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Spent the last weekend of March at Ridge Rock resort in Princeton, BC, semi annual spinning retreat.  Went early and stayed at Gail & Scot's place in Princeton, they gave up their ground floor bedroom so I wouldn't have to do the stairs, above and beyond. Thank you guys. The retreat was at a new to the group place, lots of room, bedrooms were nice and lounge area on our  floor was great. Only disadvantage was the drive, close to 8 hours for me, prolly  wouldn't try  it again if the group goes back. On the drive there had a shimmying at speeds over 80 KM  took  car into Kal Tire in  Princeton, they   came  and told me it  was just  dried  mud  in  wheels, cleaned  wheels  and  told   me  I  was  good to go, no charge.  Pays to deal with a  reputable  place. Only thing I bought were mini skeins of sock  yarn from Smith and Ewe. Koigu  bed sock...

Sorry for neglecting the blog, other things got in the way and to tell the truth not as interested as I should be.  Have sorta slowed down on sock knitting (ripped  more than one  project out),  back now  on my much loved gloves. Have  a stash of Koigu (IMO the best yarn  for gloves), it doesn't pill, the colours are outstanding  and its sock weight which if perfect for gloves.  First  I  finished  the greenie fingerless with as many  leftover bits as I had  (found  more later).  Then brought stash into the house and sorted by colours, variegated and solids, have more variegated than  solids, so will have to watch  for sales and get more especially  in  blues, greens and purples.  Pix is what  I'm currently  working on. Hope to finish glove #1 yet today, have worked ends in as I go along  so at the end will only have a few to deal with. And  I finally  got to...

 Winter so  far  has  been relatively  mild, no arctic air yet  and very  little snow.  Think maybe  3-4 inches in total  so far. I  have finished a  load of stuff,  Fatties,  Monster Socks, bed socks and two  pair  patterned and  have more  on the needles.   Even tho its been  mild  I  stay  home and indoors, have a great fear of failing on slippery  surfaces. Even with ice cleats on my  boots and the ice spike  on my cane. Really  enjoyed the World Junior hockey  games this winter,  this  time from  Ottawa,  Ontario so not to bad for time differences.  Next year in  Minnesota so time  will  be even  better. Canada  got  booted  out  early, I don't think from what  little  I  know  that they  brought  their  best players,  USA ended up...

Before  Lots  of leftover greys  and  whites. After   The creamy white is Knit Picks  bare Hawthorne,  none of  the other greys  and white  are  in  memory   bank. Usually  November  is  one   of  the  our  snow  months,  not this  year,  it's  either predicted  to snow (and  it  doesn't  happen) or very light snow falls that's  not  accumulating. Current socks are another reach in the  bag and knit 7-10 rows of whatever comes out.  Have the  most of the red so it will likely be the dominant colour. Even  tho I  have knit many  pair of scrap  Monstersocks the leftover bags of bits never gets any smaller.  I really  believe that they breed at night, or the Fae (fairies)  scour  the area  looking for small  balls to add to my stash. My neighbour brought me eggs, ...

 Went to the  semi annual spinning weekend in Merritt  October 19-20, was  an   exceptional  get together.  The usual crowd  plus maybe 6 new spinners. Held this  year  in the  senior center instead of the swankier place that raised the rent so high we couldn't  afford  it anymore. Senior center worked out perfect. Gail and I with our Maggie bags, both hauled loads of stuff to many  spinning weekends and mine with me to Virginia a time or two. First 2  pix  are finished  projects,  Monsters socks, the reach in the bag  and  knit  with whatever comes out kind.  Second pair bed socks  going to Kamloops for Judy W.  Last pr are  similar  to the  bingo  socks  I did last spring for the "lady"in Banff that ended up not liking the way I put the colours she picked out together. And  last pix is one that makes me smile every time  I  see...

That was then  This  is  now Finished this pair last night, came out better than  I thought they would. Best part used up lots of small leftover balls.  This is a pix of my wild mountain valley, unknown source for the pix. Went to town last Friday  mostly to handle Visa problems (again). While  there I found  real field tomatoes at Beaver  Valley  feed store,  not what   I would  call first quality   but  hey  I know  how  to cut  funny spots off. They taste good and that is the most important part. Did what I call down n dirty, in and  out in  one day (6  hours total driving). Plus several places to stop and walk around. Took me two days to recover.  Grocery store was a bit of a winter stock up walk thru, TP, Scotties tissues, canned goods, extra salt, flour, things I don't want to run out of over the winter. With  football season  under way (both colle...