Today November 17, already. How can that be? Time is slipping so fast, it makes my head spin. November is my birthday month and I noticed that I'm not getting any younger but that's how it's supposed to be according to the natural law. I'm trying to live my life the best I can with what I've got and do as much good as I can while I still can and have some joy in the process. It's a choice I make while the world is turning the wrong way.
I looked in my iPhone library for recent photos of what I've been up to in November and I'm getting slack about taking photos. Here's what I found.
My slow progress on Madonna of the Street. I dyed some wool for the background and I'm trying to get it to look dark but not too dark. I started with a color around the outside of the halo and now I think I might have to change it as it not what I had envisioned. I'm satisfied with the rest of the mottled dark. I may leave the color in and change the direction of the loops.
I baked these Jam jam cookies but instead of rolling the dough flat and putting raspberry jam in between the layers, I did it the lazy way and make them as thumprint cookies. My husband love molasses cookies. The raspberry jam came from Eric, a friend who has a raspberry patch.
Some of my blogger friends share beautiful sunrise and sunsets on their blogs but I never take time to do that until now. Darkness comes so early and I captures this just before the sun dissapeared for the night.
I had two Halloween pumpkins which wasn't even carved and I didn't want to waste them so I saved the seeds and stems and made pumpkin preserves with the rest. I don't usually make pumpkin preserves. If someone want to use these stems, just let me know.
While washing the seeds I couldn't help but see the pattern and movement in the seeds. It reminded me of hooking a background on a rug.
I made two batches with a Bernadin recipe I found on line. It has pineapple and golden raisins and lemon juice. My husband loves it.
By the time I cut the second pumpkin, I ran out of white sugar and decided to do make due with what I had and used light brown sugar. I made my own recipe and used less sugar. It was pretty good and not as sweet. I put the bottles through a boiling bath in the canner for 25 minutes to finish off. I can't believe I'm still canning in November.
Some people have started decorating for Christmas so I put my Christmas wreath on the door but no picture. Our snow is almost all gone but is still hanging on.
Stay warm, safe and happy. Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.
Hugs,
