Another Week Gone By

 It has been sunny and foggy here this week. Monday was indoor work, laundry and house cleaning. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I got outside for a walk, and both of us did some yard work, Tom more than me. 

On Friday I gave in and bought some flowers at the grocery store, and changed out most of the red and green. The candle came out of the candle wreath, the mat got turned over to the green side, and the red boots salt and pepper shakers got put away. Polar bears are still appropriate, especially for much of the country. Isaac gave me those several years ago. We are still experiencing sunny, or foggy, skies and temps mostly above freezing. 

This cartoon was in our Seattle Times today. Yes, we are football crazy right now, and, as always, proud of our "blueness". 

There was another apparently unjustified shooting in Minneapolis today. I hate to think of what will happen if armed militia are sent into our city. The force of resistance is strong with us. 

Tom and I attended a pleasant meeting of our garden club today, doing planning for the year ahead.  We cleared off a shelf of our garden books and took them to give away. What wasn't claimed was left for the local Friends of the Library.   Then 12 of us went out to lunch together.

After we got back home we indulged in some coffee and chocolate and caught up on some of the news. Then Tom did some work in the yard and I picked some sarcococca sprigs to refresh little bouquets in the house. They are so fragrant and make the house smell lovely. 

The garden is in winter mode but there is always some color interest.

Tom gathered more wood for our fireplace for this evening. We have been thoroughly enjoying the fruits of the wood chopping labor of last summer. 

In the winter garden the witch hazel is blooming.

And now the shadows are long as the winter sun nears the horizon. Tomorrow is a big day here.

GO HAWKS!