Daily Gratitude
Airing bed pillows and my thick Gjestal sweater out on the hard-crusted snow, in the sunshine (current temp – 15°F). Fresh!
Wikipedia. I love Wikipedia. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty darn good. If you use it, too, won’t you consider making a donation?
Fiberarts
Someone got into a skein of Claudia Handpaint this morning. Instead of spending my only free hour knitting, I will be spending it untangling. Sigh.
Daily Gratitude
A diamond-shaped wood splitting maul that will help us finally be able to chop the wood in the woodpile so that it actually fits in our small fireplace.
A husband who takes over splitting wood after I’ve had my three test whacks. The splitter works great. My bad shoulder, not so much…
A full wood holder by the back door.
Aromaleigh mineral makeup sending out inexpensive trial packets (with no shipping charges) so I can play around and see what actually works with my skin tone (please excuse the rare and icky photo of my tired-looking, winter-weary, test-makeup face with no foundation.)
The generous samples are enough for several uses. If you have trouble matching your skin tone, see their “linen” foundation shades.
A husband who believes the dogs value his cheffing skills as much as anyone; Molly is waiting impatiently for her venison tenderloin and brown rice dinner on a fancy plate for New Year’s:
Dogs that play together so nicely but pretend to be fierce, making “WAAH WAAH WAAH!” noises while gnashing teeth that somehow never actually touch:
New yoga DVD
Zakuski
A favorite meal of ours is one consisting of zakuski – a Russian word for appetizers. Chef Jeff prepared a zakuski meal for New Year’s.
It was accompanied by my plum pudding (a/k/a flaming booze cake) which I’d prepared back in November, as is traditional.
It was also accompanied by vodka (traditional) and Scandinavian berry liqueurs (a new tradition).
К здоровью! *
* To health!
Fiberarts
Finished keyhole scarf (one skein of Inka yarn).
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Daily Gratitude
Still day with snow on the ground and a cloudy sky, peaceful and quiet.
Cheerful pitter-patter of paws on wood floors.
Clean kitchen.
Hockey on TV keeping someone (else) busy and contented.
FREE Metta yoga practice from YogaDownload.com… not that I could actually do it, but it was great to listen to while doing my own simple practice. You could just sit and breathe while listening and still get a lot out of it!
Fiberarts
Drops scarf; “Inka” yarn from Yellow Dog Knitting.
Tuppinz Farm 