The end of the year!

Wow!  I've been terrible about posting! I always get like that as the end of the year approaches.

Here's one reason why! I've been cross stitching so much!

Here's what it looked like a month ago! And a completed Pattern Keeper screen! I love that PK counts your stitches every day! I've been doing an average of 500 per day, because I want to get Quiet Time done! Originally I said by the end of the year, now I'm hoping for Valentine's Day. 

We all went to Donna's for her 60th Birthday, the old Thanksgiving crowd. We started out at the cemetery to visit Joseph, since his birthday is 2 days after Donna's. It was bitter cold, so it was a short cemetery visit. Then to Donna's for appetizers, hoagies and pizza, and dessert. She had texted me and asked me to make Joseph's Trifle, in memory of him. First I've made it since his death, and I managed not to cry over it. It was well received. Mike has Dad's hat hanging on the plant/tree from their house, and elves of Martha and Snoop hanging on the trunk.

Mike, the anti Facebook guy, had his pic on it by his company.

I got a Christmas treat for my new door, looks so festive! That and my mantle of gnomes, are our decorations. We just didn't feel like a tree.

The weather for the holiday weekend was brutal all over the country. We got torrential rains at the end of the week, and single digit temps. So Heather and I cancelled our Christmas Eve day visit, and rescheduled for Wednesday. Ralph and I opened gifts for Manda and Steph on Christmas Day, and I made the turkey breast in the crockpot, which was fabulous. And enough left for sandwiches!

Last weekend was David's 39th birthday. Such a sad loss.

And we're almost done with 2022!