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The above title is an attempt at making digital glasses.... why?... I have no idea.... just that my glasses are sitting on the desk in front of me... that's why!

I finished the Bison skein yesterday and it is very nice. I had hoped to have a picture ready of the lace square that I am knitting from my Bison skein but after school Teapot and I took the girls shopping for Twelfth Night. We didn't get back till late and we didn't have supper while we were shopping so we needed to eat when we got home. As a result I didn't get back to the knitting until later than planned and so I have a half knitted lace square. At one point I was making a Nupp (don't ask what a Nupp is) and I was trying to get a needle through 5 stitches and was cursing on it so badly that Teapot  said I should go to bed. In my defense, it was really hard to get the needle through all 5 stitches at one time. In the end, I got out my rosewood dpn with the really sharp tips and that sucker (Nupp) was finished after that. Then I went to bed because I just couldn't face another Nupp and believe me there are plenty of them in the pattern I chose. I'll finish my sample today, then I'll start the Bison blend sample. I'm not sure yet what I will blend the bison with... maybe silk.... but the silk will need to be cut. Maybe angora.... but I'm not sure if I can use angora. Maybe I'll just use cotton.  But enough about level 4 homework.

It has been chinooking here since New Years day. Last night, the wind was so high that I'm sure there were a few trees torn up by the wind. I never sleep well when there is high wind. But the temperature is high... usually at this time of the year we are looking at temperatures ranging from -30 to -15 degrees C, but this morning the temperature is a balmy +2 degrees C. The snow has been melting off the roof and is sliding off the tin roof and scaring the heck out of the kitten and the dog.  (Tootsie the little dog who has been around for five years and the old cat whose been with us for ten years are old hands and don't pay any attention to the noise at all.) The snow comes roaring down off the roof and does sound rather like thunder so it does not help us sleep easily.  There is ice everywhere and walking is treacherous. So mostly I walk in the house. (It is part of my get fit in 2011 regimen.) Last year I tried Tai Chi but lets face it Tai Chi on your own really is lame. So this year I'm just going to try walking.... The up side of this is that I don't have to learn how : ) Still walking outside will have to wait till there is not so much ice around.

Tomorrow I will post pictures of the bison.... and still there are no more rodents!