Thursday

A day to wake up, drink some coffee, and ask, "So. What will today bring."

It remains a good time to hunker down as much as possible.

Yesterday I finally figured out how to get my ereader to show me a book I checked out from a public library, so that's progress.

2020 gifts

I wanted to wait before posting about gift-making for 2020 until hopefully most, if not all, items made it to the intended recipients. I think we might be just about there by now, finally.

We didn't get our acts together this past summer for the purpose of making homemade preserves, since S spent the summer in California working to plug BoatyBoat's leaks and I spent the pandemic summer trying to brace myself for the emergency-remote-hybrid-in-person-zoom fall semester.

Also, at a certain point it became increasingly difficult to track down canning jars.

So instead we threw our hands in the air somewhat and made a giant batch of homemade Irish Cream.



This half-gallon isn't all of it. Tasty stuff, but it's also probably best to not have large quantities of it on hand.



I was also pretty pleased with how our holiday cards turned out. The photo is a scan of a Polaroid picture that we sent off to threemeninaboat and randomdreams. Enhanced, of course, with glitter glue.





Envelope pile before everything got put in the mail:



A simple year. Probably for the best.