Update from Florida

The weather has been rather disagreeable.  It has been cold, rainy, windy and cloudy.  We haven't been in the pool in days.  Poppa hasn't even been golfing for days.  We keep consoling ourselves by repeating...."at least there is no snow, at least there is no snow, at least there is no snow".  It helps - a lot!

Because of the weather, we haven't done very many exciting things.   It has, however, been good weather for curling up in front of the television and doing some knitting.  I finished Auntie Colleen's second pair of socks from the yarn grab.  Remember - there wasn't really enough yarn in that skein?  So I improvised and the finished product looked like this....

Her package went out in the mail yesterday.

I was talking to Mommee on the weekend.  Daddee, Mommee, Cousin Taylor and Munchie all went to our house.  Daddee and Taylor were going snow-boarding and that kind of activity is popular at the ski resorts.  There are plenty of ski resorts open in the winter in our area, so staying at our place was a good idea.  As it turned out, Auntie Muffy also came to our place to stay for a week, so the two sisters had a nice visit.  On Saturday Daddee and Taylor left for the ski hills, and Kev-Inn took Mommee and Munchie out for breakfast and then they all did some shopping.  All in all, I think they had a good weekend.

When they got home Munchie was hungry - and he got to sit on a "big boy" chair while he had his supper.  One of his new accomplishments is taking the table off his high chair - while he is sitting in it.  He's growing up so quickly!

Last time we were at the big Florida Mall there were various tasty samples available to people walking through the food court, and Poppa tried a couple of them.  So one chilly evening we decided to go there and get some Asian food.  We did.  It was very good.  The food court was really bustling.  I took a couple of pictures.  They didn't turn out especially well because of the lighting there, but here is one of them - just to give you an idea.

Now - remember that dying plant I posted a picture of a while back?  It looked like this....

Well, I'm happy to report that things are getting green here again, and plants are starting to recover - even those that prefer tropical climates.  Someone must have trimmed off all this dead foliage and here is what is happening now....

Wow!  It appears that these are some kind of flower - not small palm trees like I thought!  They are growing up quite nicely and I'll try to catch them when the flowers come out.

Meanwhile, I have finished both pairs of Granny Maureen's socks.  Here they are:

I didn't even know this was striping yarn!  I can't wait to get Granny's reaction to them.  I hope she likes them.  They are made from Lana Grossa Meilenweit - which means virgin wool.  The colourway is called Colorado.

The second pair looks like this:

I love this yarn - the way it knit up and the feel of it and the wonderful, subtle colours.  It is another skein of Colinette Jitterbug - this colourway is called Sage.  Because these skeins are rather on the small side I did the cuffs in Patons Stretch in a colour called Olive.  Granny is sensitive to man-made fibres, so I folded the cuff down.  Patons Stretch is a combination of wool and cotton, but there is some nylon elastic mixed in.  The elastic will help the socks stay where they belong on her leg, and folded over won't come in contact with her skin.  It also allowed for good sized socks that will be comfy and warm.  I had a little tiny bit of yarn left - it worked out perfectly.

Now I'm about to cast on for Mommee's first pair in colour #5 in the yarn grab - it looks like this.....

Poppa has gone golfing.....I'm off to put some things in the washing machine.