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Woke up to Christmas hatching out in the living room. My brother decided it was time to try and see how the furries will deal with trees and decorations.
Our John Deere Santa hanging on the room divider, with mermaid tail looking for a home.
Nutcracker trying to hide the stationary bike.
Dragon coming along.
Challenging piano solos
Nice easy carols, easy font to read. Fun, quick to master.
More challenging less known carols like the Wookiee one.
All 7 pages of When Christmas Comes Around (Polar Express)
Probably the most challenging to me sounds the easiest, Linus and Lucy. And one I want to sing with (and my hands take all my concentration for now) Oh Holy Night.

For next year, I hope I start Christmas music before Halloween. I’d like to be more proficient by this point. And I hope I know those last few songs with very little brush up time.

Oh, in case you need to see how gentle goals help: 

I started back to piano last October. The goal: sit and play as long as it’s fun, then move on to something else. At first, I’d only play a song, or five minutes. Today I’ve clocked an hour and a half! And it’s still fun! And I’m not hurting as much as I used to.

Ties waiting for their turn in the light.
The two frogged and reworked. Still not striping up like I’d like.

And a new writing goal: 500 words a day starting today. And work 4 scenes a day on Folie à Plusieurs. But TrackBear is being a BEAR! So I need to find another way to keep track. I did get 637 words in a zoom sprint with Yvensong.

How was your Friday finale?

Sort of. At least had fun.

I think I already shared this.  But glad to move on.✅
Started a dragon.
These will be frogged so I can even up the stripes.
These were as big as those above, but the stripe was so far off I couldn’t deal with it. The balls on the tips of the needles are the froggy bits.

The other socks are sitting quietly until I can get back in the groove.

With NaNo over I’ve made up my mind to write at least 800 words a day to keep the writing muscle activated.🤞

With lots of sight reading of Christmas songs, I ran across this fun ditty. It’s being added to Lucy and Linus, and When Christmas Comes to Town songs to learn this season.


By next week this balloon will be finished. I think I’m tired of balloons.
Yay!
Sondheim is rolling around in his grave as I work on this and quite a few other of his songs. (That intro kills my eyes and hands!) By the way, I finally got brave enough to get back into Phantom songs. That has inspired much longer playing sessions. I started out last October 1, 2024 doing minutes or just an easy tune. This week I managed two sessions of over an hour each. And I was excited by how much fun I had!
On the other hand, I’m maybe 2k behind. At least TrackBear helps me adjust my daily goal making the 50k within reach — I hope.
No, my machines are not so fancy-dancy. Still, my time on both the stationary bike and treadmill increases. I hope it increases.

For the knitting, I’ll just use last week’s pic as I’ve done very little knitting.

A to Z Challenge, Z


There’s a bit of month left over but by meandering through the alphabet I’ve hit Z. No more letters And…

Zero stitches to knit on Chris’s birthday socks!

A quick review of my favorite sock pattern:

Turkish cast-on starts the toe. Increase to width of foot. Work width until nearing the arch. Rib the arch. A couple inches of width-knit. Then start Fleegle Heel. Knit width of ankle for a couple of inches. Then rib desired cuff length. Jeny’s stretchy cast-off finished the sock. You can research this site or YouTube for each of the identified bits of the Chiaogoo Two At A Time Socks.

Now on to the other socks I started earlier but had to put away for the birthday socks. Yay!

Zero angst!

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