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Saturday, November 19, 2022

It's COLD out there!

Overnight temps were down to single digits, and feeling like -single digits, so they say. I have not gone outside to test it. Oddly enough, the cold water to my upstairs, most-vulnerable bathroom did not freeze, though I forgot to leave it dripping. My friend is here for, as one of my kids call it, Friendsgiving. She has to be the main cook for actual Thanksgiving this year, so we decided to this a weekend on one side or the other, and this one won out. So today it will be turkey with stuffing,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Pre-Thanksgiving weekend

Cold nights and cold days, and suddenly our old community cats are turning up at the door. Pixiechops is not favorably impressed. Yesterday I had to sling her into the bedroom and shut the door firmly in order to give Olaf some attention and a few bites of lunch meats. He could have come inside, but chose not to. It would be great if she'd get used to such visitors, but that won't happen any time soon. Tomorrow my old chum from high school who now lives about an hour northwest of hereis coming... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

It's Fish Truck Day!

Seems it's really winter-cold across the west and midwest and the east... Hard to imagine equatorial places that are forever summer, or down-under where spring is well along towards summer. Nights here are in the teens lately, and today the high is expected to stay below 40F. My elder daughter, the Maryland one, is currently with her husband touring Iceland, which may be warmer than home right now. A couple of weeks ago they were in Hawaii. I'm so glad for them that they are able to travel far... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Saturday Check-in

Checking in on Wordpress this morning, I see my writing has made it to Denmark today. Since waking my Loosely Speaking blog over there, it's been viewed in India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ghana, Croatia, Hungary, Sweden, Canada, and the US. Poetry is the best-read category. Here, temps dropped to ~12F overnight, and now, half past 9, it's all the way up to 31. And I have to go out in it, shower-damp head and all. Today I am going out to buy 'keet food, and I have promised to clean their cage today,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Here we go again!

Wednesday morning... It's just above freezing this morning, and will get up to near 70 this afternoon. By Friday, it will be 17, and not quite getting to 50 all day. Yo-Yo we go. later And another day done, or nearly. It's not yet 5:30, but it's dark. Wind has stepped up with great gusts all afternoon. I imagine it's the cool moving in. I noticed something odd today. I don't know what I did right, but for the first time ever, my Christmas cactus is putting out soooo many flowers! I've had it for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 4, 2022

the new hats season

https://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C Here are the first of this season's crochet projects. I'm determined to use up some of the yarns that have been in the closet for quite a while now. Some were impulse buys, others a bit more special. For instance I still have some of Stansborough Farms beautiful wools. That's the place in New Zealand that provided a lot of costuming for LORD OF THE RINGS and NARNIA. They breed a natural grey sheep with a very special lustre and feel to its wool. No one else has that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Here it comes...

Clouds are moving in, temperatures are falling--40s down to 20s with 'feels like' in the teens. We are expecting some snow tonight and tomorrow. Charlie's Alliance LARP plans the last meet of the season this weekend, but the camp has heated cabins, so unless the roads are really bad, it probably won't be cancelled. I've started with the crochet hook again. First, the new yarn, the couple of skeins whose colors I did not resist, and now some that was in the closet. I wonder how far through the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Early to rise...

Up and out this morning before 8, to take my truck down to the auto shop where they have looked after my truck for the past 10 years or so. This time it was a break in the hose between the water reservoir and the windshield spritzer. It was quickly fixed, and the cheapest I've ever gotten out of there--under $30! And I was home again by 9. Not knowing how long it would be, I took along hooks and yarn, and got busy on the next hat. It only got to about a 4-inch disc so I'll be finishing that up... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 31, 2022

Early morning busyness

This morning I called Kaiser to make sure what time I was due there, about an hour before I was due there. A1C, the blood sugar average over 3 months, is down a full point, which is excellent, while the daily numbers are still over the ideal range though by less than a while ago. Doc and I agreed that raising the insulin a bit more is better than adding another drug. I am also side-eyeing the holiday feastings that loom up over the next couple of months! Flu shot I had last time I was in, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 28, 2022

What, Friday already...?

Icy cold this morning, but afternoon should be in the 60sF which is warm enough for a kitty to hang out on the deck. Yesterday's snow was fun to watch, but it didn't stick around. In fact, it didn't stick to much of anything. Still, I won't be driving today before things warm up above freezing! It's 26 at the moment, near 7:30. ______________ Two hours later... sitting here watching the Great British Baking Show while sipping my coffee, and being stared at with big blue kitty eyes while I visit... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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