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Year of Projects: Week 22

We celebrated Thanksgiving as a family on Thursday.  I had the day off so I came home.  My parents and my brother came over to our house.  We had a very non-traditional meal.  I made Polish Wedding Soup and we had sandwiches, chips and my Mom brought a no bake cheese cake and an apple pie.  It was nice to not have the pressure of doing an entire turkey dinner.  If anyone wants the soup recipe I can do a separate recipe post.  Its a very simple potato, corn and kielbasa chowder essentially.  I spent the rest of Thanksgiving day reading The Ever King by L.J. Andrews.  I finished it the next day at work.  I dare say its the best book I've read this year.  There was a plot twist I didn't remotely see coming and it ended on a crazy cliffhanger.  The next book doesn't come out til January.  The Ever King takes place within another realm of the authors other series.  It's a stand alone series but they are connected.  I enjoyed this book so much I decided to start reading the other books so I immediately started The Curse of Shadows and Thorns which is the first book in The Broken Kindoms series.  So far I'm enjoying it.
A snow storm was predicted to start Sunday or Monday so I made the decision to come back to Syracuse Sunday evening to avoid it as much as possible.  So when I got here I wound the extra yarn I got for the Sackets Harbor Mittens.  I wound up the yarn I got on LYS day for a shawl.
I also frogged a pair of mittens I didn't care for.
The original pattern was for fingerless mitts but I had the bright idea to make them mittens.  I didn't like the way I did the decreases and I also didn't care for the cable.  This yarn will probably still become mittens, I'm just going to pick a different pattern.
I then finished The Sackets Harbor Mittens:
Then I washed and blocked these and washed my favorite scarf too since I had the soapy water available.
I put the whiskers on the cats for the White Whiskers Hat.
Now I need to wash and block the hat.  I might do that tonight.
My job search still continues.  I received a very generous offer from one hopital and set up an interview at the other.  
In other news as soon as I decided to stop traveling and return to a local position things started breaking at home.  I'm hoping its not a bad omen.  We have a standard range size double oven.  The bottom oven stopped lighting.  So its really good we didn't plan on doing a full Thanksgiving diner at our place.  At the end of last week we found out mice or some other rodent got into the electrics of my Highlander.  My husband very nicely took it to put gas in it while I was getting ready for work on Friday.  He didn't even make it to the end of our road.  It put itself into limp home mode and was running very rough.  So he turned around and came right back.  I'm driving his Tundra that has bad tires til we can get the Highlander fixed.  (It's at the garage now and should be a quick fix.) The bad tires are another reason I wanted to avoid the storm.
I also made a quick Instagram Reel of the mittens soaking.  Soaking Mittens

Until later.  Happy Crafting!
-Q
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  1. MaureenHDNovember 28, 2023 at 10:02 AM

    Wow rough start to the week. So much fun getting stuff fixed. We arrived at our winter rental to no hot water heater. Then the owner expected us to get it fixed!! I just want to go back home and hide in my bed!!!

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  2. Lucy BowenDecember 2, 2023 at 1:41 PM

    Your mittens are lovely! And the yarn for the shawl is gorgeous.

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