Merriest Christmas

Pray for Peace 

Good Health to All Y'all

Oh, for all those who aren't into holiday cheeriness,

(like much of myself)

May Y'all have a sincerely Lovley 

Bah Humbug!

🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

Posting here will resume next weekend...

that is after tomorrow's post

On 25 December 2023

 

Day 356 of Week 51 December 2023

Waxing Crescent Moon
15 December 2023 
5 PM EDT
Vergennes Vermont

You know a new year is close when there are 52 weeks, and this is week 51. The blurry photograph here was taken with a cell phone while looking out a patio window. No matter what setting, the full glow of the Moon appears while the 8% illumination that night is higher. 

Have a Positive Weekend!

Pray for Peace

Tell your gloves a story

Have a really wonderful nap

Brew up a nice hot chocolate toddie

Read about the psychology of fate

Hello Winter 2023 ~ 2024

 A few photographs of winter's past

Lake Champlain at Fort Frederic
Upstate New York

There is a path to cross country ski at Fort Frederic,

Crown Point in Upstate New York

Junco in Snow

Barberry Hedge (?)

Refrozen Snowperson

Each winter (5 or 6), I use to make a snowman or woman

to take pictures of. The idea is to have original

primitive snowpeople as models for a calendar,

notecards, greeting cards and such. 

This winter is time to revise and renew that project.

Gray Squirrel

Vergennes Green Vermont

My favorite spirea shrub that has been removed

can be seen on the lower right (across the street)

next to the car.

Adirondack Mountains from  Addison Vermont

Crabapple Tree 

Main Street, Vergennes, Vermont

Woods in Middlebury, Vermont 

Go Along Row By Row Crochet

Formerly known as a what-will-it- be, the random go along row by row crochet piece in the photo is a mug cozy.

I will add a photo once I sort through the little tins and bins of buttons to find one that looks nice on the mug cozy. I'm thinking of backing the yarn with a piece of plastic open weave shelf liner for traction to keep the mug from slipping.

I'd post the directions, but I didn't write them down. There are several oops stitches in there. The go along row by row crocheting doesn't have patterns. I pick up the yarn, hook, and just crochet. It is relaxing not having a pattern to follow.

Needs buttons

There's a reason for the button.

I didn't look for one before I sewed the ends together. Thank goodness the seam is short. At least now I know the cozy fits around a mug. And, will fit even better once the buttons are sewn on.

See the oops stitch?

Colorful, the single crochet is tight enough for the yarn to not slip off the cup's shiny surface, but I believe the woven shelf liner will make the mug cozy safer in that regard.

Farewell 2023 & Thank You

 Farewell to 2023

the Monday after this Christmas

will be New Year's 2024!*

Where this past year has gone will be remain in my memory as quirky, and

spread out with the anticipation of better days.

Christmas is this week-end.

Woe to the Bah Humbug!

Like going back to school excitement,

 a new year has its own bright and hopeful vibe.

Plan a vacation whether you can afford one or not

or have the time to get away

or even want to bother with mixing with a large 

 air traveling diverse community of folks

(you included)

transporting viruses, germs and whoknowswhatelse

the CDC and/or scientists will discover

that has the potential to be another pandemic

or

a disease or condition that can shorten your life

by, say, at least 10 years.

Plan a vacation from the mental stress

that a large American population are so deranged,

they support a criminal for president in 2024.

Plan wonderful things for the great person you are!

I am grateful for many things.

I am grateful for the wonderful blog community

that visit and comment here.

Thank  you!

*Sorry for the calendar mix up. The correction has been posted.

Day 350 of Week 50 December 2023

Getting close! 

There is only 2 weeks left in 2023.

So, how has it been for you? 

Good? Could have been better? 

Or a meh year that flew by?

Do you have goals for 2024?

I do.

2024

1. Become better at everything I can still do.

For 2023. 

I still have the feeling I'm waiting for summer to begin.

I wonder what happened to autumn.

And, was there a real winter?

Lake Champlain
February 2023