{"id":7750,"date":"2017-12-29T23:48:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T23:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2017-12-29T23:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T23:54:23","slug":"signs-of-the-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=7750","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not in the mood to write a whole lot today, but I have a whole lot of pictures from the past few days and weeks that I want to post here, so here goes.<\/p>\n

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Our tree and presents beneath the tree.<\/p>\n

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These little birds live in this Snowball bush in the Summer, but it is only in the Winter when we can see them.<\/p>\n

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This little bird bit off more than he\/she could chew and spent quite a bit of time trying to get this piece of corn chewed up and swallowed.\u00a0\u00a0 I have been filling the feeders every day and every day the food is all gone within a few hours.\u00a0 Time for another trip to Rural King.\u00a0 We are having frigid temperatures here and they are going to stay around for a while.<\/p>\n

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A few of the things I made people for Christmas. Through the year I knit socks and when I would get a pair completed I put them in a sack in a bedroom in a closet upstairs and forgot about them. When I got ready to wrap presents I found I had knitted thirty pairs of socks!Enough for almost everyone to receive one or two and in some cases, three pair for gifts.<\/p>\n

That has not stopped me from knitting, however.<\/p>\n

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Here is some new yarn I just received in the mail today alongside two more pair of socks I have knitted since Christmas. Maybe I will get fifty pair knitted this year.<\/p>\n

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I really love this yarn.\u00a0 I wanted to knit myself a pair of Christmas socks this year, but didn’t get it done.\u00a0 That yarn on the right is going to be next year’s Christmas socks for me, myself and I.\u00a0 I can’t wait to get started with it.<\/p>\n

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This is my drink of choice during the holidays.<\/p>\n

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A good cup of coffee with peppermint mocha cream.\u00a0 This is only sold during Christmas and I wait for it all year long.<\/p>\n

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David always gets me calendars for Christmas. Or rather, I pick them out and he pays for them.\u00a0 I especially love this one, Reading Women.\u00a0\u00a0 I am a reading woman and this just caught my eye and the pictures inside are works of art with beautiful women reading books.\u00a0 It will hang in my shop which I am renovating this Spring. New paint, curtains and a complete clean out and when the weather gets warm, I am having a huge garage sale for one day to try to get rid of a lot of things I really don’t need or want anymore. I am putting it on a date on my new calendars, circling it and will hold myself to getting this done. It will be a lot of work.\u00a0 I really don’t like having garage sales, but it’s better people come and take stuff away rather than me\u00a0having to haul\u00a0it to Goodwill.<\/p>\n

Christmas day was\u00a0unusual this year and I didn’t have anyone here for dinner. The grandchildren came in the afternoon and opened their gifts. Besides the usual clothes and socks the boys got these.<\/p>\n

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Hoverboards!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As soon as they opened them they were off sailing through the house. I was amazed how good they were on them.\u00a0 Some had had practice, but others hadn’t.<\/p>\n

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Our granddaughter didn’t get one as she got a lot of other things, but she was proficient on them, too, and I told her she needed one to get around college next year.<\/p>\n

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David enjoyed playing Santa. He no longer has his beard as he shaves it off immediately after Christmas. I tell him he looks twenty years younger without a beard and he does.<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to the new year when David and I will be celebrating our fiftieth wedding anniversary all year.\u00a0 We have some vacations planned.\u00a0 One to Oklahoma to visit Pioneer Woman’s mercantile store.\u00a0 I can’t wait.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year\u00a0 and may it hold blessings overflowing for you. Bye.<\/p>\n

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