Happy Easter

I hope everyone had a good Easter, ours was very mellow. R Dutch oven slow-cooked a leg of lamb (from out friend who runs the 4-H program here) and we had asparagus & roast garlic/rosemary potatoes. Most of the day was spent inside by the woodstove relaxing, with a few hurried trips outside to get things planted.

Our garden is in a transition stage, with the cold weather plants begun. R built a cold frame out of an old window from the Habitat for Humanity center, but strangely the seedlings in it don't seem to be doing as well as the seedlings outside of it. It's also weird to have to water the garden every day when it is pouring down rain.

We've had some lovely weather (I even got sunburned one day because I didn't believe it was possible this early in the year at this latitude), but now we're in to the spring storms- rain, hail, thunder & lightning, with interludes of sunshine. This is perfect knitting weather, though I feel like I'm not getting much done. I hope to be finished with my Vivian (highly cabled hooded cardigan) by my birthday, but we'll see if it can be done in 5 days. I'm up to the armpits with both arms connected, so I've got the longest rows of the whole project ahead of me, then the shoulders and hood. After that I'm doing a vest, a quick project to get me back on track!I need to finish my Luna Dress as well, but I think it will require machine sewing the sides to make the dress smaller before I can do the sleeves & turtleneck.

I actually sewed yesterday though, did a square (aka tablecloth) skirt out of black fabric with skulls & rose vines on it for my pirate costume. It will go with the brown felted pirate hat I knit.

I guess I don't have much news now, winter and early spring are always pretty slow. I'm excited for my birthday though, and Eli is coming to visit!