December 31 2021- winding down

 December 31 2021
It takes me a week at least before the end of the year to do the end of the year cleaning and organizing here. It involves:
Washing windows I can get to. Doors included. organizing drawers and tossing things that no longer fit and are not worth saving for rags. Even went through my rag pile and tossed a lot. Rearranged the freezer and now have vegetables on the top shelf and bread etc bottom. Did big laundry on Monday in the freaking rain and some things are still not dry. This is Friday. Did my thank you notes. Still have to communicate with Bill Moore. He sent a card. Bought underwear, soups spoons and a Casio watch with a  Visa gift card from Paula. Slippers with a Visa gift card from Jer & Kar. Still have 100.00 to use. Dara gave me an Esty gift card and I have received the Birthday assortment I ordered but still waiting for the Bohemian Bird note cards. Ordered a pellet dissection kit with Bob Paulson's amazon card- still waiting on that. So watch is set and spoons are washed and reorganized utensil drawer. Washed bathroom walls. Cleaned here on Thursday before food shop. That's an exhausting combination! Tossed my icord weather/wind indicators. Left the one long fuzzy white one out there by mistake, it is caught in the deck wood. Dusted which took  30  minutes and then 30 minutes of sneezing. touch free orgasms.
Finished up all but one knitting project and that is an asymetrical scarf-shawl
Can't think of anything else. Will try to stay awake for Midnight. Chatham was supposed to have fireworks at 5:30pm at Veterans Field but I heard nothing. Did a lot of ironing this week LOL Iron does not seem to be getting HOT. grrr. It is not that old.
Took lots of photos but will add them later. Chrome browser acting up and we will see how this goes using Firefox. Facebook acting up as well.

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Installed new shower curtain I bought at Target

brief pix of dusted areas. It was a dark light day so...

 

December 31
the wind catchers. Forgot to throw away the long white on and the one hanging on the wall outside- that's okay they are still useful.

I washed all my tank top bags I use for knit&walk. when I reversed them for ironing the bottom seams were full of yarn lint LOL

The lint roller after a few swipes

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2022: ICE SCULPTURES & OTHER FROZEN THINGS -ART

 looks like I have two artsy things going on here

Art

I have a  3rd cousin I found through dna- we are now friends on facebook. She moved to Tennessee  recently from California so cold weather is a novelty she is experimenting with. She laid some Autumn leaves on top of a saucer of water and they froze and made a glass (ice) plate. Very effective and wonderful looking. So I decided to give it a try but no leaves left. " All the leaves are brown and the skies are grey..."

So I am chronicling  the process with evergreens. mainly the volunteer juniper nearby and clippings from my rosemary plant.

It never really froze through. Either the evergreens keep it warm or I checked it too many times. We will see tomorrow what it does.

December 25

done and melting

melting

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tried a second on which failed but used the paper snowflake cut out I experimented in making.It took until January 4th to fail. LOL

January 4 2022

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January 23

started one and then the weather was too warm it finally froze. Using  artificial red geranium petals and leaves.

Took a photo then it slipped from my hand into the shrub below. Try bending over while on a stairway

 

If I run out of inspiration I can do frozen knitwear.

The above from January 27

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December 8

setting up for the first hard frost and an ice sculpture

December 13

it finally froze.

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December 17

winds were so bad here they blew the ice sculpture pan off the deck and into the bushes below.

December 22

red beads-

the melting on the 24th

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December 27

white bead ice sculpture 9:55am to 2pm meltdown

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