| Good New Year All!!
Carol Ann - thanks for the tease.
New Years eve was quiet. I was home alone because my boyfriend was doing dwi patrol all night, and not in Egg Harbor either. I got some chinese food and started a new afghan. I had bought a pattern book in the summer at Goodwill. On the cover was this charming afghan that compelled me to buy the book.
Yesterday, I could have gone to my aunt's for dinner, but she forgot to call to say she was "puttin' on a spread", so I didn't know until I called to wish her a Happy New Year. But I did stop after running Elwood and his friends around the world, and brought home a piece of cake. So other than that, I was just home. And lazing around the home. I did clip my begonia I brought in when it started to frost, and found a "cat misplaced" branch my boyfriend brought me of his Japanese Snowball bush to root.
Today will be a little different. I cleaned out my coupon box this morning, and was almost in tears that I had not used some of them. I plan to go to 2 markets, cut the coupons, watch the football games, cook some ribs (loss leader at one of the stores), do a load of laundry, walk across my alley and clip some branches of a lovely evergreen I just spotted and try to start them also. I figure that if it has the lovely shape it does, gets only partial afternoon sun and is totally neglected, then under slightly better conditions (regular watering, a little fertilizer now and then, mulch in the winter), it shoud be really nice. I don't know what it is, but it has short needles that are soft, the limbs are not woody, they bend nicely and it has a nice shape. So we will see. At least I will try to get them to grow. I have a lovely cedar that I saved and has been potted now for several years. I tried to give it to my friend when she moved, but her husband said it was too small. The cedars come up around my oak trees (and the stumps that are left out there), and start growing at very crooked angles. I try to rescue them. I also want to make some bread. And I want to finish the centers of the afghan squares for this new one.
Oh well, better go for now and get dressed, put a little makeup on so I won't scare the clerks, and do something with my hair.
Well, take care all!!
Norma
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