Working Hard

Teapot and I have been working hard. Daughter #1 and Daughter #2 have been laid low with head colds for Easter weekend. It was lovely to have them all home yesterday and I know they enjoyed it too. Daughter #1 hardly got out of bed which was fine since I don't want her germs and they are confined to her bedroom for the most part. Daughter #2 is not feeling so raw and was up and about for part of the day. Meanwhile Teapot was out cutting down trees as we are still trying to clear the Pine Beetle kill trees out. The yard is once again starting to look very bare. After lunch I convinced him to finish the small project of putting the full length glass in the door to our balcony outside of our bedroom and over looks my deck. Meanwhile I spun. All day I worked on the blasted worsted and woollen (Canadians spell it with two ls) samples.... I have four of them finished and I am working on the fifth. After about 4 o'clock, when it was too cold to sit out on the deck any longer and spin I started work on the write ups for all of my work since back in February. I made good progress and by 11 o'clock last night I was completely done in. I have my first binder completed and I'm now working on the second binder. I finished writing up the work for the flax samples. I still have Lopi samples to write up and worsted/woollen samples to write up.

There is nothing better than the warm spring days to invigorate you and make you feel like you can do anything.Even though there are still heaps of snow around in the yard and in the back country it is still quite winter-like, spring is definitely making headway around this end of the country. The trees are coming out in bud and I am beginning to see little sprouts of green grass on the south sides of things.  This morning the sky is blue and the sun in shining brilliantly. Teapot and the girls are enjoying a sleep-in while I nurse a stiff back (after all that spinning and computer work yesterday) over a cup of coffee and some breakfast. All is quiet, but I expect that to be short lived... although i might just go back to bed for a little sleep-in since I'm starting to loosen up again..... Nah, now is my chance to catch up on this level 4 work.

I always did love Easter.... maybe because it is in the spring and how can you not like something when the sun is shining.