While Teapot was away I was used to getting up, getting breakfast for the Daughters, and getting them out the door in time for school. Now that Teapot is home I don't have to do anything after breakfast has been served other than drink my tea and work here at this screen. So I read the news, I check the weather, I read my favorite blogs, tweets, posts on Facebook, and then I can come back here for an update on what's going on in this neck of the woods.
Today I will be trying to get some of my spinning done that I have been falling down on... I still have a bunch of merino to spin in the next few weeks because I will be using that in my 50 hour project for level 3 which I hope to tackle once I go to the Blueberry retreat which is only two weeks away. RG and I have decided that on the Thursday at the Blueberry we will be doing our twenty five shades of Logwood. I know I've talked about this forever, and I know that I never seem to get it done but... this time I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will succeed in getting it completed. I also can't find those d-mn silk cocoons that I need for the Mawata.... don't know what I did with them. Today if all goes right I have a friend coming for the day... and of course we will be spinning.
Meanwhile the Daughters are off to school today and they start their new term. Our community is putting off a week long winter carnival. As the days go by there are winter fun activities planned for each day of the week. Both of the Daughters are preparing for an afternoon of school related winter carnival activities. So there will be sledding, and icy t-shirt contests.... (that's where you are on a team of 5 people and are handed a frozen t-shirt which you have to thaw out enough for one member of the team to get into before another team beats you... brrr!) ice cream eating contest.... a contest to make Smores over candles.... and balloon snowmen contest where some of the balloons are helium filled (you have to make a snowman with balloon and you are only allowed a certain amount of tape. Meanwhile the community will be having snowshoeing workshops, snow golf, hiking in the woods, sliding parties and snowmobile activities. Sounds like a lot of fun. At the end there is a big auction.
What's really weird is that at the same time as all the winter carnival fun is going on, our public library has decided that their big fundraiser for the year will happen at the same time and is going to be a winter beach party! It's really bizarre to have two things going on at the same time with such opposing themes. Only in HH can you show up at the winter dance and win a meddle for the mucklucks you showed up in and then drop next door to the next dance and take first prize for the ugliest Hawaiian shirt! Should be interesting....
Yeah so that's it for me.... I'm headed off to put some finishing touches on a pot of soup... and blend some more silk and silk waste... I think I'll spin a little silk before the merino.... it looks like I'm going to run out of this stuff before I finish weaving... and I thought I had plenty.
See ya tomorrow.... when the first of February is upon us.... (Oh God am I ever going to get these two levels finished in time??!!)
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