Spring Is Here... The Grass Is Growing

I saw green grass. Yes I did! I saw green grass under a tree where the snow had melted and boy am I happy. Our road only has a few small patches of ice let and I can't wait to see the end of the snow around the yard. I do have to tell you that it is pretty difficult to get inspired to write this time of the year when it is too icy to go out walking and there's dog poop everywhere. March break starts next week and the public library here in HH is having an afternoon tea for St. Patrick's day.... I think I might go. It might get me doing something else and cheer me up. Not that I'm down... I'm just feeling a little burnt out. A vacation might be the ticket.

In the meantime the sun is shining and I want to go walking but there is just too much snow on the ground to walk safely. As a result the house is feeling rather like a cage. I still go out for knit night and recently I started working on a shawl project that I started last summer. It is woven on my 4" x 6" weavette loom with one block a multi green angora and the next block is brown llama. It is very soft and very light. I decided to pick up that project for knit night because I'm sick of lace gloves.... next fall when my hands are cold I will get back to them again. Part of the reason for doing the lace gloves in the first place was a gallery show in FSJ for which I had been preparing things for the last two years but when the choice was made for the theme it was.. "Scarves, Shawls, and Shoelaces"... yup not a one of those things that I completed in the last two years was a Scarf, Shawl or a Shoelace.... so I am now more focused on scarves, shawls and shoelaces.

Meanwhile the big j.c. rears its ugly head as I continue to spin black alpaca.... which I have to say I'm getting really sick of.

We are considering a few days away coming up here during March break which begins next week... I think Hubby and the girls are all feeling like a trip away. I'm thinking it might not be such a bad idea.... still there is a lot to do around here too. but a short vacation can't hurt right?

Well I just finished giving the small dog a hair cutthis is before the cutand this is after the cut
and he is looking painfully up at me to play with him.... the black alpaca is calling my name, and I have a dessert to make for dinner out at a friend's house. The day has begun and so must I.....