Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

That's a photo I took in the park behind my apartment the other day.

I don't have a lot to say today, except Happy Thanksgiving!

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But I promised you an update on the Christmas stockings I'm knitting, so here's a photo.

It hasn't been blocked yet, and still needs the decorative stars and the loop to hang it with. I have one of them done (as far as this one's done) for a friend for Christmas, and am almost up to this point with the second one for sale. This isn't a very good photo. It's grey and rainy today, and the light was almost gone, and I was in a rush. Also, the memory card in my camera was full and I have to archive it and wipe the memory, and didn't want to spend the time today.

There will be a better photo of an actual finished stocking real soon now.

You can't see it too well in the photo, but there are beads on the upper part (the leg).

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Last night, while I was watching TV, there were so many ads for places that are selling stuff unbelievably cheap! Both Sears and Best Buy have the Cruz tablet on sale for $50 less than Borders! Many stores will be open today, and will open their doors tomorrow at 4 or 5 am! So, if you're in the market for Christmas presents, get out there and grab them while they're available!

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I took this photo from my window last month, but I thought I'd include it to remind me of what a beautiful universe we live in.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Marek Fire

This was the view from my window yesterday evening.

That's one thing I love about this place: the sunsets!

Inspection of the apartment was early today. They started at 1 pm, and they got to my apartment and were through (I passed) in about 5 minutes before 1:30.

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Here's something to get you in the mood for my trip to the Renfair on Saturday. We will be there on the next-to-the-last day. After Sunday, it will be over for this year.

I love this little cottage at the Renfair, and if it were possible, I'd like to live there. If I ever become a multi-millionaire in the lottery, I'm going to have one of these built for me. Or maybe a copy of the house I lived in when I lived in France. That house was a dead ringer for Snow White's cottage, except that it had a slate roof instead of thatch.

Since I can't do any of that, I have made this photo my desktop photo. It's very scenic.

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I'm still worried about John and the forest fire. They are calling the one near him the Marek fire. The firefighters have gotten close to having the fire under control and on the way out, but it's not over yet. The essentials are packed into two cars in case of evacuation, but I hope they don't have to do that. So far, it's taken out one home and an entire trailer park, and some other areas have been evacuated. Read Crazy Aunt Purl's take on Fire Season.

I have a hard time not crying when I read about it.

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But the voting is over for the covers for the first Steve Canyon DVD (not to be confused with the special edition DVD). Check out the winner and place your order!

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Fringe (Fox) is back tonight along with The Mentalist (CBS). Plus there is the season premier of Eli Stone (ABC).

Have a great evening!

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P.S.  Check out the listing at TiVo Shows on DVD for Steve Canyon!

Beautiful Day!

this is what it looks like out my window right now.



This is what it looked like about this time yesterday.

I don't really have a lot going on today to talk about, so I thought I'd let you look at something really nice.

I did, however, manage to decide what to do with the sleeves on my Celtic sweater.

The choices were having the sleeve bell out a bit to look kind of Medieval, or to do something that would be close to the wrist, and therefore warmer.

Well, I suddenly realized that I can have both. I plan to put a partial Saint John's cross on the lower part of the sleeve as I did for the top of the hood, but instead of running into a cable around the cuff, I'm going to take two of the cable ends from the cross right off the surface and into two I-cords which I'm going to thread through some holes I'll put in the cuff. That way, I can have the loose sleeve I wanted, and pull the  I-cord tighter and knot it to make a more fitted cuff.

Wait until you see it! It's going to be neat!

Tonight, the most fun thing on is a rerun of Sanctuary on the SciFi Channel, starting in a couple of minutes.

Have to run!

Have a great evening!