And Minnesota winter has finally arrived

It has gotten cold here over night. Yesterday we had no snow and lucky for us we got about an inch last night. Now the temperatures are dropping. When I got up this morning it was about 10 degrees. Now it is not even noon and we are at 1 degree. It is expected to drop to below zero by tomorrow morning. That means that it is knitting weather!

I have been sorting papers all week. I had to go through the color notebooks, price sheets, memos and what have you for the new year. It is always amusing when someone says that it must be so much fun having a yarn shop and being able to knit all of the time. Being a yarn shop owner is like being any other small business owner and you spend a great deal of time pushing papers around. But I feel really good about it all now. I went out and bought some big plastic bins. Since they had red tops they were considered Christmas and were half off. I filled them with the patterns and things that I had behind the desk in cardboard boxes. Although the boxes were free, they were beginning to wear out and look awful. Now I have lovely plastic bins with red tops instead.

I also had Jaws computer folks in yesterday to give my computer a tune up and more memory. There was tons of old stuff from my former hard drive that wasn't needed anymore so it was cleaned out. With the new memory, I have lots more space and memory so 'puter is running faster. I guess that it is winter house cleaning time. I have just started sorting yarn and expect that I will find lots for the clearance section.

I just hope that my level of enthusiasm continues until I get even more done. And I hope that this cold snap doesn't last too long! The girls and I have a number of winter agility workshops scheduled and it is so much more fun when it is warmer!

Put on a warm sweater, pick up your knitting, put on some nice music and a nice warm drink and enjoy this time. This is knitting weather!