Cold Like Two Ducks

I do not know what that really means but my Great-grandpa Charlie Gerst said it, Mom said it, so I say it.  It means that it's very, very, very cold.  And it is that today.  And windy.  I was enchanted by the tiny bird footprints in the light snow that fell overnight and I liked the way the rising sun colored the clouds blowing in from the southwest.

I woke up with a hankering for making a vat of chicken soup.  I don't have any of the ingredients I need to make it.  That means if I want soup I have to go out there into the freezing cold and blowing wind to get stuff.  I might do that.  Later.  I already know what kind of soup I want to make and I know what I want to make for the supper we're making for friends this weekend.  I could get those ingredients too, couldn't I?  Besides, I have to go get some Powerball tickets so we can win the BILLION dollars that the jackpot's up to when they draw tomorrow night.

Here's the Sudoku square I finished on Saturday afternoon.  I haven't knitted anything else since.  I need to pick out another project because I can't be monogamous with my knitting.  I was too tired last night to knit.  In fact, I think I took three catnaps between supper and bedtime.  That might be a record.

I forgot to show you the random crap I bought at Bargains Unlimited, the resale shop up in Sister Bay.  I'm most excited about the four sets of DPNs so I can knit the samples for the sock lesson I'm teaching next week without using my favorite, hard to find needles for them.  They were $1 a set, what's not to love?  Four cones of serger thread for five bucks is pretty good too and I have high hopes that the fifty-cents worth of sewing machine needles will fit one of my machines.  That place is a gold mine.

January 12--Lewis Kemper, Children Discovery.  Lucy and Liam had always been fascinated by fish.  Maybe it was because their nursery had been decorated with a tropical fish theme.  Maybe it was because their zodiac sign was Pisces.  Or maybe they had been fish in a former life.  The trip to the aquarium was eagerly anticipated.  They were awake before light and had breakfasted and dressed long before time to leave.

That's all there is.  I was tired and cold and tired.  And cold.  Stay warm today.  I'm thinking of changing my diet to all hot buttered rum all the time--and I don't even drink.  Maybe I'll make a vat of it and stick my feet into it.
--Barbara