February is Coming!

I am not a fan of February.  It is the coldest, darkest and longest of winter months in my opinion.  As we creep ever closer, we have managed to settle in to our winter schedules.  Luckily, we have had several nice snow storms, which left plenty of lovely snow to play in.  We built this ferocious snow woman, Samantha...

...along with a crowd of tiny snow people whom she seems to be terrorizing.

The cold snap lasted for quite a while - long enough for me to slide down the driveway in the car on multiple occasions!  As the sun slowly returned, Samantha took an icicle to the heart, and seemed to die a slow and painful death.

The snow has been beautiful.  I thought it was gorgeous, covering my Moravian star in the evenings!

I received my second COVID vaccination, and have felt safe enough to spend some time helping my mother over at her house.  Unfortunately, I felt pretty crummy for a day and a half after my jab, but I'm fine now.  JP got his 2nd shot 2 weeks later.  I spent 4 hours helping at a vaccination clinic at the Hospital yesterday - we gave over 200 shots, one of which went into the arm of J.

While it is cold outdoors, we work on indoor things.  I celebrated a birthday, and have a new sewing machine ordered, so one day I can finish some of my projects!

I have finished some new puzzles:

I have been cooking and baking.  I made this pasta last weekend.  I tried Crème Brule again this weekend!

I have been perusing the seed catalogs, dreaming about planting in the spring.  In the meantime, I have this little "pumpkini" plant in the library to nurture.  It grew from sprouted seeds that we removed from a pumpkin from our garden.  Apparently it crossed with a zucchini, and is growing long, striped fruit!

Another snowfall overnight inspired J and I to build a "Baby Snowda" from the stump of Samantha.  Awww!

Back to school (still at home) and work for the girls and JP tomorrow.  I have plenty of chores to do as well.  I hope you all are staying warm, healthy and safe!

Quilting and Getting out of the House

 I really enjoyed my quilting lessons.  Not only was I doing something that I've really wanted to for a long time, I was getting out of the house a bit - something that is hard to come by during a pandemic it seems.  I have finished my quilt sampler, and I'm at the point where I'm trying to decide if I have the nerve to start another one.  I'm also a bit disappointed that I don't have anything to get me out of the house these days.

We haven't seen the sun in days.  It's been cold and grey and muddy and downright depressing.  I started back to work last week, but even so, I have been restless and wanting to get OUT OF THE HOUSE and do something fun!

Just for giggles, I googled the local drive in movie theater, so see if they were staying open during the winter by any chance.  What luck - they were, AND they were showing the new Wonder Woman movie that we were hoping to get to see.

So, last night, we piled in the truck and drove to the drive in, where we bundled in blankets and watched a movie OUT OF OUR HOUSE for a change!  It was fun - I highly recommend it!  Not only does it help our fragile pandemic psyches, it helps support local businesses.  Go get stranded at the drive-in!