December 15

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all having a wonderful Wednesday. We have brilliantly blue skies for the moment, but they have already canceled school for the day because of a huge storm that is supposed to pass through this afternoon bringing possible tornadoes. The national weather service has said that it is an even stronger system than what went through the southern states earlier this week. We have our tornado closet under the stairs all set up and will be ready to dive in there if the need arises. Even if there are no tornadoes, we’re expected to have hurricane force winds later this afternoon. It’s all hard to believe because it is so gorgeous out there this morning. It’s plumb crazy.😔

My advent calendar this morning held more candy. Yum. This is some really good candy. My snowman this morning is this beautiful picture, handmade by my friend Sue in Spokane. Sue has been part of craft fairs around the region as long as I have known her, which is nearly 30 years. I’m sure she had done them for many years before that. Her crafts were works of art. Her quilting is second to none and she is a genius at appliqué. This year she held her last craft show a few weeks ago. I had asked her if I could purchase this picture from her and she said no, but she gave it to me in memory of our friendship over the years. Nita mailed it to me and now it hangs on our wall. Sue is the one that taught me to do the little bit of quilting that I know. Isn’t this just the sweetest picture? We sure left some lovely people behind when we left Spokane.

I have another hat almost finished, but I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer last night. I have about one more inch before I start decreasing for the crown. I’m just using up scraps of yarn for the stripes and then I chose a neutral out of my stash for the main color on these two hats.

How do you like my new headgear? Piper and I were having a great time playing this game. How I ended up wearing the antlers the whole time I’ll never know!😂🤣😂 It was a lot of fun but I ended up taking my glasses off because I was afraid they would be broken. I got hit in the face a lot!  Do you spy Hey Hey, the chicken on top of the kitchen cupboard? That is Brad‘s chicken believe it or not. We have had so much fun with that chicken.

Well that’s about it. Nothing exciting happened after I wrote yesterday except I took Zoey for a walk around the block and spent some time at Mom’s house. They are supposed to paint the bathroom today, but I don’t know what will happen now that the storms coming through. It sounds like everything is moving right along, right? Well it is and probably most everything will be done by the middle of next week, but the bathroom will not be usable until the plumber comes back on December 29! It will look pretty though! (hopefully)

I hope you all have a wonderful day and stay safe if you are in the path of the storms that are supposed to roar through.

Blessings and love,

Betsy