In Case You Were Wondering...

Pip has been out and about all fall and winter coming forth a couple times a week for a meal. She's had a friend with her on several occasions.  Tonight I when I called to her she popped right over to the rabbitry for her hand out.

Knitting Help

I knitted a Convertible Center Row Lace Headband/Neckwarmer for myself this past week. I used a double strand of lace weight angora/alpaca blend. My plans are to use it as a neckwarmer with the new black leather coat that I got for Christmas but I also like the way it looks as a headband.  In any case my new little buddy Tafari loves to sit on my shoulder and he is very curious and wants to get his little beak into what ever he can find that is nearby. He loved playing with the yarn that I was using for knitting. 

Hand Turned Bowl

Sad to have lost our Norway Maple this fall. Thrilled with the bowls that Andrew made for me and Elisha to remember it by.

 Elisha's

 Mine

Our once beautiful tree that finally succumbed to old age leaving us some beautifully grained (due to fungus) wood.

Pre Christmas Festivities

We visited our good friends Traci & Clint last evening. They have a new baby and a 6  year old.  We got Greyson the 6 year old (with prior permission from his parents) a pocket knife. He was pretty excited.  Andrew gave him a brief tutorial on the major do's and don't s that come with owning a knife. Grey knows he has to have supervision at all time when using it. Tanner and Daisy had a good time cavorting about until Tanner got too rambunctious and was banished to the den; Traci and I got to giggling over some hilarious pictures that Greyson took of Clint and a good time was had by all. Dinner was Mama Mimi's pizza-the best in town. Just what we needed to get into the Christmas spirit.

Shooshing and Noshing

Our holiday wine party was last night. What fun. We ordered in Chinese and my brother made us a couple of white chocolate caramel cheesecakes for dessert.  A relaxing evening was had by all.

Blue Jackets

We all went to the Blue Jackets game this past Saturday night.  Our seats were decent and the game was fun. There were about 30 Santa's in the crowd and everyone was in a festival holiday mood. Andrew's friend who works there moved us to VIP seating at half time. That was great!  They lost to Tampa in the last couple minutes of the game though.

R I O

The breeder that I bought Tafari from gave me a back issue of Bird Talk magazine and it had an article about the premier of the movie RIO in it. I was discussing the article with Elisha and she told me that it was good and so I bought a copy of the DVD on Amazon knowing that our nephew was coming to spend the weekend and thinking that he too might enjoy it.  We watched it last evening and it really is a good movie. It's somewhat of a musical and it also addresses the issue of the illegal bird trade (i.e. bird poaching and smuggling) and also about loyalty and good and evil.  Four thumbs up from this household. If you haven't seen it - I recommend that you do. We're watching it again this morning!