The Dancer

There was some frost out there again this morning on my walk. I stayed warm though in my layers. I've already noticed there are fewer people out walking or running in the morning now that's it getting colder and there will be even less once it really gets cold. Of course there are the regulars who I see year after year - the weather has to be pretty bad to keep us inside. :-) I got to see the fox again today running along up by the park.

I took this picture of the sun shining through the trees on the path as I'm just about to come back up to the park.

I have seen lots of things during my years of walking around town but today I saw something that I've never seen before. I walked around the mill parking lot in the back and there was a girl with her car doors open and loud rap music playing and she was "dancing". As I passed her I said, "That looks like a fun workout." She said she was an erotic dancer and was practicing her routine. She did have all her clothes on - I guess it was a bit too cold to be in "costume." A lot of people put up pretty fall decorations on their porch or yard but in my neighborhood they go more for the Halloween scary stuff.

A closer look.

I went through all my yarn to see what I had and sorted it all out and put it all in several baskets so I can see that I have at a glance. I'm trying to use up all the bits before buying any more. I mostly just use the acyclic yarn but I really like working with the cotton yarn. I'm going to make my next ripple afghan using that. I also went through all my counted cross stitch books and threw some patterns out that I know I'll never get around to making. They were the old black and white ones and the patterns that are in color are so much easier to use so I just saved those. I have a few small knitting and cross stitch projects to make for Christmas presents that I should get started on now. I did more laundry, ironed more shirts, and finished cleaning the house.

I finished reading The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith.

It is the third book in the Isabel Dalhousie series and I enjoyed reading this as much as the other two. Isabel lives in Scotland and is the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics and in this book we hear more about her adventures. Here's a quote from the book which I liked. "He was right, she thought. It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt. That was where credit was deserved". I got the fourth book of the series from the library too and will start that one tomorrow. Ken went to his glass class about an hour ago and was going to stop by the town house to see what they did today so I don't have any pictures yet. When he left I made some Welsh Cookies and when he gets home later we will have them for our snack while we watch Six Feet Under. And so that's my day today. I hope your's was a Happy One.