The snow is pulling back and even if we get more (quite likely) it won’t stay long and we’ll have flowers soon, too. Another promise of spring is this site: http://www.fws.gov/nctc/cam/ Be sure to go look. We’ve watched 2 hatch, there is another that may or may not. It’s not a fast action site but rather facinating, a little exciting, and very hopeful. It lifts my spirits to watch it happen yet again. Babies are always hopeful, even when they are ugly little mostly naked fuzz balls! lol
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I made my sister get out of her warm car and stand by the berm to show how deep the snow is on Scott Mt. pass today. It temp was 29 degrees without the wind-chill and the wind was ripping across there. It was COLD! The plows hadn’t been up yet, we 4-wheeled to the pass, tho it never got more than about 3″ deep on the road and she said she ran out of it very soon on the Siskiyou side. By the time I got home it was raining and most of the couple inches we got this morning was gone.

Anyway, we had a lovely service for Grandmother, Sunday. People shared their memories of her, all the family & special friends from the community were here. It’s going to be different without her but we will get on with our lives just as she’d expect.

Randy has gone back to work and the looms shop is back in business. We are sending a package to Israel this week. Not the furthest they’ve gone but the first for there.

It looks like we have more cold weather in store but spring will be along soon. meantime, enjoy your warm wooly weavings!

It’s been cold and rain and wind and snow since the beginning but i have to say that the color scheme is more like the lamb than the lion. I even found this bush with a kind of sheepy texture! Well, it’s still winter but the alder has it’s dangling blooms so I know spring is coming! Since it’s too early to worry about planting, I guess I’ll go back to my yarn.
Stay warm!
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Cleo Beatrice Seymour, 101, was born in Twining, Michigan, August 26, 1904 to Mable Ellen (Graves) and Joseph Oren Brintnell. She grew up in that area and later married Harry Seymour. They came to California during the depression and lived in Oakland where she was an interior decorator. They moved to Coffee Creek in 1953 and built Seymour

This is the “lace edging” on the porch. It’s 12 degrees this morning but oh so pretty! There is only barely any moisture in this snow, just enough to make these little icicles. I feel sorry for the birds who have started coming back and all the other critters who live out there, tho. Except Jack. He has so much blubber & fur that he doesn’t stay in the house more than a few minutes before he’s asking to go out again. Cori wanted out, too. she’s smaller but has almost as much padding! :laugh:
Hope you are having a pretty day!

🙂 Grandmother had surgery today to mend her hip. We do not know how it will go for her now, but at least she has a chance of recovery now.

And we had about 6″ of very dry powdery snow today. here’s Randy out sweeping the driveway with his push broom. Yes, it’s that light!
Cori loves it and was out racing around plowing with her nose and rolling. I thought it was okay but I didn’t enjoy it that much! The temp never quite hit 32 today, either! :O

Grandmother fell last Thursday evening and broke her hip so we probably well be occupied for awhile and I may not be posting.

Rosy and I had a great time and got the shopping done for another month.
The green and brown is my new chair, it’s Mission style and I love it! The grey box up front on the right is my new printer. (I hope I can figure out how to hook it up!) and all the rest of the space is filled with groceries. My suitcase is seat-belted in the passenger seat up front! It is one dirty car but there isn’t any point in running thought the washer this time of year. And when I came out of Wally World in Yreka there were a set of three, red, white and blue and they all looked just alike… country cars! :laugh: I should have gotten that picture.
I did find some great loom bags which I’ll be offering on the web page soon. Unfortunately they didn’t have a size to fit your bigger looms but they’ll be handy totes for your Quilt Weaver and Tiny Weaver sets!
So Now I guess I’d better go empty the car. I got the Gramma sitter paid and the fire built and the important email answered. I’d rather take a nap but… 😛
Stay warm!

I decided to take some pics of that “texture” snow, just for fun, and when I downloaded the photo of the hood of my car I found, to my delight, Real Snowflakes! I had to rush back out and, sure enough, if I looked closely I could actually see them when they lay in a single layer there against the red. This is so neat I just wanted to share it! I’ve clogged up my whole families email programs with gobs of photos but I’ll just post one here. :laugh: But this is just too ‘cool’! There is blue in the sky now but the flakes are still drifting down. I bet I could count them as they fall! And they are so light and dry that you can’t even call it falling. More like floating down. Well, I feel like a kid, but what a lovely discovery for a cold Friday morning!:P

Quite unlike the east coast, we are getting what sis termed “texture” this morning. The snow is so fine and light I can hardly see it falling but it’s gradually turning things white. The temps are up a good 10 degrees from yesterdays 16. for which I give thanks! :laugh:I know there hasn’t been much fiber related here lately but my weaving is a ‘secret’ so far, I’m not ready to share that, my knitting has been hardly progressing, I have been busy, but just the regular boring things of life in the country.
I have posted some photos of some of the special woods Randy has made into looms, if you haven’t seen them take a look: http://hspencer1.photosite.com/Album1/
And I’m having problems with my printer… :angry: …it looks like they’ll be a new one here next week. So, I guess that’s about it. Just wanted to say… I’m still here, if anyone was wondering. 😎