Cold

 

Hi everyone!

I've been unable to post here on my blog since before Thanksgiving! Phone, computer, photo upload, Cloud sync issues. I think it is fixed now, but it even took my friend two days to make it all work again. I did fix my printer myself, as quite proud...but the Cloud etc! I read and read to fix-it posts, but nope. Just words, no comprehension. So now, hopefully back to usual format, tho pics may be meagre.

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Earlier this week was the Cold Night Full Moon, a supermoon. It glowed huge and white in the bright inky blue sky, accompanied by Jupiter and brilliant stars Sirius and Aldebaran. The light was so bright there were clear moon-shadows on the deck and I could clearly see the dune grasses, the waves, the details of the ships 10 miles away. Even the outline of the New Jersey coast to the  southwest, and the shapes of the lighted buoys that mark the shallows here.

The Cold Night lived up to its name though. Gale winds rose in the night and temps ''plummeted'', weather guy's fave word, to 19* with a 12* windchill. 

I woke up 2 AM to a very cold bedroom and no power. Taken aback because the windows looked almost like daylight, but my wonky phone said 2.07. A confused, sleepy Mo was asking to go out. The moonlit beach and super-visible night sky were stunning with all human light pollution gone. This is what ancient people must have once seen. The starry sky---moon, Jupiter, Orion, Gemini, Pleiades and their stars, the Milky Way. I wore my fleece over my nightgown and Crocs, stood out on the deck and marveled. Yes, cold and scary but also a joy. Unforgettable. A different world, filled with sparkling blue air and moonshine.

 A moment out of time, timeless......

If it was summer I'd have dressed and gone out to the beach. 

I've been working on my  2025 Christmas little quilt. It is rather last  minute, not what I planned. 

Based on the TQC October 22 quilt that was so fun to make,

plus a baggie of their Christmas "$6.oo Shop Scraps" and some Two Thimbles Christmas pretties.

I saved this rough hemp faux  feedsack for years. Just barely fits.

Now I have set it aside to do my tree and prep cooky doughs. My brother sent pics of his beautiful house looking like a chic fairyland--the outside all illuminated in the snow, the interior filled with darling tiny trees and their big tree of course. Each tiny tree has a different kind of antique or vintage ornament collection.

All the Christmas quilts are out, anyway. Priorities! Ready for display or airing.

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Mo had a spa day to greet the holiday month. New groomer, so wonderful. Here he is doing his ET in the Bath impression.

And showing off his last year's sweaters.

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My little friend [age 5! Homework! Crazy.]  came by to do a homework assignment art project w my help. [I didn't butt in, it was meant to be a child/adult project.] I supplied a tray of buttons and trims and wielded the glue gun . Fun! I showed her Silent Night, the Star quilt, but she and her dad gave it a a brief glance and a fast NO! I was sad, but not surprised. I'll finish it anyway, just have to do the Snow Babies. [January proj] It looked pretty great on my bed for the show and tell/ no takers thot.

Off to try again to find my Tree decorations. This is fresh ilex, leafless holly. Trader Joe's. They also had peonies, if you want some. [ilex is poisonous to pets! I have it high and inaccessible. Mo wouldn't eat it but just in case. I had forgotten why I don't usually buy the holly I love so much.]

Happy December, Merry Christmas! Have a great week.

love

lizzy

gone to the beach.....

December sunsets....

Today Dec 7, is the earliest sunset of the year, 4.27, I think. All improves from then on. In a verrrry slow sort of way.