Weekend Accomplishments

Sunday, we bought paint for the kitchen. Cabin Red. I hope it works as well as the colors I picked for the front room and office. Interior décor/picking out colors, etc. is not something I have a lot of confidence in my ability. The home improvement project Wonderful Guy and I carried out on the office/front room last fall turned out very nice. There is, I fear, a danger of being lulled into a false sense of…ability. We shall see how the Cabin Red kitchen works. Dearest Sister says if it doesn’t work, one can always repaint. I suppose that is true, but I prefer it to just work for me the first time!

Friday, after work, Young Co-Worker and I ventured into the countryside and found a fiber processing barn, way out in the yonder. We each made a purchase of lovely hand dyed wool roving. Looky at what I bought!

I also spent lots of time spinning in the evenings, in front of the fire, with the spindle. (The days were warm and lovely, but when the sun went down, so did the temperatures.) This is single ply. I have some more white merino on the wheel at the lys that I believe I will combine with this little yarn cake. Then, I am thinking about plying the white merino with this brown alpaca. Looking forward to spinning practice tomorrow night.

Sugar ‘n Cream cotton yarn was on sale. Bought five skeins of the variegated. Wonderful Guy, bless his heart, doesn’t understand that, I don’t think. Just one of those things I learned from Momma. When it's on sale, I gotta' buy it. I thought I did well only buying five.

At a bookstore outlet, I found Thirteen Moons, by Charles Frazier for $6, and a couple of journals for cheapy cheapy. Can’t ever have too many journals, I say. No knitting books to note, or to buy.

While I was at the bookstore outlet, Wonderful Guy was at the kitchen outlet. He’s been shopping for pressure cookers lately. I have a gi-nourmous one I used back in the day for canning. Still have it, even if I haven’t canned in 2 plus decades. (Hey! I might again eventually….someday….) He found one there he liked for a price he liked. I am thinking sometime this week I might be treated to something pressure-cooked!

It was great to get out this weekend. We walked the dog, and I wore only a hoodie over my turtleneck. Very nice to run around in a sweatshirt instead of bundled up in gloves, hat, scarf, and buttoned-up-to-the-neck-coat. It’s still January, and cooler weather with snow possibly, is on it’s way, but the break was nice.