One of my favorite bloggers, KariAnne Wood of Thistlewood Farms, has a Saturday post that always starts out with “Random Thoughts on a …. (here insert “sunny, rainy, cold, snowy, blustery, etc.” Saturday. She recaps some of the things she’s seen on the internet over the last week. I wouldn’t remember what I’ve seen on the internet so this is just some random thoughts as I sit alone in my Lazy Boy on a sunny, not-so-warm Saturday afternoon.

The Great Hunter is hunting again. He shot a small buck last weekend so he can only get a doe this week. I’m not a big connoisseur of deer meat. I remember the first time I cooked ground venison in the skillet, I gagged at the smell; it’s much more pungent than the smell of cooking beef. I’ve learned a little since then about cooking deer meat, but it’s still not a favorite of mine. He now has it processed into ground meat and then mixed with a portion of beef to make it a little more palatable.

While the Great Hunter is gone, taking care of the “girls” is my job. We spend a lot of time going in and out and their favorite thing to do outside is play fetch with a deflated basketball. I have to throw it like a bowling ball and I don’t have the best control. It’s landed on the deck roof a couple of times, but luckily, it rolled off.

I’m a list maker. Sometimes it’s written and sometimes it’s only in my head. My to-do list for this weekend included finishing an “upcycled” project I’m making for my “car-guy” son for Christmas. It’s a “license plate daisy” made from expired license plates from cars he’s owned or bought and flipped and some of mine. The black one is a license plate from my first patrol car.

Since June, I’ve been working on two blocks a month for my quilt guild’s “Block of the Month” quilt top. I’m down to the quilting and sashing. Hopefully, I will have it done in a few weeks in time for our Guild Christmas party. It’s a combination of appliqued blocks, paper-pieced blocks and machine embroidery.

The Great Hunter will be back on Monday and the rifle hunting is over but he bought a cross-bow earlier this year so his hunting season can be extended. Lucky me (and him).