no thanksgiving dinner for us

instead we were on a roadcall the byrn mawr pa

so we will have the next holiday as a dinner ahead of time and pack sandwitches for the inevitable road calls

except new years...........i refuse to go out on new years

now i have some sad but not unexpected news.

henrietta the chicken died. she was one of my oldests chickens......one of the buff orpingtons i started out with- her sister dulcette is still alive but very very upset and lonely

henrietta is the one with the huge rooster spurs that crowed when she laid her egg (which was a sort of lavender brownish color)

bernie will put her out back and the circle of life will continue

she basically went to sleep and didn't wake up

the others are pretty upset

i am going to try and get a few small buffs to keep dulcette company.....as the speckled sussex/orp crosses pretty much stick together

today i went shopping......ONLINE of course, i don't do black friday

i think that is dangerous and i think it's also insane...and NOT what a holiday or gift is about

i believe a gift is something from the heart not necessarily the store, although it can come from a store for some stuff, but a gift isn't about how much money you threw at it-

it's how much thought you used in it

and some of the best gifts i have ever gotten were just someone thinking about me (and a few of you know who you are)

i did go shopping with small independent companies

and i got good stuffs

for me and for bernie....... 

books

dvds ( used books and used dvds- no use filling up landfills right?)

some beads from small woman owned companies.......

and of course yarn! (laceweight in different purples and one wine color)

so that is pretty much the news from this end