Rushing the Season?

It's coming. The season. It happens every year. And just once I would like my Christmas Cactus to bloom on Christmas. Sometimes it blooms on Valentine's Day. Sometimes it doesn't bloom at all.

This year it is blooming quite nicely.... and quite early. I guess it likes the spot I found for it in this house. So I will try to ignore the fact that this silly plant is holiday-impaired when it comes to its name and just enjoy the colorful show.

Ooooo... Aaaahhhh! An FO. Baby Surprise Jacket is on its way to the new baby. I added the hood and some crocheted flowers to "girly it up".

Maybe I will get a photo of it being modeled! : )

Kids and company will be home for Thanksgiving. I hope by then that our delightful dog, Bandit, has worn off his new "perfume". He got skunked 2 nights ago in our yard. The dumb skunk was trespassing and digging for grubs in our lawn and then had the nerve leave his calling card all over our dog, and all Bandit did was bark at him. I think one more treatment of the skunk odor eliminator will kill the last of the stink. The poor dog doesn't understand why he can't come in the house.

It's always something, isn't it?

Welcome to November

Baby Surprise!

The Baby Surprise Jacket is coming along, even with a major frog because I didn't pay attention to the decreases. I must admit that, as ingenious as this design is, garter stitch is boring! It is not my thing at all! I'm looking forward to a new project. At least I can honestly say that I have made this classic. I had to get going on this quickly because we all know that babies don't stay the same size for long!

Whoa! Did we blow through Halloween? I bought what I thought was way too much candy, but the weather was perfect and the kids were out in droves, so we ran out (yea for no tempting leftovers!).

I made these ghost shaped Oreo balls for a soccer dinner for DS. Most of them were consumed as the boys waited in line to serve themselves the main course. The kids at the end of the line walked up to an empty tray (oops!). I was glad that I had a small stash of ghosts that hadn't fit on the tray! And I am even more glad not to have leftovers of these!!

The boys weren't nearly as crazy about the Fingers, but neither was I. It's hard to compete with Oreos and cream cheese! I did bring leftovers home, but it wasn't long before I found an empty cookie box in the dirty dishes. DH loved 'em!

For now, it's time to think about turkey and holiday knitting!