Merry Christmas!

to you and yours from

What I Did Yesterday

Yesterday it didn't snow. It was also the Collar's day off. That meant we could finally go Christmas shopping. (We're having goose this year. The boys actually wanted Chinese Turkey (duck), but I couldn't find it. So we're having goose, like they do in A Christmas Carol. It took some interesting foot work to do it (we had both boys in tow), but it happened.

Then I worked on the gifts for the staff. Remember the mini sweaters? Yes, those were part of it. I also made (with some help from the Wiz) tiger butter and peppermint bark. Then more gift bags. I made eight of them.

Snow, snow, snow.

I know. I know. I KNOW. All I write about is the snow.

It's really the only game in town right now. It keeps starting again. My car is buried even deeper than this now!Game Boy is entertained. The Wiz is not. He doesn't have enough body fat to stay out longer than 10 minutes. Game Boy is building a huge fort near the front sidewalk.

I'll admit, sometimes it's pretty,
especially when the sun is shining. I think we'll have a white Christmas.

I'm Cold

So I knit a hat and mittens for me. (I probably won't really wear this hat either, even though I should.)


The yarn is from my friend, LC, from awhile ago. (A year or so?) It is KnitPicks Shamrock in Reilly. I still have most of one skein left, too. Maybe I can knit a neckwarmer.The mittens are an Ann Budd recipe. I added a few rows here and there, but otherwise pretty much followed along. I used size 7 needles. I started these on Monday evening, and finished this morning as I was going over the student emails and the like.

The hat is from Yarn Harlot. An Unoriginal Hat. I did one change: I used size 10.5 needles aka 6.5 mm, because I don't have 7mm dpns. It fits me a bit snug, and it also fits the Wiz, who thinks he should get the hat. It might wind up his--I hate wearing hats. But it is a good looking hat, I think.
A close up of the cables: pretty easy, but interesting to do and to look at. I started it at noon, and finished it about 3 and a half hours later. Not too bad. I think it would make a good gift, too. I'll probably knit it again some day.

Maybe I'll wear it.

We Went for a Walk

to pick up the Wiz from school. Here are more snow pictures.



It was all of 2:45 when we were walking home. I am still having trouble with how low in the sky the sun is in the afternoon.