Such a busy weekend!

Well, I finished purging what I could from my bedroom. I gave Julio the weekend to work on his things, he didn't. So this whole week Claudius has no school and we are going thru Julio's things.😜 I have 4 rows and the bind off left to Claudius' shawl. I cast on for a pair of Norwegian fulled mittens for Julio. I found in my purging a hot pink acrylic stole which I will use for the base of Edie's slipper chair. I also found a recycled sari silk sweater which I made a long time ago and forgot about. I remembered that I only had a small amount so I made it top down with short sleeves. It fitted Edie perfectly and matched her plum pants. She wore it to her outing today. I went to church today and went to the small groups connection afterwards. Looks like I am going to join the Spiritual gifts group. It is on Tuesdays at 10 am. This group does sound quite interesting. I never did bake my bread and now I want an apple cobbler too. KNIT ON!

Purging the Bedroom

I spent hours today torturing myself. I threw out 4 bags of crap and then some. I still haven't finished but I am getting there. I also found some treasure. Julio's lost college graduation ring! It was on the floor by his computer desk / rat nest buried under some old papers. I was able to knit 4 rows of Claudius' shawl today, just 12 more rows and the bind off left. Then I can start knitting Julian's garter afghan.

Ugh I loathe shoveling snow!

On a good note, I knitted and finished a cowl with some blueberry colored Handspun on size 13 needles. I am going to work on Claudius' shawl and my red sequined cowl. I haven't done any fleece prepping. Death and snowstorms get in the way of life sometimes. I want to bake some honey cornbread tomorrow so I can make some chocolate honey cornbread pudding for Friday. Let's see what happens! I didn't receive my homework for my class on Friday yet. It is either lost or they gave up on me. I have to make a comment on the fulled mittens I made: the Norwegians knew what they were doing. My hands never got cold, never felt the wind and didn't get wet. I wore my red ones and Claudius wore his. I think we need to buy some stock in Swiss Miss too!

Snow day stash busting and corned beef

Yesterday during the snow storm, in between shoveling, I crocheted using my Handspun. I got part of an Advent calendar scarf done, got up to day 13. I am up to a 4th color now, cream with bling. I found some pink and blue Handspun and used the whole thing to make a crochet Calm cowl and finish it. My small weekly commercial yarn crochet projects have become bigger handspun crochet projects. I am putting these up for sale in Etsy in September. The commercial yarn things go to the consignment shop in September. Sunday, Jan 19th, my little sister Annie showed up in the evening with a frozen block of corned beef. She thought I had given to her and was returning it because she was never going to cook it. After she left I checked it out because I knew I never gave her corned beef. It had a sell by date of 6/12/10! And was bought at Met Foods in the Bronx. This was my mother's corned beef! I looked up how long a cured piece of corned beef which has been cryovac sealed lasts when it is in a deep freeze on the Internet on the FDA site. It lasts years! As long as it was well sealed it would have no mold( throw it out), and no freezer burn( throw it out). It looked and smelled fine as it was defrosting in the fridge and I started cooking it at 11am Monday. I boiled it with beer and water. When I took it out of its boiling water at 3pm to let it set, my little sister showed up with her husband Big Rudy. It was the best piece of prehistoric corned beef we all ever had! Thank you Mama-San!

I am tired!

I couldn't sleep last night. I got up early and went to the 10:30am service. While I was at church I saw that there was a women's meeting at 2:15pm. I went home at 12 and got back to church at 2:15. The topic was "Girl Talk" single women vs. married women. The single women are happy to be single, the married women are happy to be married. It is all good. I worked on Claudius' shawl. I kind of lost my knitting mojo. I will prevail!

A Death in the Family

My husband's little sister, Doris, passed away today. May she Rest In Peace. Today I only worked on my Advent Scarf. I am up to the 2nd Granny square which is day #8 of the sampler. I need to watch another episode of Tudor Monastery Farm to get in the mood.

Long Day!

Well I didn't go to my first class, instead I finished my mohair cardigan which had been languishing in my room for 2 years. I wore it to Vogue Knitting Live to my Andean Accents class. I really enjoyed the class and I almost finished knitting the bracelet. Maybe I will get the chance to finish it tomorrow. I am thinking of incorporating this method in my Handspun sweater. The Living Prayer class was wonderful, God will heal us!