Housewife, 54

This is an older post that I started and must have been called away..  Tonight I found it AFTER I posted my March offering and finished it off.  Here it is out of sequence - and I hope the videos work! (Mid February) UGH... We have finally been hit by Old Man Winter.  The month of February has been terribly cold and we have had more snow.... though nothing like last year's fantastic amounts. One good blizzard left our street looking like this: Actually, I think this photo was taken a few days after a storm, and the reason for this picture was the hoar frost on the trees.  Don't worry, we got more snow.... but after years of taking pictures of the snow, I have kind of bogged down this year.  Yea, another snow storm, snow piled high alongside the driveway, dog has to climb the snow pile to 'water' his tree... yada yada.... So what else have I been doing this month?  Well, we had a break-through on Elvis' training!  Afghans are notoriously difficul...

Good Grief!  Where does the time go? Well, looking at my last post, I have an idea that I have been knitting to the exclusion of almost everything else!  I did get two of those pairs of socks done in time for Christmas, but the third pair was only one-half done by Christmas day, with the second sock just started.  I gave them to him anyway, and am still working on it now.  Give me another week or so and I should have it finished.  Then I am taking a BREAK from socks and finishing up some other projects this winter.  I'll start on socks again in the spring when I don't want a heavy project to drag around. This fall has not been the kind to curl up with a cosy pile of knitting in your lap.  It has been unseasonably warm all though New Year's.  We may have had  a couple of days where the overnight temperatures got down into the 20's, but most of the past 2 months have had daytime highs in the upper 30's or 40's and overnight has been in the ...