Learning to sew 12-28-19

KoKo does seem to want to sew.  Now he is closely observing Froggy's operations.  Maybe he will be able to do it himself one day. 

See the needle just to the right of his ear.

Sticking his nose in wherever he can. 

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Friday Food 12-27-19

 One of my idiosyncrasies is drawing faces on hard boiled eggs.  I have done it at least since 1957 when I moved to California.  Don't remember before that when I lived in my childhood home.  My mother put an X on hers. 

It is, of course, just a way of indicating that they are hard boiled.  No other reason!

  

These are the current style. 

These are from a few years ago and somehow also required a date.  I suspect I took them on a road trip.  

I use a Sharpie to do the drawing.

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Stormy weather 12-26-19

Well, maybe I should just say wet weather as we did not have thunder and lightning, just rain.  I think it must have rained for about nine hours, but not always very heavy.  Seems that locally we had almost two inches.  These pictures were taken from the same spot in the backyard in the space of about three minutes around 3pm on Christmas day.  The rain started around 7pm.

Looking out to the east over the park. 

Turn slightly to the northwest. The very deep flood contral channel is diagonal across the bottom of the image. 

Turn slightly further to face north. 

Directly over the house, facing west. 

On Chirstmas Day the weather bureau issued a tornado warning for Santa Barbara Co, and parts of Orange Co., but it was cancelled soon after.    Strangely, statistics show that there are more tornadoes in Southern California than anywhere on the west coast.  I have witnessed two in the sixty years I have lived here.  Didn't like them!! 

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It is Christmas Eve! 12-24-19

It is hard for some people to understand, but I just don't do Christmas anymore.  It is okay!  My choice, for many reasons.  But it is impossible to actually avoid the holiday, it is everywhere.  So, I do gifts for several groups I belong to and I hang a wreath on my door (mostly for the mail lady).   And I have several Christmas quilts that I love, so I usually hang one of them at the end of the hall so I see it multiple times a day.  

Usually I have a red bow, but made this lovely white/silver one this year, just to be different. 

"Santa with Frogs"  Jan Hirth - Laguna Niguel, CA

29"W x 21"L    2016

Machine pieced, appliqued, quilted.

Jan donated this to the Surfside QGuild auction and I was the lucky bidder.  It makes me smile! 

I hope Santa has made it to your house tonight and brought you comfort and joy. Love, Del & KoKo

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Christmas Cartoons 12-23-19

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KoKo visits Santa 12-22-19

We braved the crowds again this year so KoKo could visit Santa at PetSmart in Brea, CA. 

Santa is a dog trainer and a rather large guy. 

KoKo is very small in comparison.  I gave him a brush up before we went in, but had to wait in line with a bunch of scary big dogs, so KoKo got a bit mussed up.

Santa invited me in for a shot, I think he just wanted to put his arm around me!

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