Who is that???!!!!!

Faster than a shaving boy-man.....

(Before shoveling)

(After shoveling)

Me: "I got this entire driveway cleared in the time it took you to get ready for work!"

Nature Boy (a boy-man): "Well I had to shave."

More powerful than a teen-aged girl in her room on a snow day!

Me: "I'm going out to shovel, if you want to come out and help...

Her: "                                 "

... apparently, she had fallen back to sleep!

Able to leap between ...

homeschooling

French knots

knitting cables

taking funny photos of the birds at our feeder

and shoveling.

in a single day!!!!

Who is that?!!!!!

It's just me.....

but shhhhh......

 I used to be Superwoman!

Summer has come... and summer has almost gone!

I have had a busy summer!!! 

Where has the time gone???

Time went...

on a trip to Florida....

(I was working)

with some free time for knitting....

followed by a trip to Las Vegas...

(by the way, I was working here too!)

with some more free time for knitting...

and a show...

Back at home, there has been time for exercise...

time to admire the garden that Nature Boy has tended...

  time for two awesome workshops at Vermont Quilt Festival....

both with Susan Brubaker Knapp...

time for plenty of homeschooling...

a wee bit of time for crafting...

(if only this room was air conditioned!)

time to see a couple of ballet performances

(New York City Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet )...

time to catch a visitor in our backyard...

time to try felting at a two-day workshop

at one of the most beautiful places ...

on Lake George...

a little more time to enjoy the bounties of our garden....

and before you know it....

summer will be fading away!!!

How to stay sane in the long, cold, and snowy winters of upstate NY

For some reason, 

when my ancestors arrived in Canada and the USA

in the early 1900s

 (my maternal grandfather on the far right,

 from a town in Russia, now in Belarus)

they chose to live in climates similar to the ones they grew up in...

(my paternal grandmother on the far right, born in NYC, 

her parents from a city which is now in Belarus)

And for some reason, 

Mr. U and I chose to perpetuate that absurd decision!!!

Yes, it is still winter in upstate NY ...

much to my chagrin....

It is getting very old!

It has been long, cold, and snowy!

Mr. U tells me that he thinks that our last cold snap is about to be over for the season.

I hope he is right.

Not being much of cold weather gal,

I have been hunkering down inside

(anything to maintain my sanity!)

Luckily, there are a lot of birds in upstate NY

who enjoy being here in the cold

(what is up with that?!)

and so I watch them on Nature Boy's homemade bird feeder

right by our kitchen table

and I take lots of photos. 

There is even a lunchroom bully!

and lately,

some non-birds!!

When I am not sitting at the kitchen table...

I am at the gym before the sun rises

(so my muscles don't atrophy from being inside so much)

....spending endless hours on the telephone

with our newest health insurance plan

trying to secure much-needed diabetic supplies for Sugarbaby...

(my recommendation: write a letter about your dissatisfaction to the CEO,

that seems to get things going... with a direct line to their executive office

that I can now use anytime I have problems! but I suspect those have now been ironed out!)

knitting!!!

socks for me!

socks for Mr. U!

and a wrap for me!

trying to stay caught up with Life Book 2014...

but for kicks, 

and always in search of the ultimate journal/diary project...

(and in an effort to make yet another huge mess in my studio)

I added another project!!!

The Documented Life...

which I need to catch up on!

I have also been sewing

but that project is ...

sorry!

So like those hibernating bears...

I will emerge when Spring comes!