Flowers💐, fiber😁, and phone😖

The original clump is struggling

The clump in the island bed is burgeoning

This one popped up in the yard!

Long-time followers of my blog will not be surprised that we have snowdrops blooming. Soon to follow will be the sarcococca that line the north side of our house, where they are seldom seen and aren't much to see, but perfume the air in a most heavenly way.

My current fiber activities include spinning some navy SW merino/alpaca that I've had for years on my three Dovekie spindles, and plying some IF singles and silk hanky singles spun last year on my 'Big Bird' (Phoenix spindle). I'm still working on my Dala sweater, but need time to put it on waste yarn to try it on.

After I spun all of that, I found six more ounces!

Time to do that has been eaten up by the iPhone fiasco. I have visited the Verizon store three different times (totalling hours), tried for many more hours at home, went to my neighbor's (to use her phone and internet) to call Verizon Tech Support, and today I'm going back to the Apple Store for the second and hopefully last time to see if we can finally get my old iPhone (which has been clearly identified as the problem) to transfer to my new iPhone. Talk about an exercise in patience!

Between all that and the weather (wet again and colder), the horses haven't gotten out much and I've only gotten another ride or two in on Stella, who is getting pretty edgy from lack of exercise. The sheep have had to stay in more, too, so yesterday morning after chores I took advantage of the opportunity to compare Blossom's and Bethany's fleeces. I've committed to selling one of them with Boop and Bonnie unless the buyer falls in love with a non-grey available sheep when she comes on the 16th. After looking at fleeces, several of the girls pushed for attention, and I got photos of a few.

Poppy got to visit her sister Penny (and Penny's cat Little), always exciting, last Sunday. Because of the weather they mostly interacted inside. Poppy conked out when we got home!

I really can't complain much about our weather if I think about what my cousins have been/are dealing with in White Horse (The Yukon Territories) and Juneau (Alaska). Cold like I can't even imagine in the former (-50C and worse – do the math!!!) and dangerous amounts of snow in the latter. So far their animals and structures have survived with my cousins' efforts; we all come from tough stock.

Well, I guess I need to gather up my stuff (old and new phones, laptop, and a spindle to keep me busy) and head the hour north to the nearest Apple Store. Hopefully I'll get home in time to cook supper tonight....

That's it for now from . . .