Random Ramblings - December 9th 2022

 

It’s been very cold here, with temperatures barely above freezing the past few days, and below freezing the past few nights.  No.  We don’t have snow yet, even though they’re saying we soon will have some.  But we’ve had plenty of frosty mornings where things were coated in a layer of frost like in the photo at the top of this post, which was taken on December 7th.  I’m crossing my fingers the snow predictions come true and we get some of the white stuff soon.  If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll know I love my snow, so will know how much I’m hoping there really will be some very soon.

 

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I like to have bells on Lilie and Logan’s collars.  Their tags jingle a bit, but it’s easier for me to keep track of where they are with bells on them.  They lost their last ones though, and I couldn’t find the spares.  But I found a couple Wednesday and put them on their collars yesterday.  They were really funny, shaking to make the bells jingle and then wagging their tails happily.  Clearly they were delighted to have bells again.

 

I ordered a big pack of bells off Amazon, so I'll hopefully actually be able to find some the next time they lose their bells.  It's a pack of 300 bells, so it should last a while... Assuming I don't forget where I put it.  LOL!

 

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I had a late birthday present from Kelly.  It was actually ordered before my birthday, but took a couple of weeks to get here.  It’s a cuddly toy of a bear named Trinket.  He’s a character from one of the games the Critical Roll group plays.  And they, for anyone who doesn’t know, are a group of roleplayers who have videos of their games go up on YouTube and other platforms.  Kelly and I both watch them (Kelly more reliably than me) and I love the character of Trinket the bear, so Kelly got me a cuddly toy of him.  I mean, who wouldn’t want a cuddly toy of a bear in armour? Anyway, here’s a photo of me cuddling Trinket:

 

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I finished making my purple loom knitted tube socks.  So, here’s a photo of those:

 

 

I’ve made progress on some other craft projects, but not finished any others yet.

 

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We don’t do Thanksgiving over here, but I was involved with the Friendsgiving celebrations the ACB had.  I even got to be moderating in Clubhouse (a platform we use alongside Zoom for people to participate in the calls) during the hour the president of ACB and his wife were facilitating.  Anyway, it was great fun.

 

If you did anything for Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoyed it.

 

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Yesterday (Thursday December 8th) was Bodhi Day, which – for those who don’t know, but would like to – is the Buddhist day of enlightenment.  I don’t celebrate all Buddhist holidays, but I do like to acknowledge Bodhi Day.

 

I made rice pudding in the slowcooker (crockpot) and also put up a few holiday decorations.

 

I felt like going for the minimalistic approach with decorations this year, so only put up a few things.

 

I set up my little fibre optic tree, and put my large wooden nutcracker and my reindeer teddy that plays “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” on either side of the tree, plus set a little wooden train in front of it.  Here are a couple of photos of the setup, taken from different angles:

 

 

And I hung an artificial sprig of mistletoe on the front door, as you can see in this next photo:

 

 

Apart from that, I also hung some fir tree scented scentsickles (which are really good scent sticks that are pretty close to the smell of a real tree) around the house, so now it smells like Christmas in my home, even though we don’t actually have a real tree to produce the scent.  For the most part I didn’t bother getting photos of those, but I think you may be able to see one of them hung on the door with the mistletoe in the above photo.

 

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Other than the usual day to day stuff, there’s not really anything else I could mention from the past couple of weeks.  So I’ll let this do for today, and just say that I hope you’re having a great December so far.

 

Oh, and I'm sorry for being slow to get to blog posts lately.  This thing where my notifications aren’t coming through for posts any more is making things take longer, and also meaning I don’t always end up remembering to check for new posts.  So, if I usually visit your blog and haven’t been around lately, it’s nothing personal.  I’ll try to catch up on what’s been going on in your corner of the world soon.