You have heard of birds migrating.

You have heard of ducks migrating.

You have even heard of geese migrating…but migrating rocking chairs?

When we rock in the rocking chair here at the house it is likely to steathily try to transport the rockee into another room.  Maybe it has had secret fantasies of being a portal to Narnia or maybe it is just possessed ..no clue.but it is very irritating!

To keep that from happening just glue pieces of weather stripping or run a line of hot glue down the rocker.  The texture will keep the chair right where it is supposed to be without damaging your floor.

Rock on!

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I have this really old book with lots of fantastic information in it..and some kind of add information.  O.k.. A LOT of odd information!

One of the things that is suggests for finding slippers in the dark is to sew phosporescent buttons on them.  I was thinking that was a great idea and then I thought about the glow in the dark fabric paints!

If you have ever fumbled in the dark..feeling frostbite crawing up your legs while you looked for your slippers or socks then what a great idea this is!  A little bit of glow in the dark paint and voila!  Slippers that are easy to find in the middle of the night.

I have to tell you this story..it sort of ties in.

We have racoons really bad.  And we have chickens.  We have to lock the chickens up at sundown or else they are likely to be raccoon bait.  A few nights ago we got busy and forgot about the chickens until it was very dark.  Marc and Ethan ran outside wiht flashlights, counted chickens and locked them up.

“We had all of them” Marc said.

About 4:30 a.m. I heard a chicken…it was an odd sound (I am a very light sleeper).  I sat up thinking that a chicken had laid an egg in the coop in the middle of the night…then the chicken sounded a little stressed.

I leaped out of bed and could not find my shoes or anything else.  I ran down the stairs and out the back door, forgetting that we had to remove the wood porch in the back and had not put it back up yet..our house is a good  3 -4 feet above the ground level. I flipped on the ligh, flung open the door yelling like a mad woman, bare feet and not much on, it is 34 degrees and I go flying LITERALLY through space as I bound through the doorand drop 3 feet.  I am still yelling (Marc is a heavy sleeper) and the racoon takes one wide eyed look at me..drops the chicken and runs like a bobcat is after him.  By now I am in the chicken pen…holding a panting chicken, half naked, and I suddenly realize that although it hasn’t rained the gound under my barefeet feels strangely …squishy. Ewwww.  I am holding the chicken against me as I try to unlock the coop with one hand…and when I finally get it open our very agressive rooster tries to  kick me as I put the hen in.  I slowly turn back to the house, trying not to think about the feeling on my feet..and I suddenly remember that somehow I have to heft my body up onto the floor of the laundry room…because there are no stairs to the back door remember.

Good times, no?

The only thing that would have made it worse was if our neighbor had heard the noise and come to the fence with a spotlight.

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It has happened to everyone…A favorite dish…a soapy hand…

Crash!

It is bad anytime but when the china is vintage or special in some way it is…awful.  If you keep china cement on hand it is often dried up and unusable when you need it..since you don’t tend to use it every day.

Well, here is an OLD OLD recipe for homemade china cement.  Give it a try and see what you think.  There is no better way to fix vintage china than with vontage cement, right?

You just mix gum arabic (available at art supply stores and other places) with enough plaster of paris to create a thick, syrupy stuff.  Rub that on both sides of the break and press together.   Hold for  a few secons and then let set completely for about 24 hours.

There…Good as new.  And if it is too broken for fixing you can always make a mosiac out of it, right?

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Outside my Window…Overcast..chilly I wonder if we will be getting rain later? I think it is in the forecast.  While dull, rainy days may seem depressing to some, where we live it is something like the first snow!  It means that the hot dry season is over and Christmas is on its way.

I am thinking…That I am tired and ready to move to the next thing.

From the learning rooms…Long vacation starts now.  From now until January we are on extended break.

I am thankful for…Answers to prayer, even when I have trouble believing.

From the kitchen…Thanksgiving preparations under way!

I am wearing…Green sweater under a black knitted jumper.

I am reading…Vintage cookbooks

I am hoping…We get Marc’s disability soon..still no word.

I am creating…a red knitted scarf for…..ME!

I am hearing…The wind blowing through the trees, the computer…muffled family sounds.

Around the house…trying to meet deadlines..very hard to do this week!

One of my favorite things…friends around the table

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week…Thanksgiving!

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you…

Kyrie wanted to wear the sunglasses to church because “The make me look…sooooooo cute, mom.”

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