Oh look, it's a post (see the additional picture at the end, added after Jane's comment)
Did you have a good ritual turkey day?
I did. It was pretty quiet, ending with supper at my SO's parents'
house. I spent Friday and Saturday playing Pathfinder games with
friends. Well, Friday I ran a game and Saturday I played. Both games
were sanctioned modules. For those of you not up on shared world RPG
campaigns, that means they are published adventures that the game
coordinators allow to count as part of the campaign.
And if you understood none of that.
Don't worry, you don't have to. Just accept they were really long
games.
I've been tatting a bracelet or two.
And I made some butterflies for a co-worker (distantly) who is going
into the hospital. Next to last time I saw her, she requested some
for her hospital room but she didn't say how many. I tatted a shuttle
plus worth and gave them to her the last time I saw her. I don't
think she was expecting the number I handed her.
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| bracelet and ~matching earrings |
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| I've been wanting to use that center bead for ages |
Oh, and I finished the hanky for my friend.
A good friend's mother died a couple
weeks ago. It was both sudden, and not. She hasn't been in truly good
health in some time, but still, I didn't think she was that sick. She
took a turn for a worse, went into the hospital and passed quietly.
This was right about the time I had a horrid cold and didn't dare
visit. I haven't been able to be there for my friend like I would
have liked to.
I have to give high props to zinc
tablets. My coworkers, as a welcome-back-from-vacation present gave
me a nasty cold. The sinus drainage started late Tuesday and I was
miserable by Wednesday. I went to work anyway, because I had a
training to go to. I started the zinc that night, canceled my plans
for Wednesday and Thursday, called in sick on Thursday and kept my
plans not to go to work on Friday. I canceled my plans to see my mom
and sat around for three days, taking zinc and resting. By Saturday
night, I was mostly recovered. I kept my Sunday plans and was back to
work on Monday. I tried to catch another cold and fended it off with
more zinc.
I managed to work another day in the
community garden. Turning compost is a real workout, fyi. I have
pictures! I took some and the director asked me to take more. She has
a really nice camera. I took pictures of it, too.
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| Uncovered bed |
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| covered beds |
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| compost piles |
We went to Savanna Georgia for a week.
Here's a tip; if you go eat lunch at The Wilkes House, do not make
supper plans. You might be able to manage a light snack later in the
evening, but that's all. We visited Fort Jackson, the Railroad
Museum, a few of the squares, River Walk, City Market, took a trolley
tour and a ghost tour. May I say, Sorrel-Weed house? One of the
creepiest places I've ever been.
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| Fort Jackson (designed by a West Point graduate from Wilmington NC) |
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| It's a cannon! |
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| spotted this fellow as we were leaving the fort |
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| What a lovely thing to put under the stairs |
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| Me and Johnny Mercer |
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| Cotton Exchange, classic shot |
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| Stationery steam engine |
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| It's a train engine |
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| Sorrel-Weed House: I have no idea what that pale spot is |
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| I think it's a teenage ninja mutant turtle |
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| And the cape I bought when the daytime temps stayed in the 50s with a cold wind |
