Fun Puzzle

 There was a fun puzzle at the Cancer Center.  Trouble was it was all done.

Then they called Far Guy's name. 

Someone who knows who...it might have been an elf...

Took out all the pieces of the Christmas tree!   More fun for someone else.

Friday we had a grocery order to pick up at Wally World, then by Aldi to pick out some fruit!  Our last stop was the Post Office to mail some of the Christmas ornaments....not all have been mailed...I ran out of mailing envelopes.  

In the afternoon we watched Knocked Up a funny movie.  

Supper was salmon, baked potato and corn.   Far Guy made the salmon.  It is one of his favorite foods.  

Minnesota weather; High Saturday was 23F or -5C low was 17F or -8C eh! We might get some snow before Saturday morning. 

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Thankful

 Thankful for a day to sleep until 11AM and then shower and relax the rest of the day.  We watched a couple of movies.  The Last Word and Everybody's Fine the last one is a bit sad.  

I was just too tired to venture out for Thanksgiving Dinner with the Grands and Jen and Andy.  Paige and Cole hosted this year at their new home.  They gave us a video tour.  We missed seeing them all.

I made some grilled cheese sandwiches and peaches for supper...easy peasy.  Sadie was happy for the company...but she slept most of the day. 

My sister sent a photo of the Headwaters of the Mississippi at Itasca State Park a photo she took last Sunday.  I am sure it looks different now after the snow. 

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Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Everyone is happy but the turkeys! 

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Making Lefsa

 Lefsa.  It is a process.  Jen and Andy cooked up the potatoes, riced them and put them in the fridge overnight on Monday.  Far Guy and I heard lots of commotion in the kitchen and wondered what they were doing.  Tuesday evening after supper Jen showed me how to mix the butter, salt, half and half and honey. Andy showed me how to mix the flour and riced potatoes.   So I was a mixer, Andy a roller, Jen and Far Guy were the flippers on the lefsa griddle.   It was a group effort.

Boys will be boys. 

Far Guy is feeling lots better today.  His appointments went well.

Oh yes it snowed and blowed around.  Our first snow.  The Interstate highway from Grand Forks to South Dakota was closed. 

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Rough day

 We had a hard day on Monday. The third appointment for the day was an in office surgical procedure.  Far Guy is feeling rotten.  That appointment generated two extra appointments for today…an 8 am appointment and  a noon appointment.  They are keeping a close eye on him as am I. 

His procedure was called a uro lift and it is supposed to help older fellas pee better. Time will tell. 

We didn’t need to add any appointments to our schedule…now it is 10 appointments in 3 days. Uffda.

We are already exhausted after the 3 appointments on Monday…onward to the 4 on Tuesday. 

I keep telling Far Guy that one of these days things will calm down and get better.

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Sunset was glorious!

 Far Guy called the beautiful sunset to my attention.   I was just beginning to cook some potatoes for supper.  Jen made a turkey.

Reflection in the old window.

November 23 2025 Sunset!  Thanking God for another day even if the day was filled with frustrations.  Some days are like that! 

This week we have six/ seven maybe eight medical appointments in three days...we feel like we are off to the races! 

It was a nice day High was 51F or 11C the low was 11F or -3C. 

My arthritis says that the weather report is for cold weather this week and maybe snow.

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Quiet

 It was a quiet Saturday.   Jen and I went out to a friends Flower Farm where they are getting ready for Christmas sales.  We helped Sarah put together a number of arrangements with assorted greens, sticks, pinecones and festive picks.  A few extra hands makes for fast creations!  No photos...the next time I go out I will take some. 

I am packaging up Christmas Ornaments 2025 and getting them ready to mail.  There were two errors...easily fixed but I should not have made the error in the first place. 

Our latest puzzle.

A very difficult puzzle....frustrating at times ...so many possibilities.

Far Guy and I had brats and scalloped potatoes for supper. 

It was a very nice day.   High  was 50F or 10C and the low was 32F or 0C...there was frost on the roofs this morning. 

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Views

 I spend some time in parking lots near the Cancer Clinic and the Hospital.  

My view from where I sit in a pretty much empty parking lot while I wait for Far Guy to have his radiation treatment....some days the Valet Parking is available and sometimes not. 

This is backside of the hospital...the Cancer Center is the beige shorter building next to the brick building on the left. 

My view from another parking lot...Far Guy gets his weekly infusion inside the Emergency Department/Infusion Center.

I drop him off at the door...run my errands and then I wait in this parking lot for him to text me so I can pick him up at the door after his infusion.  When the wind is blowing and it is way below zero the drop off/pick up service will be appreciated!

Friday was day 15 out of 20 radiation treatments.  Far Guy looks like he has a sunburn now, I encourage him to lather on the radiation cream.  He is getting more fatigued everyday.  Next week he has three treatments due to Thanksgiving....so radiation treatments will continue on into December.  Hopefully December 2nd he can ring the bell that signals the end of treatments.  Fingers and toes crossed. 

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Retrieving

 I was minding my own business working on Christmas ornaments when I heard peals of laughter downstairs.  Then my phone pinged. 

Sadie was quite happy and proud of herself when she retrieved my crochet project out of my project bag.  It is a special bag with a zipper that I ordered for my take along projects after many days of chasing down balls of yarn in the backseat of the car. The bag has a zipper on top but I must remember to zip it up!

No harm was done to the project...just a few rows were unraveled...by the way this is a pink and white shell stitch afghan that I am making to stash away in case someone has a little girl someday.  Shell stitch is one of my favorite stitches.  Just to give you perspective I crocheted a soft green afghan in shell stitch for Savannah back in 1996...another some years later and yet another one that I gave her last summer. 

And Sadie does what all good Golden Retrievers do...she retrieves. 

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The Cancer Center

The Cancer Center is across town.  It is about a ten minute drive unless I hit all the traffic lights wrong then it takes a bit longer. There is a marvelous volunteer there who greets people, answers questions and helps those who need help.  This week they still have Valet Service so I use it.  Far Guy says the girls who do the radiation are very nice.  Yesterday was number 13 out of 20!  As of Thursday morning 7 medical appointments have been completed, 4 to go for a total of 11 for the week. 

They have a puzzle in the waiting area of the Cancer Center. 

It is a rainy dismal grey day here.  I did some online ordering...a yarn that was discontinued and groceries to pick up. 

 Minnesota weather; rainy almost all day.  High was 44F or 7C and the low was 33F or 1C eh! 

Jen cooked supper ...it was ham, egg and cheese on a English muffin and fruit. 

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Sleepy

 Far Guy must be stressing me out as I am real sleepy.  I do not get anxious...and if I do ...I clean something or have a nap.  Far Guy says I do not get anxious properly or for that matter worry properly. 

Jen took her Dad to radiation yesterday.  I had the morning off to just sit and watch TV and crochet a bit.

We had salad and bbq chicken for supper.  

Minnesota weather; High 42F or 6C low was 33F or 1 C eh!

Recently I sorted through fake Christmas greenery in the craft room and made this arrangement in an old milk bottle.  That is Christmas paper rolled on a pencil for filler inside the milk bottle. 

Sadie was sound asleep when I placed the bottle by her paw for a photo.  She is tired also as she spent the day at Doggie Daycare running around with her friends. 

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Two appointment day

 Radiation treatments are going well. Monday was #11 out of 20.   When we hit day 16 the radiation changes a bit as it will then be concentrated on the scar.  It seems that often times breast cancer comes back on the scar and the last 4 treatments should take care of that.  On Monday's we see the Radiation Oncologist and he says things are going well.   Far Guy is really good about using the special radiation cream about four times a day. 

Far Guy finished up the Christmas Ornaments and now it is my turn to seal them and put names on them.  Soon I can package them all up.  I have 16 more to do and then I can cross that off my list! Hopefully in the next day or two! 

Tuesday is a two appointment day also...radiation and then a virtual appointment in the afternoon. 

A pretty dog at the dog park on Sunday.

Minnesota weather;  High 45F or 7C  and the low was 23 F or -5C  eh!  It may rain this week....who knows.

Far Guy and I made chili for supper it was really good!  

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Booties and a hooded scarf with pockets

 The smaller booties fit perfectly. At the end of November Baby K will be six months old. 

No more cold feet for Baby K.

Cee Cee has the hooded scarf on backwards but you get the idea.  She liked it but thought it had a lot of holes.  When you are five years old you have lots of opinions!

Baby K and Cee Cee posed for a nice photo! 

We had a fairly calm Sunday.  I did some laundry and we both worked on the Christmas Ornaments.  Hopefully in the next few days we can complete that project!

We have a really busy week coming up with ten appointments.  One at a time we will get them done. 

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Gone to the dog park

 Sadie needed some attention so for fun we took her to the dog park.

Jen threw the ball for her. 

Sadie is there in the center of the photo...she is really a red color this Fall. 

It was a good outing for us all.  The high was 44F  or 7C  the low was 22F or -6C eh!

It was a tad chilly but at least it was windy!  (the wind blows nearly everyday here)

Far Guy and I worked on some of the Christmas ornaments other than that we watched Hockey games Friday and Saturday night.  (I only watch part of a game as I am not a die hard fan like everyone else in this house!)  

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Puzzling

 We as in Jen and I have been puzzling.  Far Guy did a few pieces here and there.  The puzzle is on a puzzle board at the end of the table where he does all his nebulizer treatments...so he has a bit of company in the evenings...and sometimes in the mornings too. 

It is our first puzzle finish of the Winter. 

Thursday evening we went to the library where they had a puzzle exchange...we left a few and brought home a few.  It works for us!  Next month we will exchange this puzzle for a different one! 

Friday was almost a relief after our ten appointments this week.  Next week we have ten medical appointments again...luckily three are virtual so that will help. 

The Cancer Center where we go for six of the appointments has a real parking problem.  Last week they had Valet Service and we used it!  There is just no place to park...the parking lot is full at 8 AM and remains that way all throughout the day.   Unbelievable that there was not better planning for patients and employees.  One nurse shared that she circles some mornings for 20 minutes before a car moves and she can park and then walk six blocks to work.   Not sure where they park the cars for the Valet Service...could be out of town as it takes a long time for them to show up with your car when you are ready to leave the building.  Puzzling that there was not better planning.  Perhaps the hospital should have been built on the outskirts of town on a larger tract of land. 

So far Far Guy's radiation treatments are going well.  He is half way done, Friday he completed 10 out of 20 treatments.  Most days he is in and out in about 40 minutes.  His radiation treatment takes 13 minutes. 

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Booties and Busy

 I have been working on booties for Baby K.  Her feet get cold.  I struggled with the size...but she is growing so the larger ones will fit sooner or later. 

I made four pair...one pair is really large:)  I wrote better instructions on my pattern this time.  

We will see how they fit Baby K. 

Busy week with Radiation for Far Guy and other medical appointments.  Yesterday he was held hostage in the Infusion Center for 2 1/2 hours...someone messed up a couple of times...they thought he was in radiation when in fact he was sitting in an Infusion Chair with his IV in and waiting and waiting...he was not a happy camper.  Our day of appointments started at 8AM and we did not get back home until 2:30 PM. Four appointments and a trip to the pharmacy was too much for one day.  Today (Friday) should be easier....only one appointment. 

I had plenty of time to pick up groceries at Wally World, go into Aldi for fresh fruit and to eventually end up in Hobby Lobby for the second time this week....AND I had a good amount of time in the car to crochet while waiting for him to get his weekly infusion.

Possibly some very soft yarn jumped into my cart.   Might be something for little girls...who knows.  Hat, ear warmers...one never knows. 

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News from Home

 My other baby brother and she who sees robins first are avid deer hunters!  We encourage them because they share the canned venison with us!!  If you have never tried canned venison...it is the most tender flavorful meat ever!  My Mother used to can venison every year. 

Here they are happy as clams in their heated hunting deer stand!  It is one classy deer stand!!

Jody also sent a photo of the pretty sky on November 11, 2025.

It is fun to get photos and news from home! 

Yes they harvested a deer! 

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Green and White with fringes

 I finished Great Grandson Hey Mikey's green and white scarf with fringes.  He posed for a photo last night when his Mom brought him over!  He said it is exactly what he wanted.

Onto the next project!  I have so many to choose from...possibly bootties for Baby K's cold feet:)

We have a really busy week.  Ten yes count them ten medical appointments.  We had nine last week so we have hit an all time high. 

The time change is really difficult for me.  I am still fighting it! I had a long nap on Tuesday afternoon.

Salad topped with chicken was what's for supper. 

Minnesota weather;  The weather channel says the high was 51 F and Low of 30F but you could have fooled me...it was real frosty when we headed out at 7:30 am.

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Thank you Veterans!

 Hats off to all the Veteran's out there.

Special thanks to my husband who served 26 plus years in the Air Force and the North Dakota Air National Guard!

Here he is during basic training back in 1973. 

Thank you to all the Veterans and the families that support them!  

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Went Crazy

In the yarn store...they were having a sale!  I went in for four skeins and came out with ten.  Uffda.  

Here is the green and white to make Hey Mikey a scarf with fringes.   

I might have enough yarn for a few days. 

A while back Jen mumbled something about...okay now are you hoarding yarn at my house too?  Hoarding is such a harsh word...collecting sounds better.

More of that white stuff in the air yesterday...and it is much colder than it was.  Dreary November day here in Minnesota.  High of 32F or 0C eh!  

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