I'm Dreamin' Of A Green Spring

What that has to do with anything I don't know because there is certainly no signs of spring around here.... well the alpacas are stating to fight again which means the hormones are on the air so maybe spring fever is not too far away but really it been -13 for days with light fluffy flurries falling and the deck is buried alive and I can't remember the last time I was out of the house except to go to the church AGM on Sunday which took three quarters of the day and I got elected to Church Warden even though I stepped down as Chair Person..... phew..... was that a real sentence? I'm not sure but I'm not going back to check either since it might scare me from ever blogging again.

Sadly the last two days have been days of stomach discomfort that basically knocked me on me a-- (whoops I'm not supposed to use that word on line). I'm feeling better today but not really wanting to eat much. Pops showed up yesterday for a visit and told me I looked like a sheet of paper.... well I'm not sure about being that white, but I certainly wouldn't mind being that thin! For two days I've eaten pretty much nothing except for bland food.... thanks heavens it wasn't a bad stomach flu.

Daughter #1 has had her first set of mid term exams.... she is finished today and has a few days of break before she goes back to school of Monday. She is looking forward to horseback riding with her friend for the next five days after several good long sleep-ins.

I remember exam week too but we never got three days off. We studied till the cows came home and our eyeballs felt like they were on the verge of dropping out of our heads. But then I never studied all semester the way Daughter #1 does... basically I was a whole lot lazier than she is..... or maybe we had harder courses. Either way she is done at 11 a.m. this morning. I wish I had enough money to take her for a 5 day shopping spree in Victoria.... there, it does look like spring. The apple blossoms will soon be coming out and dafodils will be poking their heads above ground.... ah lovely. Last year I was heading down to Victoria for a week of workshops with the JCR program around about this time.... not this year though.... it is someone else's turn.... not that I envy them since the workshops this year are being held in Winnipeg.... brrr!

It sure does make the winter go faster when you get to go on a little trip some time in January or February. I am looking forward to a retreat on the third weekend in Feb. though. That is when our spinners and weavers guild will rent a lovely log lodge out in the middle of nowhere and everyone congregates there for some laughs, work, fun, laughs, eating, and laughs. Laughing is an important part of the weekend and some of us actually complete particular projects. I'm looking forward to it.

As for an update on what I have accomplished the last few days... well due to the stomach thingy.... not a whole lot although I did spin 100m of plum silk and wool singles and plied them with black alpaca singles. I think I'm finally ready to warp my loom.
But for today I'm going to get that silk done that I planned on doing last week and never got to. I've found my silk hankies and some bombyx silk so I'm ready to start and that is exciting. This is a project that I have wanted to start on for a while. I will weave a 6' x 6' lace square as part of these two kinds of silk and we will see how it looks in the end. I'm hoping it will be lovely. The Bombyx will be the warp and the silk hankies will be the weft. I'll take pictures as I go and post them here.

But in the meantime Hubby just kissed me with a cold wet mustache before he headed out the door to school. He had to go to the shed and on cold days like that his breath freezes in his mustache and turns to snotcicles.... ugh! But I'd rather get a goodbye kiss from him with a mustache than a kiss from him without! Anyway it is just one more reason why I am looking forward to spring. No more snotcicle kisses... at least till next winter!!!!

I'm off too spin silk!