This morning I woke up and did one of my favorite things - I read in bed for a couple of hours. It was a delight to grab a cup of coffee, turn on the night light (it was before 5 am) and crawl back into bed with my Kindle. ( I had gone to bed early last night exhausted so I was well rested when I woke up at 4:30) The book I picked is now a bestseller and I read the whole thing before eating my oatmeal (okay, I finished while eating my oatmeal around 9 am). It was that good.
I'm almost finished with my audio book that's been on my iPod for centuries. It's about time for something new, don't you think?
This week I knitted the entire crown of this hat and much of the sides whenever I had random amounts of time. I took it babysitting, I knitted in bed and of course watched my TiVo'd shows while knitting.
I love the pattern, 'cause it's easy to memorize and once you've got the stitches situated on the needles correctly (5 dpns) there was no more looking at the pattern. I don't own a hat, believe it or not, and my friend Susie recommended that I make one for myself, so I am! There will, of course, be no more cold weather once I've made the hat!
We've had snow for sure this week. Lots of it. I am okay with snow, cause it's February and the ground is drinking up the moisture. It will make for a lovely spring. AND my lettuce needs lots of moisture to germinate the seeds...... selfish, I know! I cannot wait till the weather is garden-ready. I'd really like to plant some baby potatoes. I planted potatoes when I lived in NC, with the help of some dear share cropper friends. They encouraged me not to water after the initial planting, but just to wet them 'real good' on the day I put them in the ground. Potatoes, by the way, are grown from small pieces of potato, with the bud or eye facing up. My friends lived off the little garden behind their house. I'd say they knew their stuff!
