was rather proud of myself tonight… instead of tossing some overripe grape tomatoes I made sauce for whole wheat pasta… not that long ago I would have thrown them out and certainly wouldn’t have eaten whole wheat pasta, lol…

  
made it up as I went along with the tomatoes, herbs, garlic, and some leftover mozzarella cheese… very tasty…

while it was cooking, I looked out into the backyard and saw the solar lights glowing under the snow… so cute… 

was a bit surprised because the sun wasn’t out very much today… took the boys to the zoo this afternoon and there wasn’t any sun shining the entire time we were there… saw lots of wolves and bears and spotted a new heavy horse…

  
even put its head over the fence so I could get a good shot…

earlier my son-in-law had fixed one of the timers for a light in the living room… somehow we had pushed a button and the light just stayed on, so I’d been turning it on and off manually…

  
happily it is now working perfectly…

the other light in the corner, along with the silver trees, comes on and turns off exactly on schedule…

  
just love it when things work as they’re supposed to…

wish I could figure out how to put the light on the fish tank on a timer, lol..