Cold again

Earth shakes in Cool, pigs fly!!!  Woke me up enough to blog.....hahahaha.

Not much new here, but thought I would check in.  We've just been doing the usual stuff. Larry is putting in some irrigation for the trees we planted last year.  I've been taking care of things in the house...translation:  house cleaning, laundry...necessary stuff, but boring.  I will say it is good exercise, I try to make it go by faster by putting in stuff I've learned at pilates.  We are still doing our two smoothies a day, fruit in the morning with greens and veggies with greens in the afternoon.

I'm still going to pilates three times a week and I've been knitting more in the evenings.  I am doing a mystery square afghan with a friend.  Her friend sends us a pattern once a month.  No picture of the finished pattern.  So each square is a mystery until we get it going and each is giving us challenging new stitches to learn.  At the end of the year we'll have a dozen 12" X 12" squares and after we put them together we'll each have a finished blanket.  I am on square number two and it is fun, even though I ripped this one out and started over after being 16 rows in...I had made a mistake and couldn't find it which would have thrown off the whole thing.  I knew I had made a mistake because I had counted my stitches and I was short one, so I missed something somewhere.  I am also working on a shawl with some really soft yarn that I have never used, it should be really pretty when its finished.

I have also decided to try being...oops, I mean be a writer so I make time for that every day.  

Gracie is doing really well, we love her, just wish her fur would stay on her.  Being pet-less for ten years got us liking a pet hair free existence.  Oh well.  I don't like dust either, but I'm happy to have a home and furniture to dust so it all works out in the end.

We've had another cold weather spell, back below freezing at night and breezy cold days.  We had one rainy/hail day.  We are ready for the warmth to come back and stay.

A cold day but sunny had Larry soaking up some warmth.
Gracie had been in the sun, she follows it as it moves, here she looks rather disgusted  that someone
is in HER sun.

Oh, you all probably don't remember what the heck I'm talking about here, but in past postings I've put up some pictures of bushes with red berries around here and have called them coffeeberry shrubs/bushes.  When I was researching them a year or so ago I must have found the one picture that had them named wrong.  I was out with a friend a couple of weeks ago and she set me straight...they are Toyon bushes.  Now you know the rest of the story.   I doubt I'll be able to remember where the pictures are but someday maybe I'll go through the archives and edit the pictures.