A Game Changer, A Surprise, and A Happy Project

Hello - I hope all of you are doing well and that your loved ones are also OK.  Right now I'm sitting here after a Zoom departmental meeting, and decided that I would write my post now to get the bad taste of most of them out of my mouth and brain.  It also happens to be Three on Thursday, so I thought I would share three things as described above in the title to this post.  :-)

1.  The Game Changer - I do not remember where I saw this, but I've been sharing it ad nauseum for everyone I know.  Do your glasses/sunglasses fog up when you wear a face mask?  Well, I saw an article with a suggestion, and I have tried it now several times, and have to say, it works really really well, to avoid the fog.  Here is the idea:  take a tissue and fold it to make a long, rectangular strip.  Then you place it over the bridge of your nose, under the mask, and of course, tie the mask as usual.  Guess what???  No glasses fogging from your breath!  I realize this may be old news to some/all of you, but it was new to me and I'm grateful for the person who figured it out in the first place.

2.  The Surprise - All of my plants are still alive and seem quite happy!  This may not be a big deal to you, but it is for me.  I used to have all kinds of plants, but our house doesn't get a lot of bright, direct sunlight, so everything died pretty quickly when we moved here.  Over the years, I had some success with other plants, and was still doing well with violets.  The other plants died, the Koodle kept knocking the violets over until they were so continually broken apart, they just died.  So for a long time, I had no plants at all.   Then I bought that small poinsettia at Christmastime, as well as a Christmas cactus, and they did fine.  So when a plant shop opened in the neighborhood, I decided to try a few more.  I am happy to report that as of this writing, they all seem to be quite happy and doing well - even the little poinsettia!

Someday when I can leave the house again, I'm going to get a couple more, and even try a violet or two again, now that I have a place to put them that is out of the Koodle's reach.  But I can't tell you how much these guys please me.  I also think that having Barry Bear and Llily Llama keep them company is helping ...

3.  The Happy Project - I know I showed this yesterday, but after that I added the third color, and I'm just enjoying knitting it and looking at it so much, that it may be the project that is currently making me the happiest.

So that is my contribution for today.  I hope you are finding good things that surprise you or make you happy.  We all need to find it somehow for ourselves.  

Take care.  Stay home.  Wash your hands.

We'll get there.  :-)