A new month begins

Today was a beautiful day to begin November and back to regular time. It was sunny but cool enough to work outside without sweating. We've had a lot of rain lately and the ground is pretty saturated with standing water in many places outside the fenced yard. I drove through this with the quad going out back to dump a load of fallen branches and pine cones. Usually this time of the year is dryer and it begins to rain more in January and that's when we've had the stinkhorn mushrooms over the last few years. Well, we've already had three of them---and they totally live up to their name. They STINK!!!

DH is working to organize his shop in the garage. We've been trying to clean out more of the residue of "stuff". We also bundled for garbage pick up some of the huge weeds that we pulled out of the front ditch with the quad 2 weeks ago. They had dried out and were much lighter to handle.

We've been letting Sophie roam more on her own in the yard when we are out there. She is totally blind but does pretty well. On Tuesday the vet checked her blood sugar and it was 182 so she does not go back for a month. I also got him to look at her eyes again and only one of them responds to light now, so the tiny hope of the slim possibility that she could be seen by a specialist for her cataracts if her blood sugar stays stable for 6 months grows dimmer. :-(


I worked on the background for a page in one of my altered books. Do something, do anything to make a start, and I have. I'm going to try to do something, no matter what, each day. I've taken a photo of what I've done tonight.


I've been crocheting while I watch tv at night. Right now I'm working on an afghan or a lap throw out of scrap yarn that we had at the church craft group. Three skeins of black came in last week and I'm using them to tie it together. I'm thinking that it will be something to be donated to someone in a nursing home or similar. It is looking okay so far. I'm going to check and see what other yarn we have when I go to crafts tomorrow.