Saturday Dec. 22nd

We are having a funny winter day. It started at at over 30 degrees at 5 this morning - the girls had to go out then - with rain. Our snow drifts had started to disappear. We had green grass in places. And it was this way until 11 or so when it turned to snow. Then it stopped. But we are told that it will start again this evening and continue to snow until Monday morning. I wish that the snow hadn't started to melt.

Tomorrow is Winnie's birthday. She will be 2. She is still such a puppy. She thinks like a puppy and acts like a puppy. I think that she will always be like this. Josse is a real puppy but I can see her growing up, but Winnie is our blond, cheer leading Yorkie. She does well in school but her attention wanders. "Gee, mom there is a new dog coming in the door, I have to go meet him." During sits and downs line, she gets bored. She doesn't break the sit or down but she starts to whine. She loves school but she is one of those kids who goes to school to hang out with her friends. What a joy that she is. She is such a fun little girl. And she hates cold, wet weather. She makes short work of her trips out. It messes up her hair.

I found my Clover J hook. I like the Clover Soft Touch hooks for big hooks. Maybe my thumb will quit hurting now. And I finished a hat in Universal's Duet yarn. I am almost done with a felted bag and I am going to ravel out the button band on one of my baby sweaters and redo it in a smaller needle. I thought that I could get away with using the same size needle as for the rest of the sweater but not this time. I have 3 projects using Art Yarns to finish. Maybe Christmas day I will get to work on them. But then it is puzzle day.

We usually do a Jigsaw Puzzle on Holidays. Everyone can do it and we all enjoy them. I get them from Bits and Pieces when they go on sale. The only conflict is that we all like different kinds. Last year I got glow in the dark ones. The rest of the family said that they were too dark. So this year I got a bunch of American Primitive art ones. At Thanksgiving Elisabet said that she didn't like them. But it is that or watching a flick and then we really have choice problem.

Now I have to stop and close up for the day. Tomorrow is another day and I have bathe the girls before we open.

Drive carefully!