Holiday Nuts

I have been busy with nuts and raisins! I finished up shelling all the nuts that I picked up on our drive way from our neighbor's tree. I made them into sugared nuts. If you would like the recipe you can go here. I just did sugared nuts last year but this year a friend gave us a whole bunch of grapes and I made raisins. So added the raisins to the mix. It turned out really good! I think I will call my mix, Ruth Chapter 2 mix, because I made it from gleaning from a crop I did not grow. Mary had a lot of fun watching me. She was strong enough this year to crack one or two small walnuts and she was so excited. I'm sure in a few years I will turn the cracking over to her! I bagged the mix into goody bags and put red bows on them. They are going to be some our Christmas gifts this year. Finances are a little tighter now because of us being in the start up phase of our lamp business. Here are a few pictures I took. My Christmas cactus is a Thanksgiving cactus this year. I brought it inside a little bit earlier this year and the warmth caused to set it buds on sooner than past years. It gets bigger each year!