What a strange winter. Every time we get a little bit of snow, we follow it with a lot of melt. My driveway was down to dirt level before the January thaw last week, if you can call weeks worth of warm weather the "January" thaw. The frost started to come out of the ground, the ground water flowed freely from the sugar bush and flooded everything. At night it froze. Generally this is the prelude to sugaring and mud season. Not this time. Now, inches of ice cover the ground. Another six inches of powdery snow hide the ice. Family has come to visit, to ski. My niece and I have made sled runs. You can go extra fast with the underlying ice. I’ve resurfaced the sled run, shoveling yards of snow into the sudden drops at the edge of the pond. The subsequent jolt was way too much fun for me. When I need a break, we walk in the woods checking the tracks, naming who has been here overnight, this morning, since the last time we looked. My back is making strange cracking noises, I’m black and blue and stiff as a board. I wonder how much Advil I need to keep up with a 9 yr. old.
My neighbor has taken to feeding his sheep with rolled hay this year, something new for him. I saw this group as I drove by yesterday. Little groups like this one were scattered around the field, kids circling a giant bowl of shredded wheat.
While wishing for winter, I’m forcing reminders of spring. This bunch was cut last week. Time to check the early budding on the pussy willows down on the dam.
Project updates..
1. The ribbed V neck is sitting, waiting..
2. The Funnel Neck: ACTIVE
3. Backyard Leaves: ACTIVE, just not AS active
4. Dreaming of new projects: NON-STOP
5. Knitting on the machine.. in progress
6. Dyeing: Yep, and more on the way.
7. Spinning: slow but steady
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8 responses to “midweek”
We’ve had such a warm winter (a little cold only here and there like yours, it seems) that I wouldn’t be surprised to find buds emerging soon.
I just ‘played’ around in your yarn album. Oh my, I’m in big deep desire. You do such beautiful work.
Love the picture of sheep bottoms;-)
awww, I take it the sheep are eating the non frosted shreaded wheat variety? 🙂
Is it really time to force the forsythia? Yikes! And I love the sheepy photo.
I was afraid, before I read the text, that the forsythia was outside and fooled into blooming.
The sheep picture is unique. Good eye.
The answer to the Advil question? Unquestionably lots.
So what’s up with the docked/not docked thing the neighbor has going? Inquiring minds and al…..
We have had a weird winter too. We had a 50 degree day at 9,500 feet today but we are expected to get a couple inches this week. It has been way to warm for winter….
Amanda
One of those sheep is not like the other ones…. The black “sheep” of the family!
You are dreaming of spring, we are dreaming of cooler weather. A big storm just swept through and the temps dropped nicely.
thanks for the tag! love the shredded wheat image. now that’s what i’ll be thinking every time we feed our cows 🙂