I learned how to make a Granny Square and Now It's Snow

Well believe it or not I have crocheted since well lets just say a long time like 40+ years and I have never learned how to do a granny square. LOL Well someone on my crochet partners yahoo group posted the most gorgeous picture of an afghan that was just one big granny square done in different colors. I got lots of help and suggestions for sites to check out on how to crochet a granny square. Well I did it, frogged the sucker 6 times but now I am well on my way to making my very first ever big granny square afghan. My stepson and his wife had twins in October 08 and for the first time ever I did not have an afghan crocheted and ready for the arrival of a grandchild well in this case grandchildren. The one I have started now will be for Arja and then I will start another for Ty and will use some blues and greens for the boy, better late than never I guess.



Well the freezing rain has finally stopped and now we are getting snow flurries. I guess Mother Nature missed that when March comes in like a lion it is supposed to go out like a lamb. I think the lion must have ate the lamb this year. LOL




Even Zeus the Rottie Cross doesn't want to be outside too much this week with all this crazy weather.

Besides hockey I also love Curling and Figure Skating, and with all this crazy weather I have been able to snuggle up on the couch and work on my different projects and get my fill of all three sports.

I thought it was supposed to be spring - anyone for skating

Well it appears that mother nature is going to make sure that the month of March is interesting. We have had huge snow storms and now the weatherman is predicting freezing rain right up to Thursday where it apparently will turn into snow flurries.

It started raining about noon and by the time 3 pm rolled around it had turned into ice pellets and when I got up this morning I have a driveway that the only way anyone will get in or out is if they are wearing ice skates. The windows are totally glazed over with ice and we cannot even see out of them and I guess we won't have any of it melting because we are under overcast skies, wind and the temperature is still below freezing. As I type this the freezing rain has stopped for now. The schools out here are all closed so the kids are getting extra March break days.

The worst part is that our outdoor boiler that heats the house went out sometime during the night and I don't know how we are going to be able to get it going again. Walking is precarious, thank goodness we do have a small wood stove in the house that we can use to add some warmth to the house, we also have a heater attachment that fits onto a propane tank and it helps warm things up inside too.






Well today is definitely going to be a day to stay bundled up on the couch working on some of my knitting and crochet projects. The fun part will be keeping the mooches aka Phoebe and Anya away when I decide to have lunch.