Holiday Travel

I am back in Edmonton after a harrowing trip . . . again.  Plane one had a malfunctioning sensor so they had to restart the plane.  The pilot made up the time in the air so yay! 

Then I have a nice little layover and get on the next plane.  We are all sitting around and the time to go comes and goes and I realize the door to the cockpit is still open.  Not a good sign.  After about 15 minutes we get an announcement from the captain.  The sensor on the lavatory isn't working . . . when they drained the take the sensor said it was filling up . . . so we had to wait while some poor mechanic visually checked that the tank was empty . . . so I get delayed an hour and a forty minutes . . .

My plan touches down at 2:05 when my next plan started boarding at 1:50.  I take off across the airport.  All the way across.  Three trams later I was at my gate, which was still boarding. Yay!  So, the trip back was a bit of an ordeal.  I did have my bags when I arrived thought so that was amazing!

Chirstmas Presents!

I thought I'd share a bit more of the holiday decorations with Christmas approaching.  Here you have multiple views of all the presents I wrapped for the holidays!

Yes I did make all those bows.  And yes it took an entire day.

Crochet Projects: Zombie Mushrooms

I made up some more Christmas presents using my crocheting skills.  I found a basic pattern for a mushroom and then adapted it to make . . . Zombie Mushrooms!

Headlight is on the left and Mutt is on the the right

Originally they were going to be happy mushrooms, but I had a craft supply issue that resulted in these zombie mushrooms.  I think they are more awesome than what I originally planned. 

I love crocheting plushies.  There is a wealth of online patterns available if you search for them. Happy searching!

Glutten Free Gingerbread House: Part 2 Decorating

Dad-bot and I finally got the gingerbread house decorated.  It took a lot less time then putting the house itself together.  We tried to balance a lot of color and candy with a fairly simple look.  I think we did an excellent job for our first Gingerbread house!

The Front - you can kind of see the smoke coming out of the chimney

A close up - note the tiny gingerbread marshmallow men

Side with a snow man

Other side with candy cane trees

Back with a candy log pile!

I'm very pleased with the whole look.  Can't wait to pick a project for next year!

If you were wondering about the Blizzard. . .

We had a slight blizzard.  11 inches of snow in a few hours with really strong winds creating white outs (and banging christmas decorations in to the winds hard enough to make use fear for busted glass . . . but not enough to go out in the storm . . . and get on a ladder).  The outside holiday decorations still look good (mostly) despite the storm.

The pile between the back door and the drive

You can get a feel for depth on the porch

Ynnep has a path shoveled out

Dragon is still flying!

Snow removed from backyard to make a better latrine

More on the piles of snow

This is all from the one storm . . .

Happy snowman

Right side decorations

Left side decorations with collapsed tree from wind :(

Santa!

Ignore the fact that he doesn't have a face or pants . . . or legs

Two headed dragon has his jingle bells on

Front of the house in its entirety

Close up of the toppled tree

Close up of the new tree

Buried tree

The sculpture and holiday decorations are all welded metal.  All dragons made by me. :)