Saturday, January 30, 2010

Homebody Day

 Day 63

I am thankful for another quiet day filled with knitting and household chores.  I am thankful for anticipation of Sunday service of worship.  

I've started looking up thankfulness related Bible verses or passages. 

Hebrews 12:28-29:

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. (Wesley's notes:  12:29 For our God is a consuming fire - in the strictness of his justice, and purity of his holiness.)

Knitting progress-today was work on Steven's scarf day.  I'm up to 50 inches!   It still not long enough so I'll keep on working.  I found a nice knitting rhythm today.  Scarf, doubled for measuring:


I continue to be enamored of the feel of alpaca. If it got colder here I would surely knit with it more often. 


Even though we're predicted to have a very low overnight temperature (for us) it feels like spring will soon be here.  I could stand more rain and stormy weather before then!

Lilac leaf buds:


I don't think it was cold enough this winter for abundant lilac blossoms.  They don't much like our temperate winters.  I could be surprised but my best lilac blossoms have been after winters with hard freezes. 

5 comments:

  1. The scarf is really beautiful but I'm rather taken with the John Deere yardstick! (That's "Yon" Deere to me -- my Swedish grandpa, who pronounced J's as Y's, worked for John Deere in Moline, Illinois.)

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  2. That's very cool. It's an old yardstick that Mom seemed to have forever. It may date back to the 60s. I have a vague impression of a hardware store connected to the yardstick. The rest of the printing reads: Holt Bros. - Your Headquarters for Caterpillar - STOCKTON - LODI - TRACY. Feed store, maybe. I'm thinking the feed store on Sierra Hwy.

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  3. It was three degrees here last night. Muchly looking forward to a warm scarf!

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  4. Brrrrrr! Which reminds me, I need to finish my blue scarf that I started a year ago!

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  5. Oh my, Steve! There is some incentive to keep going! I have enough on my 2nd skein of yarn to add to Julie's warmy collection, too!

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