Whenever I lay diown to take a nap or go to bed, without fail, Lyla comes from wherever she’s at to lay by me.
She’s a very tender thing, really.
Especially when she just wants to hold my hand.
Sweet girl.
The Leaf Festival of 2025
Oh, my goodness! With a million Boxelder trees, a couple of maples, a peach, a pear, an apple and one HUGE walnut tree…
we have got a BUS LOAD of leaves!! Even Hobbes doesn’t know what to do. Not that he cares particularly…but still.
We’re being buried alive!
Enter my sweet boy Rhen who always says things like, “Mom–this will take 10 minutes!” That turns out to be true when HE does it.
Not so much for the rest of us though. This would have taken me a month!
My yard went from this…
to this in about 20 minutes.
Rhen…you’re my hero. Thank you so much!!
Even Hobbes is impressed.
Tiny Turkeys
Don’t you just LOVE my tiny turkeys?!! EEEEeeeee! I adore them!
My favorite part is their incredibly colorful tail.
This pattern is actually a chicken, but with just a few tweaks–POOF!– it has now become a turkey!
Be really, really nice to me and you might just get one of these cuties for Thanksgiving.
Heh, heh.
Original pattern from Crochimal on Etsy
Thankful Music
This guy, right here– my cute boy Dane, is taking classes in using technical resourses to make music–and is he ever having fun doing it! He started in October so he set up a full line of Halloween tunes. Some are silly kid songs and some are surprisingly spooky!
His YouTube page is called Light Shine University.
Then he moved on to a whole new, quite forgotten genre and made a long list of Thanksgiving music. I’ve been listening to it for weeks and I have to say, it’s lovely to have tons of gratitude-type lyrics in my head–especially this time of year.
He has written one from a true story of a sweet conversation with his little daughter that melts my heart.
Grampa Was the Gingerbread Man
And this one…is about my dad and it makes me sob. It’s beautiful.
I’m so proud of him. Please check out his whole page for tons of beautiful, fun stuff.
More Copy Cats
Ok, this is getting a little more challenging…
but still…
so DANG fun!! I love sorting out all the patterns and personalities of the kitties with each one being so awesome and specific.
I’m starting to look at cats a lot more closely now.
They are all so unique and lovely, but my crochet brain is turning them all into YARN!!!
Occupational hazard, I suppose.
Apparently, I have one volunteer already!!
Ohhh Dali….