Well, we had a nice visit with family during the week, except the unwanted visitors who stowed away on board two of the visitors. See if you can guess which two people in this photo had just come down with a serious respiratory virus (not Covid). Hint: Dusty doesn't count.
We postponed our Thanksgiving dinner until Friday. On Wednesday, Charlie came down with what I suspect is a respiratory flu, unless it is the Head Cold from Hell, the virus brought to us by loving family members. I started feeling sick on Thanksgiving Day. We had had our flu shots, but this probably wasn’t included in the cocktail. We’re still recovering. We both tested negative for Covid. I even tested myself twice, because someone at the bazaar on Saturday a week ago had later tested positive. We got lucky again, if you can call what we got "lucky." Our dinner was easy to fix, because we already had everything cooked for the day before. (One person in this photo was not feeling as well as he looks.)
The cucumber salad was delightful, as usual.
The cranberry sauce was also quite tasty.
The sweet potatoes were similar to the roasted ones I've made recently, except with more herbs, and was a delicious recipe. We had the usual stuffing, rutabaga casserole and turkey (faux chicken, in my case). Dessert was pumpkin pie. We have stuff left over.
Dusty really enjoyed the early morning walks/runs with Louis and one or both of Louis' "parents."
Soren and I did a lot of reading. He always wants me to read him several of my stories. Johan helped me take the photos for the week's story. One of his dolls participated. His Lily is the one in the green shirt. She needs help on the stairs, because her knees don't bend.
I managed to work in a little knitting. I CO my Talvinen sweater. Alexa and I are both making it. I decided to make mine a cardigan. That meant I had to switch the BOR from the center back to the center front and place a marker at the "pretend" BOR in the center back, so I would have it to refer to when following the pattern.
Since I was unable to go to the LYS on Saturday for Shop Small, I ordered from them online for the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery KAL. This was what I picked for the MC….
and for the CC….
Now I should go lie down again. Everyone stay well.
If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart" in Children's. Every click on the page for the book makes it more likely they will keep a good supply in their warehouse and stores. If you are outside the US, you may have a separate website for these retailers. If you have a copy of our other books, Emil and Mariah, please leave an honest review on the websites, especially if you bought from them.
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What's on my needles: Still the Hinterland Pullover (some more progress made) and the EmPower People Kerchief (hibernating), Pauly's Wonderland Turtle and the Talvinen.
What's on my loom, sewing machine, hoop: Same as last week, although the sewing machine got some use fixing one of Son Peter's pants pockets.
What's in The Doll's Storybook: A Dolls' Thanksgiving. The dolls got to experience Thanksgiving dinner with us, although at different times, because of the plague. Jolena had taken photos of everything we were eating, so she showed them to the other dolls, so they could pretend to eat them.
What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor
What's in my wine glass: Cough medicine. I didn't check the label for vintage.
What's my tip of the week: Any head cabbage will last a long time in the fridge if you carefully remove leaves and chop them up, rather than cutting into it. The cut edges get brown and will eventually get moldy. You can cut off that part, but by just harvesting the outer leaves, you can avoid having too many broken/cut edges. Of course, this wouldn't work if you were going to stuff the leaves.
Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes.
Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is available from BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. The stories are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.
Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook and Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are also still available from booksellers world wide. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories in Emil are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.
If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less.
Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.
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