The Week before Christmas, Wrapping, Movies, a Parade, and a Tree

Merry Christmas to All!

Our blog has been kind of silent, and that happens when you get nice and comfortable. It’s not that you’re not busy in fact the week has been quite full as we did more wire wrapping, went to the Hobbit movie, cheered the park’s bicycle parade, and helped Jenny decorate her Christmas tree.

Besides doing a repair wrap on Jenny’s ring, I concentrated on bracelets. They take quite a bit of time and at last I have developed a clasp style that is consistently simple and effective. We try to make everything from scratch, that’s one of our selling points for our work. Anyway I made a blue lace agate and a Colorado Amethyst cabochon and wrapped them both in silver.

Sometimes I get lucky and when we showed the Colorado piece to Eric, Jenny’s boyfriend, he pointed out to me the large backlit eagle pattern, frozen in stone. He made me think a bit about how I don’t always give the stone the thought that I should, although the patterns aren’t always visible until you do the final polishing.

We also went to the movie, The Hobbit, and it gets our thumbs up rating! If you do go to the movie, the scene where the party is around and in Rivendale is almost exactly like parts of Alaska. Watching the waterfalls cascade is a lot like driving into Valdez, Seward, and Hyder. Now I have to find the book and read it again as it has been at least twenty years since I last reread it.

Our park association put on its bike parade and it quickly divided into two groups. The Harley group moved ahead and the golf carts and pedal bikes made up a safer rear. Regardless of the float type it was obvious that everyone enjoyed their participation. It was really funny as we collected a lot of thrown candy, which is much better than the piles of beads we get at Mardi Gras.

Saving the best for last, we helped Jenny decorate her Christmas tree. I was surprised that she actually found a good moist tree, and we all helped to cover it in bulbs. It’s kind of an international tree as the top is decorated with a fan she bought while in Thailand.

So it’s been a busy week. It doesn’t seem possible that we have been here for almost two months and that we will leave for Texas on the first. Now if we can just find some sharks teeth and figure out how to wrap them……… Clear skies