I am amazed at how long it's been since I posted anything. Over a month! It's hard to tell where the ebb and flow of time wanders off to these days. The pandemic is worsening, which keeps us closer to home. You would think that time would drag, and for certain hours it does. But mostly we've adapted to this new normal. I do worry that the coming winter will hurt our health care and other essential workers. The vaccine news seems good, but getting everyone vaccinated is still many months off. Maybe more.
My ceramic work has been mostly super secret until after Christmas. But I did make a few bisque stamps with dried vegetation I found on our visit to Hailey, and our Sweet Gum Tree leaves here, that are rapidly dropping. They will be very fun to use.
Winter is coming.
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Cluny the Border Collie
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I also knit my lovely Grand Daughter a couple of friends. I used to whip these little stuffed animals up pretty quickly, but everything seems to take me a while now. Back and eyes can't do this fine stuff for more than an hour or so.
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Jasper the Border Collie
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Both of our families have Border Collies now, and I was going to buy and ship some little toys that she likes in the Border Collie group. It turned out that those were special editions, and while one can order them from Japan, shipment was going to be well after her birthday. So I said "Well, I guess I'll have to make a couple". This is an ongoing theme for me. I can't find what I want (am I really that picky?), so I have to make it. The results are Jasper and Cluny, knit with size one needles and a lot of love. They look big in the images, but in fact are only 4" tall.
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Snow in early November
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We are trying to continue to have friends over on our patio. That's entailed purchasing a new fire table, which doesn't seems as warming as it's 60,000 BTU's might suggest. We're tweaking the system. And we have a couple of warm days today and tomorrow. The weather has been a roller coaster all year with temperatures up and down even more than usual. I'll close with this image from last week. . . we had a lovely snow that lasted for a few days. It's all melted now, but more will come, I expect. And we finally are getting moisture dropping from the sky, which is always a huge relieve for me.
