Daily Snug

She did this all on her own. Not that I blame her. If I had a qiviut blanket, I'd sleep under it all day too.

Daily Bluebird

This was a totally unintentional shot. I hit the shutter button by mistake when I was out taking beauty shots of some recently-finished knits.

Totally out of focus, but would you look at that sky?! Beautiful.

Daily Bundled

Fleece base layer? Check.
Heavyweight fleece jacket? Check.
Wind-resistant shell? Check.
Thermohair socks? Check.
Thick woolen tuque? Check.
Qiviut shawl scarf? Check.
Double-thick wool mittens? Check.

I'm bundled up like Nanook of the North, and still freezing my bippy off.

Daily Retreat

Daily Merry

I love that our neighbours hang Christmas lights in their back yard.

Of course, they have the requisite lights and garland out front too, like the rest of the neighbourhood. But these lights in the back are just for them, for a little bit of merry when they look out the kitchen window.

It makes me merry, too.

Daily Withdrawal

Left: Beloved (dormant) catnip plant.

Right: Druggie cat in serious withdrawal.

Conclusion: It's going to be a long winter.

Edit: for a reminder of how ridiculously attached the cat is to her catnip, please see this.

Daily Symbiosis

Turns out that ice cream is delicious even when it's snowing outside.

It also turns that ice cream and ice cream cones have more of a symbiotic relationship than you might otherwise think. Ice cream (well, the custard style) is made with egg yolks. Ice cream cones are made with egg whites. One batch of ice cream = about one quart of deliciousness, and enough left over egg whites to make 10 ice cream cones. Which means each delicious homemade ice cream cone receives about 2 scoops of equally-delicious homemade ice cream! Magic!

I was so impressed by this that I gathered (almost) everyone together for a class photo:



Missing from photo: Tim's ice cream cone, which was being gourmed (ferociously) at the time.