Hubby is off for a weekend of moonlight skiing.... cross country skiing, to be exact. He and his Rangers will be heading off Friday afternoon to do some back country camping and cross country skiing and it just so happens that they have been planning this to correspond with the full moon. I think he's nuts. Anyone who wants to go out in the bush and have nothing more than a nylon tent between him and the -18 degree temperatures, makes my head spin. Normal people want a nice warm building with central heating or at least a really good wood stove. On top of that... Hubby has lost a boot. There has been an ongoing boot search since November.... we know we put both of them in the shed when we moved everything out there last spring for the house renovation.... and Hubby says he saw both of them in October when he was looking for something else, but when he went to get them in November they were nowhere to be found. Actually we did find one boot but the other has disappeared. Hubby has searched through all the piles of stuff and moved things from one side to the other.... but no sign of the boot. He is not anxious to hit the cold temperatures in the great outdoors without them... so I'm not sure what he will do.I'm kind of anxious too as I don't want him coming home without toes!
Meanwhile, my foray into the world of silk weaving is coming along. Yesterday, I spent the day weaving and along about lunch time the electrician showed up. He fixed our tripping breaker by putting the fridge and microwave on its own breaker, he also put in a new outlet for my electric fireplace. So now our electricity problems are dealt with. However, that meant a long time away from my weaving, which I had intended on finishing. Though I managed to get one problem fixed, (that being the electrical problem), my weaving faced several problems of its own. I am almost finished the weaving of my silk 6"x 6" sample but, because I wanted to weave it without any joins I am having a difficult time with my weft. I had reams of weft but I did not want to cut it and a 6" x 6" weaving frame is just to small for a shuttle. So there I was with a weaving needle and piles of weft to pull through the warp.... let me tell you, there were more tangles than I care to think about... and my shoulders just couldn't handle it anymore, so at 9:30 p.m. last night, I gave it up when once more my weft became a huge knot. I only have two more patterns left though, to complete my square, about 12 rows in all. Not so bad. But I face the tangled mass again today.
Meanwhile it is the end of January and while I have a little reprieve on the jacket commission, (my deadline is February 13th), I do have to get back to it at some point here. So if I can get my silk sample done early today I will be back at the jacket commission this afternoon.
Meanwhile, here's a picture of my silk weaving including the current knot....
Argh!
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