How to Work Off Your Thanksgiving Dinner

You know how the fitness magazines always tell you to take a long walk after Thanksgiving with your family instead of sitting around watching football on tv? B-O-R-I-N-G!!!

Here, at The Broken Dishes, we have our own form of family bonding after a big, heavy meal -- we skip the stupid walk, wait till late, put on our dark clothes, gather up the flashlights and go yarn bombing.


As we headed out the door, I recalled a line uttered by Michael Corleone towards the end of the Godfather: Tonight, we settle all family business.


Without further ado, presenting our 2010 post-Thanksgiving neighborhood yarn attacks:



We've originally hit this sign in the summer and it was looking pretty lousy. We've been waiting for help. SO's son and daughter removed the old items and helped me put up the new ones. SO's son had to climb the sign to get the hat taken care of -- it was nerve-wracking...tons of cars going by...we had to keep ducking down into the weeds. We even got sore legs from all the ducking















We finished up the attack with a much less difficult installation:



Ah, the beauty of the hooked rug! I've been saving this one for a long time. We had scoped out the spot months ago.









Now, about the Christmas-themed attacks...