Spring is coming...

Hurrah... it is warm outside, has been for 2 whole days, does that mean spring is coming..sure hope so... i want things to melt really really fast, and dry up just as fast... going to take the dogs for a walk this afternoon... plus 4.4 degrees... i can start lambing anytime now...
I called Olds and registred for 3 classes, 'spinning self striping yarns, ' and 'Color and fibre blending' and a two day workshop on "silk road spinning'......... i called Olds about accomodations and all the town houses are gone already, but there are lots of dorm rooms..so guess i will do that...I have heard so much about Olds, that i can hardly wait... Larry is just fine with it...as always. I am missing two retreats this month... Dreamspin this weekend, and our guilds "fancy yarn workshop" at Cache Creek Feb 22 weekend... Larry just isn't ready to pack bales and heavy pieces of wood for the fire, he figures he is, but i would hate it if it got icy and he fell just cause i wanted to go spinning..i just couldn't do this again, it has almost been a year (in March).. I have been knitting 2 hours a night and spinning 2 hours a night... getting near the end of the 60th birthday shawl... hope i have enough yarn to finish it... it will be close... i can always pick up more fibre at "fibre fest" as Loralee will be there... so no big deal... and i am spinning up some beautiful jade colour for a shawl for a friend who's hubby just passed away..

have you check out this blog http://simpleknits.blogspot.com/search?q=simple+knits she has a list of 300 + shawls,(they are listed on the right hand side of the blog) about half are free, some i have never seen before... I also got the shawl pattern for the "heartland buffalo fibre shawl"... a free pattern if you email them, but i have it if anyone is interested..

Off to agility tomorrow, only two more classes before the trial.. i am getting nervous..but the girls keep telling me that they all screw up..Amy. one of the girls from Dixie's class told me that her dog, "Frank", a big all Canadian breed, has bone cancer... he is only 21 months old.. and a real character, i really like him, and he just loved agility, it is spreading really fast so he doens't have much time left... a friend of Amy has a border collie looking for a home, Amy is worried that she will get a Dixie dog... SLOW... but i told her Dixie is getting faster... so we laughed about that... after a shedding a few tears about Frank... Frank made us laugh every class..where does all this cancer come from in dogs these days, our neighbour down the road lost two Goldens to cancer, other neighbour lost a St Bernard and a Newfie to cancer too... and our Gyp dog too...
I sure missed him the other night, went to feed the dogs and there was 2 mice in the dog food can... i used to pull the can down and he would catch them... he was a better mouser than any of the cats..that was his great joy in life... mousing.... sniff... sniff..
Mom is having a memorial for my step grandmother(who passed away last week) on Saturday, none of my side of the family will be going, Joe works, Matt is in class, I'm at agility and Larry won't go... oh well... some of the rest of the family will be there...

Larry is off to Physo therapy this morning, first time... he can walk and drive on it, but can't work yet, still needs the crutch when he gets tired, so things are really looking up... talk to ya soon................ sheila