Lighting can make things interesting

The sun was hitting the one bloomed Christmas Cactus bloom glow in cool ways. Trying to capture it with the camera was my challenge:

Flash making it glow

Another flash

I think maybe a better camera might have gotten exactly what I was seeing, but these were fun to get.

Hope you're having a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

Looking more like a cardigan

This is where it was at yesterday morning. I was bad and forgot to take pics this morning of the progress, so you'll have to wait for tomorrow for the big leap that it will show.

I need two more repeats before starting the growth parts of the front panels. I had planned to get them done today, but that time limit on the Gold Cap discount was putting pressure on me. I took my Human Capitan, Baltwiga through level 13 and got my 30 turbine points I needed to be able to spend 316.

Oh my! It took a lot longer than I thought it would! Had to do some quests as well as some deeds to get the points. Did a quest in Bree and then realized that it did nothing for what I was trying to get done. Refreshed my memory of where things are in town and was able to breeze through some areas because I knew right where to go.

So tonight with the group, I was out in an area that I had inadvertently worked alone this weekend. So I was able to relax and just kill the things we needed to while they hunted for the different items. Getting better about using all the different 'extra' or 'bonus' skills and traits that only become active while using some of the others. Still got turned around, fell over a wall and had to be helped back to the main group a couple of times. Reading the map in fighting moments gets jumbled in my brain and then my mouse skills get me screwed up.

Dawn-Marie wants to come and make some naalbinding needles tomorrow so she can learn how to do that. She has yarns that she wants to make things. Laundry, hair color and woodwork along with knitting. Hope to also get to knit night at Whole Foods. I've missed going!

A few of them are getting closer to blooming!

Good news!

I wasn't messed up with the instructions for the lower body. The front left and right panels don't line up with the previous work. Just the back panel lines up. Sigh. Wish she could have said this explicitly.

Did the setup Lower Body work while hanging out with Jaime, Dawn-Marie and Brandon at Jaime's house. We had a movie day watching Much Ado About Nothing. We like the Kenneth Branagh version, I think that Emma Thompson does an awesome Beatrice. The Joss Whedon version was fun to watch.

We don't recommend that you try to match them on the amount of drinking they do though! We realized that you would quickly be drunk! Of course if you wanted to have a drinking game, the highest repeated word is - Love, loved, or loving.

After the movie we got out grocery shopping done. If you have a Winco, our local one had a deal where if you spend $150 you got a free Jenny-O or Winco turkey, any size. We brought home a 22 pounder, couldn't find one of the 24 pounders. ;-)

Thanksgiving is down in Corvallis with the family there, yes, the family are all Beaver fans.

After unloading all the groceries, we would have played with Jenna and Heidi online with the Lord of the Rings Online game. We're playing the free and they've both paid. Hope to start paying after the first of the year. They have a new module coming online, Helms Deep, on the 18th, so the servers are all down. Knitting time!

No picture of the progress until there's daylight. So I'll leave you with my Christmas Cactus pic I took a couple weeks ago:

A couple of the buds are a bit bigger and there's more of them on the plant. Don't think it will be blooming still at Christmas, but who knows?  I thought mine might be abnormal, but a few other people have posted on Facebook that theirs are blooming or getting ready to bloom too.