Poe

Poe was up today finishing off the feral cat food and then moving on to the bowl of sunflower seeds for the squirrels.  She has a pink ridge on her ears. Her toes are long and bright pink and look at her toenails.  She needs a pedicure.

Santa's Village

When I was in 7th grade, a few years ago the English teacher gave us a paper village to put together and write a story about the village.  The buildings were orange, green, teal, and gold.  I put them together had all the stores, had some one and two story houses and I don't remember if there were any other objects.  I have no idea what my story was about and over the years I have lost most of the pieces.  Last year one of my Facebook group members posted these cross kit pieces for a Santa's Village.  There are 12 pieces all together.  I  purchased the 12 items and began my stitching.  I have not got very far, about 2/3 done with the first one.  So today since Joans had a big after Christmas sale I went and got fabric and some trim and some fir trees to re-create my village.  I am gonna make a box from the pattern and put a piece of styrofoam inside and coordinating fabric on the back.  I am sure I will do further embellishing as I get each piece done.  I would like to get one done a month but not sure that is possible so come next Dec 25 we will see how far I have come.  Meanwhile enjoy the journey with me. Maybe I will even write a story to go along with my new village.

Poe and the Squirrel

I have a new possum on the deck, she is black and white and isn't she cute?  My niece named her Poe.  My gray feral cat kept checking her out but not getting too close as she spent about 3 hours "hiding" from everyone. She had a nap here and finally left.  This little squirrel came up on the deck and was like Whoa what is that as he looked at me and then her.  Looks like he is losing the end of his winter tail, he might want to keep that as it is to get cold again and possible snow this weekend.

Feeling DIscombobulated

It has been one of those years. My niece had her tonsils removed and part of her uvula in March for which I was there.  Shortly after her husband moved in with me because he got a job here.  May we went out for her graduation and moved them here, they lived in my basement for 6 months.  Now I am slowly putting my house back together.  If that isn't enough to discombobulate one, the real reason has to be that I have NOT knitted one pair or socks this year.  That is so unlike me.  SO since we celebrated Christmas yesterday because they are working lots of hours tomorrow I shall spend the day in quiet solitude making a pair of socks.