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Today's Advent calendar picture is a wreath:

And the state of the overall calendar is...

Now for something completely different and unexpected.
The wonderful poet Virginia Molhere tweeted a video of a musician playing a bagpipe he'd made with a rubber glove (viewable here.) I said it would be fun to try to make one, and she found this Youtube video (by someone else, for a much more basic rubber-glove bagpipe) that gives a method.
I tried it (tweet w/19-second video here), and while it's not what you'd call a runaway success, it does make some noise! And the process of making it was a lot of fun. I'll try some refinements--mmmmaybe ;-)

And the state of the overall calendar is...

Now for something completely different and unexpected.
The wonderful poet Virginia Molhere tweeted a video of a musician playing a bagpipe he'd made with a rubber glove (viewable here.) I said it would be fun to try to make one, and she found this Youtube video (by someone else, for a much more basic rubber-glove bagpipe) that gives a method.
I tried it (tweet w/19-second video here), and while it's not what you'd call a runaway success, it does make some noise! And the process of making it was a lot of fun. I'll try some refinements--mmmmaybe ;-)