Lis's Project 365

As part of a work video, I made maple candy in the snow today.  It was quite simple to make, though the cleanup was a bit of a chore, with hardened maple syrup stuck to everything.

Our lovely grocery delivering family brought us a box of homemade cupcakes today.

In these times of COVID, Doug and I have taken to going for walks to visit the assorted houses in our neighborhood that are in various stages of construction.  This one is kind of insane.  Since last we saw it, they added front doors.   And man, are they fugly.

(A second night in a row of a candle flame photo! But not the Hanukah candles…)
The candle on the right has hardly any wick left, but it burned this wee little flame all through dinner without giving up.  A great miracle happened here.

I’m excited to be lighting the candles this year.  In the past few years, I haven’t been able to.  I guess it’s a small silver lining of this pandemic.

Poor Oliver is getting ready to shed. To those who know him well, we can see that his skin is dull and darker than usual.  But more obvious, his eyes have gone “opaque.”   So right now, Oliver’s vision is not very good at all, and he’s hiding under his log where he feels safest.  Going opaque is a sign that the shed should be happening in the next day or so.  Then Oliver will be back to his curious self.

Our poor cherry tree is so confused.  It was a little warm last week, so thought it should prepare to bloom, and today there’s snow on the ground.

Had a conversation with my dad about how to help him keep track of appointments and such, and we decided that a really big wall calendar would be helpful.  So I ordered one, which arrived today.

We chose this couch partly because the back is sturdy, narrow and not made of cushions, so the kitties wouldn’t be able to crush it by sitting on it.  The cats don’t often sit on the back of it, but when they do, it handles it just fine.  I think we chose wisely.

Doug did some work on my phone, and I needed to test the camera.  So I pointed it at him and said “say cheese!”  He obliged, in a typically Doug-like way.