As Ready As I'll Ever Be

I did the last Christmas prep thing on my list today. I stirred (and stirred and stirred) up a batch of English Toffee. I splurged on a bag of dark chocolate chips to melt over the top because it's my favorite and I'm all about pleasing myself these days. Once it cooled, I got out the cleaver which is the easiest way to chunk it up without getting my hands all chocolatey, then I bagged it. And I only ate a little bit--just to make sure it was edible, you understand.

 

Just because English Toffee tends to smoke when it's almost ready, I opened the patio door before I started and scared the bejeebers out of the squirrel in the feeder. The lid clanked shut and there was a furry gray streak across the back yard. Sorry to interrupt your meal, squirrel.

 

The Red-bellied Woodpecker visited the suet nuggets again today. For all I know it comes every day but I don't always see it because I don't just sit at the kitchen table staring out the window. I do a lot of other stuff, you know.

 

Today's drawings are a Sunscreen Bottle & Sunglasses. The perfect things to draw on a sunny but cold first day of winter. You know what that means, don't you? It means that every day it'll stay light for another minute or so longer. More light! Hooray!

 

After supper I sat down to watch a movie but couldn't get into it, so I switched over to the crackling fireplace and crocheted on the Fiesta & White Crocheted Hat Redo. I'm finished with the crown increases and now I just go around and around and around until it gets long enough. Then I cut the colorful yarn and crochet the last few rounds in the white. I also looked and looked for a crocheted Christmas stocking pattern I used when DS was a baby, one for OJ, and one for IM. I'm not sure why it was so important tonight. It isn't in Ravelry or in my Dropbox so I went downstairs and searched through patterns and binders and didn't find it. Then I noticed a few page protectors tucked behind some pattern books in a file and there it was. So I brought it upstairs, scanned it, and put it in Dropbox and two other places in the computer so I won't ever have to hunt for it again. 

 

I had an  idea when I sat down to write this afternoon and wrote 1,117 words in a little scene about guests paying with a stolen credit card but not getting off the island before they got caught and arrested. Fun times! 

--Barbara