Today is hubby's birthday. We are such old farts that for excitement and celebration we will work on the jigsaw puzzle we started a month ago! Yes, I know, that's pretty sad!! It's really too cold up here to do anything else and the people are starting to return for the last weekend of Tip Up Town, so town is getting crazy. Maybe I'll go all out and cook dinner tonight....naw. He does all the cooking and would probably shoo me out of the kitchen anyway. It is also my father's birthday. Both of our mother's were born on the same day, too. What are the odds?

On the knitting front, I bought a ball winder the other day and have been having fun using it. (See, I told you, simple pleasures for simple people!) It's amazing how much more room I have in my stash with the yarn wound into cakes instead of left in skeins. It looks neater, too. I also have the Fiber Trends Felted Clogs OTN and am stuck. I need to get a 16" circ to continue. I've tried using the magic loop method, but it's not working real well. I also have a pair of socks OTN in Wildfoote Peasant Blue. These are my take along project. I really need to finish them off so I can start something else. I'm trying to have fewer projects going at one time this year.

I went to the local re-sale shop the other day and found a HUGE cone of lace weight yarn for $6.00. It's the size of a dinner plate and about 7" in diameter. I'm not sure what it was originally intended for being a cone of that size, but it's going to be many, many wraps and shawls. I will need to dye it once finished, but that's ok. It's a lavender color right now. I also found a small cone of sock weight yarn for $.50 but it, too, is lavender. Someone must have grown tired of that color! I picked up two 100% wool sweaters to be unraveled and re-purposed. All in all, I had a good day.

So until next time, be safe and happy knitting.