December 1

Telephone pole being replaced near my house

Results of Dive Bar metal sculpture night

I went to my knitting group and finished the first of the Sandwich & Crossbones legwarmers (for Sandwich Girl). However, Sandwich has two legs so I need to finish the second one.

I came home to find this pinata hanging in the garage.

Pedal-powered ferris wheel at the Bike Rodeo.

Getting dressed at the Donut Party...we went to see Incredibly Strange Wrestling.

Rainbow on my walk between buildings at work.

Twisted toy created at Dive Bar in preparation for Santarchy.

Another twisted toy (bolt cutters & glue guns...who needs anything else?) decorating my cubicle at work.

Mira likes her cat toy. I made it.

Santas in BART...part of the Santa-rampage.

Santa's Black Market after the Santa-Klown smackdown where the clown painting was presented.

Here's that black velvet clown painting (gotta love eBay) finally, it's out of my living room.

Storm damage...this is my backyard. A couple days earlier, in the first installment of this storm, a piece of the roof of the downhill neighbor's shed flew into my yard & crushed what's left of my tomato plants. This i s after the October storm where pieces of the siding on the backyard neighbor's house flew off & onto my roof.

A walk through a park...

Big Tree...fell right between two houses...that is no small feat in San Francisco - finding space between the houses.

When the next round of this storm hit, I made sure to park away from the trees in the parking lot at work.

We tried to check out the arboretum but the gate was padlocked. :-(

Later, I got to see inside.

I spent 45 minutes in line at the post office to pick up a package. I got there right as the post office opened. What a miserable place...still, this church near the post office was interesting.

It's December. Why is this anenome blooming?

You know when you go to a paint store & see all these really vibrant colors & think "who would EVER paint their house THAT color?" well, all those weird paint colors (pink to orange to whatever) actually do get used...on houses in San Francisco.

A visit to the Sunnyside Conservatory.

Walk around Golden Gate Heights

Kitty likes her catnip toy...especially after its been sitting inside the plastic catnip container.

I made a trivit using a modified cat-basket pattern.

uh oh I'm turning into one of those people who knits something "because she can" and not because it has any real utility or visual appeal.

The Sandwich & crossbones legwarmers are DONE... except for the finishing part. See those stray ends that need to be woven in? And blocking. I need to do the blocking thing.

Garden...it's the middle of winter. Everything is dead.

Sunrise over the dump...

I took the train to work this morning & listened to the conductor announcing stops in a chipmunk voice with a Brooklyn accent.

On the way home, I ended up on the kidlet-express with five shrieking children on the train. The one behind me had evidently just learned how to talk & wanted everyone to know it. Unfortunately, his vocabulary was limited to "We're going to the station!" projected loudly in a baby-talk sing-song voice. If he only hears baby talk, guess how he learns to talk/shriek?