Greetings Fellow Fellows and Fellow Fellowettes,

We are in the season of “Yeah, The Snow (Sleet, Driving Rain, Blizzard Winds) Is Coming, But Will It Affect the Morning Drive or the Evening Rush Hour?” For those of you who live or have lived in Minnesota, you will  recognize this as covering the months of October through April.
It’s a long season which this year has been shortened by a balmy October and a distinctly agreeable November.

To whit, I wore my ear muffs for the first time today.

So, I am not in any way complaining, even though, as a Minnesotan, I have my graduate degree in Discussing Minnesota Weather, with a minor in Complaining about Minnesota Weather.

I just wish that the storms would stay away from holiday travelling days.

Can I get an “Amen” on that?

Thank you, brothers and sisters.

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As for the title of this post, I will interject with this: I will cover said topics, but I will let you figure out which are which. There must be some mystery in life.

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This is something I have noticed as a truism until I found an exception a few weeks ago,
Did you ever notice that bathroom sinks either have automatic faucets OR automatic soap dispensers, but never both???
If the idea is to prevent the spread of germs by not having to touch the things in the bathroom that could transmit germs, wouldn’t you install both a touchless faucet and a touchless soap dispenser?
Or are there corporate decisions being made that the germs from the sink are not as dangerous as the germs on the soap lever and vice versa.

Well, then if the decision is science based, wouldn’t all the bathrooms have touchless faucets or touchless soap dispensers?

When they don’t, I get the feeling that corporate America doesn’t have the best health interests of the American public at heart. That the bottom line isn’t scientifically based.

Hmmmm. I’ll get back to you on that, just as soon as I feed my unicorn and sprinkle her with pixie dust.

As I said, however, I have found a bathroom that has both automatic faucets and the soap dispensers that put a little Dairy Queen squiggle of foamy goodness in your hand when you wave under the sensor. These bathrooms are in the Ames Center in Burnsville. Feel free to check them out. You’ll know that someone cares about your health there.

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Let’s play  “What the Heck Are These?”

Here are your clues.

One of the above is the result of an inspiration and one is a muffler.

One was altered to fit and one needs alteration.

One is obsolete and one is not yet born.

Helpful Clue: We have a new door in the bedroom.

Got it yet?

The item on the right is a muffler. A noise muffler. For the Dutch door in the bedroom.  And why did we have a door cut in half in the bedroom?

Doesn’t everybody?

Anyway, the felt flower was stuck between the two halves because when the hasp lock was down, the halves would rattle.

Doesn’t everybody’s?

And the orange beaded letter is the inspiration from another needleworker at a meetup on Saturday. She is going to teach me next month, but of course, I couldn’t wait that long and started a project of my own.

Which already needs ripping and altering.  “As you sew, so shall you rip.” Words to live by.

And here are more words to live by, garnered from the latest William Kent Krueger book, Manitou Canyon.

“He isn’t seeking, Cork. Nothing has been lost to him. He’s just trying to open himself to what’s always been inside him.  His own strength, his own knowledge.”

and

“As my niece has said, finding is never about seeking. It is about opening yourself to what is already there.”

I can’t decide which way I like it said better, so I wrote both down. I think I’ll keep this notebook nearby when I read, to capture ideas I like. I have tried to do this before, but maybe this time it’ll stick.

And last but certainly not least, a shout out to the place that made my latest change possible.

 

Thanks, Medifast!!!

Well, Katya keeps falling asleep on the keyboard and I have to move her head to type the “e” and “r” and you know how many of those you use when you write.

So I will bid you adieu and wish you the most warm and coziest of Thanksgivings this Thursday. And if you’re a teacher, I wish you and your students serenity and calm in these last two days before break and the following Monday.

Love,

Janet