Early February Randomness

 

Warm sunshine but a cold wind results in icicles curved at the tips like arthritic fingers.

Cleaning out closets, I found some grippy/pinch style infant sized clothing hangers that nobody (I offered them to) wanted.  So I carefully snapped the clips off the ends and now have four 'new' bag clips to replace some in the kitchen that had worn out in the last year or so.  I find this size especially great for using on veggie bags in the freezer (tater tots are veggies, right? 😉) where we don't use the entire bag at one time and need a way to securely close it for return to the freezer.

One night we had a lot of gusty wind that blew snow around for hours, hard packing it on top.  In the morning, in a spot where rabbits have been cavorting nightly all winter, I found these tracks without their usual softening of snow on the edges.  Somehow, this made the rabbits seem more fierce and scary rather than cute little critters leaving nice rounded tracks.

Funny little A-frame signs I found while out browsing a local antique/vintage and artisan shop.  Was very tempted to buy a few due to DH's habit of announcing to me (or texting me if I'm not indoors) every time the Yarn Thief throws up rather than just cleaning it up himself.  Very tempted.  But I decided to save my $5 for something else.

Like this vintage Breyer Running Stallion marked only $10!!  Not that I need more Breyers (there's several dozen packed away in the attic, I had quite a collection growing up), but it was only $10 and I always wanted the Running Stallion mold so. . . 

First day above freezing in about a month; horses definitely did not need their blankets on for warmth.  So everybody 'got naked' before getting turned out.  And first thing they all did once turned loose outside was drop down and roll around in the snow, scratching all their itches. (Crockett wears his fly mask on sunny days in the winter to protect his eye--that previously had cancer in the lid--from the brightness.  I call it his cheap sunglasses.)

During the Fall, my Mom had been given ten or so skeins of Zauberball Crazy sock yarn to "give to your daughter who knits socks", so she diligently passed them along to me.  Once I was done with Lucky's birthday sweater I grabbed a skein and starting knitting some (surprise) socks for my Mom.  I'm planning on giving them to her for Mother's Day.  I'm doing them in the Will O' The Wisp pattern and am about 3/4 done with the first one.

A lovely lady blue bird stopped in to say hi while I was eating lunch one afternoon.