If you’re a knitter or a crocheter, you’ll be interested in this: Yarn Canada is having a contest. You could win enough sock yarn to knit socks for the rest of your life!
How many socks could a sock knitter knit if a sock knitter could knit socks? Enter and find out! The contest is open in Canada and the United States. The last day to enter is Wednesday, December 8th.
That’s tomorrow!
Good luck!
We’re home!
We got home last night after what felt like a (relatively) short drive. The trip that usually takes three nights only took two this time. That’s because instead of driving the entire Alaska Highway, we cut a loop off by taking the Stewart-Cassiar. It’s a full half-day shorter, cutting one night out of the journey. What a difference! Continue reading
Hello!
I’m late with my letter today – did you think I forgot you?
Spring is here in my area of the world. No doubt about it. The car is covered in pollen and I am stuffed up with hay fever. Today I knelt on the grass to take a couple of pictures (in bare legs) and now my legs are covered in an itchy rash. It will pass. It happens every spring.
One of the differences that I am really appreciating between living in the Yukon and living in southern British Columbia is how green April is.
Today Sam & I walked around McGuire Lake, in downtown Salmon Arm. The fountain is running and turtles are sunning themselves on logs.
Don’t get me wrong, I miss a lot of things about living in the North. However, April in the sub-arctic isn’t one of them.
In the Yukon, March and early April bring some of the best cross-country skiing weather you could ask for.
Here on Shuswap Lake, people are already out in their boats.
Today, everything is green, green, green. The new leaves are popping out. The daffodils, tulips, heather and forsythia are blooming. The cherry trees are blooming. The magnolia trees will be in full bloom any day. I have mowed the lawn twice.
Can you blame me for appreciating this particular difference?
All this greenness has caused me to cast on a sweater in rich dark green wool. I’m thinking ahead here, folks…it’ll be my summer knitting project. I expect to have it finished in time for the next big colourful season: autumn.
The yarn is actually fairly close to the colour of a rhubarb leaf, though it looks teal in these photos.
Green is my favourite colour this time of year! And what better pose for today than the Garland Pose. This is a pose I sit in a lot, though I’ve actually never done it in a yoga class!
Garland Pose
I naturally sit in this pose quite comfortably when I’m pulling weeds in the garden, or contemplating the layout of quilt blocks on the floor. I’m lucky to have flexible ankles and stretchy calf muscles, I guess. ♥
http://www.gaia.com/pose/squat-pose-malasana
http://www.gaia.com/pose/squat-pose-malasana
Here is a really nice video tutorial with modifications.