Online and it is 11:30pm!

The AT&T technician came this morning and did all his work at the connection box near the sidewalk, didn't need to come in the house.  Seems to have found the problem - HURRAH!  

I ran across this site that shows quilts rejected by the QuiltCon jurors for 2022 and 2023.  Some are wonderful and one wonders if there just wasn't room, but most don't fit with the requirements or are just ugly quilts!  I'm sure some were rejected because of the photography.  All show submission must show just the quilt - no people, pets, barns, fences, trees, feet, etc.  I did not make it to the bottom of the pictures, stopped when I had seen enough.  Interesting that some were rejected in 2022 and accepted in 2023.  

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/quiltconreject/

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Not original to me, but my kind of Christmas tree! 

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It is winter, but some blossoms. 12-09-22

Cold this week, mid 60s during the day.  Which doesn't seem cold to some of you, but SCalifornians expect mid 70s minimum!  I talked to a friend in Minnesota where it was 20F and she told me that Buffalo, NY, had 6 1/2 feet of snow in one day last week.  I am sooo enjoying SCalifornia, even in the 60s!

Lots of plants blooming including this pile of yellow.  This is just one shrub maybe ten feet high and there are three in a row in this front yard.  For some reason this one blooms earlier than the others and is solid flowers.  It is senna bicapularis, common names include rambling senna, winter  cassia, Christmas bush, money bush and yellow candlewood.  

On the far right is another of the same that is only now filling out with blooms. 

The sprained ankle is better.  I started PTherapy for Sciatica.  I still have not contracted Covid and wear a mask wherever I go, but most people do not.  Several friends have suffered and most of them have been traveling.  Hope you are all okay.  

The AT&T "technician" is supposed to come tomorrow between 8am and 12pm.  If he doesn't fix the problem of not being able to access the Internet anytime after about 5pm, I guess I will have to switch and the only option is Spectrum which has terrible customer service.  Price is about the same.  Oh, the trials of the electronic age, I miss old "Ma Bell".  Hard to believe that I worked for them 65 years ago.  Do you think back and wonder what happened to that young person?  On the other hand, can it possibly be 65 years!!

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Wordless Wednesday 12-07-22

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Christmas approaches 12-06-22

At a meeting last week a friend went all out for Christmas!

KoKo is indifferent to these giant dogs in a neighbor's yard. 

They do have dogs, I think two, but every year they add more to their blowup decor.  

And there is this light display that went up before Thanksgiving.

I am off to PTherapy this morning.  Same therapist, same problem - sciatica, and she will tell me I MUST so the exercises at home.  Soooo hard to do. 

A little rain this morning, but not enough to offset the drought.

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