Timing is everything. We had discussed turning the cages upside down, to protect them from being crushed by the snow, but then things sort of interfered with that project.
No footprints in the snow on the garden path, not even any snowshoe hares.
The garden is sleeping and getting the annual covering blanket of snow. So far the past week we’ve gotten about five inches of snow, an inch here, an inch there. It adds up.
It’s amazing how heavy snow it. Should have remember how heavy it is on the end of the snow shovel, but just didn’t think of that in time.
The cages definitely needed to be turned upside down. Unfortunately when we tried to do that yesterday, we discovered the framework has frozen solid to the ground, and it would break them to try to force them loose. So we’ll just hope that the snow load doesn’t crush the wire cages. Even if it does, we should be able to straighten it out somewhat. Rats.
Kind of amazing how little snow made it through the wire. The flakes just stuck to the wire instead, and then built up on top of the stuck flakes.
The strawberry bed in particular may be in trouble. Those plants rely on the insulation supplied by a blanket of snow to protect them from the super cold temperatures of mid winter. We may lose all these plants.
Whenever the weather warms up, there will be plenty of water for whoever wants the first spring bath.
Just plain cute. And very fat. I stuffed the kitten quite full. Obviously has been eating well.
Finished a new knitting project, a fuzzy kitten. Mishkin was curious as to what that little thing might be but not really enough to put forth any energy.
“You’re short.”
Big cat, little cat.
Fuzziness abounds with this little guy. Green eyes, pink nose, red lace collar.
I made the collar out of some super fine handspun cashmere yarn which I dyed using black cherry Koolaid. It turned out this really nice dark red. After I dyed the cashmere yarn, I started knitting a lace edging using size 0000 needles, just to see how the yarn would look, and didn’t really have a plan of what to use it for and so this worked out perfect. I can consider the lace edging knitting project done, and I still have almost all of the little ball of yarn left for something else. Giving the kitten to a friend for her young daughter’s stocking.
Now that I’ve gotten knitting cats and dogs out of my system for the moment, I can go back to knitting my lace shawl project. 🙂 Only 10 more edge pattern repeats and then I can cast on the body of the shawl. The edge is just so boring!! I keep letting myself get distracted.