I had a Doug Jones sticker on the car before The Washington Post sent me an alert on Thursday.
You can get yours here.
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Election Day: Vote for the Helpers
Our special election isn’t until December 12, but I know there are a lot of people who do have the opportunity to go to the polls today. If you have that chance, please go.
Figure out the kind candidates. Notice the thoughtful candidates. Identify the candidates who will pick people over party. Look for the helpers.
Voting is your chance to make the world a better place.
Voting is your chance to “do something.”
Show up and vote every chance you get.
Hooking
Our Museum has a Hooked Rug exhibition up right now and offered a rug hooking class taught by Anne Norvell to go with it.
Ellie and I were completely on board with that. The class was to make a little pumpkin rug – just big enough to get the feel for what might be a new hobby.
Getting Started.
She kept wanting to swap work with me since she preferred to fill in an area than make the outlines. She filled in all my pumpkin bits after I made the lines, and I made the pumpkin lines on her piece.
I worked some more on mine yesterday afternoon.
It’s another one of those meditative arts where you can find your zen. Gran-mother and Great Gran both hooked rugs at some point – I can only think of one that is still around. I’d like to make a rug-sized rug myself, but when I consider that my other massive project, the CounterPain, has been stalled since first grade…
I should probably finish that before I start another massive project. Probably.
Spooky Laugh
Don’t tell anyone but these were taken on November 1 – it was too dark last night.
Pardon our dust.
Ellie is Professor Minerva McGonagall and Beatrice is some kind of demon. The caution tape and extension cords are not just decoration, they’ve been working on the house for a couple weeks now!
Progress is messy. And noisy.