A little worse for wear

But hanging in there

Good Timing

When I left Madison about 4:00, a few flakes of snow started drifting down. The snowfall stayed fine for most of the trip; only as I pulled into town did I see any sticking to the ground at all. In the fifteen minutes since I've been home, the amount in the air has thickened considerably and it's starting to pile up. Glad I'm home with a cat on my lap and no place I have to go tomorrow.

Cheerful

It's chilly out today (just a couple degrees above freezing), but the sun is shining, and the crocus seem to be holding their own.

Word has it there's snow on the way tomorrow.

Knitter's Block, Writer's Block

I seem to have them both. But I have managed to finish the second version of the child's vest, that I'm now calling "Aegean", in a different color scheme. Now I need to get the pattern into it's final version. That, along with blogging, seems to be one place where the writer's block is kicking in.



One of my time-wasters/educational research projects lately has been pouring over objects at the British Museum. They have a great website. I'm kind of partial to the Bronze Age and early Iron Age, myself. The Louvre isn't bad, either.

Grey,wet, windy

it's a bit too chilly to spend much time outside today, which is probably just as well. I have things needing my attention inside.

But the weekend was glorious, and I spent most of it in the yard. Cutting back perennials (read the phlox and the Rudbecia threatening to take over the world), dragging dead leaves off the beds, and pulling weeds (also threatening to take over the world). Said "hello" to the earthworms - happy to see them stirring about. Said "hello" to the tulip and daffodil leaves. Mr S whacked about 5 feet off the back hedge (it grows at least that much a year), dug over his garden space and planted a row of spinach. The cardinals and robins said hello to us. If there is a heaven, I hope this is what it's like.

Please Pelisse me, oh yeah

OK, I had to look the word up, too, a number of years ago. Here's how the Jane Austen Centre online magazine describes it (article by Kathy Hammel):

"An overdress or coat dress, the pelisse fit relatively close to the figure (though not tight) and was styled along the same high-waisted lines as the dress of the day. Pelisses were often lined or edged with fur and, in fashionable circles, more or less replaced the fur-lined cloaks of the earlier periods."

I appropriated the picture from www.fashion-era.com