The sun was out today and for the first time this year, the children spent all afternoon outside. While I made marmalade in the kitchen, they excavated some garden tools from my shed and started digging the kitchen garden. They collected chicken manure and added it to the soil. They […]
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Crafting at School ….. again
Today, I put aside my flip top mittens. Even though the last one is tantalizingly almost finished. I bundled some crafting materials into my basket and headed to school. To start a crafting project with TF’s class. A class of lovely, enthusiastic 4 and 5 year olds, and a teacher […]
Read moreYarn Along -Fliptop mittens
I loved Val‘s comment, yesterday,about these mittens being fliptop mittens. It is just so apt and the best description for them! I’ve finished two pairs of fliptop mittens now and I’ve started the third. Fortunately, the children sorted out, fairly amicably, who was getting which pair. TF was determined that […]
Read moreBasket full of Mittens
Over the weekend, we had our first hard frost of the winter. It turned the garden completely white. Feels like winter now! Yeh! (Smile!) We had a brief flurry of snow a month ago, but since then it has most definitely been mud season. This means that I spend most […]
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