Happy Holidays!
Chas asked me to make a nativity scene like the one on the table at our local church. He has played with it the past few weeks and I’ve rounded up the little figures for many evenings. I’ve found baby Jesus in the bedsheets, under the nightstand and in a shoe, among other places.
Ford wanted a houseful of gems, “Gems, Everywhere!” he mentioned many times. Santa met him somewhere on the way to halfway. But he got a microscope, so the handfuls (or little felted bowlfuls) of miniatures seemed pretty magnificent.
All Chas wanted were balls, which he was very pleased to recieve.
Our favorite Christmas book this year was Christmastime in Noisy Village, so I thought it was cute that, instead of skiiing on Christmas day (as the children did in the book), we instead skateboarded the rest of the day. I think it might become a new tradition, and the book is so wonderfully loaded with old family traditions that we continue today, anyway. have you read it?
We skated into the night and until eleven. So, that’s moonlight. We don’t have streetlights on our rural road.
I feel like that rocket in the picture above.
Powerbook Shuffle
The process of moving has involved Damon spending much of his time in the office, rearranging bits and bytes among three or four different laptops, including mine. I’ve walked into the room numerous times only to stand in the doorway, slackjawed in fatigue, wondering in my little mind whether it may be wise to interrupt the binary flow and ask for my computer. Most of the time I pause there for a minute, holding my breath, until I decide that I’d rather go pick my nose or knit, or do both, in no particular order. Craziness becomes me when I’m in limbo, manifesting itself in peculiar ways.
I had a lovely photomosaic from the holidays which, after Damon looked sideways at my computer, got lost. Not that it was his fault. I blame it rather on my computer, for being there on the countertop, in his plain view. So intimidating was his glance from across the room that Safari just quit on him. On all of us, really. It took me about an hour to put together, so you can understand my frustration and the hesitation I feel trying to making another. And until I have packed. But first, priorities: blogging. After all, I’ve been such a prolific blogger the past 4 months, right?
For the record, I did get a Shuffle for Christmas and it’s probably the coolest thing on my list of cool things on the planet, next to this really cool other new thing I got for christmas, called a FISHEYE lens! I still can’t believe it. I must’ve been a good girl last year. Or something.