My weekend ‘what’s happening’ was pushed to the back burner
with yesterday’s moosey news. Pretty fun
stuff though, huh? I’m still
grinning. ‘Cowy’, the female, (can you guess
what the male’s name is?)  loved having
her nose scratched. It was my
pleasure. She’s also a big fan of jelly
donuts. What a gal!

Sunday was the Friends of Fiber monthly spin in. I love the company and the food is always
terrific. Jessie made frosted cut out
cookies in the shapes of sweaters, hats and mittens, all decorated as aran knitted
items. I consumed all my sugar for the
week.  Yep, there was food too, yummm… Jessie brought us each dish cloths. All that work, I can’t use them for
dish cloths.

Mine will be face
cloths. She made me one a few years ago
that I still use as a doily, my ONLY doily, under a lamp in the bathroom. I took my hand cards with me and used them to
blend the merino silk that I will spin forever.

I wound my beaded yarn into a ball and started the Feather
and Fan shawl. I’m pretty sure I won’t
have enough yarn to make a real shawl. This is eating yarn.

I’ve got it
on #11’s but have put it on hold until I can estimate how much more of it I can
make from whatever roving might be left. This little fishing trip will have to wait until after this
weekend. It’s the NETA Spa in Portland. I’m starting to put together my knitting /
spinning projects to take, stuff for door prize donations and all that.   This is my first year at the Spa, sounds like a great time, several hundred (who knows, after all the first hotel filled up and we spilled into two more) knitters, fiber people, all in one place, just hanging out.  Too Hoot!  It’s always the same, lots to do, little time.  We had 3 inches last night, the belt on the snow blower just shredded, and another 6 inches is on the way.  I’ll hate to leave right now, it’s pretty perfect snow show conditions.   

I got to do exactly what I wanted to do on Valentine’s Day.

1. No, this is NOT a zoo.  My friend has taken care of these two since they were abandoned at birth.  And, this is not a cage, but a 40 acre range.
2. Yes, they do like bananas.
3. Yes, those lips and noses ARE as soft as they look.

 

Remarkably, the snow started just about the time the
meteorologists predicted, Wednesday night.

After spending the day avoiding
the iced areas of the walks and driveway, the snow was welcome. Let it cover some of that three inch thick
ice, bond with some slosh and freeze up. That was then. It’s been snowing
ever since, more than 37 hours so far, and time will tell how well their
predictions hold up for the next 12 or so. The TV guy says the snow is over, it’s obvious he hasn’t looked outside
my windows this morning.  It’s still
coming down hard. C finally has decided
it’s time to warm up Millie (the tractor) and reconnect us with the
outside. I watched him walk through hip
high drifts, making his way down to the barn. I cleared the decks and walks to the outhouse / generator shed three
times yesterday, but no way can you see them now.

 

I spent the day spinning the charcoal llama, after all.

Once the snow came down in earnest, it brightened… you know, it was white
out. The grey wasn’t so GREY
anymore. Zach spent his time watching
the finches.

I’ve never seen so many at the feeders at once. I figured it meant we were in for it. The animals know it better than the ‘weather
man’. He lives on the other side of the
state; the warm side. And, Zach and I
spent time in front of the wood stove.

No place comes close to sitting in
front of the stove when it’s cold outside. And, I worked on Clapotis… go figure, another GREY project. My mood brightened with each falling inch. I’d forgotten all about the grey dye that
bleeds onto my fingers from that beautiful yarn until I went to the sink to
make a pot of tea. My fingertips were as
black as if I’d just read the entire Sunday paper. I’m continuing, hoping that I can set the dye
with an acid bath when I finish knitting.

This is up next. I
went through some of my stash looking for a brighter project. I think a Feather and Fan shawl will knit up
nicely with this. It shines!