According to Gothamist, resident Sam Maloof’s average electricity bill for December is $5,000. Crazy! Coincidentally, we caught the PBS documentary, Dyker Lights, before heading over.

This is what Dykyer Heights looks like from the street…wonder what it looks like from a plane flying overhead to get to LGA or JFK.

So NY has been brutally cold the last few days and looks like it might get warmer for Christmas even up to the 50s. That’s a big change from the feels like temps of 12F. BUT…BUT…I almost wish that it would stay in the 30s. Boy! There’s something wrong when I’m wishing for cold weather to stay! There’s logic - I promise!

You see, on Monday I have to fly to Madison, WI for my brother’s wedding and there the low tonight is going to be 1F and on his wedding day there’s a forecast of 9F. Don’t know if they’ve got a brutal windchill or not but that’s low not feels like. So my logic is that if it’s 50 here than the 30 degree drop is going to be brutal but if it’s 30 then the 10 degree drop would be palpable. See! Logic! Albeit Amy-logic! *sigh*

Madison, WI

The silver lining? Well the silver lining is that I will get to see family and nieces and nephews that I have not seen since last year. And I can’t wait to see how big Justin has gotten.

Ornament 6 is from Janet.

And ornament 7 is from Tina.

Some highlights include:

This one is from Kristel in the Netherlands.

The third one is from Sarah in Austin.

The fourth is from Veronica from Indiana.

Let the fun begin!

So my first three stocking attempts were with some scrap yarn I had that I thought was “festive.”

The next three were made from red and green yarn and were my first attempts at intarsia. Since the stockings are small I didn’t go through the trouble of making small batches of yarn but was just hyper diligent about keeping the balls of yarn untangled.

6 down, 4 more to go…6 days. No problem!