Friday, January 31, 2025

Truly the "frozen north"

We've been on a roller coaster of weather lately - warm and snowy vs. bitter cold and sunny.  Today, apparently, we'll have a little of both.  Paul is heading out for lunch with a friend, and I will be sewing away on the threaded star blocks.  I have five left to make for the border of the lily block.  

Yesterday, I took a break and puttered around the house.  I worked on Friends of the Library paperwork, sent sympathy cards, knitted while watching Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting, and read a new mystery.  A neighbor stopped by late in the day, and we even had leftovers for dinner.  Everyone needs a "no agenda" day.


While taken a year or so ago, looking out our front door, this is what it looks like almost every day - pretty but very cold.  I watch people walking their dogs, and all are bundled up, even the dogs.  Today I  a cream-colored standard poodle (or maybe a labradoodle) had on a red coat with red booties on.  Very colorful!  Rather than walk outside, I've been rowing in the basement, and on Tuesdays, weather permitting, I head down to the library for aerobic walking and on Wednesdays, yoga.   Spring can't come soon enough.

1 comment:

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

a couple days ago I read something that someone that never lived up north said "people in the north have to stay in the house six months out of the year because it is too cold to do anything, it is not a good place to raise children" when I responded and said kids love the snow and play outside, outside sports are common and people dress for the weather and walk and do things" he told me I was as my name a "karen" some people just don't get it