This is going to be one of those weird 'bonus' weeks. Everyone else may be celebrating Thanksgiving, but we already had our family one last week Thursday! So this week's version seems like Thanksgiving Redux. We had not planned to still be here -- but Colorado's restrictions have slammed down the possibility of seeing Daughters #1 and #2, Son #1 and their families. Also, we could not get Covid test results in time to ease their minds, particularly Daughter #1's.
So we stay in Michigan. Which made The Mama very happy. I just wish I felt more peaceful about it...the mom in me badly wants to spend the day with our girlies and their families. Covid has run amuck with that notion, though, for so many people.
Ah well.
Revisions on the book are done and submitted -- I have a few things to do to update photo captions and the Bibliography, but have to wait on my editor for that. We did some work on the trailer, including pulling out the nasty, shredding couch I have hated -- and torching it on the burnpile. We should have danced around it, yelling like Indians! Now there's a nice clean spot in its place, and we'll have room to put up the keyboard. Eventually, we'll get a small loveseat, but for now, just use the two lounging chairs already in the fifth-wheel.
Other chores will be easier to get done now, as well: painting the garage door; finish wrapping Christmas presents (the Brick said, "It's not Christmas Eve yet!); work on some quilt restoration, and finish up the very last report. Plans at present have us heading back to Colorado the end of the week.
We'll see.
Revisiting Warren Buffett's suggestions from 1999. Did it work out the way he advised?
Quilts -- should you cut them up for clothing or home dec? Well, maybe...and then again, maybe not. A classics from yours truly.
Little things really can help, even on bad days. (From Poor Girl Eats Well)
"What's the most polite rudeness you've ever heard? Another intriguing one from Quora.
The Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree had a surprise passenger!
One of the funniest posts ever for thrift shoppers -- a husband who believes everything there is there because 'somebody died on it.' Or in it. (From One Hundred Dollars A Month)
A Ruby McKim turkey redwork pattern for you to copy and use:
How the Frugalwoods celebrate Thanksgiving -- a classic worth reading again.
A beautiful albino white moose -- slaughtered and left to rot. Shame on these hunters.
Six tactics for handling heavy credit card debt. (From The Simple Dollar)
'Whack a mole' -- canine style! And in the spirit of things:
A dog who outsmarts its owner, treatwise.
Boy, I could use a bellyrub right now, too:
The Franklin Expedition -- portraits and phrenology. I continue to follow this subject with fascination. Hopefully you're intrigued, too. And speaking of:
What did the sledge boats that the Franklin Expedition dragged actually look like?
'Death in the Ice:' the 2018 Canadian museum exhibit based on the expedition -- and recent findings. Includes a very helpful timeline.
Can you find Dutch Schultz's hidden treasure? (Two 1903 gold coins have been found in the general vicinity, so far, in New York. Part of the loot?)
Looking for holiday work? Go here for possibilities around the country.
"Why I threw away my underwear." This is actually a treatise on how the Frugal Mind works -- Donna Freedman's, anyways. (P.S. I've been gradually discarding my 'cruise underwear,' so understand where she's going here.)
Have a good week. Gobble, gobble.
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