A NEED FOR COZY!

I finished crocheting all of the blocks for the afghan! 

 It is wide and long!

 And very warm!

Since is was 20* when we awakened on Sunday morning and stayed in the 20's until 2:00 when it was all the way up to 40*! 

And it was that cold again last night.

But there is still work to do....all the ends need to be woven in AND I will be crocheting several rows around the whole.  No, I don't know what stitch yet but I'll know when I start to experiment!

 

LOST AND FOUND

Here's a family picture-my brother, sister, parents and me!  

I began the day yesterday with a sad cindy moment!  I dropped my ring down the second floor register and heard it drop  A L L  the way down to the basement!  When it warmed up a bit (-13F is very chilly) the men headed down to the basement to look things over.  They tried snagging it from above and it didn't work.  So went down with the plan to open up the vent pipe.

They drew the 'trap door' mark to use the grinder to open it up...

then the battery died on the grinder.  They (my brother in law, brother and dad) ended up just unscrewing the pipe from the stringer and pulled it out of the other end and were able to find....

my ring (front left) and another ring we have never seen which is sterling silver, an initial ring with a V on the front!  The other items are just fun, too.  The other good thing they discovered after living in this house since 1970, that there was a damper to this heat register upstairs and it has always been closed--the upstairs is much warmer now! lol

This was the arctic-like scene we woke up to yesterday morning!  Brrrr!

But did it stop my Dad from bundling up and heading out to get the mail at 10am?  Not at all.  

Mom and I worked on our mittens 

to match the hat we made the other day.

I managed to whip off another hat-red on the inside and grey on the outside, or vice versa as desired!

Church by remote today! 

PUTTING IT TOGETHER

Look, I managed to work on another project  and will continue to work on it today!  I have all 12 of the Tunisian Calendar Blocks crocheted together and will begin the border work next.

Lena helped me graft the ends of the cowl together 

and almost agreed to model it for me....

This is what our home has looked like for a week--Bill removed all of the blankets and frost cloths from the garden areas but I am sad to say that 5 nights below freezing did a number on everything.  I'm hoping the blankets will at least allow the plants to make a comeback!  The weather is improving and it will be 79*F tomorrow so hoping that will give the green a chance!

Many of the Camellias were burned brown 

but a few still flourish!

(I managed to walk out for these pics yesterday after breakfast and that was my highlight of activity for the day!)