay.com

Thanks!

Last Wednesday Darren, Kyle and I received a great award at the Allen County Commissioners meeting...

We were awarded a plaque in honor of our 90 minute continuous coverage for the severe weather event of October 26th, 2010 in which at least 2 tornadoes touched down in the coverage area.

I know I can speak for both Darrenand Kyle when I say thanks to the Commissioners as well as the many Fire Cheifs from around teh county that also came to express their thanks.

It really helps during these severe weather outbreaks when we here at the station, the police and fire departments, the Emergency Management Agency and the many Storm Spotters across the area are all communicating to get the latest information out to the public.  That's what keeps us all safe!

Thank you so much!

Turkey Leftovers.

I have to admit, the turkey looked and tasted like Martha Stewart made it.  It was fabulous.  But of course, I forgot to take a picture until it was all carved up.  Here's what Tom looked like after the knife and fork got to him... 

And since it was 20 pounds... we have some left overs!

Today we make a cheesy veggie pasta bake with chopped up turkey in it.  That's recipe #1.

Tomorrow for #2 I'm going to dabble in some turkey chili.

I've found the November issues of cooking magazines to be very helpful in deciding what to do with leftover turkey... especially since I am not a fan of plain reheated poultry.  Something about the change in taste just doesn't suit my taste buds.  Put sauce on it though... then it has a chance.