Cold but pretty

Light enough at 7:10 this morning to get out for my walk.

14 degrees this morning but clear and no wind.

Was nice to have the sun out after a couple of miles too.

Walked down the hill and up to town and dropped a library book

down the drop at the library.

Then went to the post office to mail a Netflix.

Walked over by the town pond which now has

a coating of ice on it.

The only people I saw were in vehicles and

only animal I saw was a little squirrel running across the road.

The sun shining on the grass and trees sure did look pretty.

Just turned off the main road here and walking back up the hill to home.

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We have a little reminder button which blinks

when it is time to change the water filter in the basement.

It was blinking today and with Ken supervising I changed the filter.

Thought it would be a good idea for me to know how to do that

on my own.  It is very easy and only takes a few minutes.

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I started a new project this afternoon which will be a gift
for one of my friends.  It is not a Christmas gift so I am under
no pressure to get it done and she has no idea that I'm making
her anything.
The project is a counted cross stitch of a quote that
is a favorite of hers.
What I did today was put the saying on graph paper
so I could figure out the size.
Have to order the Aida cloth on line for the project
because I am using a large count and the local stores don't carry it.
I have a book with a lot of different alphabet designs in it
and picked out a simple backstitch one.
Will take some pictures when I get started.

Went to Brenda's for pizza this evening.
The restaurant is across the street from Deep Creek Lake
on the second floor and over looks the lake.
The lake is starting to freeze over now.

That's it for today.

Hope your day was a happy one.

happyone  💕

"It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out

if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did...

for millions of people who have lived since, 

the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life

but a new way of living it.

It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, 

there have been untold numbers of men and women who,

in untold numbers of ways,

have been so grasped by the child who was born,

so caught up in the  message he taught and life he lived,

that they have found themselves 

profoundly changed by their relationship with him."

~ Frederick Buechner