Footprints in the snow

You can tell who has been in your yard in the winter. There are lots and lots of footprints in the snow.

There are bunny tracks.















There are squirrel tracks.




















There are birdy footprints and right next to them are....




















kitty cat tracks!
















But the footprints I enjoy the most are made by the grandkids!




















They had lots of fun and so did I. :)

Happy....

Turkey Day to everyone!















I would have taken the picture when everything was done but it's just going to be too busy then.

I'm wishing everyone a fun day, safe travels and happy new memories. We live in an amazing country and are so blessed. Most of us have more than we know what to do with. But...

Please remember to support your local food pantry and your local mission. Even with everything we have there are some that are hungry and homeless....

He's a sweetie!

I wanted to knit something for our youngest grandbaby. I kept thinking cardigan and had the perfect pattern....but she grew too fast and it wasn't a big enough pattern. :(

I don't really know what made me think of a teddy bear. Probably during one of my wanderings through Ravelry's pattern search. I love that thing. Especially since it's been updated. How did we survive without it?? I don't have a project page for him on Ravelry yet but this is the pattern.

Since this fellow knit so quickly and was fairly easy to put together, I'm going to make a bear for each grandkid. This guy is for our grandson.





Isn't he cute?

(Yes, it's snowing here....see it in the background of this picture? It's cold too.)











I can tell he's going to be a "bear" to photograph! ;) It's going to have to be a sunny day when I take pics again...


















This is going to be his bib overalls.
















And this is the other 2 bears in their embryonic stage. :)

Wandering mind

On Thursday I was on a clear liquid diet to prep for a colonoscopy. I never realized how much random, mindless eating I do during the course of a day. There were so many triggers that made me go to the cupboard or the fridge for something to munch on. I finally had to go play the piano to break the urge. And that is something I could do more often to keep from eating. And a big plus to that would be that I'd get back to playing piano.

My dad had colon cancer. He was totally cured because he noticed the symptoms and took quick action. And now because he had it, I & my siblings need to have a colonoscopy every 5 years. The prep is much worse than the actual procedure. I sleep through the procedure. The gallon of golytely is another thing. The assisting nurse at the procedure called it swamp water. I can't think of a more appropriate way of describing it. But please, please, please, if you need to do a colonoscopy, do it. Don't put it off. Just do it.

Our weather is edging towards winter. The leaves are all gone. It is in the 20s overnight and the sloughs are starting to getting a thin layer of ice around the edges. I'd take this weather for the rest of the winter but I know that won't happen. Snow will come. And stay. Eventually.

And now just a couple shots of the kitties, lounging around in the upstairs hallway:






































Happy Weekend Everyone!

The Perfect Day

I got my day in the 50s to clean out the flowerbeds. It was a picture perfect day today. Good temps for this time of year, virtually no wind and sunny. And so I tackled cutting down flowers in all the beds. I only took pictures of the main one though....


And so this is the before picture.

See that beautiful Saturday sky too? :)














And this is the after.

Some things were left for winter interest and some things because I just didn't want to deal with them!














After I was done with the flowers, I cleaned the windows that I could reach. And now my knees, hips, back and shoulders are asking...no screaming....at me...why did you do all that in one day??? What can I say. Days like this in ND can be as rare as hen's teeth. So you use 'em when you've got 'em!

Where'd that time go??

I just realized that it's my blogoversary today! I've been doing this for 2 years now. Wow. Time flies....

We had 42 little hobgoblins on Halloween. They were so sweet. They all said "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you". We had the usual princesses, space people and witches but we had a couple that had homemade outfits. One was an Indian maiden and the other was Moses with the Ten Commandments. What original ideas!

Today was the day I was hoping to cut down the flower beds for the winter. It is the perfect day for it but I'm stuck taking DH's pickup in for repairs and waiting a couple hours for that to get done...hopefully there will be another day in the 50s soon!