The Last Days of Winter

Let's face it, it's just plain wet outside.  Little brief bits of snow and rain have plagued us fairly consistently these past few weeks resulting in a giant sloppy mess of mud and funk. 

A few weekends ago, I took the minions down to the in-laws' lake house for a little change of scenery - Cabin Fever has hit us all I am afraid.  The minions had huge hopes for sledding and walks around the area to look for signs of Spring but the only signs of Spring we saw were warmer temperatures melting everything in sight so by the time we got down there, the snow was minimal but the puddles were plentiful :)

Despite the rain, the minions and I did go out and walk around a bit just to see what we could see.  

Naturally, the minions headed down to the dock to check on the status of the ice/lake.  

 

I don't think the ice will be there much longer.

I was pleasantly surprised to see some flowers during the weekend though - they were on one of my MIL's plants that I don't recall ever seeing flower before but it could be that I was just never there when it did flower.  Either way...

And...  Since the temperatures are still nice and chilly, it gave little man an opportunity to wear his new Gryffindor Spaghetti Scarf :)  

I have had this yarn in my stash for many years now - it is a Gryffindor Colorway on sportweight that I had bought and kept for myself with the intent of knitting myself a kickass pair of knee-high socks.  That all changed when little man spotted it and declared that it looked like pasta and sauce and decided that I needed to make him a spaghetti scarf with it.  The skein is so variegated that I had actually attempted to knit him a scarf with it a few times over the years but the stitch patterns were always lost.  In the end, I just held the yarn double and knit a garter stitch scarf on a US 10.5 and voila!  A FO that he loves :)  

The minions are on Spring Break this week and both of them are rather poorly at the moment - nothing too dreadful, just an annoying virus of some sort - so we'll have to come up with a few new ideas to keep them occupied while they are recuperating instead of going out and about on the town.  We got a wee bit of snow overnight which will probably be the last official snow of Winter.  Nice and light and pretty.  It's already melting...  I am in the process of dyeing up the last Snow White shipment so that will be shown soon and I have made decent progress on a few of my WiP's so perhaps I'll have more photos of the fiber-y variety before too long!