Chilly!!!!

It's below freezing out today and all day, barely above freezing the next few days. That polar chill is not fun when you're used to winter days in the 40s and 50s, but thank goodness for plenty of blankets and afghans. Especially the afghans. The house is old enough that insulation isn't that good in the walls anymore, so it gets pretty cool when temps drop below freezing like this. It stays at least in the mid-50s in the house, so it's not horrible, but it isn't great, either. It's survivable, basically, but we're okay with it. This is the third winter we've gone through here, and truthfully, I'd rather deal with this than the mess we dealt with at our last place. Drunks, druggies, and no space to speak of. I'll gladly haul in water, use a sawdust toilet and be occasionally cool during the winter months in order to avoid all the negatives of the last place.

Mom's lap quilt top is done, barring a bit more backstitching. I finished the cross-stitching at the laundromat today and am finishing the backstitching up while I download a few torrents of free patterns. A zip file would have been much faster, but sometimes, you just gotta deal with what ya gotta deal with. There are four of them, too, at a total of about 4.5 GIG of patterns in PDF files. Whew. Going to take a while to get all of them downloaded, that is for sure!

Otherwise, I'm enjoying almost having the lap quilt done, looking forward to getting more done on the mile a minute afghan, and looking through seed catalogs for what I want to get this year. Yay me.

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