It is good to be back in New York. I never lived in Manhattan (although I worked in Soho), and I forgot how very crowded it is. I don’t miss that aspect. I have been doing a lot of looking, eating, shopping and being. I never took the time to make small talk with anyone [...]

Today I took another little walk to see the horses while Paul was in the studio. It was a lovely 40-something degrees today but some of the horses were still wearing blankets (which cracks me up, because I am mean).  They came running over to see if I had apples for them, but I did not.

A few [...]

 
It’s cold outside. According to weather.com it’s -1 with a windchill of -14. Last night it was actually -22 (not sure I even want to know about the wind chill). There is lots and lots of snow on the ground and part of yesterday was spent attempting to push Paul’s truck out of the snow. [...]

And now for something different.
Last night when Paul came home from the studio he asked me if I had heard the owls hooting. I was watching Mean Girls, so no, I hadn’t. We went outside to see if they were still there, tip-toeing over the ice patches so as not to scare them.
 
Photo from the [...]

 
I finally uploaded my photos from Alexa’s visit. We had fun making snow angels on Peet’s Hill (afterwards, we froze). It was really nice to have someone to drag around and forget about all of my million freelancey things.
In other news, I survived the (pretty slow) craft fair and am hoping things picked up after [...]

Alexa has left and I’m getting back into the swing of work. I had one very involved crochet project that I wanted to finish by this week, and I’m happy to say that the seams are sewn, pattern written, etc. Not without a lot of complaining on my part, but it turned out beautifully so [...]

Okay, here’s one more post for the week, before too many things escape from my memory. I’ll be back after Turkey day to show you my holiday cards and maybe even some craft fair setup. Enjoy your holiday!
Last Friday I got to tag along with the grad students on a field trip to Amsterdam, Montana (!) to see [...]

Yesterday’s weather was gorgeous. I’m not quite understanding how the city can be blanketed in snow one day and70 degrees and sunny the next, but I’m not complaining! It really makes me appreciate the lovely days.

These are some of the leaves popping  up around downtown. They are so pretty!! Most of them are already falling [...]

We woke up Saturday morning to a big blanket of snow. I was really excited to go outside and run around in it. Although I’m sure that at some point I’ll be sick of it, I didn’t grow up in a snowy area, so snow is still somewhat magical to me. Yay!
 
There’s my shiny new [...]

It’s already Fall, which became clear to me because of the color in the trees on the way to work.  Right after I realized this, I heard on NPR that there would be snowshowers this weekend. This seemed unbelieveable as it was nearly 80 degrees on Friday. I woke up Saturday morning excited to peep out [...]