December 1 ! A brief update ... much to be thankful for

Thanksgiving in USA this year was later than usual... and it found us stateside this time - canceled yet another bunch of trips and activities while tests continue to figure things out ...so far all data is well within the normal range which is good and puzzling at the same time.

The result of all these cancellations of activities is that we got to spend Thanksgiving Day with all the family and extended family - it is rare to get everyone together these days! My mother and sister did all the preparations - my contribution this time was just one cake amongst all the cakes - it got polished off  so quickly that I ended up baking another cake so that people could enjoy it a bit more on the days after Thanksgiving.  We had a smorgasbord of delicious non vegetarian as well as vegetarian dishes to accommodate everyone’s tastes... not ‘just’ turkey with all the trimmings but also chicken and herbed salmon etc. etc .... didn’t even get to many of the dishes which is a sign of ‘aging’ - just do not enjoy the ‘stuffed feeling’ anymore !

 Another good thing that came out of all this  ‘trying to get better ‘ is that I have made slow but steady progress on the needlepoint pillow kit I had pulled from stash at the end of October ...
Also,  now that the cough is in the past and I  am not feeling as weak as I have been these past months it is time to will myself back to my normal schedule - mind over matter as always ... grateful that I can override things still since the weird fever and chills continue.

It is dawn here as I write and the colors of the sky outside are turning all shades of scarlet and pink oranges - it is a cold and brilliant sunrise - no sounds of the birds yet .... the colors on my canvas match some of the colors I see outside right now ... an interesting coincidence on what will be my last day working on this project.

I have finished a few simple samplers this year - will post on those shortly.