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It snowed a couple of days ago. Real snow. Not the spit in the morning and mud by noon kind. Here are some pics I took then.

One of our mesquite bushes covered with snow.

Two inches on the rails and the post.

Our truck and car covered in snow as seen through the good-luck plant (thank you, Rizza) through our kitchen window. So beautiful everything covered and didn’t melt to mud.

It didn’t snow through the night,

Though the coyotes howled nearby.

A cold fog came early this morning.

It powdered everything so beautifully.

The mesquite was covered in snow and frost.

ย With the snow, the beauty is limitless.

In fact, you might think the sky is the limit:

 

Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: โ€œskyโ€™s the limit.โ€ Write about something that has or seems to have no end. Enjoy!

After youโ€™ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link itย here at this weekโ€™s prompt page and check to make sure itโ€™s hereย in the comments so others can find it and see your awesome post. Anyone can join in!

To make your post more visible, use our SoCS badge! Just paste it in your Saturday post, so people browsing the reader will immediately know your post is stream of consciousness and/or pin it as a widget to your site to show youโ€™re a participant. Wear it with pride!!

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You can also use the Just Jot it January badge! To find the rules for Just Jot it January,ย click here.

Here are the rules for SoCS:

1. Your post must be stream of consciousness writing, meaning no editing, (typos can be fixed) and minimal planning on what youโ€™re going to write.

2. Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be. One sentence โ€“ one thousand words. Fact, fiction, poetry โ€“ it doesnโ€™t matter. Just let the words carry you along until youโ€™re ready to stop.

3. There will be a prompt every week. I will post the prompt here on my blog on Friday, along with a reminder for you to join in. The prompt will be one random thing, but it will not be a subject. For instance, I will not say โ€œWrite about dogsโ€; the prompt will be more like, โ€œMake your first sentence a question,โ€ โ€œBegin with the word โ€˜Theโ€™,โ€ or simply a single word to get your started.

4. Ping back! Itโ€™s important so that I and other people can come and read your post! For example, in your post, you can write โ€œThis post is part of SoCS:โ€ and then copy and paste the URL found in your address bar at the top of this post into yours.ย  Your link will show up in my comments for everyone to see. The most recent pingbacks will be found at the top. NOTE: Pingbacks only work from WordPress sites. If youโ€™re self-hosted or are participating from another host, such as Blogger, please leave a link to your post in the comments below.

5. Read at least one other personโ€™s blog who has linked back their post. Even better, read everyoneโ€™s! If youโ€™re the first person to link back, you can check back later, or go to the previous week, by following my category, โ€œStream of Consciousness Saturday,โ€ which youโ€™ll find right below the โ€œLikeโ€ button on my post.

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8. Have fun!

Magic Monday


More slipper socks finished late last night. I started the next pair but I’m afraid I may not have enough of that yarn.

This is a mesquite Bush out near our driveway. That is not snow. We’ve had a thick freezing fog and all the plants, even the weeds look like magical beings.

๐Ÿงšโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿงšโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿงšโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿค—๐Ÿ˜

Hope you had a magical Monday, too!

Monday Makings


Three hats, a earwarmer convertible fingerless mittens.
And four socks. Busy. Busy, Busy!

Monday


Fibro fog has found me again. So tired and achy. I’m sure I’ll be fine. But I couldn’t even find the energy to attend the writers group on zoom. Is it the change of seasons affecting me? We do have to drip faucets tonight as it reaches 32 tonight. Sleep well, world. See you tomorrow.


Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is โ€œnew/old.โ€ Use either or both of the words โ€œnew and oldโ€ any way youโ€™d like. Bonus points for starting and ending with either one. Have fun!

I do not like the new blocking system. I don’t know how to add pictures or anything else. Bring back the old system.

Just Stopping By …


To say, Hi!๐Ÿ–

Editing


That is all. Recovering files from last novel and setting up for next one. Maybe a lot more than editing. At least I’m not freaking out about a lost book like I have been since my computer crashed. The light at the end of the tunnel isn’t a train of doom.

That is all. Just checking in.


I love all these ideas. Thought others might enjoy them, too.

https://margaretmcgaffeyfisk.com/things-that-make-me-smile-no-228-i-double-dare-you/


I just started looking at all my WIP. A couple just finished but lots of choices to work on.

Baby hat, top left, just finished yesterday. Flexee loom. Ran out of that soft bumpy white. Found a similar yellow yarn to decrease the crown.Two new hats just started on the same Flexee looms.
Gifted yarn goes to another gifty hat. Finished today. I didn’t make it on the Flexee loom but the medium size KB fine-gauge. I tried to do the 6-row decrease, but didn’t like how that turned out. So I picked up the loops on a cable needle set. Then I decreased actual knitting stitches. Not as happy as when I do it on Flexee looms. But it turned out okay kid-sized.
Two socks for donation. Need to finish cuffs then done. KB His/Hers (Hers)
Two socks on my ‘X-Wing’ CinDWood large X-loom fine-gauge. I’m nearly to the heels.
Two more socks with ‘Milk Cotton’. Just barely finished toe. Same X-Wing.
How I store WIPs on X-loom to keep yarn and project safe and clean. I like working on this loom, though I feel it should play music. It feels like a harp. It isn’t as portable as other looms.

Well, there are other looms and projects to start or finish. I need to make more toys. Time to get busy. Fingers are wanting a yarn fix. ๐Ÿ˜‰


The Bluest EyeThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I wish I would have read this any other year but 2020. In a year I am reading to escape pain, depression and just trying to breathe through the smoke, this book took me deeper and sadder and more disturbed. I am sorry anyone has to deal with the many problems the main characters in this book had to go through. Though this was a historical fiction, much of the bigotry, and abuse goes on still.

Toni Morrison did the narration of her own book and kept the story alive. Her writing is known for the poetic prose. I did appreciate that, but I found it made the story even more disturbing. I do plan to read more of her books. But not right now.

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