To Market, To Market

Today was another Market on Military day. It was also Small Business Saturday and there was a huge craft sale at the Resch Expo Center here in town which we think severely limited attendance at the market. But we each managed to sell something. I sold two of the copies of Open For Business with the misprinted cover spine at a reduced price and one copy of The Seaview too. So three books! Yay! Four hours is a very long time when there aren't that many people to buttonhole to try to sell them books but we managed to keep ourselves awake and mostly sane.

It's so cold and very windy. Look at how frozen the birdbath was this morning. You can see that the birdbath is shallow and the heater (under the rock) is partly out of the water. I braved the cold and wind to top it up so that more heat went into more water and kept it open a bit more.

Look at the other buds on the Christmas/Thanksgiving cactus. In the background you can see the fading flower, then the biggest bud, a smaller one, and an even smaller one as you get to the foreground. I have high hopes that they will all bloom.

Last night I decorated for Christmas. Since I'm going to Kentucky to visit DD and her family I decided not to put up the tree. Instead I went downstairs for the lighted Christmas "present" that one of my neighbors made a few years ago, cleared the plant off the table in front of the window, and plonked the decoration there. Festive!

Even though I was at the market all morning and into the afternoon I did make time to do a little drawing. These are from Draw 500 Fabulous Flowers. Don't ask me what kind of flowers they are because I don't know.

 

I was surprised to see a few Sparrows on the suet cakes today. It was so cold and very windy. If I was a bird, I'd have stayed in the nest snuggled up with the rest of the flock. There were two Sparrows on there but just as I pushed the shutter button the one on the left took off. Oh well.

And finally today I drove to Shawano (about 40 miles) to celebrate Thanksgiving with DS, DIL1, LC, OJ, and all of DIL1's family. We had a lovely meal with two kinds of turkey (smoked and fried), Mom's old Green Bean Almondine recipe, and too many other sides to count. All of it was delicious and some of it made it back to Green Bay in my car. I was nervous driving home in the dark because it's deer hunting season and Highway 29 is a magnet for deer but I didn't see any. I was the little old lady in the red car driving 5 mph below the speed limit but I felt safe and comfortable. (That's DIL1's cousin and aunt in the picture getting ready for the onslaught.) Did I mention that there were three kinds of pie? Two pumpkin, apple, and pecan with either whipped cream, cinnamon ice cream, vanilla ice cream or all three.

Now it's time for me to sign off and hit the hay. It's been a long, busy day and I'm bushed.

--Barbara