As The Yarn Turns

Surprise! It's Snow!

We were supposed to have rain this morning. Instead we ended up with about 4 to 5 inches of nice fluffy snow. (Click to embiggen.)

The weather service totally missed this one. I've always said though that our biggest snows are not predicted. Our neighbors across the street built a snow-bathing woman. Looks like she has sun lotion but I don't think she's going to need it.

I tried to get the ferrets to play in the snow. Zoe decided she would rather sleep in. Clyde ran back into the house and hid under the couch as soon as his feet hit the snow. Then there was Dexter. Dexter took to the snow right away. Sticking his head under the snow, he tunneled all around the yard.

But then Dexter has a little more, uh, insulation than the other two ferrets.

"Does the snow make my butt look big?" - Dexter

by Sydney  |

Rip Rip Tink Tink

So I started on the left front of the Drops jacket a while back. I was happily knitting along and knitting along. Then I remembered that there were some decreases around the waist. I measured to see how much I had knit and checked the instructions. Yes I had blown past the point where the decreases start, again. It must be the stockinette stitch that making me do this. So several inches of knitting were ripped back and I'm on my way once again. I'm going to have to do some serious knitting if I plan to finish this before spring.

I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only person who wondered what Apple was thinking when they came up with the name iPad. Who names their computer after feminine hygiene products? Thanks to Chris who pointed out the Smart Bitches article.

Keeping with the reading theme, or maybe a Stumbling Over Chaos theme, I finished the book Soul of the Wildcat by Devyn Quinn that I won over at Stumbling Over Chaos a while back. It's a hot and steamy story about park ranger Dakota Jenkins who discovers the cougar she's trying to protect is more than just a cougar. I enjoyed the book although at times I got a little anxious for the first part of the story to move along.

The ferret's cup-shaped bed under the bed is getting a lot of use lately. Tonight I found all three ferrets squeezed into the bed. That's Zoe and Dexter in the bed. Clyde had climbed out by the time I came back with the camera. You can barely see him in the top right corner.

"Mom, we're trying to sleep here!" - Clyde

by Sydney  |