Counting down the seconds to 2024 and sending my friends all the best wishes for a joyous new year 💕 Sending positive vibes and big hugs to all my friends for the new year! #ʜᴀᴘᴘʏɴᴇᴡʏᴇᴀʀ2024 https://www.instagram.com/p/C1iR98Wuov8/?igsh=M244aWU2Y2Fsc3c0
Day 20,053
Feeling rough today, missing the boys and back is giving me fits. Heating pad, meds and rest helped with those things.
Upside, had fun doing a bit of Animal Crossing and Lego with Amy and Allison, got pizza and watched movies with the inlaws.
Things are a bit better now, and will only improve over time.
#doodle #roughday #dec292023 #roanokeva #cryptid
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Nerd shirt of the day , Christmas present- Kaiju Zoo!
Looks like good ol’ Ed Emberley to me.
#godzilla #mothra #rodan #kingghidorah #kingkong #gigan #mechagodzilla #nerdshirtoftheday #dec292023
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Pearl got a belated Christmas present today! A llama cat tree. She seems to dig it, she is using the middle as a peephole to watch TV with me and the family. (Blurred out MIL)
#misspearl #dec292023
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Day 20,053
Feeling rough today, missing the boys and back is giving me fits. Heating pad, meds and rest helped with those things.
Upside, had fun doing a bit of Animal Crossing and Lego with Amy and Allison, got pizza and watched movies with the inlaws.
Things are a bit better now, and will only improve over time.
#doodle #roughday #dec292023 #roanokeva #cryptid
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Collaboration played House of Danger, and we made it through Chapter one so far. (With only minor setbacks of having stepped on a landmine and being buried alive in a freshly dug grave)
Our Danger Meter is fairly safe for now, and psychic ability is Level 2
Current equipment is a pocket knife, water bottle, vibrating sphere, piece of satellite dish, battery, map of the hedge maze, and a key to a truck.
Chapter two awaits, after we take a little Agatha Raisin break.
Veggie sausage / impossible burger meatballs are roasting in the oven for supper, yum!
So that is Amy, Scott, Allison each get +1 win!
#chooseyourownadventure #boardgame #houseofdanger
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Game day continues with Lantern Dice, I won!
Scott – 34
Allison – 27
Amy – 25
#lanterndice #roanokeva #dec282023
Amy continues her winning streak, wins Dutch Blitz!
In 5 rounds
Amy (green pump)- 82 (we play to 75)
Scott (Blue Plow) – 25
Allison (red buggy) – 15
#cardgames #dec282023 @almsvats @maximillian_deersteak
Day 20,052
Father Time and his little chronobot Maynard Gorgonsdottir prepare to see 2023 out, and to welcome 2024.
#doodle #dec282023 #robot #personificationoftime
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Day 20,051
Amy has come to visit, so that means games and good visiting time. So far, the ladies are tied a point ahead of me.
Today makes for a busy house, with a VT bowl game (edit-they won!), two in laws, a guest, one Mrs., one Mr. and a cat named Pearl.
Back was tricking up earlier, and I went to lay on the heating pad, Pearl came to follow.
First time she’s gotten into bed with me rather than her mama.
#doodle #cryptidfamily
@almsvats @maximillian_deersteak @pearlsquirrel #misspearl
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Day 20,050
Doing a bit of setup in the red room on the laptop we got FIL for Christmas, installing music software and loops. I’m pretty impressed at how powerful the music stuff is…. I will likely install a version on my machine and tool around with it more, if only to show FIL how to use it.
In other news, two more prezzies arrived , a Lego Columbo minifigure and a lovely ornament to hold a picture of Pearl (from Mrs and Mom, respectively)
#doodle #itcrowd #techsupport #cryptid #dec262023
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Day 20,049
Happy Christmas from our family to yours!!
#doodle #cryptidfamily #roanokeva #dec252023
Xmas tally 2023
Lego columbo
Amazon gift card and trial of Camelot puzzle box – almsvats
I heart my cat photo ornament – mom
Cat daddy glass and candle fr kev
Poe candle from SM
Gift card from mom
Matte Grey filment
Matte army green fil
Cryptid stickers/Magnet
Inside job card game
Moose munch
Peppermint stress putty
British candy sock w dairy milk
Chocolonely pack
Much loose candy
Anycubic photo ln mono M5s
Anycubic wash and cure 3
green rubber gloves
Water Wash ABS
Grilling tools
Polyhederon infinity lamp
Soup bowls from isha from b’s
Robot batman 66 figure
Lord death man 66 figure
Long sleeve tie dye shirt
Dutch Blitz card game
Kaiju Emberley style t shirt
Opto white resin water wash
Matte black PLA
Star and gnome ornaments from the Roses
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Day 20,048
It is Christmas eve… Watch out for the Yule Cat! (Mind Gryla and the Yule lads too, while you’re at it)
#doodle #yulecat #dec242023 #jólakötturinn #christmaslore
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Day 20,047
Pearl and the Tannenbaum, evaluating the wrapping styles of her family and any early drop-offs by friends and elves.
#misspearl #tannenbaum #presents #dec232023
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Day 20,047 continues.
More like scribbles than doodles, Merry Christmas Eve Eve!
All gifts save for three are wrapped, and I will get to those in a bit, after I have rested off tonight’s dinner of drunken noodles with the family. Right now, FIL is back home wrapping, MIL & Mrs. are doing the same upstairs. Pearl is under the tree, and I just finished coloring this.
We got a pair of nice cards from friends in the mail today, both forwarded from our former address.
#doodles #cryptidfamily #roanokeva #scribbles
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Day 20,046
According to my web search results, the last times it snowed on Christmas in Roanoke, Virginia in the last 50 years are as follows:
– **2018**: 0.1 inch¹
– **2010**: 0.5 inch¹
– **2009**: 0.2 inch¹
– **2002**: 0.1 inch¹
– **1998**: 0.1 inch¹
– **1993**: 1.0 inch¹
– **1989**: 0.1 inch¹
– **1981**: 0.1 inch¹
– **1976**: 0.1 inch¹
– **1975**: 0.1 inch¹
The snowiest Christmas on record in Roanoke was in 1969, when the city received 14.6 inches of snow². That was also the second snowiest December day in Roanoke history, surpassed only by December 9, 2018, when 15 inches of snow fell³.
The average snowfall for Roanoke in December is 2.6 inches¹, and the probability of having a white Christmas (at least 1 inch of snow on the ground) is 7%⁴.
Sources:
(1) Snowiest Winter Season in Roanoke History. https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/roanoke/snowiest-winter-season.
(2) Official Snowfall Records for Roanoke, Virginia | SnowPlowNews. https://blog.snowplownews.com/snowfall_records/roanoke-virginia/.
(3) On the lookout for holiday season snow as cold pattern digs in. https://cardinalnews.org/2022/12/14/on-the-lookout-for-holiday-season-snow-as-cold-pattern-digs-in/.
(4) So, how much snow will Southwest, Central Virginia see this winter?. https://www.wsls.com/features/2022/11/17/so-how-much-snow-will-southwest-central-virginia-see-this-winter/.
(5) HISTORY MADE: Snowiest December day on record in Roanoke – WSLS 10 News. https://www.wsls.com/weather/2018/12/10/history-made-snowiest-december-day-on-record-in-roanoke/.
#roanokeva #doodle #whitechristmas #nevertellmetheodds
Day 20,045
Happy Yule / Solstice, from all of us, to all of you.
The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome, Yule!
#doodle #cryptid #family #roanokeva #dec212023
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