Look What We Saw Yesterday!

We dropped off our daughter's family Christmas gifts yesterday just in time to see this beautiful rainbow.  It actually was a double rainbow for a few minutes! It was a winter solstice surprise.

 

A Birthday Finish and a Holiday Yard!

I love this mitts pattern called Love Bug Mittens and have made it several times. The yarn's

multicolored speckles don't show up really well in these photos though. 

This house is not too far away from our house and is always decorated during the holidays. This year it has even more decorations and is also lit up at night. Very fun!

Hope you are having a nice weekend. We just spent the afternoon at our church listening to Handel's Messiah, and the choir did a great job singing to a huge crowd!

A Finish, a Wreath, and Our Tiny Tree ~

I'm probably not the only one, but I've been knitting like crazy lately trying to finish quite a few projects!

I just finished this one last night. It's a little headband for our youngest granddaughter who has very long hair. I hope it will be helpful when she has her gymnastic competitions!

Our good friend Becca sent us this beautiful wreath recently.

Well, we decided to put these little lights on our tiny tree instead of on the wreath. The lights are so cool because they tune them on and off all by themselves and shine for 6 hours during whatever time period you wish!

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Happy Crafting as you work on holiday projects!

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A Finish and a Couple More Photos

I just finished these mittens today, and they are made with leftovers from the Alpine Bloom hat. Surprisingly, there's still enough yarn left on the 2 skeins to make some small hats!

Just a few more photos from the bomb cyclone damage; some places sustained even more damage than this one, and some houses were totally destroyed.

We saw these two fallen trees yesterday in Sammamish when we went to Pilates. Fortunately no houses were hit, but we heard from friends that some of their neighbors in the area weren't so lucky.  Once again we were reminded that we could have had more than just branches and pine cones to deal with. Our Pilates teacher was without power for 6 days!

Now back to work on one last Christmas project! Have a great weekend. 

 

A Finish and a Windstorm Update

 This is one of the most complicated multi-colored patterns I have ever done and took a while to finish. I made it extra difficult by using a light colored yarn where the pattern called for a dark color and vice versa. Did a bit of frogging also, but it is finished now!

We were lucky to only have lots of branches and pine cones  to pick up because some of our friends had whole trees down, some that hit houses and some that totally flattened them! Our power was only out for two days, but some folks had no heat or light for 7 or more days. Our youngest grand daughter used 20 of these pine cones for table decorations on Thanksgiving.

This was the biggest branch that fell into our backyard; it was entangled in those sword ferns, and I was surprised how long and heavy it was when I pulled it out. Dick cut it up before taking it to our compost pile.

A few days later we went for a hike in a nearby park and saw that it also had trees down...big ones as you can see below. 

Here's just a couple of pieces of a tree that fell in the park! Apparently it was blocking the trail and the ranger cut it into pieces. Below you can see part of the tree and others around it that also came down.

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The last time we walked in the park, this little stream didn't exist, so you can see that there was lots of rain as well as wind.  

Despite the storm, we had a very nice Thanksgiving at our daughter's house in a suburb of Seattle and learned that they only had leaves to pick up there.  We were so thankful that day that we were spared serious damage like some of our friends did. My friend Janie who lives in an area called Mirrormont, and she told me that 100 houses in that area were damaged, some no longer even livable!  Yes, we were extremely lucky!

A Bomb Cyclone and Two Finishes

As you may have heard on the new, the weather here has been a bit crazy. They called it a bomb cyclone. Our power was out for 2 days, and there are still areas that are out. So it's been chilly and extra dark lately.  However, I finally have a couple of finishes to share.

Jeck is the name of this pattern.  I matched them up pretty well, but I have no idea why they look like two different sizes.

I really love this pattern for mitts and have made it several times! It's called Love Bug Mitts.

That's all for now! We have our fingers crossed that the wind storm predicted for today won't cause so many outages and at least allow people, whose power still is out, to get their power back!  Happy Friday!

Our Crazy Trip!

During the long wait for our plane to leave Seattle, we got to see a beautiful rainbow. You can't tell from this photo, but it was really a double one!

We took a nice hike in a park directly across from our sister's new condo.

On the walk we saw lots of turtles. Can you see them on this log?

We got to see our nephew's newly renovated 100 year old house and our great niece's team win a soccer game.

Enroute to Illinois to see our older daughter's family, we visited several interesting state parks and saw a dinosaur at the Wisconsin Dells! 

We saw lots of Canadian geese at the little lake by our favorite motel.

And we got to see the progress on the dam that feeds the lake in our daughter's neighborhood and spent more time with her dogs than our grandkids because we had COVID.  Thankfully they have a nice porch, so we were able to visit outside.

All in all, despite the challenges, we had a nice visit and are now completely healthy! And I got to do lots of knitting.....

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Have a great week!