Yarny Goodness!

Hello my friends!  It's Friday!  I'm always happy for Friday because Dennis is off on Saturday and Sunday and we get to be together all weekend  Gotta love that!

I just have to tell you all about a sale at Michaels that is just today and tomorrow and it's limited to in-stock merchandise.  I received an email late last night about it.  All Loops and Threads yarn is on sale 1/2 price!  Wow!  This is the yarn I use for the mittens, so I woke Hubby up and asked him if I could yarn shop this morning!  And this is my haul!

The original price with tax would have been around $93.00.  When I told the cashier what I was doing with it, (he asked what I was making),  he gave me another 15% off with his own discount.  Wasn't that nice?  I paid a grand total of $38.54 for all of this yarn.  I figure this will make about 60 of the 100 pair of mittens I plan to make for next year.  And now I can shop at home for the yarn from my own stock!

I got a text from the school on Wednesday asking if I could make 13 more pair of mittens right now.  I guess they had a few transfer students after Christmas.  I have 4 of those pair done and hope to have them all done by the end of next week.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know about the sale because it's only for two days an it's an amazing deal just in case you had some projects of your own in mind.

We bought this little shelf and bins at Target for under the new T.V.  Guess what is in two of the bins?  Yarn of course!   We hope to hide those cords in the wall soon but it's not a huge priority.  There are a couple of birthday cards there on the top.  Dennis turns the big 6-0 tomorrow.  He is NOT thrilled but I say he still looks as handsome as the day we were married.  We're going to Paul and Lori's tonight.  Larry and Nita and Neal & Jenny will also be there.  We had to cancel our Friday night lake re-creation last week because Paul was sick.  So we're doing it tonight with Pizza Hut pizza.  I'm making cherry cheesecake, (Dennis' favorite), and we're having a birthday celebration in addition to our "yearning for summer" get together.  It's so nice that these friends are all also brothers and sisters in Christ and our summer "playmates" too.  :-)

While I did put away the Christmas decorations, I left out my snowmen.  After all it's STILL snowing around here.  I do love snowmen and especially Olaf from the movie "Frozen".  See him there on the right?  Piper knows I love Olaf and always tells people he's Grandma's favorite.  Love that little girl.

A few more on the lazy susan on the kitchen table.

This is why I feel snowmen are appropriate decor.  I just took this out the patio door a few minutes ago.  A little bit has melted over the past couple of days but it did snow a little again last night.

Thank you for all of the nice comments about my new haircut.  I think I'm going to like it very much.  It's fairly easy to take care of and that's the main thing for me.  My back is also better after my slip the other day, but I'm still waiting to hear about the MRI.  The Imaging place called me earlier in the week but they have to make sure their software is compatible with my pacemaker.  Hopefully I'll hear soon.  The original issue is still bothering me but I'm very glad I didn't make it a lot worse by slipping on the ice.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and stay safe if the weather isn't good where you are.  We always have to be careful in the mornings because of the roads freezing overnight after melting a bit during the day.  I have absolutely no desire to take any road trips over the mountain passes right now or in the near future.

Since I'm sharing favorites today, (like Olaf) and Dennis' favorite cheesecakeI thought I would share my favorite Bible verse with you today.  I hope it blesses each one of you as it does me.

"But those who hope in the Lod will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."  Isaiah 40:31

Blessings,

Betsy

It's Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Blogger is playing games with me today.  I wrote a post ad tried to publish it and it disappeared so here is take two. :-). 

It's warming up a little bit here today.  32F outside right now so hopefully we'll have a bit of snow melting today.  I delivered some mittens to the school this morning and slipped on the ice outside of the school.  I caught myself before I hit the ground but twisted my back in the process.  It's always something isn't it?

Yesterday this pretty little calendar arrived in my mailbox.  What a nice surprise.  It's from Becky at GrandmaBeckyL over on my sidebar.  She took all of the photos and made the calendar herself.  Thank you so much Becky.  My guess is that they were taken at the tulip farm near Portland, OR last summer.  Am I right?  I love the photos.

So colorful and here is yet another one.  The truck is perfect!

Here is the colorful pile of mittens that I took to the school this morning. 40 pair.  I'm happy with the progress.  Most days I made 2 pair, some days 3 and a couple of days none were made because of other commitments.  I'm going to continue to make them and they're going to let me know if they need more for this year or if I'm just building up the stockpile for next winter.  My goal is to make at least 2 pair a week all year long so I don't hit this crunch next winter.  Then, as soon as the weather starts cooling in the late fall, I can take them to the school so every 1st grader has a pair of warm mittens.

And a ta-dah!  I got my hair cut yesterday!  What do you think?  She cut about 16 inches off!  I'm still a bit in shock and I'm not sure how I feel about it.  Is it too short?  Too long?  What do you think?  I value your opinion very much.  Should I grow it a little longer again?  Get it cut more?  Gosh, when I've had it long for such a long time it looks and feels very strange to me.  I detest messing with my hair which is part of the reason I kept it long.  It was easy to care for.  I keep trying to push it over my shoulders and there isn't anything there!!!!

I think I'm going to put some ice on my back and see if it feels better.  I hope you're all having a wonderful week, getting back to "normal".  Whatever that may be for you.

"Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."  This is the first and greatest commandment/" Matthew 22:37-38

Blessings always,

Betsy

A New Year

Happy New Year a day late!  Goodness we have had a day around here.  Busy, busy, busy.  But first, look at what the temperature was on our deck this morning at about 8:30.  Yep.  You read it right.  It was 3 degrees BELOW zero.  It got up to a whopping 13!  I think it's supposed to be warmer tomorrow though and almost hit freezing.  I sure hope so.  It would be nice to have some of the icicles on the roof thaw out, although they are gorgeous to look at.

Here, I have some pictures to show you just how pretty it is.  This is the blue spruce tree in our backyard.

A solar light next to the patio.  I like the little snow "hat," don't you?

Our pear tree in the front yard with the neighbors Christmas lights behind.  It has been so cold, none of the snow is even melting OR falling off of the trees.  That's unusual.

About ten minutes from home.  I took the following three pictures as we were driving on errands today.

I think this looks like a Christmas card don't you?

So crisp and clean.

And this is our Christmas present to each other.  We bought a new 55 inch TV.  We got a wonderful deal on it.  We've never had a TV in this room, but decided we would like to be able to stay upstairs and not have to go into the little family room downstairs.  This way I can light a fire in the wood stove directly to the left of the TV in this picture and can actually enjoy the heat.

The chair underneath will be moved and we're looking at console tables to go under the TV to hold the electronics.  And that's not all.  My wonderful husband bought us two new Lazyboy recliners today too!  We have two Lazyboy chairs that we bought about 22 years ago.  They are still going strong and will remain in the family room.  They're rocker/recliners.  The new ones are wall hugger ones.  We've owned both knock off brand recliners and the true Lazyboy brand chairs and hands down, we recommend paying just a little more for the real thing.  They last forever.  The mechanisms don't seem to wear out.  We even bought two of them for the trailer at the lake last year.

Boy oh boy.  For people who weren't going to get anything for each other for Christmas, we kind of went nutso today!  Dennis' 60th birthday is next Saturday and my birthday is February 1 so we're counting the chairs and TV as Christmas/Birthday/Birthday presents.  Whoo Boy!  We never, and I mean never, buy expensive gifts like this.  I think we're done for a long, long time.  I'm looking forward to being able to knit and watch TV upstairs by the kitchen.  I can cook and basically stay on one level of the house for everything except laundry.  That was a big deal last summer when I didn't feel well and the stairs were a challenge for me.

I have 34 pairs of mittens done and ready to be delivered to the school next week.  I still have more to make, but I want them to have the ones that are done as soon as possible.  I'll take a picture so you can see them for the next post.

I hope all is well with each one of you my friends and that the new year is all that you've wished it to be.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" 2 Corinthians 5:17

Blessings,

Betsy