Showing posts with label Tom Cox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Cox. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Small pleasures, SAD and squirrels

 I was thinking maybe I wouldn't blog today, not up for it, worried about various things I can't do much about, when I started reading Tom Cox and light dawned


I hadn't recognized it, because October was so sun filled and November shot by, but yes.

Anyway I decided to make the Christmas decorations mainly about dolls and small artworks, made for and by me, given to me, and needing their time in the sun on the mantelpiece.

Like these two artworks by sister Irene


Sitting on a shelf made by handsome Son as a school project. I put the fairy on a clamshell from the Jersey shore, so she could play being Venus.

I'm reading


A novel about an aging single woman, the one left home to take care of a difficult mother and hold down a newspaper job to support them. It starts innocently, gets into an issue of reporting on a claimed virgin birth and is getting steadily less simple and evident as it goes.

Speaking of actual simple pleasures, here's the first glove, very pleased with the changes I made, much better longer cuff and the threefold yarns are sturdy and warm



And outside, the squirrels are finding a few scraps of bread to deal with


And here's a clue to the word puzzle: the World Cup pretty much consists of them!

Leaving you with that and probably saying great, now I need a clue to get the clue.. happy day everyone, Sunday morning here, enjoy whatever day it is there!