I'm a convert.

When my friends from Australia visited earlier this year they brought me some Uggs. Well, they don't call them that there but you get what I mean. Apparently they originated is Aussieland and they thought I'd like a pair.

My feet were so cold the other day, even my warm sister made socks didn't help so I rummaged in my closet and pulled these out. Oh my, they're absolutely fantastic. Not only were my feet warm (without sweating) but so were my calves and ankles. I'm definitely in love and owe my Aussie family a great super warm thank you!

Yesterday was a long day. When I got home D had a nice fire going for me to relax in front of in the living room fireplace. Before I could pull up a chair and my Kindle, Nuttie picked out her spot and plopped herself down for a nap or two. As long as I was in the room, she was too.

Nissie doesn't like heat from the fireplace or space heaters. She prefers the electric blanket. I don't know why but she does. Nuttie will take heat anywhere she can get it.

Odd Couple of Days

It's been an odd few days. Friday I spent 3 hours sewing out this applique name tag for D's work apron. It's got over 300,000 stitches so takes forever to sew out.

Anyway, everything was going perfectly until about the last 3 minutes. Check out the bottom of the design. For some reason the darn thing came out of registration. I'm thinking it's because of the large size of the design and it has to go into my biggest hoop. It's too big for the next hoop down but too small for my largest hoop.

I've been scratching my head on how to stabilize the darn thing. I might change some of the sew out order and see if that might do the trick. Oh well....who says life was supposed to be easy? LOL!

I spent all day Saturday putting up more Christmas decorations. I have about 2/3 of them out and have decided to quit. I've got to come up with a quicker and easier method of decorating.

Soooo...the family room pretty much only has the fireplace decorated. The kitchen, living room and entry hall are decorated. Normally the entire house is festive, especially the family room but not this year. A lot of the problem is, now I'm working so time is at a minimum and my shoulder is killing me. Sigh....myabe next year.

I was pooped and pretty much useless yesterday (Sunday). I loaded a book on my Kindle, listened to the monsoon winds try and pull the shingles off the roof and watched the backyard rapidly fill up with the few leaves that were left on the trees. Yikes, what a mess!

I have to admit, I'm all rested today. I think a day of lazing around in my big chair reading and occasionally napping did the trick. I made the mistake of turning on the lap blanket to keep warm. That mean a lap full of wiener dogs. Oh well, with their weight, they also add warmth.

Catch up time!

Okay, I'm back. Like my niece, I quit blogging because I didn't feel like anyone was reading what I wrote. So now I'm back until I feel like I'm wasting my time again.

While I've been away from the bloggersphere I've done a few things. D and I picked up a few cars for Peter. Check out the Cuda above. It's a mess but the Aussies will love it. Go figure. It should be on the ocean now heading toward Australia by now.

The Cuda is actually a pretty good looking car compared to some of the stuff Pete buys and ships.

D and I picked this beauty up in Santa Rosa. It was just shy of a 6 hour trip. We left after I got off work at 2, so it was a long day.

We brought it home and then D called S to see if he'd like to take it to Oakland PLI with him. As you can guess, the kid had a blast. It put a little spark in him to work on the frame off restoration of his Chevelle a bit more.

Each year at Thanksgiving D cooks the turkey in the Webber. He's done that about 25 years and each year he tries to figure out how long to cook it. It must be a 'man' thing.

This year he took a picture of his cooking time calculation and wants to print it and put it in the Webber cookbook. Looks like a recipe from the cold war to me.

H came home for Thanksgiving. It's the first time we've seen her since she moved 8 months ago. She won't be coming home for Christmas, so this visit is going to have to last us until next November.

I don't know if the red eye will show when this posts. I felt it was appropriate to leave it because it really shows the inner aura of my little devils. LOL!

The decorations at work are minimal but the tree is beautiful. One of the couples who works there have relatives that own Windmill Farms. They brought in this beautiful tree and decorated it for us.

I told Maureen this morning that she's got the best smelling room in the entire building. The tree really looks beautiful when it's dark a yucky out. Once the newness wore off, I noticed how the tree leans to one side. Now it drives me a little bit crazy when I'm filling in for Mo at the front desk.

Okay, that's the end of this post. I promise to try and put something on at least once a week. Hopefully I might actually post twice in a week.