successes

Delightful 

Blissful

Joyful 

Gleeful

Cheerful

There is not much more I can say to express how it felt to lace up my skates and skate The Ice Trail for the first time this season!  I was a tad apprehensive until I completed the near to one kilometre loop then I was in my element, in my glory, where I belonged! The ice had not yet been swept nor flooded since the day prior.  My favourite time to skate is right after the Ice Man works his magic but I was absolutely fine to skate on it the way it was.  There were no cracks nor bumps nor hazards of any kind which made the conditions great for mid December.  I skated for an hour, that was enough for my first time out this season.  By the time I finished, I felt I was glowing from such fulfilment and the beginnings of frosty fringes were apparent.  I declare this outing a success in every way possible!  

 

You can be sure whenever there is an opportunity to be outside in the middle of the night to witness the Northern Lights, I will be ready with my "Northern Lights" mittens which I finished knitting. In fact, I won't be waiting for the Aurora Borealis to make an appearance, to wear them, I will be donning them immediately.  I see improvement over the first pair I knit, but there is still a long road ahead of me with much to learn and I am ready to venture down that road.  My initial thought was to knit a pair of child's mittens with the left over yarn but I believe I have enough to knit a scarf instead.  I am already on my third try at getting the scarf going. While it is an easy pattern, I faltered along the way, thankfully very early on.  While creating this blog post and using a free clipart of yarn and needles, of course I now need to make my own watercolour painting of my own knitting logo.  I declare knitting these mittens was a success and I will strive for success with the scarf. The scarf will be as long as the amount of left over yarn will make it.  (That's the same blanket in each photo, the mittens are in morning light and the scarf afternoon light. The true colour of the blanket is mid way between both.  The same can be said for the  mittens and scarf.)