Almost there

[altivo]

Weather or not. Our Holiday Greetings are completely edited and assembled, and the first copies were printed and bound tonight. I regret that I just can't afford to send physical copies to all my friends here. A few of you that I've met in person will receive a printed copy, but for everyone else, I've prepared a PDF. If you're interested, feel free to download and print. These are meant to be printed on US letter size paper, landscape, 2 up, and then cut apart and spiral bound. I couldn't make the PDF file come out that way, so if you want to print it, just put it on A4 or letter size and put the pages into a binder or staple them.

'Tivo's and Gary's 2009 Holiday Recipes and Photos

Due to the size of the PDF files, I can't leave these online forever, but this will be available for at least a month. If anyone comes across this later and the link doesn't work any more, let me know and I'll send you a copy one way or another.

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful.." And it is. Freezing rain is coming down on top of the five or so inches of snow we still had on the ground. It seems entirely possible that we will be postponing our trip into Chicago to Gary's mom's house, which is going to cause bad feelings all around but can't be helped if conditions remain as bad as they are right now (or even as bad as there were at sunset when I drove home from work.) We'll get in there before the weekend is over, I'm sure. Stay warm, everyone.

Comments

[frith]

Your weather is heading my way and is purported to arrive on Saturday, just in time for my 50 mile drive to see my folks. Hopefully that won't include a blackout (it shouldn't, our power is pretty reliable).

[altivo]

Drive carefully if that's your mode of transportation. We did get the ice, the blackout, then rain (but not as much as predicted, thank goodness.) Now it's snowing again, but light powdery stuff. Easy to sweep off with a broom, though the wind will keep blowing it into drifts I guess.

[frith]

I made it home safely. The roads are salted so it was mostly like driving in the rain. ^_^ Nasty cold snap to hit here in a couple of days.

[altivo]

Driving in this stuff is no fun. Glad to hear you got through OK.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

I will be sure to try a couple of those out. Have a very nice Christmas. *hugs*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You have a good one too. If you need any clarifications about ingredients or whatever, just let me know.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

That's one delicious looking PDF. =)

Merry Christmas, Tivo!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas to you too, wuffy. *hugs*

[flamekist.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the recipes! I'll definitely be trying out a few for Christmas dinner!

Merry Christmas! ;-)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy them. If anything needs clarification or doesn't make sense, just let me know. We've made a few goofs in the past, and there could well be some in this edition too. Merry Christmas.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I'll get this printed out at work, where the copies don't smudge and run when damp.

Wishing you both, and the critters, a wonderful holiday. Hopefully the power will come back up soon.

(note: 'poor babies' tweet was of course a ref. to the horsies being spooked in the storm)

:o)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually the boys seem to enjoy storms. Tess was definitely disturbed though, both in the morning when a huge tree branch had fallen just 50 feet or so from her barn, and again last night when I had to do chores by carrying a lantern around with me. She was all happy and chuckly this morning to see sunlight and then get an extra carrot too. ;p

Power's back now, thank goodness. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[corelog.livejournal.com]

When you said "due to the size of the PDF files," I figured they had to be at least 3-4 MB. 875 KB? :D

*lots of hugs*

[flamekist.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking as well. My office computer didn't even hesitate when opening it.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Your office computer undoubtedly enjoys a broadband connection. ;p

Size matters in this case not because of speed, but because I have very limited personal web space. Merry Christmas.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Last time I did one of these as PDF, it was almost 2 MB, which is huge for a flaky dialup connection. My web space in which it is served out is limited to 10MB and has other permanent files in it.

Merry Christmas wuffy, and thanks for the virtual cocoa. *hugs*

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Ohh looks good :D

*downloads* Love the cover, hmm the Two Gary's Cookery book :D