Yes, you read that right.
My dustpan.
My plastic dustpan.
Scooping snow and ice off the driveway where I want to walk without landing flat on my back. Bent double. My life is exciting, if nothing else. And I am demonstrating a streak of invention. Like the fact that people ask why I have a fish-slice in my car. That would be because I have mislaid my ice-scraper (along with the spade), and it works very well when trying to remove frost and ice from the car windows. Everyone should carry kitchen equipment in their car.
Necessity is the mother ......and all that.......
On to good news then. I think the ripple will be finished today. I have looked at it, and if I don't stop now, or within a few more rows, it will turn into an excessively long but excessively wide scarf. Or something like that, and that is not what I set out to create. I am at the stage where I want to get on with something else. Not sure what yet, but something. You know that feeling?? I have been working on it for what seems like forEVER. And I am past the red/cream/brown colours. I want to move on to spring colours. Or bright ones. (Yes, I am being indecisive again, Marge.) I will have to go and peruse Mum's Tower of Yarn for inspiration. I refuse to bring any more wool into this house until I have used up what I have (with some help from Mum's stash too, of course). But first I will have to darn in the million or 2 ends on the red ripple. Next time I make one, I think I will darn them in as I change colour, because I hate this part. HATE it.
I am going to do the 40 Bags in 40 Days challenge again this year over Lent. Last year it was wonderful to feel that I was getting a grip on something in this house, and somehow, I think I have filled up the space I created. So I will do it again. I have to get the new study sorted now, because having things in 2 rooms is really not at all practical. Someone - on a blog somewhere - may be you? suggested that for every thing you bring into the house, you get rid of something. So if you buy an item of clothing, you get rid of something in your wardrobe. That sounds very do-able. In addition to the 40 Day challenge.
I am looking forward to it. It must be a Spring thing - this feeling that I need to fling open the doors and windows and let out the old, and bring in everything fresh and new. Paint walls. De-clutter. And there will soon be bulbs to plant and seeds to sew, and I LOVE the anticipation of all things bright and beautiful and tasty in the garden. The seed potatoes are ready and waiting already.
Ok then. I am going to make some coffee finish the ripple, and then it can at least be used for 3 weeks and packed away at the end of the month when the house changes to its Spring garb. Not long now!
6 comments:
It is beautiful, Linds.
So how did you like the game?
I can just picture you out there with your dust pan, scooping snow - I don't think of being unprepared for snow when it comes.
Spring - yes. We had a massive spring storm in February - the largest in the record books for the Denver area - we didn't get as much, but it was really wet and heavy - couldn't even use the snow blower because it was so heavy.
Last year on the challenge, I tossed out all of my "fat clothes" in a fit of optimism, but I do need them back. So sad. I am so mad at myself. And things do seem to creep back into disarray. But I have made great progress in the basement!
Have a great day - well, I always forget it is half over by the time I write to you.
I'm right with you on the decluttering Linds - and it feels great! I only manage a little bit at a time - but every time i turn into a happy little person!
I'm thinking it would do me good to send a few bags of things to the thrift store. I never think I've accumulated unnecessary stuff until I have trouble finding space on a closet hanging bar. Maybe I'll do that soon, too.
Snap! I was outside with my dustpan today too, only I was sweeping all the rubbish that the wind blows on to my steps into the bin, ready for the bin men!
I didn't buy a spade either but I shamelessly borrowed the one a neighbour's small boy left in front of out house. I did - ta da! - buy not one but TWO ice scrapers from Tesco, one for each car, and have felt smug every time I have needed to use one. Doing the 40 bags in 40 days again is a great idea. Think I will join you.
Love the ripple. The colors are so beautiful, and it looks wonderful to climb under and just cuddle up with! Good job!
John and I have been talking about moving to another house, what with Jonathan going off to school in the summer and Kati only visiting once a week. So, I think that getting him to do the 400 bags/boxes in 40 days may be a great idea.
We do NOT need all of our "stuff" to move.
So, now I have to figure out how to talk him into it.....
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