Winter that is! We got our first taste of wintry mix weather on Friday and I actually had to scrape my car a bit before I left the ramp. We'd managed to get all the way through November 18th before having to deal with that. The snow melted off the roads but dusted the ground a little.
We woke up Saturday to this gossamer coating the backyard and deck. Temperatures were in the mid 30's and noticeably chilly. I put away my jacket and resigned myself to the winter coat for the next few months.
This morning was greeted by a frozen pond with geese sitting atop it. I was quite surprised by this. Right now temps in the low 30's
seem so cold and that makes me feel like a wimp. Temps in the 30's are
nothing but I also realize it is all relative. In March and April, temps in the 30's will feel like a
heat wave and we'll be happy to go out in short sleeves but for the moment it chills you to the bone.
These are my Socktober socks from this year. I used some hand spun yarn I bought a while back at the now defunct angora goat farm near my brother's old home. It was a wool plied yarn that was plied along with another 2 strands of plied mohair yarn. I separated the mohair yarn from the wool and knit the socks from just the wool using the Saxony sock pattern from the book A Fine Fleece. I don't know what I'll do with the mohair yarn. I'm sure something will come to me. I owned this yarn for a while before the perfect project occurred to me and I had just enough yarn for it. Eventually the right project will come along for the mohair. Stash karma is real!
With this cold weather, I've finally turned the furnace on and we have two dogs sleeping with us at night. Here is three legged Zak in a trapper hat. He is so darned cute!
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