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Day 38


WooHoo!! It's finished!
Lots more pictures and details here.

♥Joanne

Day 37


Frost on the screen door glass this morning, with the sunrise behind.

♥Joanne

Day 36


High winds again today (wind-chill warnings for tonight, -45C!).

♥Joanne

Day 35


This bird feeder hangs well above the ground, soon the partridges will be able to eat right out of it (early this morning).

♥Joanne

Day 34

the largest drift, over the vegetable garden

sparkly snow

the birdhouse is well over my head in summer
Three pictures today, because I got all dressed up and went outside to take lots of pictures (I have never seen this much snow here and wanted a record). Back to -30C temperatures (-40C windchill). The snow drifts are hard packed - I walked on top and barely left a mark.

♥Joanne

Day 33


A little visitor to the composter this evening.

♥Joanne

Day 32


All finished! 

The pattern is 'Sweet Dreams' by Boo Knits on Ravelry

♥Joanne

Day 31


The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg (set to open in Sept. 2014). I am looking forward to the opening.

I am beginning to think this photo journal should have been called
 snapshots from the window! This time the car. Back to -30C temperatures, high winds.

This afternoon's drive to pick up my son from school.
I am glad I wasn't driving.

♥Joanne

Day 30


A flock of grey partridges ran for shelter when I tried photographing
 them at the bird feeder outside the window.

♥Joanne

Day 29


Waiting at the dentist - check-up and cleaning for the everyone.

♥Joanne

Day 28


Hoarfrost on everything this morning,




it made the snow sparkle like diamonds too.

♥Joanne

Day 27

Lots more than one photo today, but today was a holiday and temperatures were around freezing, plus there was a fresh snowfall last night, so it was a great day to all spend some time outdoors!





Shovelling and ploughing of course.


Then time for fun (the roads hadn't been ploughed yet).


 I made a snow angel. 
I was hoping, because of the warm temperatures, to make a snowman, but the snow was still too dry (it is rare that we have sticky snow to make snowballs).


My son tobogganing (in the industrial park). 


I even tried driving the quad.


After the fun!

♥Joanne

Day 26


I finished the second background today!

♥Joanne

Day 25


I am trying knitting with beads for the first time - it is much easier than I thought it would be.

♥Joanne

Day 24


Our home - February 14th, 2014.
I thought I would try to take a picture once a month, to see the differences throughout the year.

Joanne

Day 23


Another storm overnight. Shovelling seems to be coming my daily exercise.

Day 22



The ombré spinning worked - I started knitting a shawl with it.

Thanks for the congratulations! We had lunch reservations for a revolving restaurant in downtown Winnipeg yesterday, but with whiteout conditions we cancelled. 
This was our drive into Winnipeg yesterday-


♥Joanne

Day 21


25 years ago today! Wow, time has gone by fast.

Joanne

Day 20


All the feathers are quilted on my whole cloth quilt 
(it is an anniversary quilt and will be over 90" square -
 wool batting and double wide cotton fabric).

♥Joanne

Day 19


Spinning today - I am hoping to create ombre yarn (there is dark purple to light purple to yellow under the blue).

♥Joanne

Day 18


My son dug a cave in one of the snow drifts  - those are the soles of his boots (he only went in because I was out there too - it can be dangerous. I was glad when he came out).

♥Joanne

Day 17


I watched an airplane cut through the clouds, but didn't get my camera in time to take a picture of the plane, just the trail left behind.

♥Joanne

Day 16


I spent a few hours quilting, and watching (really listening to) movies - life is good!

♥Joanne

Day 15


I thought the long shadows at noon today were interesting in the backyard.

♥Joanne

Day 14


Customer Appreciation day at the grocery store today - our big shop for the month.

Day 13


I did some more quilting, and marking for the feather border.

Day 12


My son took me for a ride on the quad - this is our shadow on a snow bank.

♥Joanne

Day 11


I was hoping to quilt the centre feathered wreath 
on the whole cloth quilt today, and I did!

♥Joanne