A Vole.... I knew it wasn't a mouse.... after I got to thinking about it I knew it couldn't be a mouse. It ran funny like it hoppity ran instead of just flat out running. But this morning we got up and the blighter was in one of the traps that we had set last night before we went to bed. We have set the trap again because where there's one usually there's more than one. I wonder how much cat and dog food he's stolen and where he stashed it all... probably somewhere in the walls of this house. Yes this is a log house.... no he couldn't get into the log walls but the house has interior walls that are not log and the walls of the second story are 2 x 6 construction. So a little rodent could get into any of those spaces. Earlier in the fall we heard something in the roof above Daughter #1's bedroom so I suspect that we will have to finish this renovation before our rodent issues end.
Meanwhile I started the level 4 and after 4 years of spinning for the MSP you would think that I could get a balanced yarn without having to fiddle with it but Oooh noooo... fiddle I must! Thank heavens it only needs a little more S twist. I washed it slightly last night but I will wait till I've put some more S in before I give it a hard washing. If I can get it to work then I will move on to the second question today. I didn't get a chance to work on the level 3. I'm hoping that next week will not be so crazy as this one.
Why is this week so crazy you ask... well, it has to do with Twelfth Night celebrations. Twelfth Night is Thursday evening... and we do celebrate it, so we are preparing for that... shopping is involved but only a little. For us it is the end of the Christmas season... we hang our stockings once again and hope to catch Santa on his way home (thus the shopping). Friday we will have either another Turkey if we are up for that or a ham dinner.... this year it will be ham... and scalloped potatoes... and then after dinner is over the tree comes down and all the decorations go back into their boxes and while doing so we listen to the last of the Christmas carols. I have a couple of CD's that have music that is specific to Twelfth Night celebrations. When we go to bed on the 7th we are ready to say good bye to the tree and the season until next year. Actually I think I enjoy Twelfth Night celebrations far better than Christmas... it is a wonderful tradition... full of richness and history. The animals are supposed to kneel down to the star at midnight... of course I've never seen it and don't expect to in my life but it would be wonderful if something like that happened.
Meanwhile Teapot and the girls are getting ready to go out the door to school and I figure I should get ready to work on that skein of Bison.
Hopefully I will see no more of those pesky creatures.... It's dead, it's dead, it's dead....mwa ha ha ha ha!
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