THURSDAY AT HOME

Cold all Day

Tonight the temperature will plummet to nineteen!

(Guardian Owl)

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Sun Arrives through Closed Curtains

(paints itself on my painting)

 Watched by a toy Sparrow that Sings when Squeezed

(a gift from a past Holiday)

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10AM 

looking East out my Front Window

(Then various chores and creations: dyed some items with walnut and onion skin brew...one successfully-two need more work, did hand laundry, read blogs and emails. cooked, ate, washed dishes and took several naps)

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For Throwback Thursday

 The complete 1982 video with original introduction. Sensitive animation based on the book "The Snowman" by Raymond Briggs.

(27 minutes and 19 seconds)

 

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WINTER SOLSTICE

Star light, star bright

First star I see tonight

I wish I may, I wish I might

Have this wish I wish tonight

"Hoping for wishes granted when seeing a shooting or falling star may date back to the ancient world. Wishing on the first star seen may also predate this rhyme, which first began to be recorded in late nineteenth-century America."

A Gift from a Friend

1991

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"The Snowman"
(27 minutes)

https://youtu.be/HHCZhUZXhZU
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