Thanksgiving weekend has been whizzing by. On Thursday, there were 6 for dinner at the parental household and the usual yummy feast.

The Thanksgiving table, pre-feast:

I forgot to take pictures of the food before everyone sat down, so here is what you get when you interrupt the munching with your camera flash. We had turkey and gravy, stuffing inside and outside the bird, Robin’s cranberry sauce, Greg’s 2 kinds of green beans (the almond and blue cheese ones were my favorite), Greg’s cornbread, squash casserole and rolls I made, candied sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, and cole slaw. For dessert, pumpkin pie and a pecan-chocolate-bourbon pie that turned out to be more of a chocolate chip cookie pie. We all ate until we were nearly comatose and waddled home.

Jag and I had a quiet Black Friday at home and didn’t buy anything except some groceries.

I knitted some more on the Dad Secret Project, and finished a hat made from the bottom two Uniquely Yours batts, which were full of sparkly angelina. I had a lot of fun spinning the batts into some wacky thick and thin singles. In general the batts were great, but it turns out that I am not a fan of the multicolored wool neps that were added to the black batt. I spend too much time picking neps OUT of yarn to want to put any IN, and they don’t actually stay spun into the yarn. My house looks like it’s been the site of a rainbow mini-hailstorm, or possibly a tiny clown explosion, and I’m sure the hat will be shedding neps into my hair and the surrounding environment for months to come.

The hat still needs a decorative button on the flap and Jag feels it needs a multicolored pompom, so I have a little more finishing to do before I can wear it. A haircut would help too, since it looks a little ridiculous with all my hair hanging out of it.

I’ve also been working on a Christmas gift for mom and dad, who should *****NOT CLICK HERE*****.

Perl says, “FEED ME”.