One day before "turkey day"

Working 1/2 day - preparing for the grand dinner with 8 guests - that makes 10 of us to fit into our smallish dining area. But we shall prevail.

Here's a nice old-fashion turkey to grace the blog.

I was going to cast-on for the Cedar Leaf Shawlette (by Alana from the "nevernotknitting Podcast" http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/never-not-knitting/875760/176-200), but after I had done the swatch to make sure I had the right gauge, my size 7 circular needle disappeared! I looked in all of the places I could think that it might have "got off to", but no luck. Now I shall have to get a new needle before I can start the shawlette. BUMMER!

late, but here, none-the-less

My first day back to work had me over-whelmed. There was such a back-log that by the time I got home I had no time to get on the computer.
I had to make some more bread for the turkey stuffing & make supper, too.
'tP' saw the doc yesterday about his back & is home for 3 days, ie. until after "turkey day" and isn't much help as he spends most of his time on the heating pad.
Not any more snow on Monday; we shall see what develops later in the week.

Oh yes, here is a photo of the 'Bob' sweater on me, LOL. It is nice & soft and fits well - now if the body it was fitted on was just a bit less 'bumpy'.

Snow, snow, & wind

Well, the Palouse winter is here! It's blowing & snowing like mad. It is pretty wet, so probably won't stay long, but it means wear boots tomorrow .

looking out at the bird feeders - the 'sunnie' feeder is already empty, high wind & hungry birds!

looking across the road in front of our house - our neighbor's horse pasture.

I've been baking & getting the house ready for company at Thanksgiving. Not time for much else as I had to do laundry, too. 'tP' is helping with the vacuum & the mop.

Back from visiting 'the folks' 11/16 - 11/20

We got home late last night & everything was fine. Our 'furbabies' were very glad to see us - Buddy is in his hibernation mode, so he didn't even know we were gone, LOL.
When we got up this morning (late of course due to going to bed late) the sun was out and it was NOT freezing - so guess what we did? Well, we went out & got that dormant spray on and got that hose drained & back into the storage shed quick as we could. Trees are ready to go until late winter.
Then it was off to the stores for supplies & foodstuffs. It took us a lot longer than we had planned as 'tP' is moving V E R Y slowly! He was helping my brother - who has a chicken farm - unload the new baby chicks - there were LOTS & some of his hired help did not show. Somehow he twisted wrong & threw out his back, so is in a lot of pain. He plans to see the doc on Monday if not better by then.
I did get all the fixin's for Thanksgiving - both of my children & families are going to be here so we will have a full house. I like it when that happens & it, of course, does not happen enough for me .
OK, off to put away rest of stuff & knit a bit.

Progress on projects.............

Rosevale: It's freezing every night now & I didn't get the dormant oil spray in time to get it on the trees, ie. the hose that 'tP' left out for me after he was done with the gutters is frozen, although he emptied it as well as he could & there's snow all over. I can hope that somehow it will melt off & I can get the trees done. If not it will be the late winter / early spring before I can get it done. I figured out a way to cover the wheelbarrows, so the over-wintering outside won't be so hard on the wooden handles & the one that has a metal bed. Filled bird feeders and wrote myself notes about getting down the holiday lights so we can get them up in time. Colton is "famous" (in the area) for the citizen's holiday light displays & we like to participate.

tales of drM: I got the last of the testing done this week, but it will start up soon after we get back from vacation, I know. There has been good harvest of seed from the "wild guys" that are growing in the front of the GH - it makes me feel good when we have such good results.

PO patter: 'tP' finished his work week on Thursday & went off to visit his BF "carver" for a few days before I get vacation time. He said during their fishing trip they caught 3 big channel catfish. He left the fish with another friend that they were fishing with as he didn't have a way to bring them home. Secretly I was glad - I really don't like catfish, although I always cook it for him when he brings them home; I just don't eat them, LOL.

hobbies, hobbies: Here's a photo of progress on the green 'vanilla' socks and the re-start of the FLS.

And a photo of the MANY dishcloths I've completed for Christmans gifts.

It's Saturday

The view from our front porch - late autumn clear skies.

There was a bit of snow last night. And it's gotten colder; I had to scrape ice from the PU windows before I could leave to do the weekly shopping.

I did not have much shopping to do since we are leaving on Monday to go to the folks for a visit. But, I got some 'chemicals' to have in storage for use in the spring - copper for the threat of fireblight, dormant oil to use to "drown" hibernating buggies, & moss killer for the roof. (When 'tP' was up there doing the gutters last week he found moss on the roofing, not a good thing)
Oh, and then I succumbed to the sale at Michael's - someone on Ravelry alerted us to it, LOL - and got enough Paton's wool for a sweater, plus some to make myself some heavy winter socks.

I'm "single" this weekend.................well, sort of

'the Postman' is off to visit his BF "carver" for a couple of days. He'll be back Sunday and we will get ready to go for a visit to my folks next week. He could not get the week of Thanksgiving off from work, so we'll have "our own" holiday with my kids & our grands when the 'turkey day' is here.
ANNOUNCEMENT: I bit the bullet & actually frogged the whole FLS last night. Plus, I re-cast on in a slightly larger size right away after I had balled up all of the yarn. I didn't wash & re-stretch the yarn to get out the kinks since I figured it really wouldn't matter anyway - for you purists I apologize!
I did a provisional cast-on to start so I could later remove the crocheted waste yarn & attach the collar I plan to put onto the sweater.
I'll try very hard to get my daily post in while I'm at mum & dad's, too.