{"id":5304,"date":"2015-12-28T18:27:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T18:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2015-12-28T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T18:31:45","slug":"signs-of-the-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=5304","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.\u00a0 We were blessed with family and festivities and all the Christmas season is supposed to be.\u00a0 A time of joy, peace and blessings.\u00a0 Now we are settling in for the rest of the winter.\u00a0 Cold, dreary days.\u00a0 Firelight flickering.\u00a0 Candles glowing.\u00a0 The days for soups, chili, and comfort food. Baking bread.\u00a0 \u00a0 The days for enjoying our Christmas gifts, if we got any, or just enjoying being inside and working on our indoor chores and hobbies.<\/p>\n

I am in a sock knitting obsession.\u00a0 I started a pair of socks in the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

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My first time ever to knit on circular needles.<\/p>\n

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Very tiny circular needles.\u00a0\u00a0 I found I liked the knitting part of it, but was dreading turning the heel.\u00a0 I think I worried about it so much I dropped stitches as I was trying to knit the heel flap, got all impatient about picking up the stitches and ended up tearing out the whole sock and now am using the yarn\u00a0to knit\u00a0yet another scarf.\u00a0 So I am back to square one in starting a pair of socks.\u00a0 I think I am going to order some different yarn as this yarn is acrylic and not really sock yarn\u00a0and I did not like the stiffness of it as I was knitting.\u00a0 Maybe it was a good thing I dropped those stitches.\u00a0 David said, “you spent hours knitting that sock,” and I said, ” I can start again.\u00a0 I am determined to knit socks.”\u00a0 I won’t give up.\u00a0 If millions of women can knit socks, so can I.<\/p>\n

I did get this for Christmas.<\/p>\n

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I am not so sure this will be any easier as there is a CD to watch and all kinds of things one needs to know before one starts.\u00a0 How can a simple sock be so hard?\u00a0\u00a0 I know people who knit hats on looms like this, so it cannot be that hard.\u00a0 Anyway, that is what I tell myself.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, I told David I wanted to learn to crochet this year, also, which made him get out his crochet needles and proceed to crochet a scarf.<\/p>\n

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He use to crochet all the time and even crocheted a huge afghan.\u00a0 If David can do it, surely I can.\u00a0 He says it’s easy.\u00a0 Sure it is.\u00a0 When you know how to do it!<\/p>\n

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We had an informal table this year at Christmas. I didn’t want to be spending the time doing dishes on Christmas day.<\/p>\n

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We used paper plates, but I did find these vintage looking ones with napkins to match at Hobby Lobby.<\/p>\n

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Kids are what make Christmas so much fun.<\/p>\n

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Even grumpy snowmen are fun.\u00a0 Our oldest son modeling one of his gifts.\u00a0 As one can see, it made our grandson laugh.<\/p>\n

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Another\u00a0gift I received was this adult coloring book.\u00a0 It has brought out the kid in me.\u00a0 I can’t stay away from it.\u00a0 I collected all my coloring pencils and got to work.<\/p>\n

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The pages are all these black and white drawings, but as you color you turn the pages into…<\/p>\n

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Little works of art.<\/p>\n

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I am having way too much fun with this book.<\/p>\n

Other signs of the season are these…..<\/p>\n

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Birds at the bird feeders.\u00a0 A titmouse.\u00a0 We haven’t seen titmice for years at our feeder so this was a wonderful thing to see.\u00a0 I hope we get lots more of these pretty little birds.<\/p>\n

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The winter garden is still wonderful to see.\u00a0 There is beauty everywhere.\u00a0 These flowers only bloom in the winter.\u00a0 This is the first year I have had them and I plan to get some more as it is a joy to see flowers in December outdoors.<\/p>\n

As we come to the close of yet another year, I pray for peace, for happiness, for health, and for the love of family and friends in 2016. I wish it all for you, too. Bye.<\/p>\n

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I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.\u00a0 We were blessed with family and festivities and all the Christmas season is supposed to be.\u00a0 A time of joy, peace and blessings.\u00a0 Now we are settling in for the rest of the winter.\u00a0 Cold, dreary days.\u00a0 Firelight flickering.\u00a0 Candles glowing.\u00a0 The days for soups, chili, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-davids-and-my-projects","category-gardening","category-home-and-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}