Single midgets

[altivo]

Or is that midget digits? Anyway, what the mercury is again, and dropping. Heading down to about 3F or -15C again tonight, not that it was really that warm during the day, either.

Gary's brother and family came for lunch and then took his mom back to their place. We dashed over to our neighbor Toni's, because she was having an "anti-football" sale today in her yarn and spinning shop and I wouldn't think of missing something that is "anti-football." Picked up two books at a nice discount, and got to chat a bit with some friends who were there, as well as Toni and Al who looked like they'd had enough of a day and were ready to shoo us all out (only they're too nice to actually do it usually.)

Back home to do the barn work, bed down ponies and sheep and ducks and prepare hay for the morning while Gary brought in a barrow full of firewood to the garage. Stove has been going for 24 hours continuously now, which is what really gets the draft running right and warms the brick hearth and backstop, so it's nice inside despite the cold outside. In fact, it got so warm indoors (75F) this afternoon that we opened a window briefly and shut down the thermostat on the stove.

Now the holidays are officially over, and we have a whole weekend to recover in before I go back to work and Gary goes back to graduate school. Two whole days! Gosh, what are we gonna do with that?

Comments

[flamekist.livejournal.com]

Anything 'anti-football' sounds good to me! My dad has it playing nearly non-stop, watching every game he can. I tend to escape into the studio or get caught up in yardwork during those times.

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

I saw the subject line and the first thing I thought was a Single section Midget variable capacitor :P

*hugs* stay warm horsie!

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Two whole days? Nice :o) Holidays seem a blur already. Back to 'business as usual' Sunday, for me, though I may shovel them out today.

Enjoy the weekend!

[jenwolf.livejournal.com]

I heard a rumor that The Fold was having a sale on the 1st, but I couldn't find anything on the website, so I didn't go. I knitted while watching the Winter Classic hockey game instead.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Toni sends out notices by mail. Either you aren't on her list, or she had your old address from before moving to your new house. Check with her and she'll add or update you, I'm sure.

She doesn't do her own web site, so that tends to be pretty static.

The sale flyer says that the "after-sale sale will begin on Monday, Jan. 4 and will include deeper discounts on yarn." I know she's trying to reduce inventory prior to the tax cut-off, and a lot of yarn is already marked down.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yep. Two whole days, sort of. But right now it's so darned cold that we find it hard to do anything but huddle near the stove.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hah. You're in much deeper than I am. I only associate midgets with the circus and the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz film.

Staying warm is tricky right now. It's too darned cold.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never did get the football thing. It's an absolute mystery to me, probably because I failed to be indoctrinated at an early age. My father didn't much care about it either. He followed baseball, but even that was just an occasional interest. We used to watch the parades on television and then turn it off before the actual football games and go do something more interesting. ;p

[flamekist.livejournal.com]

I enjoy playing baseball, but that's where my interest in it ends. Few things are more mind-numbing than sitting down and watching it.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

It's an absolute mystery to me, probably because I failed to be indoctrinated at an early age

I suffered the same "fate"

[jenwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, I may have to drive out to Marengo on Monday, then.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

I like your football because they wear tight pants and it's eye candy for me ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Poo. American football players wear so much padding and junk under their clothes that you can't tell anything about them at all from what you can see. I'd rather watch trapeze artists or ballet dancers than football players.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

And I suspect you don't feel particularly "harmed" by it either, any more than I do.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, baseball doesn't work on television at all. I can stand to watch it live in person once in a great while, but you can't see enough on television for it to make sense at all. Heck, it's hardly any different from when my dad used to listen to the baseball games on the radio back in the 50s.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Not in the slightest. I wear it as a badge of pride.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Those are good too, not to mention the winter olympics :)