Showing posts with label shoveling snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shoveling snow. Show all posts

Monday, February 8, 2016

Busy Weekend!

Wow, what a weekend!  Snow on Saturday morning, roughly 6 inches.  Snow blower bogging down, so only got the driveway halfway cleared.   Sunday the sun came out and we went to the lumber yard to get the remaining lumber for the greenhouse we will be building in the spring.  I did get some spinning done though, over both days.
This was Saturday's spinning.
These three pictures were Sunday's spinning.
Sunday night though, we found that our boiler was leaking, so we turned off the emergency switch, started mopping up 2 buckets of water that had leaked out on to the basement floor, then turned on a fan to dry out the floor.  We slept on the couch last night, under piles of handmade quilts, so that we could go downstairs and check to make sure the boiler wasn't leaking anymore. 
This morning we called the oil company and they sent a repairman out immediately.  He replaced 2 air bleeders and the big 5 gal. air accumulator tank.  Now we have heat once again and its time for the spinning wheel to start spinning once again.
 


Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Shoveling Snow this morning #knitting #spinning #JANSALE

Well, after shoveling the snow (roughly 1/2 inch) off my driveway, I finally picked up my knitting needles and started my day off. 
I now have 2 3/4 inches knitted on the mate to this pair of
Handspun - Knitted - Wildberry - Colonial Wool Blend - Boot Cuffs
which means that I still need 4 1/4 inches, before this pair is finished.
I wound off the 14th skein of Handspun 3 ply White Alpaca Yarn today and washed it.  Then I began plying up the 15th skein.
Soon I'll be ready to dye up some more Alpaca Yarn.  So stay tuned as tomorrow the dye pot is coming out.
I finished the heel flap and heal turn on the mate to my mom's socks and started on the gusset.
 
As for my brother's socks, well I only have 1 more row to knit on the leg and then I'll be starting on the heel flap. 
 
Don't forget though that this weekend
Spinning Ginny is taking 20% off her entire inventory. 

Sale starts 1/16/16 ends 1/19/16!