Wonderful Warmth

We are supposed to have temperatures in the 50s today and tomorrow and possibly Thursday. But look out for Friday! Freezing rain and snow during the day and again overnight. Drastic changes on the way, but I’m going to enjoy the warmth and blue sky that we have right now.

Dennis went to Mandy‘s on Sunday and took the Zen collar for little Lizzie. She was so excited to see her Papa. Mandy said it was the most active she’s been since she came home from the vet. She really wanted to come home with Dennis, but we cannot have the girls playing with each other for a while. We have been super lucky that Zoey hasn’t even tried to get to her incision. You would never know she even had surgery. She has been going up and down the stairs since the second day and acting completely normal. It’s all we can do to keep her from jumping off of the furniture and we don’t always succeed. She seems to be no worse for the wear though. Poor Lizzie had a rougher time as she always seems to. She had pain medicine that she took and they sent the nasty old plastic cone of shame home with her. It hurt her and she wouldn’t move her head when she had it on. So we gave her our Zen collar and she’s done great! She wears it all of the time and even sleeps with it on. I highly recommend them. If we need one for Zoey, we know we can just run down the street to the vet and get another one for her. Otherwise we figure we can share it for the girls in the future, because the chances of them both needing it at the same time are pretty slim.

Poor Lizzie baby.

I did finish the prayer shawl last night and got it washed and blocked this morning. It’s a very simple granny shawl that I single crocheted around twice, then added a scalloped border just to finish it off. I didn’t use a pattern, but I’m sure there are similar things online. It has gone into the bin to take to the hospital next time I’m allowed in. This darn Covid.

I thought I would show you what I did with my snowmen when I put the Christmas decorations away. It didn’t make sense to me to have them upstairs in the living room where I rarely am at. So I brought some of them down and grouped a lot of them on my Hoosier cabinet in my craft area where I spend most of my time.

Here are a few on one side of the windows.

And this is the other side of the windows. Mandy gave me the beautiful winter wonderland sign for Christmas along with the Q she found in a clearance bin. On Sunday my sister gave me the snowman on the far right. He’s actually a tea light holder. I love to leave my snowman out until close to Valentine’s Day. They provide some winter decoration. These are not all of my snowman. I still have more scattered around the craft area and upstairs too.

I spent a few hours on Sunday tidying up my yarn area. When I first put it in the shelves I pretty much just stuffed it in anywhere it would fit. I’ve tried to go through and put like yarns together. My entire sock yarn stash is in the upper left two bins next to the basket. I have my worsted weight group together along with my specialty yarns, variegated yarn, cotton, baby yarns and mitten yarn. I also have some bins of scrap yarns. I like the way it looks now and know exactly where to find everything. I should have taken the time to do that sooner.

I have the door stopper in the felting process. I tried hand felting it and I just couldn’t stand at the counter stirring it any longer. Now it’s in the washing machine. We’ll see how it turns out. That had to have been the most boring thing I’ve made in a long time. A long rectangular piece of garter stitch. In brown. Blah. Blah. Blah.

Today I’m going to knit on my first pair of socks for the year. I’ll be using some of the West Yorkshire Spinners Signature yarn that I bought when we were in Great Britain last year. I only treated myself to 2 skeins of sock yarn because of space in my luggage, but I certainly do like this so far. I would love to find a distributor for Opal yarn here in the states, because I just love the patterns their yarn makes.. I think I need to do more digging online. I just haven’t taken the time for it.

I’m sure Zoey will continue to be my companion throughout the day. She never gets very far from my side. What did we ever do without her?

Take care everyone and stay safe. I heard a doctor online the other day say it’s not a matter of if we get Covid at this point it’s when. That’s not a pleasant thought is it?

Wishing you all a very blessed day.

Blessings and love, 

Betsy