Well, it’s pretty and we need the snow-pack, but I have a car full of groceries & was planning to go home today.
So far as I know Siskiyou was open this morning but Scott very likely isn’t and Randy says, ” Don’t Set Wheel On The Road!” So I guess I’ll be visiting Sis longer than planned. BIL is on the way home from a non-working day… they’ve been closed down for the next two… three days, too.

sigh…. 🙄

But we’re better off than you guys in the N.E.!
Stay warm!

one, two, three…

I’ve done what I’ve been saying for years that I was going to do. I’m taking at class from the college. It’s a water color class. I haven’t touched my paints in years, but I am really enjoying this class even if it does mean driving 80 miles twice a week. This is one I turned out last week. Not going to turn the art world upside down, but I think it shows that I may eventually relearn some of it. I am playing at this point tho, just learning the medium. The class goes to June so I have plenty of time for the serious painting requested for the end.

Meantime I am still fibering and the loom shop is as busy as ever, even tho I have been remiss at keeping up this blog. Any of you in Great Britain can now get your looms locally! Check with Carole at http://www.easisites.co.uk/webbsgreenfarmwool.

It’s raining here and I hope building a snowpack up above. Hope you are enjoying the last of winter where you are. (or Summer if you’re on the other half of the world! 😀 )

What else needs to be said? I think Cori’s attitude here says what we’re all feeling. I have looms to pack and ship today, and domestics badly in need of tending, I may get some fiber time in later today… :doze:

The sun is shining and the temps are almost above freezing already. No sign of our badly needed snow yet. Yeah, Randy’s been able to work right though the winter so far, but it’s going to be a long, hot, dry summer if we don’t get some snow up there on the peaks.

I know, I know, quitchurbitchin’. 😛

Well, I just wanted to put something here to let you know I’m still around. Just mid-winter bla’s.

Hope things are cheerful where you are! 😉

All that white stuff around the rocks and the edges of Coffee Creek is ice. It melted some yesterday but isn’t gone and refroze nicely today. But it only got down to 25 last night, better than the 16 we had before. Still no snow in sight, tho. It’s getting late, too, and our snow-pack is way short.

But I guess Randy and the guys will be getting a lot of plumbing jobs this spring. Starting right here. 😦 The hose bib out front split, whichis the one I use to water all the planter boxes and the dogs. It’s the only one we’ve found so far… :confused:

Well. I got the mid-winter droops. Hope you all are doing better.

Knitted this from the pattern in A Gathering Of Lace. It needs a bit of blocking but I’ll have to wait until I can find a big piece of board or something to pin it out on. I think it’s going to be okay, tho. I’ve been knitting little things. The hat is out of some linen thread I bought to weave a table cloth, but that didn’t work out. Just finished a doily for my kitchen turn table. Now I’m crocheting a dress for my girl doll. Too cold to do anything outside. It’s been around 16 for the last three+ mornings. And looks like continuering in the same vein for another week. 😦 Oh well, the fire is warm and it gives me a good excuse to sit and play with yarn. :laugh:
But what I wanted to say is that you won’t be seeing the Blue Thing finished any time soon. Ran into a major snag. But I will figure it out one of these days!

It started out to be a tank top which was… well… a bad idea! :crazy: Then it was an afghan but, lordy! How many afghans does one household need? So then it was a skirt which looked okay, but I don’t wear that particular type of garment. Now it’s on it’s way to becoming a pull-over type sweater top. I used the 14″ diamond so it fits my ‘ampleness’ pretty well. I’ve figured out how to put it together so that it even has darts in the correct places. Now I’m working on sleeves. Yes, they are a must! 😦 I intended to use the 14″ square and put enough of them together to be able to cut the sleeves using a sewing pattern, but couldn’t find the loom :blush: but did find the 20″ square Randy made for me a couple years ago so used it instead. I should be able to show a photo of the finished sweater this weekend, if not today. I’ve got high hopes that this will be the last transformation of The Big Blue Diamond Thing! :laugh:

PS: Never mind. My brilliant idea did not work so the Big Blue diamond thing is back in a dark corner until the next inspirations strikes. 😦

…but since the P.O. was closed yesterday I had to go. So I went on into town and got the business started to fix my car where the power pole backed into me just before xmas. 🙄
And I bought groceries, mostly produce, since the local stores carry very little. Oh yes, I’m starting South Beach again. Officially. I didn’t gain back all I lost. 😛 But this means I’ll be going to town nearly once a week since that stuff don’t keep very long.
We’re supposed to get snow tonight and the snow level drops to 1500′ tomorrow so I’m not sure if Randy will make it home or not! :O
Hope you are staying warm and dry this January so far! 😀

This is the rug I wove for Sis’s xmas present. The rag was given me by a neighbor of hers in exchange for some rabbit hutches (of sis’s). She complained that it wasn’t a fair exchange! Really! 😎 So anyway, this is her share of the ‘take’! The next one will be for me… when ever that happens… :laugh:
Meantime, I have been working on the hat and bag book during these cold days. I wanted to have it done by now, but it’s slow going. Not just the projects, but the photographing and writing up the instruction… :confused: It’s already a year past my first optimistic estimation. sigh…
Well, If I keep plugging away it should be done by next winter at least, don’t you think?

The road was icy all they way but we followed the plow and blower up the Scott side, met Danny in the grader coming down… had to back up out of the way for that one! :O But we got over in the sunshine and home again. 😀 It’s nice to be here tho we really enjoyed our Christmas trip. Exchanged presents with Sis and Bro-in-law, too. Rosy liked her Rug and Rex his hat. Rosy knitted me a shoulder shrug out of cormo and silk and bought us both books. and I forgot to give her the calendar. I make a family ‘event’ calendar each year to help us keep track, with pictures. Oh well, I guess I’ll mail it after all! 😛
Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!