Winner

Most fuzzy branch.

Found in a trash can

Katy and the Big Snow! First published in 1943.

Katy is a "beautiful red crawler tractor" with a snow plow.

I love the margin illustrations.

Katy saves the day!

Also by Virginia Lee Burton:

Remember when Ramona Quimby asked how Mike Mulligan went to the bathroom?

One day

I will go to here.

Via.

Dinner

Quit making faces at me!

This little guy

Totally rocked my walk home!

I gave him a good pat down.

Found!

It's too bad the teddies got condiments all over their presents (they were eating hotdogs?).

Philip Guston

Great painter.

Great signature.

Sidewalk

Doesn't this look like a painting by my friend Beth?

Greg was here

Friday night

It was SO cold!!

I had to stay home and make minipies. (A bottle of wine and Battlestar Galactica were also involved.)

Christmas day

Greg consulting the cookbook in front of the woodstove.

Little sister starting her new book.

Me bonding with my new Christmas friends!

Picked up

In the woods:

Seeds.

Snow.

Shotgun target.

Made

Hat for a baby!

YES PLEASE!

My friend Mohanad bought forty acres of "raw" land in British Columbia.

It has two streams that run year round and an ELK TRAIL running through it! His plan is—log the Douglas fir to buy out the mortgage then build a cabin.

He has offered us 3.5 acres!!

Bent plywood

From the Industrial Revolution, to Charles and Ray Eames, to a Greenpoint trash pile.

Reminds me of this.

Hat skills

This guy's got em.

It was perched on the extreme rear of his cranium, but IT DIDN'T FALL OFF.

I was in literal awe.

That's right

This blog got its own line of bread.

Take that, haters!

Found

Miniature tam-'o-shanter.

Is it yours?

In the park

Impressive beige fluff.

Hmm

Soup tureen.

Or chamber pot?

I saw this on my way to work on my bike, and I had already had way too much stuff to carry. My plan was to come back for it later, but—I forgot.

Bubble tea

Coconut.

With black bubbles!

I really love Chinatown.

I fear

That backpack kitty has been retired.

Bananagrams!

Dr. Jones wants to play.

Santa Claus boot

Of course you remember it. (I am keeping random tiny stuffing scraps in it.)

Well, I was on the "internet" a while ago, and I happened to see ANOTHER Santa Claus boot for sale. Yes! A PAIR OF BOOTS, I thought. PERFECT!!! So I purchased it.

But when it arrived . . . I tore open the box in breathless anticipation, to find:

Santa got one big foot and one li'l foot.
:(

Cowl

Yes, I knitted this beauty.

I was knitting it "normal" but then I got bored and started experimenting.

Knitters everywhere are shuddering.

But I like it!

Last night

I decided I should make quiche.

Again with the knitting

Now this is a more typical production:

A multicolored, wizened, technically flawed scrap.

Hazards of blogging

My sisters have taken to calling Greg "Choklit Drops."

Knitting!

Yes, I am finally learning how! Thank you sister Mona, for the yarn and needles, and Beth, for teaching me.

(Note to self: vacuum rug.)

Lamb curry

In progress:

And . . .

Finished!

Good job, me (recipe from How to Cook Everything, with added leftover vegetables).

Always psyched

To have an excuse to consult Garner's Modern American Usage.

Sometimes a girl needs to know the difference between "may" and "might."

A most excellent snack

Invented by Greg:

A piece of fresh mozzarella from the fridge with olive oil and salt.

In your mouth.

GINGHAM!

My friend Claudine made me this apron.

It has a bib and an extra long sash for wrapping around twice. I love it! (I wore it tonight to make lamb curry.)