Stuffie 2022 Winter Olympics

 Hullo!!! Soooo... you know how in his Christmas cards, Sandy was doing the snow incantation?? Well... it worked... in spades... This was taken on the morning of December 24... just a few inches on the ground but...

The flakes are falling fast and furious!

Which is perfect.... because we have a beary big announcement to make!

And the flakes kept coming... this was Christmas Day evening... Mama had already shoveled the driveway three times!

And... there we go... more snow!!!

Never question the the power of Stuffie Intentions! Let's get suited up!

First though... we are going to measure the sled... it is 15" from tip to toe... and 12" from the bottom to the top of the wood bit... Got that?? OK... let's go!

Alrightee... we are ready...

Ooohhh... ahhhh... normally we get our big dump of snow in February.

Cocoa is not sure about this... having much less in the way of winter garb than a certain well-kitted out little bear!

Carry me????

OK... we are out in the mass of snow... the question is... how deep is it? Is it deep enough for winter sports??

It's hard to tell... let's drop the bear in...

Wait!!! No!!! Not me!!! Drop in the sled... sheesh....

Errr... OK then... the snow is probably 14" deep....

Definitely deep enough for winter sports!

And luckily a stuffie can sit on the snow without sinking in...

See, Cocoa, not so bad, eh??? ....

"It's cold!!!"

Right then... this snow is very fluffy... could we have a bit of shovel work?

There we go!!! Crazy deep snow!!!

Seeeeee... beary deep....

And now... the announcement you've all been waiting for... (Wardrobe change!!!)

STUFFIE 2022 WINTER OLYMPICS RULES:

1) You can enter up to 3 different events per stuffie household. For example, skiing, skating, sledding (bobsled or luge or skeleton). Or create your own unique category!

2) Send your photo entries via email to littlecanadianbear (at) gmail (dot) com

3) Entries must be received by Sunday February, 20, 2022 at 11:59 pm PST.

4) Gold, silver, and bronze medal winners will be awarded!

And... don't worry... if you don't have snow.... just make your own snow! 

Yeah... peanuts... paper... shredded paper... anything works!!!

Right then... athletes... choose your category and start training!!!

Woo-hoo!!! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!! (Watch out for those stuffie snow incantations!)

Chefs Sandy & Cocoa

 OK... so this post got lost in the onslaught of photographs in October! We saw that Beanie Mouse had made a super yummy tomato soup and... Mama had friends coming for lunch so we thought... tomato soup would be great! And we had some of our garden tomatoes in the freezer... so let's get started!

That's a lot of tomatoes, isn't it?? Too many??

There's never "too much" tomato soup!

Exacterly!

First we need some garlic...

Yowzers... those are big cloves (they're from the garden)...

Is that too much garlic?

There can never  be too much garlic!

Exacterly!! As long as everyone has some... we're good!

There is a lot of chopping and dicing involved... lots of onion...

And we are tossing in some shredded zucchini... because we can!

Oh... and we had no celery...

But we had lots of carrots...

Now... sautee onions and carrots and celery (if you have it... which we didn't)...

Smells yummy already!

And then we need some spices like... hmmm.... no rosemary!

But that's OK

Cause we have backup rosemary... all I need are some scissors

And grab some fresh rosemary from outside!

And... other spices... and some veggie broth... and the tomatoes and...

There we go... now we just let it simmer for a while...

And when that's done... run it through the blender...

Mmmm.... that looks good!!

We'll let you go as this blending business is taking forever. But... just so you know... the soup was scrumptious!!!