I finally have something finished. This WIP was almost 2 years old but now it's no longer a WIP! My Peak Season Shawl is finally a FO. This was one of my goals for YOP15
I do have another project that I finished and need to weave in ends and block and all that. I don't really call it done until I can take the final pictures and post it finished on Ravelry. I will wait until later to share more about that project and another small project I just started.
There has been so much going on that I had to stop all crafting to get ready for the holidays and other things so now I'm trying to get back to finishing projects.
The weather has been really special here lately. We have had several days of -40 F weather and I totally forgot just how cold that is. It has been a really long time since we've had that many days of really deep cold like that. When it is colder than -40 the lightbulbs outside turn into strobe lights which is a bit alarming. Even my thermometer on my porch gave up. It was reading 80 degrees and now has shifted to about 75. I believe it's time for a new one. It has "warmed up" since then to where it snowed and even rained lightly and we had a short blast of some high winds. It is now 17 degrees which seems almost tropical compared to -40.
My body reacts to the changes in temperature or weather so I've been having a lot of pain and fatigue. I'm really hoping for some more stable weather for a while.
My youngest son's 29th birthday was the 19th so we all went out yesterday for his birthday dinner. He actually wanted to just order pizza hut (and not leave the house) but we dragged him to a restaurant so the whole family could see him and chat.
I forgot to get the stuff to make him a birthday cake so I'm going to make chocolate chip cookies. I make the Original Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe and he loves those. I made him a berry smoothie too. He always says he doesn't need anything so I like to spoil him with food.
