Tangles

Oh well

I guess there will be no NaBloPoMo prize for me this year.  I was so busy on Wednesday that I completely forgot to make even the briefest post.  Thanksgiving day was also busy with cooking and cleaning up after a great dinner.  Everyone pitched in to cook and we had so much food!  We are very blessed to have a safe home, plenty to eat and a loving family. 

I plan to enjoy the next 3 days off from work.  My 4 Ship Support hats are done and will be mailed tomorrow.  I started another square on the Barn Raising blanket while trying to decide what other new project to start.

I hope that you have a great weekend, too, as we move forward into December.

This post will be shorter than usual and photo-free. We had a busy day at work with a holiday potluck lunch and starting a major new project. I am tired!

I get even more tired just thinking about preparations for Thanksgiving. We are cooking, but will have plenty of help. One more grocery store run on the way home from work and I'll be finished until Thursday

November 23 - Smile for the Camera

This post is my first venture in submitting to the genealogy themed "Smile for the Camera" Blog Carnival.  The theme for the 19th edition is "The Gift". 

The photo below is very special to me and I consider it a great gift from my aunt.  The photo is of my maternal grandmother, Ella Katherine Cutright Martin.  She was known as Kitty to all the family.  This photo was taken in 1924 and reminds me of how lucky I was to have such a sweet and wonderful grandma.  She taught me so much and I still miss her as much as I did when she died in 1995.

 

November 22

If you have been reading regularly this month, you will be happy to read that I have something new to blog about.  I just joined a group of recipe testers for an upcoming vegan cookbook.  My first recipe was for a Gluten-Free gingerbread cake.  The cake tastes great and is very moist.  Sorry, I can't give you any more recipe info, but can tell you that the book is being written by Celine Steen and Joni Marie Newman, the authors of 500 Vegan Recipes

November 21

Just for fun, I have started one of the new Typepad microblogs to save my family Christmas memories and traditions.  There is just one post and one photo right now, but I plan to update as much as possible during the month of December.

I'm calling this one Christmas Past and Present.

November 20

I still want to make one more hat for Ship Support before mailing them next week.  I will then concentrate on finishing up my Barn Raising blanket from Knitalong: Celebrating the Tradition of Knitting Together

I'm a bid sad though, since I thought there were a lot more finished squares. Guess I should count them more often! The pattern calls for 42 squares and there are 22 finished--at least it's past the halfway point.

November 19

I finished the Basketweave hat last night and just need to weave in the ends.  My next hat will be another from the Waffle hat pattern by Gail Bable.

I'm really looking forward to the coming weekend and starting to make some preparations for Thanksgiving.  Hopefully, there will be nicer photos and long posts, too.

November 18

Today's lesson from Blogging for Scrapbookers suggested looking back at past blog posts or photo albums for topic ideas.  I went back to October of last year and found a large number of photos of Brown Pelicans.  I guess they are one of my favorite photo subjects.  That makes the news of their removal from the Endangered Species list even more sweet!

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November 17

I got home from work a little later than usual and it was almost dark.  That does not make for a good photo session.  Today's photo is of a new hat I'm working on for Ship Support.  So far, I have 2 finished hats and 1 partial.  I want to do number 4 by this weekend and get them in the mail early next week.

The pattern is the Brother-in-Law Basketweave hat from Kody May Knits.  The little button below will take you to the pattern's project page on Ravelry (if you are registered) so you can see other examples.  If you don't know about Ravelry, that's a good post for another day.

November 16

Today's post is going to be another short one.  The weather was extremely dry and the low humidity left me feeling dehydrated and really drained.  I need to put my feet up and drink a tall glass of water. 

These two photos are of a cat that adopted our backyard and thinks he/she lives with us now.  We don't feed the silly cat and can't figure out why it keeps coming around.  We do have bird feeders that are tempting, but the birds don't come around as much as they once did.  Today, I was trying to take more photos of the Bushtits and the cat kept bumping into my legs.  It's hard to keep the camera still while being head-butted.  I finally turned on the hose to occupy the cat and keep it out of the way.  The bird photos didn't turn out anyway--that's why the shots from yesterday's post were so satisfying for me.